Middletown transcript., 1895-05-11
CURRENT EVENTS.


President Cleveland is taking a cruise
on the Chesapeake bay. on the 'Violet."
The New York assembly has passed bill
making Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12, le-
gal holiday.
The Arkansas legislature forgot to make
an appropriation for the maintenance Of
the state penitentiary at its last session.
Ambassador Thomas F.lBayard, Mrs. and
Miss Bayard attended Queen Victoria's
drawing room reception at Buckingham
Palace on Wednesday.
The Tennessee Governorship contest was
closed on May Sd, by the joint Legislature
giving the seat to Turney, the Democrat
nominee, by vote of II, to 81
A monument in memory of the confed'
crate soldiers of North Carolina, will be
unveiled at Raleigh, May Goth. The widow
and granddaughter Of Stonewall Jackson
will be present.
There is something in a name, some,
| times-A hoosier couple named their girl
triplets Ruth, Esther and Frances, and
President Cleveland presented the father
of the trio with check for $500 to be used
for their education.
Prof. Swithin Shortlidge, who killed his
young wife over year ago, and has since
been confined in the Norristown Asylum
for insanity, has been released by the au.
thorities, his physicians accounting him
fully restored to sanity.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale celebrated his
73d birthday this week. The distinguished
preacher, philanthropist and literatuer has
just returned to Boston from Southern
trip, and is still possessed of that intense
vitality which led Holmes to call him the
living dynamo"
Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer, wife of the
wealthy sugar King, is queen Of extrav-
agance. She is fond of flowers. She buys
lavishly and has spent as much as 5000 fol
a great basket of orchids. She also show.
great ingenuity in deyising schemes fol-
spending money.
A cat show was the society event in New
York city this week; over 300 tabbies were
entered for prizes-which amounted to nc
less than 81 900. The show had all the
eclat Of society fad, with such distin-
guished ladies as Mrs. J. J. Astor and Mrs
Stanford White as patronesses.
A large class of young women doctors
graduated this week at the Woman's Med
ical College of Philadelphia. The woman
doctor has come to stay, and there is a
large field open to her. There are in the
United States Medical colleges exclusively
for women, and Al open to both sexes.
San Bernardino county, CAL, has the
villages of Cadiz, Bagdad, and Siberia, not
far apart on the same line of railway: Del
aware has Odessa and Smyrna, only fifteen
miles apart, while the eastern shore OF
Maryland has Cordova, Bethlehem, Vienna
and Berlin all within a radius of thirty
miles from the third named place.
Among Mr.. Gladstone's innumerable
claims to distinction some one mentions
that his appearance on warm day is "as
cooling as an iced drink" The Grand old
man welcomes the advent of spring with
all the jauntiness of gallant quarter as
old and appears in jaunty gray clothes, white
hats and vests and adorns himself with the
most springlike of boutonnieres
The Golden Wedding Anniversary of
Rev. D. P. and Mary A. Livermore was eel
ebrated at their Massachusetts home on
Monday. Two thousand guests attended
the reception which lasted from 2 to p. m,
Mrs. Livermore is "A years old, and has a
wide reputation as an author, lecturer and
philanthropist. She has no mark of age
and is youthful in spirit and manner.
The late Ward McAllister gave this def
milton of gentleman: "A gentleman is !.
person free from arrogance and anything
like self-assertion, considerate of the feel
ings of others, and so satisfied and secure
in his own position that he is always un-
pretentious, feeling he could not do an un-
gentlemanly act as courteous in his man
ners to his inferious as to his equals
The countess de Castellane, when she
was Miss Anna Gould. at one time atten-
ded the fashionable ladies school at Ogontz
near Philadelphia, and was SO noted for
her pranks and violation of the rules that
only her pulp saved her from expulsion.
Among her many misdeeds she had a
marked partiality for Irritation through
the fence rails with the youths who atten-
ded the military academy at Cheltenham.