The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

tune which the world has ever SEEM
Is one convenience San Francisco
il ahead Of every city in the world I;
this il i'm its system of rapid transit.
This is effected by means OF cable
cars, running not only on the princi-
pal avenues, but i'm the cross streets,
up and down the steep hills, in short
everywhere.
THE feet Of ships once owned at
NewburypOrt, Mass, has disappeared
from the registry OF that port, and
only four barks are left TO keep up
the marine glory Of the old town.
The last ship registered there was the
Mary l.. Gushing, which was recently
purchased by II New Yorker and will
90 into the China trade, sailing from
New York.
THE head nurse in a ward Of "a
training school for nurses, says: II
am sure that any one who could pro-
vide the Americans with IA substitute
for animal food would be comforting
Il national benefit. They eat twice
az much meat n we English do, and
10 that, ! believe, is largely due the
nervous arrangements, and too often
shortened life Of the average Ameri-
can"
\ MINNESOTA Jury has refused to
recognize the validity Of a contract
specifying II matrimonial match IA a
consideration for the payment Of
money. \ mar i'm that State agreed
TO give another maj S25 if he would
secure him n wife. When the wife
had been obtained the benedict re-
pudiatcd his contract and the match
maker brought actioa against him.
The matchmaker was defeated.
A RESOLUTION in ;lvor Of birching
bad boys instead Of sending them to
prison has been sent TO the British
Home Secretary, signed by II number
Of magistrates. The proposition is
to birch boys under sixteen for all
offences, at the discretion Of the ma
gistrate. The |judicious use OF the
birch, it is believed, would not only
have a more salutary effect, but
would save the boys from acquiring
the prison faint, losing their dread
Of the prison, and sinking deeper into
crime.
SPEAKING Of football, the London
Lancet says: There IAN be no de-
nying that "A pastime which has ac-
counted in four months, even by our
cOnfessedly imperfect records, for
five sudden deaths, two conclusions
Of the spine lin one Of which it was
stated that three ribs were torn
from the spinal column'), one con-
cussion of the brain, one fracture Of
the thigh, sixteen fractures Of the
leg (some of these were simple and
some compound, some Of each and
some Of both bones, but further elias
sitication is Unnecessary, nine frac-
lures Of the clavicle and two Of the
arm, is II dangerous one
THE schooner Frank NJ. Holmes,
of Philadelphia, was abandoned rs a
derelict last October, and was picked
up by the British tramp steamer In
dianapolis and towed to Blueields,
Nicaragua. Now an odd point of
marine law has been raised by the
libeling Of the steamer, which arrived
at Boston recently, by the owner of
the s~chooner's cargo Of flour. and the
libel is for $4,000, and the claim is
set up that rs she was picked up near
the Florida coast she should have
been taken to u nearby port, and
that the unnecessary low tong spoiled
her cargo and forfeited all claim for
salvage by the indianapolis.
4 STUDY of the number Of suicides
in France reveals a deplorable state
of affairs. According TO the Journal
Officiel, during the year 1890 this
number reached the formidable figure
Of $40 (6,576 males and l,S34 fe-
males). These figures indicate a pro-
gressive increase in the number of
suicides. In the quinquennial period
from 1861 to 1860 the average annual
number of suicides was 1861 (l2 per
1000 600 of the population), while
during the period from 1886 to 1890
the average annual number was 1926
Cor 81 per 100, 0OO). The proportion
Of suicides among children under the
age of sixteen years has also %increasd,
While i'm the period from 1871 to 1875
the number was 81, it was in 1886,
60; in 1887, IS; in 1888, 65; in 1889, |
n. and in 1890, so.
lT is reported that Japan has fallen
into line, and proposes to hold a
grand exposition i'm 1895. The ex-
position will I've held at Kioto, and
will be the celebration Of the 18th
anniversary of the establishment OF
that city a. the capita, of Japan. 1t
is not projected that TIE exposition
will assume International proportions.
though foreign exhibits will be well
come, but it is intended TO illustrate
the industry, art, science and re-
ligion of Japan. Religion, especially,
will be made very prominent, and
the faith Of Buddha will be elaborate
~ illustrated, as the leaders Of that
religion think that the time has