Middletown transcript., 1875-08-21
Uarieties.

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"We have no more money now than
we had in September, 1873" We
know one fellow who hasn't as much.
/ Connecticut farmers make more by
raising onions than they do raising
tobacco. There are more scents in
'em.
In India and China the people seem
to take to the use Of opinion as if by
instinct, and it does not permanently
injure them.
Future hard winters in Buffalo are
not to be as profitable to plumbers as
last year. The pipes have been relaid
six feet deep.
| The corner stone Of Protestant
church in Pittsburg was laid last week
on Sunday; there was procession,
brass bands, etc.
Never waste ty in huckleberry sea-
son. One fly in plate of huckleber-
ries is said to contain more nutriment
than three berries.
Documents have just been discovered
which show that Nero didn't even know
how to fiddle, and that he was an up
right. conscientious man.
1t now turns out that the buzzard is
noble-hearted, liberal minded, con-
scientious bird, and Audubon clubs
owe him an apology written on parch-
ment. .ie * gs.s
Swimming is an adopted branch of
public school education in England,
and in London there are some 5000
children Of both sexes taught to swim.
Clara Morris owns pets, loves and
weeps over thirteen little dogs, any one
Of which wouldn't sell for two shillings
at an Alabama auction.
During a thunder storm in Maine
the lighting killed horse worth $500
and never touched an old COW which
had just kicked a woman senseless.
Prussia must be . paradise in one
respect. It has only one lawyer to
each $4,000 inhabitants. In this un-
fortunate country we have one lawyer
to every 879 inhabitants. .ias,
A frog as big as cows head. and
with voice like dog, has been seen
in Montreal. The gourmand of the
New Bedford Mercury speako for one
Of bis hind legs for supper.
& A Tribune correspondent complains
Of the ''Tolls at Niagara" We can't
see how they can be avoided. though,
SO long as the place continues such
favorite resort for the bellies.
Mix cyanhydric. sulphuretted hy-
drogen, formic, acetic, propionic, but
sric, valerianic and carbolic acids, and
half dozen kinds of alkaloids and
creosote and you have tobacco smoke.
Florence Marryatt (Mrs. Ross
Church, is said to be not far from forty
years old, and the mother Of . married
daughter, but she is generally spoken
of as young lady. haa .ga4s.e
A Kansas woman has, like the wo-
man Of Samaria, had seven husbands;
but they are all living, and there is no
danger of any one Of them claiming her
in the next werld. r. sa gege g.s.
Ladies at New London bathe in
patent bathing dresses which contain
corsets. gloves and shoes. Some ladies
look better in them than they do in
their ordinary costumes.
The Sultan of Turkey says that ho
will chop the head off Of any man who
complains about high taxes, and all
Turks consequently remark their taxes
we're never SO low AZ now.
The Chronicle, Of Norwalk, Ohio,
'ays: "They must have been engaged,
or in the ice cream room the other
evening he blew her cream for thirty
minutes SO it wouldn't scald her mouth.
The army worms are go thick at
Me-. that they can scarcely
,e kept out Of the houses, and cover the
ields SO completely that person can't
valk without crushing them by the
Iuart.
After all. there's no place like
loe'm," as Spilkins remarked yester-
lay, when, on his return from Long
Branch, Mrs. s. promptly ordered him
ut to his regular duties in the potato
atch. 81
Boucicault is playing the .Shaagh-
aun" in San Francisco Hisfrst week
1as the greatest ever known in the an
ais Of the stage on that coast, the re-
eipts being $12.496 gold. equal to
Is, 200. currency.
The Indiana Courts hold that the
lct Of . girls being engaged to several
entlemen at once does not. bar her
ON the privilege Of sueing each one
] succession for breach of. promise.