Middletown transcript., 1876-10-07
Uarietifs.

j DaTlRlleS.
| Diptheria is unusually prevalent in
Illinois
j Everybody can detect an error, but
not a lie.
The animals in Central Park fast on
Sundays.
American edge tools are in demand
insEurope.
! There are 6395 Odd Fellows Lodges
in the United States.
Wheat sells for forty-fye cents .
bushel at Dallas, Texas.
Baltimore has put up $50, 600 cans
Of peaches daily.
A patent French stove cooks by heat
of the sun.
The Centennial show did first-rate on
the quarter" stretch .
The Khedive is about to discharge all
his American officers.
The King of Bavaria is but 81; be
rarely appears in public.
A sea turtle caught in Vineyard
Sound weighs 900 pounds
A negro woman has been appointed
postmistress at Terry, Miss.
He who il honest for reward, Is
knave without reward -
Civility is dear to everybody. and yet
it costs nobody anything.
Men are content to be laughed at for
their wit, but not their folly.
I. Idleness is the stupidity Of the body
and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Persons will refrain from evil speak.
ing when persons refrain from evil hear
ing.
| Cologne, where the celebrated water
of that name is made, is called the SEN
timental city.
The swan finds water instinctivsly .
but the man is born in ignorance Of his
element,
Fire and sword are but slow engines
of destruction in comparison with the
babbler.
Life may be as some philosophers
maintain, riddle; but it is one that
none of u like to give up.
Superficial knowledge is like oil upon
water-it shines deceitfully, but can
easily be skinned off.
Absence is to love what fasting is to
the body; little stimulates it, but
long abstinence is fatal.
If you would pass for more than your
value, say little. Il is easier to look
wise than to talk wise. !,
The loveliest faces are to be seen by
moonlight, when one sees half with the
eye and half with the fancy.
The love shown to Us when We are i'll
makes us realize the fact that sickness
often terminates in heaven.
Parsley is said to have come from
Egypt. and mythology tells US it was
used to adorn the head Of Hercules.
If there has been no temptation, there
can be no merit; if there has been no
struggle, there can be no victory.
Sorrow can never wholly fill the heart
that is occupied with others welfare.
Constant melancholy is rebellion
Fear sometimes adds wings to the
heels, and sometimes nails them to the
ground and fetters them from moving.
Some people with great meritsre very
disgusting; others with great faults are
very pleasing chefouca,sld.
The 6rmest friendship has been form
ed in mutual adversely. as iron is
most strongly united BY the dercest
fame.
If you would be known and not know
vegetate in village; if you would
know and not be known, live in . city.
tits remarkable popularity with
debts that their expanding power con-
tinues to increase as you contract them.
Ambition often puts men to doing
the meanest Offices, as climbing is per-
formed in the same postre as creeping.
1t is beautiful, on lovely day, to see
the soft, sweet clouds rove like lambs
through the blue pastures Of the heav-
ems.
A Milwaukee girl, in order to keep
her lover up to his promise. always in
troduces him as "my intended hus-.
band"
A shilling idly spent by fool, may
be..picked up BY wise man, who knows
better what to do with it; so it IL not
lost.
Religion comes from women more
than from men-from mothers most of
all. who carry the key of our souls in
their bosoms. "a
An hours industry will do more to
produce cheerfulness, suppress evil hu-
mors. and retrieve your affairs, than a
months moaning.
Not in unmanly characters does mild
ness charm. but in manly ones; az
energy does, not in unwomanly ones,
but in the womanly.
There are two periods in the life Of
man at which be is too wise to tell vo-
man the exact truth when he 10 in
love, and when he isn't.
Truly great men never become vul- :.
carly intimate with each other They
sit apart as the gods, talking from peak