The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-04-24
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\ Texas ranch has an area Of 5000
square miles.
The Philippines can supply the world
with cocoanuts.
Horsemeat constitutes chicken feed
at San Jose, Cal.
Hereford (Eng) bricklayers get ff-
teen cents per hour.
4 single oyster I'm season produces
about 100000 young.
]. l.. Hardin may establish knitting
factory at Columbus, Ga.
Fuel is not needed at Porto Rico, ex-
cept for culinary purposes.
At Potsbach. Germany. the official
bellringer gets 1894 year.
The capacity Of the Edgeheld (s. CO
Cotton Mill Is to he doubled.
4 Mexico city merchant advertises
American furniture exclusively"
Coffee raising ranks second as an in
dustry in Porto Rico bringing wage.
Ice 80 inches thick was harvested
from Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin,
this winter.
a joker has introduced in the Kansas
legislature bin TO provide for a state
inspector OF whskey.
Cyrano red is new tint in millinery
and chiffons. IL Is "a deep, rich red. with
no tones of crushed strawberry or ter
racotta.
\ handy little coin package is made
OF metal and is fitted with "A sliding
section around the barrel portion. which
no gIngaH a nd faCtnnaH NNrfth n
when the package is full.
When the new State Board of Chari-
ties of Kansas investigated the insane
asylum at Topeka, they found four luna
ties running the heating plant, while
the men employed to do the work were
sitting around beer keg playing cards.
In new computing scale the fulcrum
of the price indicating beam is movable
and can be set at the price of one pound
OF the material being weighed, the slid
ing weight being then moved until the
beam balances indicating the total
price.
a Westerner has patented a handy
tool for cleaning pneumatic tires, con-
sisting of flat casing containing a
crescent shaped blade on one side and
pointed blade on the other, both being
locked open or shut by an internal
spring.
Gliding Is easily applied TO signs and
decorations by a new brush. which has
a reel on the handle on which metallic
leaf is wound. one end being inserted
under the tip of the brush, which slides
along and deposits the foil on the sur
face underneath.
To prevent stock watering troughs
from freezing up. an Illinois inventor
has designed "A trough which has n
Hanged edge to rest on the top of
wooden casing, the walls OF the casing
allowing the passage of heat from lamp
set under the troughs.
street cars can be easily replaced
when derailed by n new device consist
ing OF a curved plate TO be clamped TO
the side OF the rail with "A cross groove
at the top, which slants toward the
rail % allow the car TO slide down i'm
place when IL reaches the top.
A recent protector for motormens
faces IL amde Of spring roller hung
from the front roof OF the car. carrying
a flexible waterproof strip which has
an opening I'm il for the insertion Of
pane OF glass. the lower end of the strip
being attached TO the dashboard.
\ recent treatment on alcoholism by
of all cases OF pauperism are due 10
drink. and i'm Germany 90 per cent.
Drink leads to 1900 cases of suicide a
wear i'm Germany. and supplies the lu-
matte asylums with 5000 victims.
Gov Northen has been doing good
work for several months i'm the direc-
tion OF having the gold fields OF the
state worked. He has succeeded I'm
getting some mining experts from Col
orado to visit the gold-bearing sections,
and these experts are well pleased with
what they have seen.
At the last meeting OF the Victor In
stitute. OF London. Mr Pinches. of the
British Museum, said that SOME old rec
urds recently discovered iu the rulns.o
Ninevch. told the Biblical story of the
fan Of man. representing the tree OF
life as vine. and the tree of knowledge
as cedar.