Middletown transcript., 1876-02-12
Uarietits.
Your business will surely be attend
ed to if you do il yourself.

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does not throw it into the nest.
Life cannot subsist in society but by
reciprocal concessions.
What is virtue but medicine, and
vice but a wound - Hooker.
| Humility is the solid foundation Of
all the virtues. Chinese Saying
If We dive to the bottom Of pleasure
we are sure to bring up dirt.
Sin has great many tools, but lie
is the handle which fits them al.
/ The appreciation Of noble deeds is
the next thing to being noble ourselves.
The discovery of a process has been
made by which ashes can be converted
into solid mass as hard as marble.
He that speaks the truth will end
himself in sufficient dramatic situations.
-Christopher North.
When you get into hot water 60 to
your friends! You'll find them cool
enough
In plain truth, it is not want, bat
rather abundance, that creates avarice.
Montague.
He enjoys much who is thankful for
little. A grateful mind il i great
mind.-Secker.
1t is surely very narrow policy that
supposes money to be the chief good
johnson.
Not the oaks Of intellect but the
blossoms Of the heart are twisted into
the wreath Of fame
Tragic satire! The author Of "The
Art Of Becoming q Millionaire" has
JUST died Of starvation in France.
An excnange wants to know, since
work is pronounced wirk. Why pork
should not be pronounced pirk?
A great many persons wish to live
their lives over again, because fhey see
where they might have sinned. and
didn't.
In life it is difficult to say who does
you the most mischief enemies with
the worst intentions, or friends with
the best.
Honesty and happiness seem to be
alike in this particular those who have
the most Of either seem to make the
least of it.
The dove with the olive branch,
coming to set the rest Of the creation
free, was, after all, the true messenger
Of happiness.
The Carthaginian inscriptions to the
number Of 2.084, which went down in
the Magenta, have been all safely re-
covered by the divers.
The Governor of Virginia pardoned
criminal on condition that he shall
never use ardent spirits, wine, or any
other intoxicating beverage.
An English medical journal says that
women are getting the monopoly Of
neuralgia because SO much Of their
heads is exposed to the air.
Dslmonico is to have the main res
taurant at the Centennial, which is
guarantee to the hungry visitor Of
very good dinner for about $12.
Said dry goods dealer ..Of course
we lose money en- every piece Of these
goods, but, my dear madam, wo sell
such enormous quantities of them"
Live to be useful. Live to give
light. Live to accomplish the end for
which you were made. and quietly and
steadily shine on, trying to do good.
It is curious to note the old sea mar
gins Of human thought; each subsiding
century reveals some new mystery We
build whore monsters used to hide
themselves es.-LonQtello,c.
There are moments when the two
worlds, the earthly and the spiritual.
sweep BY near to each other. and when
earthly day and heavenly night touch
zach other in the twilight.
If we would arrive at real greatness
If soul, We should consider the greater
he wrong is, the nobler to pardon it.
md the more justifable revenge would
prove. SO much the more honor there
s in clemency.
The subterranean gallery Of the new
IT. Gothard tunnel will be 5000 me-
res long. 1t is not expected that the
opening will take place before 1880, as
he drift advances but seven metres per
lay.
If the ohimney-glass Of lamp be
'ut with diamond on the convex side.
t will never crack, as the incision
ffords room for expansion produced BY
be heat, and the glass. after it is cool,
eturns to its original shape.
Heroine is. perhaps. As peculiar
'ord as any in the language; the two
lrst letters Of it are male, the three
irst female, the four first brave man,
nd the whole brave woman It runs
hna. He her hero harnina