Middletown transcript., 1894-11-17
HERE AND THERE.
Bright Sfftings From the Metropol
fan PrasS.

tan Press.
Delaware is no. densely populate'
State, but were Texas as thickly people,
her population would be about $4,000, 600
Were Texas as numerously peopled a
Massachusetts, her population would exceed
by 100000 the total population of thu
United States according to the census O
1890. More impressive still. if Texas were
as densely peopled as Rhode Island hel
population would be more than $4,000, 900
l-Sunbeams.
President Cleveland, before he left Gray
Gables. sent to the Rev. G. c. Alger, the
Methodist minister at Bourne, the exact sum
taken from Mr.. Alger's house by burglars
the Sunday night preceding, during the
pastors absence at church.
The first conviction under new law in
Oregon has just sent man to the peniten-
tiary for year for adultery.
San Francisco's municipal ticket ballot
at last weeks election was foot and half
wide and only two inches short of yard
long.-Sunbeams.
Woman suffrage is failure, says Cover
nor Waite-he of "Bloody Bride" fame
The women voted the Republican ticket in
Colorado on Tuesday, hence the Governors
pessimistic view. There be those in New
York who also think that women should
keep out of politics. Ask any member of
Tammany Hall.-Tribune.
Women were never so busy in politics in
any past time as they have been in the
elections of this month. They had the big
gest luck in Colorado, where they are
credited with the defeat of the Populist
party, which gave them the right of voting,
and with helping the Republican party.
which had opposed woman suffrage. The
question of establishing woman suffrage in
the State of Kansas was submitted to the
voters of the State on Tuesday, with results
unfavorable to the suffragists-N. Y. Sun
Attorney General Hensel will have to
settle with the women of the State in
holding that a married woman is dis
qualified to be one of the five persons
necessary to form a corporation in Pennsyl-
vania. The enabling act of 1885, he holds,
does not confer directly such power upon
a married woman. This may be good law
and good sense, but the Attorney General
will have hard work to convince the women
of tile fact.-Phila. Press.
FASHION VERSUS HORSE
The New York Herald says: Compelled
by deep sense of propriety, the Herald
devotes more space this morning to pictures
of horse show costumes than to pictures of
horses. 1t is an open question whether
beauty or Bucephalus plays the more i'm
portant part at the Madison Square Garden |
Show. Where fifty horsemen crane eager
necks to catch the slightest movement of
thoroughbred, half hundred stiffened |
collars are disarranged in study of women
in the boxes. 1t is no detraction from the |
horse to confess that he shares his supre-
macy with woman, the most docile and |
fascinating creation of the universe. The |
fine horse unadorned is adorned the most.
Harness and saddlery only cover his beauty. |
Convention DEGREES that woman must be |
most adorned to be adorable. 1t is brave |
fight between horse and woman Which |
wins ?"
The New York Sun says: 1.-The horse
show is again the crowning event of the
years round of amusements and spectacles |
1t appeals to popular and fashionable inter-
ests no less powerfully than in the past
years of its supremacy as the capital show
offered by New York. As before, the hotels
are filled with strangers attracted hither
solely by its occurrence. For the time
being the horse is master of the situation
The talk of the town is horsey, and in the
shops the most conspicuous display for the
allurement of purchasers is of vehicles and
implements of the stable. the road and the
chase. or of trinkets symbolical of eques-
trianship.
WOMEN FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
Now that Mayor-elect Strong has ex-
pressed himself in favor of women school
the ladies #he helped in
the overthrow of Tammany are beginning
to discuss the merits and dement's of those
who ane likely to be candidates for the
that will be made. Colonel
Strong not only favors having women help
in settling the educational questions of the
day, but thinks that they ought to be given
official positions that MoE Id enable them to
see that the city is kept in healthy
condition.
MILLION FOR MISSIONS.
AL aLO III a.. .z1x |
the country has recently heard so much
does not scent to have reached the ears of
the board of missions of the Methodist.
Episcopal Church, which is now in annual
session in Brooklyn. 1t is appropriating
more than a million dollars for carrying on
its work in foreign mission fields next year,
and the great sum is only one item in the
long list of expenditures for which Ameri-
can Methodists provide from year to year.
Speaking of the bond issue, its mighty
lucky thing that after the financial cyclone
Of the past eighteen months the people
have got anything left with which to pur-
chase Mr.. Carlisle's bonds and thereby pull
Cleveland out of hole.-Press.
President Cleveland will, it is said, shut
himself from visitors for some days next
week. No doubt he wants leisure in which
10 study up big, bad, obsolete words with
which to decorate his message and, inciden-
ally, the Democratic Judases in his party.
Press.
John Sherman says that he is not after
he Republican nomination in 1885, and
what is more-does not want it. He would
nave been great President; and what lot
IF money it would have been in the coun-
ry's pocket if John Sherman had stayed
tight along, all these years, in the Treasury
Department.! Per contra, we have had his
services in the Senate, and invaluable some S
of them have been.-Hartford "Courant." l
THE WHEATLY DAMAGE.
The r. w. q B. II. II. Company Sued
For $4,000. =
The ~ of MrS Hannah yNbaotl,, ,,s