Middletown transcript., 1895-08-03
GENERAL NEWS.

70 GENERAL NEWS.
VI Mr.. and Mrs. John Wanamaker ar
: at Carlsbad.
II Mayor Strong, of New York. will
l spend part of the month of August al
Long Branch.
A Kankakee man waded out into
. the river to drown cat, took cramps
and was drowned himself. And the
cat came back.
An Armenian recently died at Lowell
Mass. and his friends, having no pho
tog1aph, stood him up in corner and
had his picture taken that way.
Chauncey M. Depew is at Hamburg.
where the Rothschilds and number
OF other great fnanciers of Europe are
expected during the present week.
The Great Northern Steamship Com
pany offers $3.50 in gold to every baby
born this season on one of its new
steamers, $500 for twins and ST. 900 for
triplets.
All the Methodist missionaries in
china who were in grave danger are
now safe in Shanghai. They had MANY
narrow escapes on their way from
Chang Tu.
Beatrice Harraden has written an
other California story and is preparing
to come East in September. After
short stay in New York she will return
to London and get to work.
Mis-. Samuel Spencer, of New York.
has been appointed by the Governor on
the commission to represent the State
OF New York at the Cotton State
Exposition, to be held at Atlanta.
Cornelious Vanderbilt has s27, ,OOC
rug in his new Newport villa. It is
startling to think what number of
nice champagne suppers that rug
would buy, but this Mr.. Vanderbilt
does not indulge in champagne sup
pers.
Out of 1886 ex-students of Girton.
Newham, Somerville Hall, Holloway
and Alexandria, the women's colleges
of England, only 2OS are reported as
married. This leads to the conclusion
that the more learned woman is the
less use she has for husband.
The Queen of Corea lives in constant
dread of some disease which will prove
fatal. A female physician is accom-
nodated with suite of rooms in the
royal palace and is obliged to visit the
Queen every day: When her Majesty
s in the least indisposed she must al
ways remain within earshot. The
loctor's salary is 5e3, 500.
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle,
accompanied by his wife, his son
William and his daughter-in-law, will
hortly leave Washington for a vaca-
ion of a month, which will be spent
ruising on the Great Lakes of the
northwest. They will 60 through the
Velland Canal, the Upper st. Lawrence,
he Thousand Islands, Lake Huron,
ne Strait of Mackinak and Lake
[ichigan.
The Rev. DR.. Richard Harcourt, the
opular pastor of Grace Methodist
piscopal Church. Baltimore, has
zen called to the Park Avenue Meth
list Episcopal Church, Philadelphia,
I'd he will probably accept the call
hen his five years. term at his pres
It church expires next spring. He
IS done much to build up his pres
t church, the membership having
creased from 600 to 900 during his
storate. The Philadelphia church
one of the largest and strongest
urches of the denomination in the
~. DR.. Harcourt is all alumnus of
e Wesleyan University and the Bos-
n Theological School. He began his
tive work in the ministry about
enty years ago in Newark. Since
IN he has served in Elizabeth, Pater-
!, Jersey City, San Francisco and
Nv York. During each of his pastor
IS he has won the hearts of his con-
cations and has proved himself to
successful pastor. He received
degree of Doctor of Divinity from
University of Ohio.