Middletown transcript., 1875-02-13
Uarieties.

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! The income Of the two great English
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
amounts to about $s.72O,OO0 per an
mum.
When the thermometer gets up to
zero, St. Paul, Mimi, citizens congrat-
ulate themselves on the arrival Of spring
weather.
A Berlin circus horse sits at table
and eats like human being, with knife
and fork fastened to his two fore legs
by straps.
At the Rancho pc los Laureles in
Texas wealthy stock raiser at his an
nual branding Of calves stamped his
mark on 16, 900 head.
According to French journal there
are still living in France and its colo
nies $4,000 men who fought under the
first Napoleon
The wolves have been SO numerous
in France this year that some were re-
Gently seen prowling around the rail-
road depot at Metz.
The new opera house in Paris has
chime Of ten opera bells, which on
grand occasions will clang and bang in
connection with the schestra.
An investigation is to be made into
the reason of so many deaths in the
British Army in India occurring from
delirium tremsns.
A Texas plantation has produced,
this year, $4,000 worth Of syrup. from
land which, if planted in cotton, would
have yielded only about $400.
The Harvard school of instruction in
geology for the summer Of this year
will be established at camp near
Cumberland Gap, Kentucky.
It is said that. hswever much health
invalids may find in Florida. they are
compelled to leave large portion of
their wealth behind them.
A man in Southwestern Missouri
has discovered that the rock fence on
bis farm is made Of zinc ore, and
neighbor finds himself with chimney
of the same material.
A West Georgia, VT, widow Of Sc
has for fifteen years supported eight
children by laying stone walls, harvest
ing, and other heavy farm work.
Miss Ada Sweet, Of Chicago, who is
the only female pension agent in the
sountry, receives the highest salary
paid to woman by the Government.
1t il said that the autograph manu-
script Of "Don Quixote," signed by
Miguel Cervantes, is at present in one
of the libraries Of the Duke de Medina
Celi.
An enterprising Texas journal is
lchieving fame and a large circulation
~ publishing chronological charts Of
he citizens Of the town in which it is
printed.
There is considerable excitement in
Cincinnati in regard to ladies learning
he barbering business. and the num-
'er of applications from young girls to
earn the trade is quite large.
A Lucas county (Ohio) grand jury
las distinguished itself. and earned the
,ood will of all the young men in
be community, by presenting church
affles as an illegally and nuisance.
The St. Lsuis women are going mad
yer wax flowers, and the St. Louis
len generally pass their evenings try
,g to pry their boots up from the car
ct to which they are stuck BY the raw
laterial.
At London, Vt, one day last week,
gentleman opened a fsh-hole in an
ldy, and removed with his hands near
! 300 pounds of pickerel and suckers.
he fish crowd up to the hole for fresh
ir, and are captured.
"What have you been adoin' p ask
] boy Of playmate, whom be saw
,ming out Of the house with tears in
is eyes. "Tve been a chasin' birch
ID round my father" was the snarling
ply.
"Will the boy who threw that pep
II on the stove please come up here
I'd get present of a nice book" said
Sunday school superintendent in
wa; but the boy never moved. He
as far-seeing boy.
A chess match between England and
rance is to be played. The moves are
be announced BY telegraph. A sim
lr match was played thirty years ago.
ID after lasting two years resulted in
e defeat of the English players.
A Boston merchant who, some twen-
five years ago sold two hundred dog
woolen hose to trader who shortly
GREATER failed, was agreeably surpris-