Middletown transcript., 1876-04-15
Uarieties.

OHTlHlIR2.
Wisdom prepares for the worst. but
folly leaves the worst for that day when
it comes.
| Old age is often beautiful, and prop
erly 60, for it is the childhood of inn
mortality.
| It is not SO much trouble for man to
get rich as it is for him to tell when
he's got rich.
Not the oaks of intellect, but the
blossoms of the heart, are twisted into
the wreath Of fame.
Let friendship creep gently to
height. If it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath
A thoroughly honest man will not
lie, even to his dog, or in any way be-
tray the brute's confidence.
It is in seasons Of sorrow that love
more especially roots itself, as trees are
best grated in cloudy days.
Two beings are joined by love as two
words by a printers hyphen-sign at
once Of separation and connection.
Perfect peace is not possible even in
the deepest retirement. A wolf will
creep into the most pastoral life.
There are 15O. 900 fruit trees in San
Diego county, CAL, including A, 200
orange and 1000 olive trees. :
| Whatever is. is right. if only men
are steadily bent to make it go by CON-
pretending and fulfilling its designs.
| There is many an unfortunate one
whose heart, like q sunbeam, always
appears lovliest in its breaking asunder.
To form an opinion of human nature
from perusal Of history, is like judg-
ing Of a fine city by its sewers and cess
pools.
The annual tobacco crop of the United
States is about 300, 100000 pounds,
worth to the producers at least $4O,-
0OO, 900.
The tumbler is the glass fire-bucket
which a man often plies when his soul
| is on fire, but it increases the confa-
grafton.
Every fact is impure. but every fact
contains the juices of life. Every fact
is clod from which may grow an amar-
anth or palm.
The winning g-post of the race Of life
is slab Of white or gray stone stand
ing out from that turf where there is
no more jockeying.
A sour-faced fanatic would probably
cut his kittens tail off if he caught her
playing with it. Please say who taught
her to play with it.
IF a sense of the ridiculous is all
there is in man, he had better have been
an ape at once. and so have stood at the
head of his profession
Pride is an extravagant opinion of
our own worthiness; vanity is an inor-
dinate desire that others should share
that opinion Cummings.
The total amount of iron produced in
the United States in 1910 was "a 900
tons in 1872 the amount produced
reached 2,880.070 tons.
Sit at home, and the spirit world will
look in at your window with moon-lit
eyes run out to find it. and, rainbow
like, it will have vanished.
Spurgeon's Church, in London, has
nearly 5000 members, and the preach
| ing power of this remarkable man does
not seem to weaken in the least.
If the tear of woman passes away
lightly, so Autters away still more light
", her smile; and the latter, still Of
tener than the former, is only appear
ance.
IF you have talents, industry will inn
prove them if moderate abilities, in
dustry will supply the deficiencies.
Nothing is denied to well-directed la
bor; nothing is ever to be obtained
| without it.
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.
Be always frank and true. Spurn
every affsctation and disguise. Have
the courage to confess your ignorance
and awkardness. Con6de your faults
and follies to but few.
| Mrs Swisshelm hits the mark in a
letter to the Chicago Tribune, in which
she says: "We need religion which
means sixteen ounces of sugar for
pound and no sand in it."
Wise men mingle mirth with their
cares, as help either to forget or over
come them; but to resort to intoxi-
cation for the case Of ones mind. is to
cure melancholy with madness.
The world never keeps faith with the
heart that trusts. it. Its promises of
happiness are perpetually broken. Take
it for what it is worth, and set your af-
fections on what is worth more.
A piece of wood cut from tree is q
good conductor let it be heated and
dried, it becomes an insulator; let it be
baked to charcoal, it becomes good
conductor again; burn it to ashes, it
becomes an insulator once more.
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market; it depends chiefly on
two words-industry and frugality;
that is, waste neither time nor money,
but make the best use of both. With
out industry or frugality, nothing will
do !; and with them. everything.