The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-15
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There are forty restaurants in Lon
don where only vegetables are served
Every year tho King OF Italy receives
q New Years gift of 5000 cigars from
the Emperor Of Austria.
Baron Curzon is the eleventh viceroy
OF India since II was handed over ID
the home government in 1888.
1t is alleged that the Marquis Of
Bute's losses. owing to the Welsh coal
dispute. approxmated S'JoO0o.
Chichester cathedral spiro is the only
one " hich can be seen from the sea
along the coast Of Great Britain.
South Dakota has a surplus OF money
I'm the state treasury A recently took
UP $4,000 OF bonds not due until 1910.
Connecticut's homicid1s In 1898 were
twcnty-seVcn. as compared With twen-
ty-four in 1897 and twenty-five in 1896.
The state library of Pennsylvania,
with 1886 volumes. is the second In
size OF such libraries in the United
states.
There are 97S members Of the Privy
Council OF England and Ireland. The
members are entitled TO be called right
honorable"
For the past two years each convict
I'm the Missouri state prison has earned
three cents day more than the cost OF
keeping him.
Ii has been judlcially decided in South
Carolina that, under provision OF the
state constitution, juror must De
qualified voter.
4 Philadelphia man named Lubin
says he has succeeded In almost en-
tircly doing away with the "squeaky'
tone Of the phonoSraph.
A book published in Japan thousand
years ago notes that at that time good
eilk was already produced in twenty
five provinces OF that country.
The greatest pilgrimages to the Holy
Land are undertaken by the Russians.
IL is calculated that between 10000 and
10000 Russians visit Palestine every
year.
Senator Proctor. who has taken his
family to cuba, says he believes the
climate OF that country Is perfectly
healthy. provided one lives regularly
and quietly.
The Massachusetts Gypsy Moth com
mission wants the Legislature TO ap-
propriate 100000 this year for the pro-
secution OF It's Work-the determination
OF the ocueria dispar.
Although President Mckinley has
been in office almost two years, he mas
returned but twi bills with his veto.
furnishing thereby a striking contrast
10 the record OF Mr.. Cleveland.
Mrs NJ. Fleming. recently appointed
curator of astronomical photographs. Is
the first woman whose name has ever
appeared I'm the Harvard University as
among the officers of that institution.
\ Chicago tailor the other day sent
out a thousand checks. each drawn for
two cents. az an advertisement. The
collector of internal revenue has de-
cfded that he will have to put tse-
cent stamp on each of them.
II was announced i'm Berlin that the
projected visit OF Prince and Princess
Henry of Prussia TO Japan has been
abandoned, the Japanese government
having intimated it's inability To guar
antee their personal safety.
From St. Pierre. in the Island of
Martinique. w. l., comes the surprising
report that eleven Spanish warships,
which seem i'm some way to have escap-
ed the sinking fever which prevailed
last summer, are rendCZVoused there.
They are being overhauied and coaled
preparatory To sailing for Spain.
The New England state sexemplify
the practice of continuing representa-
tives In Congress virtually during good
behavior. No less than four Of its SEN
ators-Hale. Frey, Hawley ana Aldrich
have served continuously in the
United states senate for eighteen years,
while Senator Hoar and Platt measure
their service in the same body at twen-
ty-two years and twenty years, re-