The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-23
CHAT.
Are you in trouble?


Have you an aching head or an aching
heart, swimming of the eyes, dizziness,
sharp pains in the chest?
Contraction of the draphragmf
Doesn't your grass grow?
Does your neighbours daughter practice
on the piano at a. m, and your neigh
bors' son crib your lilacs?
Are you moody at times and perhaps
have thinking spells?
Don't hesitate to read further.
This is not going to wind up with a
| patent medicine advertisement.
Or even cure
No so much as advice,
Only comfort.
simply want to remind you that there
| urg Others.
That Is slang-but: what a lot of con-
ISOLATION 1t does convey!
know of no colloquialIsm that has so
much of real comfort suggested in IT.
What lot 1t msausA-"there are otherss ~
There always are others-in trouble.
Misery loves company-and although the
miserable rarely believe that there is any
company for them, there always is. No
matter what is the matter with you there
is always to be found somebody that has
much more the matter with them. Odd,
isn't it, that the discovery should be a
relief, should tighten the heart and cheer
us, the finding out that somebody may
be worse off han we are.
Nobody, however, can be really worse
of than bicyclist 20 miles from home
with punctured tire. For he can posi-
lively not get on.
Which reminds me that, the other even.
ing saw a bicyclist walking with
young woman-on the sidewalk, of
course--while beautiful Macadam high
way stretched it's length beside--and the
bicyclist was trundling his wheel on one
side and dicussing politics-maybe- with
the young woman on the other side.
That's what 1 would call true devotion
with self abnegation more strongly
pointed than it is when a young man lugs
the bundles.
According to the Yankee Blade-my,
what dear old periodical that is the
longest distance that a shot has been
fred is few yards over 10 miles, which
was the range OF Krupp's well-known
"monster" 130-ton steel gun, firing shot
weighing 2600 pounds The ie0-ten Arm
strong gun has an extreme range Of IA
miles, firing shot weighing 1890 pounds,
and requiring 900 pounds OF powder.
These guns, however, proved too expen-
sive. being unable to stand firing hun.
dred times, and their manufacture has
practically been abandoned. The cotton
Armstrong gun hurls solid shot TOR a
distance of II miles, ana tho discharge of
the gun cannot be heard at the place
where the ball strikes. From ~ TO 13
miles Is the computed range OF the most
powerful guns now made, and to obtain
that range an elevation of nearly a5 de-
grees is found to be necessary.
Colonel Henry b. winship Is one OF the
best dressed men in town, and he il THE
best dressed man on Cape Cod when he is
down there. But his spring suit is OF a
shade so sandy that II he ever leaves 1t
on the beach to go in swimming, he could
no more find IL again than you could dis
cover iiy speck in bottle Of INK.
Speaking OF clothes, did you ever know
them to be so cheap and so goodg Read
the advertisements.
don't know the reason Of it. Whether
IL is overproduction or under consimp, ion
On business depression
or what
know II isn't because OF the Wilson
bill, because the editor OF THE NEWS
tells me 'tlsn't.
bnyte he knows
And maybe ho doesn't.