Middletown transcript., 1875-12-18
Harifties.

0&CletIe8.
, Leon Lewis aud vils sset secsive
$4,000 per ysar from Bonner for
their stories. ..,.s., s...s !,
!, \The first court house built 10 Mon
]. roe county, Indiana. cost the people
i $s7.s7a.
New Jersey furnishes the public
schools Of New York city With Z. .200,-
900 steel pens annually.
In Glasgow, Scotland. 500 upeas-
ployed hand loom weayers are engaged
sweeping the street.
The frst ingredient in conversation
is truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth Wit.
Edward Ru,ledge. of South Carolina.
was only 26 years old when be signed
the Declaration Of Independence.
The effort to raise fund for I
statueto Horace Greeley Is s,total fail
ure, and the little money given has
been returned.
The Providence Press calls Little
Rhody the Promised Land. Not many
Of US can hope to be saved if that's the
case.
A Hindostan work on music says
that Emusic is the painfully acquired
art Of speaking very loudly in shriIl
voice."
Carrying fish to Newfoundland seems
to be almost as sbsprb as carrying
"coals to Newcastle. . Yet is now
being done.
Fancy lady sending ont invitations
for a party written on postal cards. .
Let there be no more carpine about
extravagsnce.
Besides the growing foreign demand
for American cotton goods, there il also
very 6attering call for American
tanned leather.
4 paper printed in New York State
announces that marriage notices will
be published free when accompanied by
parcel ofthe feast. " &
The Viceroy of Egypt lately 60.
possession Of $65. 900 subscribed to
build memorial to himself, and has
founded public school With ii.
Titles are ofno value to posterity
the name Of . man who has achieved
great deeds imposes more respect than
any or all epithets. Eltaire.
That boy looks very sheepish . said
. visitor to teacher.
YES" answered the pedagoeue
'rchly, the ought to be considering
how often he has been lammed.p
There are about IS. $50 professional
oeggsrs in Paris. Of whom Is, ,4sO are
women. 14.50O men, $1,000 girls and
l2.3lO boys.
The State census Of Soath Carolina.
vhich has just been completed, shows
total population Of 92s AT, % in
rease Of 80 per cent, in Eve years.
A crazy old bachelor explains tba.
he reason q woman puts her finger in
er mouth when she thinks, is because
be cannot talk and think 1t the same
ime - -.
Some persons are capable Of making
reat sacrifices; bat few are capable Of
oncealing how much the effort has
ost them; and it is this conceaImeut
nat constitutes their value.
1t is curious to note tie old seaman
ins Of human thought; each sub
ding century reveals s,me new mys-
'ry ; We build where monsters used to
ide themselves - LonafslsoU.
An English chemist has found how
keep flowers fresh in . ball room, BY
eans ofa few drops of . certain e.
nee /; and natural flowers ore sccord-
gly in vogue in London.
1t ladies Of the period are ~ just ~
'ey are beautiful. they viii contribute
mething toward monsment for King
anute. He was the person Who oriei-
lily ordered the tide back.
The vital statistics Of this country
owe that woman will spend more
ne to hide pimple on her forehead
an she will take to iske care of seven
ildren.
The Supreme Court Of Indiana has
q held that the stockholders = private
anufactory corporations ere not in
vidualiy liable for thss debts Of the
rporation-
Hamilton College. ip Clinton. N. Y.
shown BY the new catalogue just
contains 1853 students,
lich il an increase Of twehsJ-fbur as
impaired with last year.
A man in Chicsgo having been
ely indicted for having ten barrels
unstanped vhiskey in his possession.
wed that > pet voodchuck had
'atched the stamps of, and he Was