Middletown transcript., 1875-12-25
Harittits.
Vhen tlatserers nest the deyil goes

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When Aatterers meet the devil goes
to dine.
Your sayer Of smart things has I bad
heart. Pascal. e
We are liable to be corrected by
books as by companions. - Fielding.
An English company is engaged in
the manufacture Of bricks from Stag.
Now they've got the Astor estate
figured down to forty-6ye millions
Poor boy!
The pearl is the image Of purity. but
woman is purer than the pearl. Borr-
don.
Envy seems to be disease that ev-
erybody has and everybody Is ashamed
of.
David Crocketfs commission to act
as justice Of the peace has just been
found in Tennessee
A mind that is conscious Of its integ-
rity scorns to say more than it means
to perform
Weak men are the hardest kind to
control. They have no more backbone
than an angle worm.
The African native kings along tie
Gold Coast propose TO join in the Amer
lean Centennial display.
Characters never change. Opinions
alter: characters are only developed
'Dssraezs. ss:ss
There is no such thing IS liberty
for no man is free if be is the slave Of
his conscience.
We sometimea meet an original gen.
tleman, who, if manners had not exist
ed, would have invented them.
It is evident that spelling matches
will not be popular this winter They
spelled a spell and will now rest spell
Friendship closes the eye rather than
see the moon collapsed while malios de-
nies that it is ever at the full.
The human heart Is made for love, as
the household hearth for IRE; and for
truth. as the household lamp for light.
The superfuous blossoms on i fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God loves to do pleasant
things.
Mr.. Kerr. Speaker Of the House Of
Representatives. i the first Democrat
in eighteen years who has occupied that
position.
For six months matrimonial hpppi-
ness depends upon the state ofa mans
heart; forever after ppoa the condition
of his stomach. $50
A foreign paper says that forty Of the
young ladies of, Harvard College recent
y eloped in ono day. and that they are
being pursued with guns.
Love. like an engines iss ever st. first
accompanied BY the tender andsa train
Of carl e)s 1t vanishes. heeds not the
by-gone ties. yet leaves the Trail be-
hind. sf'assi
One by one the roses fade. It is
now boldly denied that men who wear
|ong hair are possessed Of any more
lalent than men who have it shipped
close.
The Vicksburg Herald puts il thus
: We have long since forgiven the
North for licken us, but the North has
lever forgiven us for being 80 infsrnal-
y hard to lick"
It is considered striking prophecy
# the belligerent temper that chsrac-
erizes Us As . people, that most Ameri-
AN babies come into the world With
heir fists doubled up.
The weather is getting colder. young
nan. Prepare to suffer. or s. double
'p." You can take Jour choice, bat
hen. there might be suffering which
yer horn Of the dilemma you take.
Combinations of wickedness would
the world BY the advantage
'hich licentious principles afford. did
OF those who have long praeticed per-
dy grow faithless to each other
0hnson.
An Omaha Indian swallowed some
ed bug poison. believing he had
1re thing on good whisky. bat it didn't
urt him much. He remarked to the
octor: "Him make feller feel like q
ig bellyache. -
Let no man be sorry be has done
bod because others concerned With
i'm have done evil. II q man has acted
ght, he has done we'll, though alone;
wrong. the sanction Of mankind will
't justify him.-Fselding.
1t appears that Valenciennes lace
aker, working twelve hours . day,
n produce only one-third Of an inch
Valenciennes lace in week. Every
ecc of Alencon point passes through
Q hands of twelve workwomen.