Middletown transcript., 1875-08-07
Uarieties.

MS own business IS more tnan nalI way
to Heaven, even If he be q heather.
When we see young man who
spends all he earns. We are inclined to
think he does not earn all he spends.
When deaf and dumb lovers are
married, two members Of the wedding
party are sure to be unspeakably happy.
Apollo was held the god Of physic
and sender of disease both were origi-
nally the same trade, and still continue
so.-Svitt
A niece of Rufus Choate, the cele-
brated Massachusetts lawyer, is an in
mate of the Cambria (Pa.) county
Poor-house.
May not Tilton, having had quar-
ter of the jury with him, send in his
little bill for the same proportion Of
the 800, 900 damages asked for?
There are 102, ,154 trees in the ave-
nues and other public thoroughfares in
Paris, and the yearly expense Of their
maintenance amounts to $38, 900.
A farmer in Charlton found a way to
make balky horse 60. He took him
to a strange town and put him up at
auction He went for $S5.
The King Of Spain has, by royal
decree, created junta Of ladies, whose
mission will consist in aiding tho au-
thorities in the hospital service.
An Illinois farmer adyertises for an
architect to construct q pig pen for him
on the European hotel plan. Such
pen would be all room and no feed.
There is Chinese officer Of distinct
tion in England, sent to inquire into
the manner of working coal mines, for
application Of the system in China.
The acting Governor of Nebraska is
named Tzschuck, and he Tzschuckles
at the blunders made in spelling it.
"Oh! Tzschucks!"- 1zschicago Times.
The ladies' will agree with the Brook
lyn Argus that man had no right to
interfere with his wife in household
affairs, especially in tackling burglar.
A California coroner's jury reported
on the case of q bandit !: "We find that
he was shot six times according to law,
and buried in a hole two feet Deep"
The new navy uniform buttons up
close around the throat, and the otho-
dox sailor, with his big, open collar.
will live only in the memories Of the
past.
An engine has been invented in
Paris which is driven by the alternate
expansion and contraction Of oil, or
some other liquid. contained ID cylin-
ders.
Charles Nordhoff, whom no one
would suspect of being anything but a
New Englander, is by birth Norwe-
gian, and his early life was spent on
Cape Cod.
Every college as is college, and
has sheet Of water larger than bath
tub anywhere near it, should at once
establish department Of boatany.-
Me,. Ocean.
A synod Of the Roman Catholic
clergy, of tho diocese of Liverpool.
have enjoined their clergy against the
use in the church services of music
having theatrical tendency
Lafayette, Ind, has invited Theo-
dore Tilton to lecture, and he'll come,
so it is said, and give the white-soulcd
Hoosier women q talk that will set their
little birds to singing.
Mrs. Partington has written to Wales,
him to bring her ''a nice
shawl when he returns from India,
promising to pay him what is right for
his trouble. isFga .ss
Six New York State men have been
sunstruck this year while Ihoeing corn
on Sunday. but none Of those who go
fishing on that day have been hurt
Detroit Free Press.
The authorities Of Newton, Mass, a
town which claims to be the birth place
Of Roger Sherman, proposes to erect
. monument on the supposed site Of tho
house where he was born.
An Indiana lawyer eloped with his
sister-in-law the other day, but his wife
never shed tear. She sent his law
books after him, sold the furniture and
.ook the children to the circus.
George Vandenhof is in England
bis "reminiscences Of tho
State. /" These will be made public in
he fall in New York and other cities,
N the shape Of lectures and recitatisns.
We sneer at the pagans. and imagine
hat we are doing vastly better than
hey ever did. but what il to be done
With the fact that Tony Pastor, variety
'howmau. has come to be worth $780,
300.
A young man at Wheeling, Virginia.
got up picnic, invited twenty-eight
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