Middletown transcript., 1875-05-29
Uarieties.
A chess match between Harvard and
Yale is being arranged.

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Germany has nearly 1000. 900 more
women than men.
n Cincinnati now proposes to construct
mammoth music hall to cost half q
q million dollars.
Sixty. thousand ounces Of gold were
g melted in the San Francisco mint one
| day recently.
: A practical poet begins an ode to an
, early violet, "False herald of the ever
; treacherous spring"
The value of the foreign fruits inn
ported into this country in 1873 amount
ed to $6.67S. 600 against SO, ,S62, 900
in 1874.
There is nothing more allied to the
barbarous and savage character than
sullenness, concealment and reserve.
The greatest friend Of truth is time
her greatest enemy is prejudice; and
her constant companion is humility.
A Physician has brought suit for
$5a 900 against Mr.. James Lick, Of
San Francisco, for medical attendance
during period of % years.
The sale of manuels Of Geography in
France has more than doubled since
the war according to statement of a
Paris publisher. s se..s,s1f
A young man at Schenectady re-
Gently died Of fright, because some
body told him that his finger. which be
had recently cut, had mortified.
Everybody's friend is no one's.-
jealousy is almost as much allied to
friendship as to love. and it is more
natural to see friends in pairs than in
trails or scores.
A company has been formed in
Canada to manufacture caouteheuc
from milk weed. the juice of which is
said to yield about A per cent. of India 1,
rubber. ans
Chicago has overdone the building
business. Last year over three thou ),
sand houses were constructed. hundreds
Of which stand idle and teuantless to-
day. rsH sl584 -,
Tubs and pals saturated with glycer- z
inc will not shrink and dry up, the
hoops will not fall of, and there will bs
no necessity for keeping these articles
soaked. s a.ai %
Red Cloud says he's always ready
% smoke the pipe of peace with his
9ale-faced brethren. if they'll enly
urnish him little better tobacco. 9s'
One Of the pleasantest things Of life
o find, after climbing six flights of
tairs, that the man you came to call
N has removed to the ground floor"
More hearts pine away in secret
nguish from the want of kindness from
hose who should be their comforters
ban for any other calamity in life.
7oung.
San Francisco proposes to obtain
rinking water from the Calaveras
lver. about City miles in the interior,
he estimated cost Of the undertaking
eing $11, 100000
You know yourself that there is
srtain period in every boys life when
ed rather be the ring master in cir
Is. than President of the United
tates.-Detroit Free Press. ,js
Groans and complaints are very well
r those who are to mourn Cor q little
1T sorrow that is to last for life will
, neither violent nor romantic. Mrs.
drricE. gs5fi s
knowledge may slumber in the
emory, but it never dies: it is like
e dormouse in the ivied tower that
.eps while winter lasts, but awakes
til the warm breath Of spring. 's
A man hanged himself in Paris in
presence of his paralyzed wife who
IS unable to move or cry for assist,
ce, and who was obliged to witness 2
e horrifying sight Of his death strug-
Is. 5a8 a5'I
Thurman, the Chicago Adventist,
" says that he missed the date byssIi
rty-6ve days. but you can't buy his
use and lot cent cheaper than If he
Int expect the judgment day to come
xt month.
A man digging we'll in New Jersey
ne acrsss a hoopskirt eighteen feet Z
'eath the surface Of the ground, and
flew up and struck him across the
'e just as naturally as if be had come is
oss it in an alley.
The Prince Of Wales. according to
|onel Forney, who heard him on the ~
aston of the Masonic installation, is
very good speaker. :" Nothing
$ Colonel Forncy, :. could be more
rect aud ohaste than his eloeution."
Il should think you would be
amed to pitch into that little boy"
pedestrian, as be caught big
tblack licking small newsboy. EYE
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