The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-25

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Officer Charlie Mayno is a grand pa but
he has no idea OF going on the retired list
on the score OF old age.
from Chatham last evening, where he has
q sister who is seriously i'll.
Officer Joseph Stockley has been trans
ferred from Station to z, and Officer
Toole from the 7th. to the 3rd. Station.
Box II was pulled at 6:45 o'clock last
evening for q slight fire at No. Mathew.
son street, occupied by James Rathbens.
An overheated furnace was the cause.
Mr.. James Burke, formerly OF Burke
Bros. will join Mr.. Ed. Harrigan's New
York Stock Company, October 1, in which
he has been member for seven seasons.
Joseph Burk is locked up at tt e Central
Station on suspicion of being one of the
men who robbed John Deas. re was
found on South Main street yesterday af-
ternoon.
Coroner F.. II. Lincoln will hold an in
quest into the death of John Moffatt on
Brayton avenue, tomorrow afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock. Eight or ten witnesses have
been summoned.
Lloyd's Yacht Register for 1894 shows
we have 1894 OF the 706S yachts in the
world, Great Britain has 1854, and all
other countries except the United States
222O IN the matter of yachts we are be-
hind.
Steamer Berkshire, Captain Kirw in, re-
ports sighting September q, 3 q. m, five
miles northeast OF Northeast Liz hts hip,
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Breakwster for New York; wishing to be
reported.
The committee on Providence evening
schools met last evening and completed
the work of appointing teachers. Yes
tions to take the required examinsti ions
at the High School.
Manuel Silvia, employed in the new
Studley Building on Weybosse street,
fell while wheeling a barrow across
staging this afternoon. He fell 15 feet
and was injured to some extent. He was
taken TO his home in East Providence.
People who have nervous prostration,
headaches, the blues or dyspepsia, who
take cold easily, who are subject 10
irritability, who lead sedentary lives, who
need their wits about them all the time
and who are not making the progress
they desire, should get addicted to the
cold bath hablt IL Is not only cleansing
but curative, stimulating. encouraging
and inyigorating. IL is brain brighten
ing, nerve-soothing, lood-quickening
and the best treatment ever taken for the
complexion, digestion and dispos ition.
Mr.. Wagner and Miss Webb, who were
married at Bath, n. V, in January last.
were lovers for full 81 years. Another
couple were married this year at Folke-
stone, Eng, after q courtship of over 30
years, whiles couple at Bruges. the ancient
scene OF that Longfellow legend celebrated
the 5Oth anniversary of their courtship by
going to the church and getting made one
And an old newspaper, published in Bos-
ton, has notice of the marriage of Cap
tain Thomas Baxter of Quincy and Miss
Whitman OF Bridgewater, ,on Decent Der 10,
17SS, "after long and tedious courtship
OF forty -eight years, which both sustained
with uncommon fortitude." Good. Those
were the days OF loyal hearts.
The bicycle woman has one article in
her outfit that every woman who is out
doors in damp weather ought TO adopt
and could do so with great benefit to her
self. IL IL the pair OF long leather, canvas
or cloth leggings she wears. When there
is q sale of these be sure to fit yourself
out with a pair. They will protect
your Hnkleh from rain ana snow,
and at the same time you can raise your
dress as high as you like to escape the mud
and not fear everyone on the block is turn
ing To gaze after you when passing by. To
women who have trouble trying to find
comfort in boots, the leggins are real
friends. Wear low shoes as long as posi-
bic, and on cool or windy day bid defiance
to the elements with the leggings.
Crepons show a ground work of one
color, over which are thrown stripes or
designs in raised mohair or soft chenille
effects. One of these latter is particularly
beautiful. The ground is an uneven
stripe OF black crepon and black
silk, then black and blue silk.
Over this is a dotted effect i'm cut chenille
or plush in shades of golden brown, shad-
ing from del cate yellow into rich seal
tints. The whole is most brilliant and
soft withal. Another crepon has a dull
heliotrope ground, with a black cham
stitch in mohair, forming a stripe. An
other produces black effect by stripes OF
dull sage and dull plum color, with an
other stripe or )ssing these OF the curling
mohair effect in black.