The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-09

country.
TURKEY has for some time been
planning a great exhibition, TO be
- held in Constantinople in 1896. The
Sultan has just decided to postpone
the Millennial Exhibition, which is
10 be held at Pesth in 1896, and at
which Turkey will be an extensive
exhibitor.
ALTHOUGH women have equal ac-
cess with the men to the College Of
Pharmacy in New York City, compa-
ratively few avail themselves of the
privilege. OF all the callings re-
quiring careful special training there
is none so poorly paid or where the
men are worked so hard, as in the re-
tail drug business. 1t must be that
the women know this.
A GERMAN aeronautic society is to
send up a large number OF air bal
looms containing self-recording mete-
geological apparatus. They are ex-
pected to reach attitudes very far
above the extreme limit attainable by
man, and important results are ex-
pected from the experiments. En-
peror William is greatly Interested
and has contributed largely toward
the cost.
THE uneasiness which was felt in
India recently by the smearing OF the
mango trees in some Of the provinces
has been much allayed. AS it oc-
Cured prior to May 10, the anniver-
sary of the great mutiny, it was in
terpreted as mysterious native sig
nal portending some seditious move
ment, but that date having passed,
Sir Alfred Lyall, Lord Landsdowne
and others have concluded that it
had no political significance.
THREE generations of Dabolls have
continued without interruption for
122 years the annual publication of
the New England Almanac and
Farmers Friend. David A. Daboll,
the present editor, has made all the
calculations since 1864. He is now
eighty years old. His grandfather
Nathan Daboll, began it in l772, and
his father, Nathan Daboll the second,
continued it. David A. Daboll has
kept daily journal of the weather
for forty years, with the exact posi-
ton of the sun and the moon.
THE Philadelphia Press says: :
THAT the South has within it the
elements OF great future is clear to
any one who has visited it or studied
the census returns or watched the ten
N o.
the last fifteen years. 1t is useless
to pile up figures to demonstrate the
fact. It's timber, it's coal and iron
mines and it's broad fertile acres OF
unplowed land are all evidences of
the foundations the Southern States
have to build their future greatness
upon. The sixteen Southern States
could easily sustain ten times the
population they have and their wealth
should be twenty times what it now
is"
THE old veterans in the United
States Soldiers Home at Santa Moni-
ca, Cal, have been buying town lots
lately at rapid rate, and have
formed Little village which they
have named "Keeley." This, says
the New York Tribune, is in grateful
recognition of the effects OF the gold
cure, for many Of the old soldiers
were unfortunately most fit subjects
for the treatment. On the quarterly
pay-days for the pensioners, the
dusty road from Santa Monica-by-
.,e-Sea out to the Soldiers Home, a
nee of three miles, would be
~ 18th the poor soldiers who had
could leir meagre and fitful incomes
dier Jus living. The public-spirited
peopll who live in the town took q
practical interest in the sad failings
Of the old soldiers, who have used
the cure with effective results and
who now propose to do some hard
work in their new village.
CARROLL d. WRIGHT, says in the
Forum that out of every 100 adults
In the United States in 1890, there
were 26 single, 65 married and 9 wild
owed. There were 81 single, Ga mar
ried and ) widowed out of every 1OC
males, as compared with 20 single,
q married and Ii widowed out oi
every 100 females. The United
States still shows the smallest pro
portion Of single and the largest pro
portion of married adults, while the
reverse is true in Ireland and Scot
land. The excess of males over fe.
males in the country at large is BIB.
$40. The excess of single males
however, is nearly twice as great, ol
2,76l.5SS. In Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont there are practi.
cally 81 single, ~ married and wild
owed males, and 40 single, AZ married
and 9 widowed females. These three
States have the smallest proportion:
Of single, and the largest proportion:
OF married in the whole country
while the proportion of widowed i:
fully as large as in any other part o.
the Union.
PRoBABLY few Americans know