The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-12

Richard W. Jennings, secretary OF the
board of state Census, has bsen appointeu
clerk of the house con mittee on puoho
institutions.
Custom House street has at last been
c,aansd out. so I'll at now no longer does
SC present the appearance OF pad coun-
try road rather than hne' aspnai'eu
city street.
The winter trrm OF the newsboys' night
school located in the old Central STATION
building, closed last night with very
enjoyable entertainment The program
included singing, ieoitations. musioai
salactions and class exercises by the
pupils
From all accounts the condition or
the country ro.ds throughout the state is
far wors, today than il was week ago.
The warm wave hiss converted the snow
into mGss Of slrsh and whesling IL
almost impossible while sleiRhing Is
utterly out of the question.
one CT the main objections brought by
the police officials Ct the several cities
of the stats against the bill providing
for the appointment of probation officers
Ia that the fear that clash Of authority
would arise rnder the $, stem proposed by
the bill now under discussion.
At the Bell Street chapel lest night
Edwin &. Pierce delivered lecture on
s.Clsy and Elaine" This is the first of
n ssriss of lectures on Fifty Years oil
American Political History" Next week
the subject of Mr.. Piercs's lecture Will bs
"Appotomax to Mckinley"
Representative Congdon OF North Kings
town, moved to pity and grief that the
clerks Of the House of Representatives had
only one clay pipe between them, and
very dirty and black old clay pipe at that,
which was generally jea)ously guarded by
Clerk Mowry, has present to Reading
Clsrr Lee brand new clay Pipe and
box of tobacco, which Is now open To all
coIners
Many people were surprised this morn
Ing on getting up and looking out of the
window to see bow rapidly the snow had
disappeared during the night. IL is quite
unusual to nave night in February
30 warm that even the ground does not
stifYen up little. but that was the case
llst nisht. and the thawing process went
or uninterrupt dly through the night.
There was large attendance at the
Eimwood Clubs ''lsdifs' night" held
last evening at the clup rooms After the
rendering OF a very plsssins progia am of
musical and humorous selections most OF
:he remainder Of the evening was spent
in darcing. Tue affair was arranged by
rommi'tse consisting Of the following
gentlemen: j. w. Duncansvn, w. Is
Sherman ard N. II. Allen.
A large coal team dropped one of its
bosi tir.s OF from one OF the front
wh. els >about o'clock tnis morning on
Weyb<sses street, nearly orp sits the
Narrsgsnsett Hotel The tire broke, fell
off and rolled into the car tracks. The
driver procs, d d some little distance be.
fore ne discovered his loss. The pfdss-
trians who saw it simply ssid "A pune
tured tire and passed OH.
TIE committee on evening schools OF
the tchohl coiniril iltee has good reason to
tie pYord Of the work accom- pllsnsd in the
evepiI tools OF this city, which closed
for the year last evening. OF ali tsese
schcos perhaps none has shown better
results than that devoted To Italians,
which was held In the Federal street
la.fl l1rfs nal
Ven.rono hs worked lard to keep up the
standard and he hes fully succeeded
One Of tie prominent witnesses in the
now famous trial of Emile Iola at Psrls,
answers TO the somewhat epicuiean name
CT Ps.y du Clam. Ttcrs is suggestive.
nsss Of ths delicious bivalye of Narraean.
sett bay about this cognomsn. although
Il Is very doubtful II the French warrior
knows anything of Crescent Park or
Rocky Point bake. IL is far more proha
bic that he may to allied with the great
indigsstitls family OF pate de fois grss,
and may even be n distsrt relative Of TIE
succulent oyster patty.
A meeting OF the Providence W. C.
4. u. was held yes erday afternoon az 3
O'Clock at the Elisha Ilyersvinton Home
on sabin street. Mis-. Frederick Jsck-
SOD, TIE prs sldent. introduced as the
fptaker Of the day hov. G. h. Cate a
the Roger Williams Free Baptist church.
HIS subject wEs "Altruisn. he spoke
of the newsrnpsrs o. dealing too much
with the bsser elements and cheaper
ecssurs OF society. lie all, thought that
the tbes iricsl pfsisrs on The hiil boards
we're harm Go children. becauss they were
sensational and net elevntipg. At tie
close of his address q vote Of thanks was
tsnce'cd the speaker
: The first annual debate of the provi-
dsnce Evening Hish School Debating