The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-09
NEW ENGLAND GLEANINGS.

NEW ENULAND GLC ANlNOS.
fspringfleld is rated as the second banking
city in Massachusetts.
Potatoes are scarce and Of poor quality In
the northern par. of Now Hampshire.
Eastport, Me-. admits that n prize fight be-
tween two females occurred in that city re-
Gently.
General Neal Dow is quite unwell at his
home In Portland his troubles becoming Incl
dental TO his advanced age.
Several Maine churches have had women
pastors for several years now, and these pas
tors have been very successful.
y towline between two bicycles is now in
vogue. A small, wiry woman was seen draw
ing fat man tho other day on Holyoke
road
This has been good year for house build
ing in Maine, and some of the newspapers
already are giving long lists OF now residences.
The city OF Worcester has been experiencing
with brick pavement. laid in concrete on
steep street, and is well pleased with the re-
sult.
Mrs. Catherine Wallace of West Waldoboro,
Me-. now 81 years old reads her Bible with
ont glasses. goes out every fine day and on
joys life immensely.
A woman mail carrier is SWaldo county's
(Me.) piece dc resistance. II Is her husband
really who draws the salary, but she drives
the nag while he is farming -
With the exception of tho Danbury Comm
fair and a fow:others, agricultural fairs have
been waning in popularity in Connecticut IN
recent years, remarks the Hartford Times.
IL wasn't intended for puzzle. but the
Portland Express thinks that for word pro-
nouncing test few can beat sign on Temple
street in that city, reading, 'Shaw's Saw
Shop" just try 20 say IL quickly.
II was "A Sullivan (9ie.) doctor who when n
lady remarked: i've been berrying all sum.
mer and haven't done any preserving at
ALL" replied: That's just my case I've
been burying all summer and haven't pre-
servel anything"
Edwin f. Burnham of sWillimantic, Conn.
aged 81, met q former school teacher Of his at
Willimantc the other day who had reached
the ago OF 9l. She welded the birch and he
was the mischievous boy IN the yillage school
at Scotland, Conn, IL years ago
The Klondike craze struck Worcester with
hurricane force, and everywhere in all shop
windows now there is something TO be found
called n KlondiSe. II seems that as soon "a
one word comes into the language and
makes hit, it is picked up and overy'
thing is called after 1t.
Springfield has started out to have the
American Henley. Springfield has n way of
doing things il sets out TO do, as the bicycle
races that shave been famous the world over
for dozen years indicate, and as the fame
OF Hnmpden Park testiies. Recall, too, the
Harvard Yale football games.
The AroostooIs Me- starch manufacturers,
especially those who have been holding large
quantities of starch for rise, are feeling bet
ter. Under the prospect of short crop of
potatoes and the stimulus of reviving indus
tries, starch is beginning TO look up in price.
1t is already cents, with a fair prospect of
"a higher rise.
A Waterbury, Conn, undertaken cites from
his own experience and quotes from trade
journals tho assertion that there have been
fewer funerals this summer than in many
years past, and says that authorities upon
the subject say IL has been because of the
great amount Of rain and the cool summer,
which has prevented large amount of sick
ness.
There are very few men or women IN Massa-
| chusetts tho have been associated with the
same paper for over 80 years. Such is the
record OF Mrs. Mary A. Philip of the Berk-
| shire Courier. She has been with the paper
| under many different arrangements. First
entering the office as q compositor. she was
! promoted to the position of head bookkeeper,
n position she now holds
The managers Of one Of the electric roads
! in New Haven have placed signs in their cars
! which have caused deal Of criticism. The
signs read Don't be a chump, and.iump off
! a car while in notion" or something 10 that
effect The word 'chump" is what has
caused all the rumpus, as some of the journals
in the City of Elms and elsewhere object to
it as not being in good taste