The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-18

KEITH's OPERA HoUsE-"on the Mississippi
LoTHRoP's dERA nousE-Tessie Deagle in
"Hoop Of Gad."
lesqne Company
Sugar alone will sustain life for . con-
siderable time.
An egg that Is half boiled and then
cooled cannot again be boiled hard.
Lizzie Lufosla's grocery store, 489 Eddy
street, was broken into last evening and
quantity of-soods stolen.
A naturalist with tuning fork has dis
covered that crickets chirp in unison, ana
hat their note IL natural.
Officers Kavanagh and Reynolds OF the
second police extinguishedd brush hre
in Corliss wood last evening.
The swiftest bird ia the kestrl, or En-
glish sparroW hawk. II has been known
to achieve speed of 15O miles an hour.
The total amount OF beer drank in the
world during 1893 IL estimated by Ger
man statistician at 1900. 900 gallons.
Officer Frank Carpenter of Station !,
hi been fined S25 for using abusive lam
guage TO man named Kelly, resident
OF Calais street.
The ladies' Auxiliary to the Provi-
denco Veteran Firemen will hold bean
supper followed by dancing in Firemen's
Hall this evening.
Captain Griswold OF Chem ical No. has
received the badge and buttons from
Joseph Goding who, for number OF
years, held the position OF driver OF the
apparatus.
John Boye, for an assault on Isabella
Gozzens, was held until October % for
trial, and Mike Murphy, common
drunkard, was sent 10 the State Farm for
six months in the district court this
morning.
The largest body of cavalry that ever
charged at the same time was the one
under command OF sultan Saliman, that
charged the Christian army at Nice during
the first crusade. IL IS said that ZOOOUO
men figured in the charge.
The upper third o, the face Is altered in
expression, says physlognomists and doc
tors, in affections OF the brain, the middle
third in diseases OF the chest, and the
lower third in diseases OF the organs con-
tsined in the abdominal cavity.
Mime. Sissieretta, the ''BIack Patti" ap-
peared at concert in Music Hall last
evening for the benefit of the Bethel A. Nj.
n. Church. There was good attendance
and the concert was an enjoyable enter
tainment.
John BehImer and Charles Smith, two
sailors, got into quarrel on South Main
street last night. and during the fracas
Smith cut Behlmer with a knife in sew
eral places. Behlmer went TO the hospital
where his wounds were dressed, and
Smith disappeared.
At the opening meeting OF the Horti-
cultural society last evening at Tilling-
hast's Prof. Bailey OF Brown read a paper
on "The Importance OF Botanty as
Study" Prof. Hoyt, OF the High School
and Principal Russell of the Bridgham
street school, also spoke on the same
subject.
horse, the property OF p. n J. Tierney,
became frightened at the noise that
gang OF men were making in putting coal
into a cellar on Westminster street yes
terday and ran away. AT the corner OF
Walnut street the team collided with an
express wagon. The horses were badly
injured and the wagons broken.
John Hsckerman, 40 years old, was
walking on the temporary bridge over the
new sewer at the foot OF Thurber avenue
yesterday afternoon, when one of the
braces gave way and he fell into the
trench. He was taken TO the Rhode ls-
land Hospital where it was found that his
left shoulder had been dislocated.
These New Englanders have been
granted pensions recently: Massachusetts
Original, John Adams, Holbrook; Will
liam Whitley, Newburyport; James
ENgan, Boston; Loring Searles,
Woburn. Additional, William j.
Moulten; Wakefield; Edwin Bow
man, Scituate. Renewal. Charles
Roseman. Boston. Reissue, John II.
Kimball, Ipswich, Essex. Original, wild
ows, etc, Reissue, Carrie A. Sanborn,
West Somervilie.
onnecticut-Original, William III.
Barnes, Middle own.
Rhode Island-original, Frank p. Tom
kins Providence