The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-26

In n usnt.
Your Uncle Sam oan swing 'em pretty hard
On pinch,
And the Don won't stand much punching
Fore he'll finch.
Now they're in the ring at last.
uitting.will be thick and FAST
You cant find Spain when its past,
That's cinch!
Chicago Iuter-ocean.
Uriah ". Bruce OF this city has been
granted pension of s. a month.
Superintendent OF Health Chaplin re-
Waterman street.
william Scanlan. a tramp, WAS taken
sick on fountain street last night and re-
moved to the hospital In the ambulance.
Brown's annual spring interclass ath-
letio meet will take place on Lincoln
field Tuesday. May III. Captain O'Bsien
has appointed the following men AS class
captains: Il. X. Taft '9s; II. A. Stuck
well, 81; IL. 5. Pratt 1900; ID. Ii. Hall,
'cl.
President Andrews will march with the
minute men OF Brown University when
they are called ont, II necessary. The
addresses OF the minute men ara secure In
book. so that they oan be called out In
short order any time. Each man will
provide bimself with blanket and oan-
teen ready for use.
In the Church of the Emmanuel on
Westminster street last night Captain
Charles T. Potter preached to q good sized
audience on the perfect model OF the tab
ernaole, showing that while Satan was
ever ct hand to tempt the righUeo US into
sin. God was always ready to help those
who called upon him.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton, LID,
OF Harvard, ,deliverei the fourth of his 30.
ries OF lectures on Dants yesterday after
noon at Pembroke hall. He took up the
Divine Comedy" and will devote the
next two lectures to the same subject. A
clear expedition was given Of the design
and conception Of the poem. and OF It's
ideaof the relation OF God ana man, as
wsll ns of many Of the Incidents ot the
great poem.
The committee on arbitration upon the
question OF Union Railroad Company
taxation, met with Mayor Baker in the
mayors offios this morning, and heard
tho report OF the mayor Id relation to the
action OF A3p. Nelson w. AIdrich. The
joint standing committee on parks of tina
City Corucil VIII meet In Council CIerk
Anyden's Office At O'Clock this after
noon, co discuss regular business.
Tnes Rhode Island womnu's Suffrage
Association held very sucosssful cake
and apron sais yesterday afternoon and
ovoning In the p. Il. w. y. A. rooms on
Washington street. and the result was the
addition of considerable funds to the
treasury. Ine rooms we're prettily deco
xated NTH palms and bunting In the ma.
tional colors, and the articles for sale
were arranged on varioua tables. Miss
Orissa Fcrrestsr rendered a nun ber OF
vocal and instrumental selections during
The svepips shat were highly appreciated.
The Union Normal School GLASS OF Sun.
day school teachers held its final meeting
at the Y. Al. q. A. hall last night. About
half the mem bers of the GLASS OF 's6 will
take the examinations. which. II success.
fully passed, will entitIe them to diplo-
ma. These will be awarded at the state
ess Uuion will hereafter meet at 1880
~'ciock on Wednesday afternoons, instead
Of on Saturdays. Next Wednesday Miss
~. K. Hiaikie OF Medfcrd. Mass, will
sreak on the kindergarten method In
sunday school work.
There was another good illustration OF
tbs sonseless method that so many wheel
men have OF riding doubled up over their
wheelss with their heads forward and
tnsir oyss directed to the ground. 90 that
it is impossible for them to see what Is
going on around them. yesterday near the
Washington bridge, when X. b. Morrison
had q collision with q horse and wagon.
Az usual Of course, the wneeiman was
NOT at fault. He wss picked up ssuseless,
whils the horse at once started into make
mincemeat OF the wheel. and ne succeeded
very we'll Morrison finally came TO and
took away his wheel, minus bell andu.py.
ciomstsr. "
Ieday and tomorrow the o5th Cbannins
conlerepts will be held in tho First Con.
Grosstionsi cburus. fbs program M ar.
r1neod q a. follows: ruesiay evening.
. o'clock reliaious servtoss. with sermon
W bev Thomas II. siiter Of New Ycrk.
"Wednesday, %. M. devotional irectirr.
% By New. John NJ. Wilson Of Fell Riwr.
Mass 10 .. M, anncai business mest-