Middletown transcript., 1876-02-19
Uarieties.
He has good memory who at this
season remembers the poor.

season remembers the poor.
1t is the custom for ladies havinl
become widows to drop their husband
initials and use their own.
He who violates pledge to whicl
be has written his name, strikes dow,
his honor with his own hand.
The bosom is heaved and swayed b,
a pent-up thought. like rose blossom
that imprisons struggling bee.
There sometimes seems to be nothinf
in the universe but the sound Of Ole
sobs and the tracks Of old tears.
The Persians, as ancient writer's ia.
form us, used to teach their sous ia
ride. to pay their debts, and to tell the
truth.
He who. being master of tho fittesl
moment to crush an enemy. magnani-
mously rejects it, is born to be 4 con-
queror.
Scotch SAYING doar plaat wi p
mons mann on's wary goad thing,
but dinner platt wi a mons dinner
on is a better.
Men and women are extinct-tbey
died about sixty years ago. and left no
heirs. Ladies and gentlemen have
usurped their places.
People are commonly so employed in
pointing out faults in those before. them
as to forget that some behind may at
the same time be descanting on their
own"
The tenderest heart loves the cour-
ageous one. The gentle voice says,
why vast thou 80 hazardous r. The
deeper toned replies, s.For thee, for
thee"
Many folks are 50 anxious for sorrow
that they are not only willing to hold
their own nose to the grindstone Of life,
but are willing to turn the mean thing
besides.
The laws are generally equal to all
circumstances. In order to get jury
men whose minds have not heen made
up. men are selected with very little
mind to make up.
A Nevada Chinaman cut down six
poles for firewood and used
the wire to make fox traps. He was
last seen going up hill. There was
a man after him.
We hear Of o merchant who rejoices
that this is centennial year, for be says
that he has number Of customers who
settle their accounts only once in hum
1red years.
It is the general opinion that there
are clouds which are al lightning and
10 thunder. and the universal opinion
hat there are men who are all thunder
md no lightning.
A bill has been introduced int the
Pennsylvania Legislature making it,
penal ofense to ''point" pistol or gun
'r any frearm at person, whether in
est or in earnest.
Isn't it little odd that while al de-
'ent men are horri6ed when they hesr
# wife being whipped. they should
10 nothing but laugh at husband who
8 whipped by his wife ?
We often take repentance for reforms
ion. resolutions for actions, blossoms
or fruit. On the naked twig Of the iie
rec, seeming fruits sprout forth, which
re only the Aeshy rinds Of the blossoms.
Of the one hundred and seventy
ight Congregational clergymen who
led last year, eight were over eighty
ears old. and only six under forty.
he average age was over sixty-four
ears.
Some time in October last the Missis-
ippi river began eating into the ILL.,
ois shore, two or three miles above
afro, and the process has continued
ntil the city is threatened with serious
anger.
A paper tells about a youngster, aged
<, who went to neighbor's house
nd remarked: "Will you please let
e see your parlor carpet. for auntie
'ys it makes her most sick every time
le comes here I"
Il bate anything that occupies more
,ace than it is WORTH" says William
azlitt; II hate to see load of band
'xes 60 along the street, and / hate to
e parcel of big words without any,
ing in them"
The Courier journal properly ranks
r. Fruits and Mrs. Fruits, Of Indiana.
aong the fret Fruits of the earth. the
e being 1l3 and the other Ill years
]. The old gentleman neither smokes
r chews, of course.
The firm. stead:ast bosom. upon
,ich many past full of torture has
'ighed in vain, will, many time, like
piece Of ice that has been often over
wed. break down beneath the gentlest
'tstep of destiny.
Women, so amiable in themselves.
never SO amiable as when they are
sful; and as for beauty, though men
y fall in love with girls at play, there
nothing to make them stand to their
e like seeing them at work. ;.
In country graveyard. in New Jer.
!. there is plain stone erected over
}, grave Of beautiful young lady.
a only this inscription upon it:
ulia Adams. died of thin shoes,
ril II. 1889. aged 13 years."
Vain men. will they pluck ont their
g because they cannot look upon the
ghtness of the sun in it's brightness
glory What though reason can
reach to the depths, to the bottom
he ocean, may it not therefore swim
hold up the head as we'll as it can I
3ut your climate to your constitution
much as your clothing to your shape.
you would be happy among the
nntains. you must carry mountains
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