Middletown transcript., 1876-09-23
Uariifties.
100000 wooden clocks are made an

nually.
Florida is producing immense
quantities Of grapes.
The Governor Of Texas weighs $50
pounds
The King of Sweden has decorated
Nilsson.
Oysters are becoming rarity in
England.
There are only three newspapers
in Idaho.
The head cook at the Ocean House,
Newport, r. T., gets $500 monthly
In the Japanese female bath houses
the attendents are blind men.
The annual income Of the Bishop
of England. is $50, 600.
The smallest church ID England is At
Washable it has but 8 pews
London has 5000 miles Of gas mains
and upward Of 81. 900 lamps
New Orleans claims 10 be The cheap
est city in the Union to live in.
Blackstone composed his coipmen-
taries over bottle Of port wine.
A New London man has collection
Of "war envelopes" Of 4400 designs.
The Chinese have gone into the fruit
canning business in California
Exercise gives health. yigor. cheer
fulness, sleep. keen appetite.
The past season at Saratoga has been
the showiest since the war
Very few people know how to grow
old
Never despise or oppose whist you DO
not understand.
It requires greater virtue to sustain
good fortune than bad,
Its less painful to learn in youth
than to be ignorant in age.
They who weep over errors we're not
formed for crimes.
Our passions are the only orators who
are certain to persuade Us.
The accents Of honor, however high,
never appear Inaccessible.
| Good words and goods deeds are the
rent We owe for the air we breathe.
It is much easier to limit ones graft
tude than ones hopes and desires.
Nothing can be love to God which
does not shape itself into obedience.
The man who is honest from policy
is the most dangerous customer we have
to deal with.
MANY mans Woes have, at frst,
been nothing but good qualities run
wild.
There we're 3416 marriages in Bos-
ton last year. 2 decrease Of 652 from
1874.
Hayes is represented to some of the
southern negroes as gentleman OF
color.
There is an energy of moral suasion
/ in a good mans life passing the highest
efforts of the orators genius.
Since the immigration movement
began, more than 2, 1875, 900 Irish peo-
have landed in New York.
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King John, the reigning monarch Of
Abysinnia, claims to be lineal de-
scendant Of the Queen Of Sheba.
There is no reader way Of bringing
your own worth 10 question than to
detract from the worth Of other men.
We should sometimes be ashamed Of
our best actions, If the world did but
know all the motives which prompted
| them
Power will intoxicate the best Of
hearts, as wine the strongest heads
No man is wise enough or good enough
| to be trusted with unlimited power.
The woman Of work sweeps every
! thing before her ; the woman of fashion
sweeps everything behind.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but
the shadow of mothers love, fixed in
permanent outlines forever.
There are as good horses drawing in
carts as in coaches, and as good men
are engaged in humble employment as
in the highest.
Philosophy is but dry bread; men
will not live upon it, however whole
some they require the succulent food
and exciting cup Of religion.
Weather prophets are predicting
very severe winter this year The
shucks on the corn are extra thick.
sure sign of it. they say.
It is pride that fills the world with
SO much harshness and severity. We
are as rigorous to offenders as if we had
never offended.
A prize Of $500 is offered by the
Georgia State Agricultural Society for
prevention or cure Of hog cholera and
another 5000 for chicken cholera.
OF the 40 collieries operated by the
Reading Railroad. but ~ are now run
ming, and it is probable that number
Of these will be stopped in few days.
Mr. John B. Cough is the owner Of
four large volumes, IN which are writ
ten the signatures Of 40, 900 who have
taken the pledge Of temperance at his
hands.
While tearing down an old bar at
Germania Hall. Brooklyn, on Tuesday,
the workmen found the nest of a mouse
which had been constructed out Of
about $75 worth Of greenbacks and
currency
Opportunity is the flower Of time.
and as the stalk may remain when the
flower is cut off, SO time may remain
with us when opportunity is gone for
ever.
Your disposition will be suitable to
that which you most frequently think
on; for the soul is, as it were, tinted
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