Middletown transcript., 1875-04-10
= Uarietirs.
Ole Bull i. e5 years old.

/. Varley, the preacher, was originally
London butcher.
George Sand is to take the Bssehel
case as plot for novel. 80
Senator Summers funeral expenses
amounted to $29, 900.
The manufacture Of porcelain is car
ried on successfully in this country.
/ Wah Lee, the champion Chinese
lauudryman, has an income of $1700 a
week.
The wine bill for King Kalakaua in
New York was 1852. 10. What were
the ten cents for.
Make no more VOWS to perform this
or that; it shows no great strength.
and makes thee ride behind thysslf. -
Fuller.
A. T. Stewart is said to contemplate
building hotel at Washington, after
the plan of the Grand Union at Sara
tsgs.
Farewell performances of prominent
actresses are now appropriately charas-
terizsd as "Much adisu about moth
ing"
There is an Anti Profanity Society
in Clarksville, Tenn, which charges
its members Eve cents for every oath
INDUCED in.
Every right thinking man involun-
tarily drops tear as he sees the women
wadiug through the snow in search of
spring bonnets.
A party Of three adventurous Ameri-
cans have recently made the perilous
ascent of that loftisst Of volcanoes.
Popocatapetl, in Mexico.
Chignons are rapidly going out Of
fashion. What will the BARRIERS, the
tanners, and Indian scalpers do with
their surplus hair now?
AS long as I've played Old Sledgs.'
said James Henry. this Jaggar-Ds-
Koven business il the first time I've
known low to beat high on q square
game"
When Harper'a Bazaar comes to US
with four patterns for First Comnun-
ion dresses" it would appear that
Fashion had invaded the Kingdom Of
Heaven.
The spirit Of Christopher Columbus,
through a Boston medium. !. says the
two hemispherea were separated $4,000
years ago. The day is not given.
A young man writing to . young
lady whom he had never seen, asked:
"Are your eyes dark or azure y And
she replied: "Azurs fancy il, / azure
you"
"What plan, said one actor to an
other, "shall adopt to gil the house
At my benefit p ''Invite your credi-
tors" was the surly reply.
"Your son died rather suddenly yss-
terday, of throat disease" is what an
Idaho sheriff wrsts to fond mother in
Indiana the other day.
During the continuance Of the Fan
River strike, the operatives lost 800,
200 wages. and $40, 900 was contrib
,ted to their support BY tradssmsn.
A Louisville woman has sued
Lodge Of Knights Of Pythias for $780,
700 for having fatally injured her hus-
,and during the initiation ceremonies.
In house now being built for an
Amherst College professor all the water
ipes are to be imbedded in the Chin
eys. thus preventing the possibility Of
reezing.
An ingenious Virginia distiller con-
erted cave and hollow tree grow
og over it to his purpose Of defrauding
be revenue, the tree serving as q con-
ealed chimney.
In Paris. people get tired Of living
nd commit suicide at the rate of one
ay and it is probable that more would
,dulgs in the practice were it not such
common thing"
The saddest thing in life is the specta-
e afforded by young person who has
urnt all the hair off her forehead with
hot slate pencil. and cannot afford to
ny row Of eurls.
The Rochester Democrat man il dis
nieted by Miss Eastman's allusion to
attons on angels under clothing. He
i'd hoped that. as an angel. he would
} spared their use.
Were We to take as much pains to
} what We ought to be as We do to dis
lise what we really are, we might ap.
'ar like ourselves, without being at
e trouble of any disguise at all.
A prophetic lecture 10 Western New
ork, named Barbour, is going to
ing the world to an end on the 9th of
'xt month. He has figured it all out
cely, and is sure that will be doems-
y.
There are five pairs in the present
aited States Senate. the Camerons,