Middletown transcript., 1876-04-22
Uarieties.
Little strokes fell great oaks.

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| Poverty wants the necessities Of life,
but avarice wants everything.
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant
mind-Goldsmih
Worth beeets 10 base minds envy in
great souls, emulation -Gielding.
The only fence against the world is a
thorough knowledge Of it Locke.
| Youth is continual intoxicaiion, it
is the fever of asou.-Rochef foucauk.
The feeling Of gratitude has all the
ardor Of a passion in noble hearts,
achilles Poincelet.
When a man seems to be wise, it is
merely that his follies are proportionate
to his age. -RochefoucaaN.
| We ought not judge mems merits by
their qualifications. but by the use they
make Of them -Curron
We seldom find people ungrateful so
long as we are in condition to render
them ervice.-Rochefoucauh
He that breaches gratitude pleads the
cause of God and men; for without it we
can neither be sociable nor religious
Seneca.
It is now estimated that about Ill.,
900 men. women and children live in
he canslboats on the English rivers
aud canals. a7aye
Man has here two and a half minutes
-one to smile. one to sigh. and half Of
one to love; for in the midst of this min
ute be dies.-RicMer.
A convict in the Michigan State
Prison has made a steam engine entirely
Of tin. that runs and drives small ma
chinery
The wise man is but clever infant
spelling letters from an hieroglyphicsl
prophetic book. the lexicon Of which
lies in eternity.-Carlyle.
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on
every subject. and with every one. show
great self-suficiency. but a never fail
ing sign Of great self-ignorance.
Some characters are like some bodies
in chemistry-very good. perhaps. in
themselves. yet fly off and refuse the
least conjunction with each other.
The school boy counts the time till
the return Of the holidays. the minor
longs to be of age; the lover is impati-
mt until be is ried.-Addison.
There is q tide in the affairs of men
which taken at the food leads on to for
tune: omitted. all the voyage Of their
life is bound in shadows and mysteries.
Shakespeare.
He that loves Christianity better than
truth will soon love his own sect or
party better than Christianity, aud will
end by loving himself better than all.
-Coieridge.
Thinkers are scarce as gold but he
whose thoughts embrace all bis subject
and pursues it uninterruptedly and fear
less Of consequences, is diamond Of
enormous size -Larater
Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either their cour-
age or their honesty. The sun has no
need to boast of bis brightness, nor the
moon Of her effulgence.
The prairie sections of southern Min
nesota are fast being covered with for
est growth since the stoppage Of prairie
fires. Willow, Wild apple, hazel oak
and aspen trees spring up spontaneously.
The beautiful laws of time and space
once dislocated by our inapitude, are
holes and dens. If the hive be dis
turbed by rash and stupid hands, in
stead OF honey it will yield US bees
| Emerson.
l undertake to show you that you
have means and power to exhibit great
ness Of soul and a manly spirit; but
what occasion you have to 6nd fault
and complain, show me If you can
Epictetus.
Of all the vices meanness is the most
generally detested; it is the effect of an
| avidity common to all meu; It is because
they hate those from whom they can ex-
pect nothing. The greedy misers rail at
sordid misers Helcetious.
|. Humility is the hallmark of wisdom.
Socrates. whom the united opinion Of
the world in which he moved pronoun-
ce1 to be the wisest man, was content
with the title of lover of wisdom
rather than professor Of it.-Jeremy
Collier.
The miser is sometimes grand per-
soni6cation of fear. He has fine hor-
ror Of poverty; and be is not content to
keep want from the door, or at arms
length. but be places it, by heaping
wealth upon wealth, at sublime dis
tance Lamb.
An item of foreign news is to the effect
that the King of Burmah has ordered
that all the tribunals and other public
Offices shall be closed for forty days.
During this period the ceremony of bor-
ing the Princesses' ears is to be per-
formed
A childhood passed wi:h due mix
ture Of rational indulgence. under fond
and wise parents, diffuses over the whole
Of life feeling Of calm pleasure; and,
ir extreme old age. is the very last re-
membraDce which time can erase from
the mind of man.-S.dney Smith.
An editor received the following -
Dear sir-I have looked carefully and
patiently over your paper for six months
for the death Of some individual l was
acquainted with. but as yet not single
soul care anything about has dropped
off; you will please to have my name
erased
The father Of all newspapers is the
venerable Pekin Gazette. which is over
1000 'ars old 1t is ten-page pa
per, with yellow cover; has no stories,
no lads y M nnar.;.na a. A...l