Middletown transcript., 1876-05-27
Uarieties.
Fashion tires Of striped hose.

"A gentleman Win considerable race
0 the man in the moon.
9 Newport villas rent from $4,000 to
$4,000 per season.
The real estate of Atlanta, Ga is
assessed at $15, 900. 900.
!. Pullman, the palace car man, resides
in $500, 900 house in Chicago
Land has trebled in value in Florida
, within the last two years.
Zone never needs ones wits so much
as when one has to do with fool"
Rubenstein's body after death weighed
only forty-fve pounds.
There will bea good crop Of pea ches
in southwestern Texas. 6s
| A Cincinnati 6end advertises for men
with the ague to shake carpets
i Moscow contains about two hundred
and ninety. FIVE churches and converts.
/ Seal fishing in Labrador is failure,
and great distress is the consequence.
| The ,Pittsburg Law Library is sup
ported by fund from fines in liquor
cases. 44s
| Colored emigrants from Tennessee
are focking into Kansas BY the thou
sand.
| The girls at the High School at East
hampton, Mass, have formed base
ball nine.
| St. Augustine claims to have had one
thousand five hundred more visitors this
year than last. s.. s '..
An invalid lady at Reading drives
out every day in coach drawn by twin
goats.
! Georgia now claims to hold the pc
litical place in the south once occupied
by Virginia.
Neither the evil nor good. that men
do is ever inferred with their bones, but
live after them. 2
The wooden. cross above Guibord's
grave has been nearly Whitfield away by
curiosity hunters.
California has $500, 900 acres in
wheat this year, and expects yield Of
50, ,000,0 bushels.
The best prayers are those which you
try to answer yourself. after you have
uttered them.
Citizens Of Halssy, Oregon. offer a
bonus of $4,000 to any one who will
erect a -four mill in the town.
The North Carolinians are studying
whether to build another penitentiary
or reastablish the whipping post.
The sweet girl graduate this season
will wear calico, and her admirers will
say that she looks like print-sis.
A colored preacher, who stole two
horses. was arrested lately in Brennan,
Texas, while delivering sermon
A Michigan man died last week from
rheumatism of the tongue. It's disease
from which woman are exempt.
Since 1858, when the British divorce
act went into operation, the number Of
petitions have averaged S88 year.
Over 1000 convicts in Sing Sing
prison are anxiously waiting the pass
age Of the Centennial Act Of Commu-
tation."
One of the novelties at the Chaplin
Home Fair, New York, is Lady's silk
umbrella with watch in the handle of
it.
The attendance at Bedford Springs
the coming season promises to be the
largest in the history of that popular
resort.
A baby weighing fourteen pounds
was born at Reading on May 10th.
The infant has been named Dom Pedro
Beuner.
The winning-post of the race of life
is slab of white or gray stone standing
out from that turf where there is no
more jockeying.
The way to conquer men is by their
passions; catch but the ruling foible of
hearts, and all their boasted virtues
shrink before you.
The Brooklyn church choirs cost
$170, 900 year, and their is consider
able music in Brooklyn churches that
never will be paid for
Mrs. M. J. Upright, Of Ackley, was
the mother Of 10 sons, who were all in
the war at the same time, together with
step-son and husband.
Cranberry men are of the opinion
that the kind of winter we have just
passed through will be favorable for the
cranberry crop next fall.
English capitalists are said to have
lost about five hundred millions Of dol
lars in twelve months in Turkish, Egyp-
tian and Peruvian securieties.
The first Christian newspaper ever
Published in Japan has just been issued
at Kobe. It is in Kama characters,
which all the people can read.
Montreal is infested by lot of scien-
tifc and scrupulous burglars, who ap-
ply chemical test to the family plate,
and reject rigidly all that is only plated.
If you have any excellence, do not
vainly endeaver to display it !: let it be
called into action accidentally: it will
infallibly be discovered, and much more
to your advantage.
Truth being founded on a rock, you
may boldly dig to see its foundation
but falsehood being built on sand, you
proceed to examine its foundations, you
cause its fall.
England imports annually from
France, Belgium and Germany 1000
tons offruits, %. 900 tons of dried vegc-
tables, 5000 tons Of chesnuts and 175,-
BOO tons of potatoes.
81 never complained Of my condition
but once" said an old man, when nv