The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-03
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An American cocktail costs 40 cents
In Havana.
New York has had 90 United states
senators in ITO years.
The Welsh coal dispute cost the Mar
quis of Butte nearly S15O,OOO.
There are 9o.O 900 negroes i'm New York
city according TO latest estimates.
Warsaw has a goose market. in which
every year from September to Novem-
ber about 100000 gee.;e are manipu-
lated by Jews.
The Chicago board OF education has
decided that all teachers I'm the public
schools of the city must hereafter i've
i'm the city,
The capitol of Hartford, Conn, Is TO
he closed at night hereafter in order 10
prevent the clerk from using the offices
as bed chambers.
The Chlhuahua (Mex.) Norte says
800 American negroes are to be brought
to the state 10 work on the Chihuahua
| and Pacific railroad.
In London paving stone which
weighed 500 pounds, and which was
| wedged i'm on all sides by other stones,
was lifted up by a mushroom.
Mr.. Jamsetsji Tata has offered the
Indian government 81. $780, 900 for the es-
| tablishment in India of a University FOR
research on the model of Johns Hop
| kins.
| II IS said cow bells are produced only
| I'm four factories in the United states,
and are made just the same as they
were one hundred years ago. and sound
the same.
| The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
| road company furnishes dining rooms
| and luncheon exclusively for those con-
| nected with the road in Chicago, free
| of charge.
One hundred and nine thousand loco
| motives are at present running IN va
| rlous countries. Europe has 63,O0o,
| America 40. 900. Asia $500. Australia 2ooO
| and Africa 200.
The members Of the Alabama legisla-
ture have requested the Agricultural
| Department to send them an expert e.
! advise them in the matter OF good
| roads legislation.
Near Mulege. Lower California, says
the Mexican Herald. is found in the
fields growing naturally tea more
aromatic than the black tea OF CHINA
and of familiar appearance.
In Maine there are Il spool factories
and the white birch trees of that state
annually supply the material for 300
600. 600 spools. on which are subsequent
IN wound about $4,000, GOO 600 yards o
thread.
The Princess Of Wales possesses wha
Is probably the most costly pair q
opcra glasses i'm existence. They ar
OF platinum. set with rubies. sapphire
and turquoises. ana their value Is es
= timatcd at G2jOO.
In some parts of Mexico the peon
are 80 Wretchedly poor that they hir
"a coffin To- lay their dead IN until ia
cemetery IL reached, when the body
| removed and laid I'm mother earth. wit
, no covering save "a tattered zerapc.
4 Western merchant has hit upon
| ! novel method OF protecting his cas-
! box from marauding fingers. VI
gprinkles the box with a powder whic
has the peculiar effect OF dyeing th
+, skin blue. the color being merely In
I tensihed by washing.
!. He's caught the grip n thousand time
Ave. even I'm one day
Yet never paid a doctors bill.
J. Nor lost "a cent OF pay.
lie lets a run wide open like.
q Then stops IL with n jerk.
\ You see hc Is n motorinan,
And It's part OF his work.
Detroit Free Press.
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of ms latest novel2
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.r | cncy with the ulut You call II 'Scal'
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