Middletown transcript., 1893-07-22
BRIGHT
SIFTINGS
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
4 SPICY COLUMN OF SQUIBS
To Ala Digestion at the Breakfast
Table and Keep You in Good Humor
all the Rest of the Day-Our Neigh
bors and How we See Them Through
.sGrit's'' Glasses.

The word ''room" occurs just forty-seve
times in the dispatch from Washington d
scribing the renovation of the White Hon
and the gorgeous preparations making ft
the return of our Republics monarch
This seems a little significant. as it wf
rheumatism that sent Grover away. Bu
he'll be diverted from the thought when h
reads of the bed room and the red room
and the blue room and the yellow room
and the crimson room and the pale shrimp
pink room. that he may on his return hav
the rheumatism in all the colors Of tn
rainbow If he chooses.
The Mollie Gibson mine of Aspen, Col.
has been s.fiooded beyond redemption
"oh, woman, in our hours of ease, unstable
coy and hard to please, and variable as tht
shade by the light of the quivering asper
made''-how doth an overdose of rain rout
thee from Santa Cruz to Spain.
If Rudyard Klpling would only describe
as it is, the lynching OF negro in South
ern swampi The lynching has hardly
passed from history into literature. A
posse from Briarfeld. Ala, had, at last re.
! ports, rounded up black murderer-and
worse, in dense morass from which it was
reasonably certain that he could not escape
to "a better land"
The vanity Of human knowledge is limited
in the news from Valparaiso that Dundee
whaling vessel has just returned from the
Antartic Ocean with $4,000 sealskins. The
accomplished Coudert, the stately Phelps,
the profound Carter and the other eloquent
advocates of American rights in Behring
Sea may soon be asked to turn their atten-
ton to an argument in favor of our owner
ship in the South Polar sealing grounds as
well.
The skull of negro and ten other skulls
have been found in the excavation made
for the new north wing of the Massachu-
sets State Prison. In old times dead con-
victs were buried in the prison yard. New
England has no Longfellow now to sing of
her skeletons in Armor," no Whittier to
strike the chords Of human sympathy for
the blacks who died long ago in captivity.
A dissolute Mexican named Jazo has been
found near the Rio Grande, hung by the
neck to bow SO low as to be suspiciously
handy. Texans say that "the Bosque gang
just strung him up to vex us. but the Mex
leans swear he was dangled there by the
wicked men from Texas.
More praise for Altgeld: The Trades of
Labor Assembly of New York have re-
ported resolutions declaring that "the Gov
ernor bravely met the demands of justice,
and in pardoning the Anarchists demon
strated to future ages that he is a worthy
occupant of the executive chair of the State
which furnished Lincoln to free the Af-
rican slaves" Mr.. Altgeld is now the
champion of ''the right of the people to
peaceably assemble for the discussion of
grievances" all of which seem grieyous
enough to Americans who truly love Lin
coin theories.
Pretty Fanny Post, of Schuyler, Neb., is
thought to be prisoner on desert island
in the Platte River. Miss Post may be suf-
fering from an overdose of .'The Swiss
Family Robinson" Robinson Crusoe,"
"Masterman Ready" or "The Young Ma
rooners." Or she may really be held cap
tive by tramps, as q message found in
bottle would seem to indicate. The tramp
is destined to be great figure in American
romance; he is the gypsy of modern civili-
cation.
While Sam Jones was preaching "his
second sermon" to 1900 people at Wini-
mac, Ind. on Sunday last, Sudden and
terrific wind storm dashed the tent from
over his congregation" and wound it
around tree 100 feet away. "The stars in
their courses fought against sisera." and it
is not unnatural that the wind should feel
jealous of Sam.
Three candidates for the Democratic NOM
ination for Governor of Ohio are Farley of
Cleveland. Ritchey of Allen County, and
ex-Mayot Burnett Of Springfield To be
entirely candid these gentlemen should
name the dates for their departure up Salt
River.
DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of
Reviews, met Miss Elizabeth Bacon of
Reading. Pa, five weeks ago. They are
soon to be welded and are in attendance
on the Congress of Educators at Chicago.
When Cupid shivers the spectacles of the
learned, with single dart, they often make
spectacles of themselves.
Mrs. Sarah E. Morehouse, plump little
bigamist of 40 summers, pleaded guilty in
New York. At the age Of IA she became
Mrs. William Hull. of Berlin, New York.
At the age of q she became Mrs. Bur-
roughs, and quite recently Mrs. Charles E.
Morehouse. Mr.. Burroughs died and saved
Mrs. Moorehouse from becoming a triga-
mist, but she opened boarding house on
East Eighty-fourth street, New York, and
in consideration of this and other mitigat-
ing circumstances the Judge gave her only
twenty days in the city prison.
The Goelets have rented Mrs. Langtrys
beautiful yacht for the summer, but there
are other mementoes of Squire Abingdon
now in this country. Two stations. num-
ber of brood Mares and flock of South
downs that once acknowledged Mr.. Baird
as their master, were landed from the
steamer Bowie at New York on Monday,
consigned to the Forbes Stock Farm near
Boston. The squire valued Meddler, one
Of these stations at $4,000, and his en-
trance for the Derby was cancelled owing TO
the squire's death.
Captive Wild animals play an important