Middletown transcript., 1868-05-09
BIiseellanssus Itezns.

keep its place, when things Of higher in
terest may have passed away, by th'
color of its streets, by the dash of its peo
pie, by the heat of its payements, by tn,
frolic of its quays. Other cities of the
Union have their charm. Boston is very
massive, Richmond is very picturesque.
New York abounds in riches, Chicago
in enterprise, New. Orleans in wicked
ness, St. Louis is fervid, Philadelphia
nobly built; but Baltimore has charm
beyond nearly all cities in America,
which many visitor has felt without
being able to describe. The streets are
very sunny, the citizens very gay. But
these things may be seen elsewhere, in
places of which you do not feel the in
stant charm. Perhaps the secret lies in
certain combination of brightness and
thoughtlessness in the city and the peo-
pie, which is rather Sicilian than Amer
lean. New York and New Orleans are
far more dissipated cities than Baltimore,
yet for kind of decorous excess in the
ways of vice-for dancing and dicing, for
driving and drinking, for all the delights
which are supposed to hang about wine,
woman and song-this city on the Chcs-
apeake bears away the bell.
FEMALE SUFFRAeE.-A letter from
Washington says: An unusually strong
movement is developing itself in favour Of
female suffrage in the District of Columbia
and petitions in furtherance of that object
will soon be presented to Congress in great
numbers. The petitioners urge that the
District being under the absolute control
of Congress furnishes excellent experiment
tai ground, and insist, among other things
that the women are as capable of voting as
freedmen. The municipal election which
takes place in Washington early in June
is already the occasion Of great excitement.
TRANspLANr1Ne TRErs.--Mark the
north side of trees with red chalk before
they are taken up, aud when set out have
the north side to the North, in its natural
position. Ignoring this law of nature is
the cause of so many transplanted trees
dying. If the north side is exposed 70 the
South, the heat of the sun is too great for
that side of the tree to bear, and therefore
it dries up and decays.
The Geneva Chamber of Commerce, in
Switzerland, has sent Congress an address,
which was presented to the House this
week, asking the United States to discon-
tinue, as speedily as possible, the use of
paper money. It says the Swiss have
never tolerated the existence of any kind |
of paper money, and would have US profit
by their example.
An old bachelor in New York offered
young lady pony for a kiss; she gave
him the kiss he refused her the pony
she sued him; he pleaded "no considera-
ton )" the court decided that a kiss was a
legal consideration. and made him "pony
over"
A Richmond paper says a gentleman
recently found a gold Louis For, valued
at $14, and bearing date 1873, EMBEDDED
in the shell of York River oyster. 1t is
supposed to have been lost overheard from
the French fleet during the siege of York
town.
Hotel rents in New York are decidedly
large. The Astor House, when reopened,
is to rent for $55, 100000; the St Mich
olas is rented for $7S. 900. 90; the Me-
tropolitan for $75, 10000; and the Fifth
Avenue some where near $50, 100000.
The Petersburg Express announces that
within the last ten days twenty-one per-
sons from Pennsylvania have settled with
in the immediate vicinity of that city, up
on farms purchased for cash or its equiva-
lent. all being practical farmers.
An English paper has discovered the
line which dividas distinction from
difference. It says tnat ga little difference
frequently makes many enemies while a
" little distenction aetracts hosts of friends
to the person on whom it is conferred"
THEN AND Now.-Farmers in 1776-
Man at plow, wife at COW. girl at yarn,
boy at barn, and all dues settled. Far
mers in 1868-Man at show, girl at piano,
boy at latin, and dues unsettled. II
The new Paris style of wearing the hair
is called the "out of water head-dress. 1t
is simply whole head of hair brushed
back over the ears without the slightest
There ia some difference between hap
piness and wisdom--he that thinks him
self the happiest man, really is SO, but he
that thinks himself the wisest man is most ,
generally found to be fool.
1t is said that the famous :" Hutchinson
Family" are to sing no more. having sung
their way TO fortune as well as fame, and
settled down in Minnesota.
There is but one road to permanent hap
piness and prosperitys and that is the path
of unspotted integrity, of high-souled hon {
'r' OF the most transparent honesty.
By chemical process, knife handles and
ine-toothed combs are make from patato
pulp, and better wines from petroleum than
from grapes.
Ten thousand dollars were recently paid :
in New Jersey for l50 bushels of seed po- Q
'atoes Of the "Rose" variety. &
There were 101 accidents on the New
Jersey railways last year, 81 Of which e