Middletown transcript., 1894-11-24
HERE AND THERE.
Bright Sfftings Cleaned FROM the
Metropolitan Press,

Bright Siftings Cleaned FROM the
Metropolitan Press.
Mrs. Lease is to start a newspaper in
Kansas to be called the Agitator. Mr..
Lease will neither defy the Agitator nor
deny the agitation.
Whether or not the President of the
Sugar Trust feels rich enough to own a
thirty y-thousand-dollar trotter, he seems
able to keep number of Cabinet officers in
his private stud.-World.
Senator PETERS appearance in New York
and the numerous remarks that have been
made upon the great length of his whisk-
ers, has drawn attention to the fact that
his style of wearing the beard has practice
| cally been Iidiculed out of fashion in New
York. 1t has also had the curious effect
OF reversing the meaning of two English J
words. The motley hair which hangs two
feet below the Senators chin. would two
years ago, have been described as "beard'
The word "whiskers' was used to describe
growth Of hair npon the face, and the
distinction was we'll understood and gen.
| Sioiiy ASSaidCu III 0pCCOH. 1hc
against abnomally long boards was begun
under the name OF "whiskers" and nowa4
days the style of face ornament which Mr..
Pepper faunts is always described as
"whiskers," while a close-cropped growth
of hair is called beard" What were for
merly known as "whiskers" are now de
scribed by such slang words as 'sideboards'
"Dundrearies," and the like. The wearers
of this style of facial ornament have also
come in for general ridicule, and we no
longer see men complacently wearing long
turfs of hair which extend from their ears
out to the points of their shoulders.-Sun
Lady Colen Campwell is to have paper
of her own in London, and it will be called
the Realm. She is by no means novice in
journalism, as it is known that for eight
or ten years she was assistant to the late
Edmund Yates, editor of the London
World. 1t became known in time through
out journalistic Londod that much of the
successful work on the world was from
Lady Collins pen. When Edmund Yates
died number of men interested in the
newspaper business in London got together
and formed syndicate for the purpose of
backing Mr.. Yates's assistant in establish
ing paper of her own. 1t will be journal
of the style of the World and Labouchere's
famous journal, and staff of we'll known
men has been engaged. Lady Colin, after
passing through trying ordeal in the dii
vorce court, defeated her husbands efforts
to sever his matrimonial ties but was OBJ
bliged to earn her own living. She is tall
and was formerly very handsome
but she has recently lost much of her beauty
through persistant attacks of muscular
She wrote novel a few
years ago that was fat failure, and she
then decided to devote the rest of her
time exclusively to JOURNALISTIC work
Sun.
Joseph Quincy takes unnecessary pains
10 announce that he does not care for
office. Mr.. Quincy is Democrat, lives in
and couldn't get an office if
t depends on election.-Kansas City Star:
Mr.. Cleveland is more conspicuous ruin
han the remains of the Chicago Fair.-Oil
Jity Derrick.
If, as Governor Waite claims, he was de-
eated by the women, the State of Colorado
made no mistake when it granted to them
he right of suffrage
Mrs. Francis Klock won her race for sths =
legislature in Colorado hands down. N
lara Cressinghan and Mrs. Carrie
rere also elected Representative
FRS. Angenette N. Peavey SUI
+ Public Instruction.