Middletown transcript., 1894-12-29
NEWS FROM ALL LANDS.

1t is said that Queen Victorias eyesigh
is failing, but she can still see more goo,
points in Prince Henry of Battenberg thai
most people.
On Christmas Day the Rev. DR. J. IRELAND
Tucker, pastor of Holy Cross Epscopa
Church. Troy, N. s., celebrated the fif
tieth anniversary of his pastorate.
The Emperor of Germany sent $3s
apiece as Christmas present to the widows
of the firemen and workmen who were
killed by the explosion on the warship
Brandenburg last February.
Mrs. Tom Leatl. ers is the captain of the
steamer Natchez, that runs between Vicks-
burg and New Orleans. The other officers
of the vessel are also women.
1t is said that the Raw. DR.. Russell H Con.
we'll, pastor of Grace Baptist Church,
Philadelphia, breaches to the largest Pro-
testant congregation in America.
1t is said that when a stranger goes into
the Senate gallery he first asks that Senator
Hill be pointed out. As an object of public
curiosity Senator Hill has taken the place
of the member who blew out the gas.
Hartford. Conn, thinks it has done pretty
we'll for American literature in having been
the home of Mrs. Sigourney, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Isabelle Beecher Hooker,
Mark Twain, William Gillette, the play
wright; Noah Webster, and many others.
Mgr. Satolli has communicated to the
American bishops an edict from the Pope
condemning the Odd Fellows, Knights of
Pythias and Sons of Temperance, and call
ing upon Catholics to resign from these
secret societies, thus placed under ban, on
pain of accommodation.
SAToLLI's HAT. There is one thing about
Mgr. Satolli's hat, however it may be COW
eted by ambitious sons of the church-it is
the most unbecoming headgear possible to
imagine, and sheer contrast renders the
peculiar stovepipe variety graceful and
picturesque.
Rudyard Kip.ing after sendn his first
two or three stories to nearly every pub
Usher in England, finally sold them for SIS
His last story brought him $1,000 for the
English rights alone. For his Scotch en-
gineer poem he got even more than that for
the different American. English, Ind ian
and Australian rights.
John Jacob Astor modestly responds to
the new sautation of Colonel" which
military distinction has come to him with
his appointment as an aide on Governor
elect Morton's personal staff. Mr.. Astor is
not the first of the family, however, to have
the title of colonel, for his late uncle, John
Jacob, had it, and in 1862 was in the field
with the Army of the Potomac for a time.
Mrs. Fannie Reid-Slusser, who is elected
County Superintendent of Schools in Wyan-
dotte County, Kan, has submitted state
were emily $1lS, of which $50 went to the |
County Central Committee and $34 to the |
printer. A State paper wants to know if |
this expenditure is an indication that |
money would be less factor in political
in which women figure.
WOMAN IN THE EASTERN WAR.-Frances
Willard says: SIN the great war now con-
Vulsing the East which nation is it that is
1t its last grasp? The one that binds its
feet in order that they may be
keepers at home! The nation where you see
notices posted up beside the beautiful
sheets of water in the pleasure grounds of
It's mapdarins, mo girl babies allowed to
De drowned here" That nation is now on
Keen jump to get away from its enemy;
md the wife of the victorions general is a
graduate of Wellesley College.
Kate Field writes from England: "Apro.
Dos of Albert memorials, the newly erected
statue in Hyde Park is the most hideous
hing the human eye ever beheld. The /
igure is seated, enveloped in great robe.
As the bronze is gilded, it is impossible to
Iiew the shining mass when the sun falls
lpon it. From the back the statute looks
ike huge gilded pill and is familiaIly
.alled Albert the Gilt They say that
when the Prince of Wales first beheld it he
brew up his hands, exclaiming, My awful
ladr thus pertinently applying the title of
1harles Mathews last comedy. The Edin-
'urgh memorial far outshlnes- -metaphori-
ally, l mean-the Hyde Park monstros-
ty."