Middletown transcript., 1894-12-08
TID-BI1'S.
Gleaufngs of the Week From Many
Fields.

Fields.
a "Old Tom" Tudor. of Mount Olivet KY.
i celebrated his elghtieth birthday recently
by marrying for the seventh time Tudor's
a wonder.
The widow of the late General N. P.
Banks will get pension of 500 per month
if the bill introduced into the Senate by
Senator Hoar becomes a law.
Bishop Attirus Haygood, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church (South) is danger
ously i'll at his home at Oxford, Ga. The
symptoms of his case indicate pneumonia.
Claus Spreckles the California sugar king,
created stir in financial circles in San
Francisco on Saturday by drawing check
on the Nevada Bank for 81 100000 He re-
fused to state what the check was for, but
intimated that it was for the purchase of
Government bonds.
Mr. Yang Yu, Chinese Minister at Wash
ington. gave a dinner to Secretary Gresham
lost week, and had Mrs. Yang Yu at it
| the first festival of the kind in the history
| OF the Chinese Legation. 1t wasn't birds
nest soup and peacock feather affair, but
dinner of the Washington caterer kind.
W. NJ. Howard, the Populist Congress
man-elect from the Seventh Alabama Dis
trict, hopes to get into the public eye in
several ways. He inten Is to move an in
quiry into the private means of the Presi-
dent of tie United States, and is going on
the lecture platform, where he will have
an opportunity to promote the sale of his
book, IF Christ Came to Congress" How
ard is only thirty years of age, and
it is to be hoped that when he is older lie
will know more.
The crusade against Sunday night the
atricals in Cincinnati was made interesting |
on Sunday night by t he appearance of |
Rev. Charles Pelton, of the Municipal Re- |
form Society, and Rev. Charles Work, of |
the First Presbyterian Church, at Havlin's
Theater. The two ministers only STAYED |
long enough to qualify themselves as wit
nesses, and after leaving made request at |
Police Headquarters for the arrest of the
actors. The police would not interfere
until after the performance. when the ac-
tors at all the theaters were subject to the
regular Sunday night arrest.
The lecture manager of Colonel Robert G.
1ngersoll says that the distinguished lee
turer does not care for social attention
when he goes to town to lecture. He
goes to hotel, generally on the European
plan. where he can eat whatever pleases
At the home of a prominent citizen the old
time star lecturer was generally there on
exhibition before large number of guests,
whom he was expected to entertain Un-
like the platform orators of other days,
Colonel Ingersoll has no one to make a
fulsoma address of introduction to hi
audience. He walks alone on the stage,
and does not even have the time honored
pitcher of ice water to keep him company.
His love of simplicity controls him in all
the affairs of life.
The large majority of contemporary au-
thors of international fame are sma II men
physically. KipIing. Barrie, Jerome, How
ellis, Stockston, Stedman, Mark Twain,
Bert Harte Boyesen. Saltus, are none of
them above medium height and several of
them are actually diminutive. Marion
Crawford and Conan Doyle are tall, ath-
etic-looking men, but they are the excep-
lions that prove the rule.
John Ericsson, with the possible excep-
lion of'Edison, was the most prolific inven
'or of this century. He was the originator I
Of nearly 1000 devices, but he will ever be
best remembered as the creator of the
Monitor.
Berloiz the great French composer, was
first appreciated by the Germans, and to- 4
lay German conductor-Felix Motif,
he court kapellmeister at Karsruhe-has
oeen asked to come to Paris and make the 7
French acquainted with the three best
operas of their great composer. They are
Les Troyens.' "La Prise de Troie" and !.
'Benvenuto Cellini.''