The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-28
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Physicians carriages have the right
OF way In the streets OF Berlin.
\ bin 10 compel drinkers of liquors
10 register ana obtain a license is be-
fore the Michigan legislature.
At n recent civil service examina-
ton for promotion I'm the New York
Fire Department every candidate fail
I'd. including Richard Croker's nephew.
The sparrow exterminators in Bos-
ton have destroyed 100 nests on the
Common I'm two days. The Public
Garden and small parks are next 70 be-
attacked.
The drummer i'm Servian regiments
never carries the drum. Ii Is placed on
"a tWo-Whecled cart. which is drawn
by a big dog just in advance OF the
drummer.
When members Of the Queens family
or any German relatives visit London
and occupy Buckingham Palace "by
invitation they pay their board just
like common folks in flrst-class hotel
From Southern Pines, small town
ship In North Carolina, 1000 900 pounds
uf fruit were shipped 10 Northern mar
kets in 1895. The output was all raised
By Northern invalids living there for
their health.
Germany has now on the active list
la her navy, two Admirals. three Vice
Admirais anu If Rear Admlrals. Tho
Io,al number OF officers above the rank
OF cadct ia 1St Twelve royal person.
ases hold honorary rank
Vesuvius was covered by heavy
snowfall recently while the crater was
i'm eruption. The Neapolitaus watched
~,
OF rcd hot lava working their way
through the white snow.
IL is a period OF informality in Lon
don society. For one of the most eX-
elusive OF dancing parties during the
last season the Duchess Of Sutherland
sent out her own visiting cards with
Come and dance penciled upon them.
Signor Marconi reports that he has
succeeded I'm telegraphing without
wires from Alum Bay TO Bournemouth.
a distance of IL miles, at the rate OF 10
words a. minute. He sent a thousand
words a day, and the messages were
easily read.
\ tombstone recently set up i'm the
cemetery Of Debreczin. in Hungary.
tells an extraordinary family tragedy.
IL reads: Here rest in the Lord. Jo-
sef Moritz, sen, who died i'm his 62nd
year. lie was shot by his son. Frau
Josef Moritz, scn..who died in her 41th
year. She was shot by her daughter.
Elizabeth Moritz. who died by her own
hand in her 18th year. after shooting
her mother. Josef Moritz. jun. who
died In prison aged q years. He had
shot his father May the Lord have
mercy on their poor. sinful souls" The
stone was erected by a literary society
To which the last of the family of the
bequeathed large sum OF money.
\ number of first editions of modern
authors recently sold at auction IN
London brought high prices i'm part
attributable to very fine bindings.
Among them We're Blackmores Lorna
DOOne.' S57; the Bronte Sistcrs"Poems
by Currier. Ellis and Acton Bell, 1910.
Mrs Browning's "Prometheus Bound, ."
i'm the original cloth $52; Dickeus's
"Pickwick Papers I'm the original
parts, $40; Charles Lambs "A Tale of
Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Mar
garet." $3.50: Ruskins Poems" 1850.
and "Salsetti and Elephanta." Sl03:
Stevensons The ~harity Bazar" S5l:
Stevenson and Henley's Deacon Bro
die" SCI: Tennyson's Poems by Two
Brothers," $3.50. and Thac..eray's Van
ity Fair" in the original parts, slG0.