Middletown transcript., 1876-05-13
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The wind is great blower and; ha'
its own way.
Ultra modesty is very nearly allied
to extreme vanity.
Truth may be violated as much BY
silence as by falsehood itself.
The average American is Eve feel
nine inches in height and his wife Eve
, feet two.
Follies are as contagious as disease,
and example has ever proved danger
ous lure.
Preachers too often attack tho
braDshes, in place Of the roots of the
tree of evil.
Chance! Is there such thing? is
it reasonable to think that Destiny ever
sleeps?
The Gear is the tallest sovereign Of
Europe. The Emperor William comes
next in height
i Goldsmith Maid is only 10. She
has the reputation Of being very fast"
for one so young.
The London Underground Railroad
carried 26. 500. 900 passengers last year,
and earned dividend of four per cent.
There are estimated to be 81 800
flour mills in the Russian Empire, which
are driven by wind, water. treadle OF
steam.
There are now growing in the streets
of Washington ~, 700 shade trees, 49,
600 Of which have been planted within
the last three years.
A single entry Of sugar at tho Bos-
ton Custom House lately weighed over
| 3, 900. 900 pounds. ard the duty on it,
paid in gold, was $57 900.
| Let the youth who stands at bar
with glass Of liquor in his hand con-
slider which be had better throw away
the liquor or himself.
An Iowa Court has decided that if
man engages himself to be married and
then commits suicide. the defrauded
party can proceed against his estate for
breach of promise.
In Savannah, when a man sits on
dry goods box, knees out to the weather,
and sadly wishes be we're dead. ten
der-hearted policeman comes along and
kills him.-Detroit Free Press.
In the whole route Of the Southern
Pacific railway to the desert, though
it crosses an altitude of 1000 or 5000
feet, there is not . cut six feet deep,
nor an enbankment eight feet high.
Avoid wearing heavy overcoats Of
furs for hours in succession; the ten
dency is to weaken the powers Of resis-
tance Of the wearer. leaving him liable
to inflammation Of the throat and lungs.
Good out of evil: The pumics Of the
late volcanic eruptions in Iceland makes
the grass grow where it never grew
before, and the Icelanders who were
threatened with famine are found -four
ishing on fish.
A North Carolina man named Van
Armridge. who descended from an old
Pennsylvania family, lays claim to sew
eral hundred acres of land in the vicin-
ity of the Centennial grounds, now
valued at $40, 900. 900.
A Georgia editor speaks Of 'sthe
shirt Of Nestor, if his memory serves
him right His memory does serve
him right; and he might have added
that Adam killed Nestor with rolling
pin for asserting that Venus had uart
under her left arm.
A Franklin (Ky. man lately took a
live bee into his mouth along with
some honey, He then reflected
'Chew bee or not chew bee, that is the
question" here his tongue happened
to touch the hot end Of the aggressive
insect. and be decided negatively.
Two tramps in Westchester county
stopped at the house Of lone widow
and one went in to beg. Very soon he
came out with bloody nose and first
class black eye. "Well, did you get
anything, Jack 2" "Yes," growlsd
the sufferer, g I've got the widows
might"
A certain servant maid was left
handed. Placing the knives and forks
upon the dinner table in the same awk-
ward fashion, her master observed that
she had placed them all left-handed
"Ah, true indeed. sir and 90 l have
would you be pleased to help me turn
the table 2"
A witness on the stand said that he
did not believe that any man ever got
so drunk that he didn't know what he
was doing. To prove what be said.
eff drunken man bothers you give
him a sound licking, and no matter
how many times after that be got drunk
be never would bother you again"
Said little boy to his mother the
other morning: ma. l had the beauti-
fullest dream last night you ever saw.
| dreamt that wouldn't 60 to school
and that you went out into the yard
and cut great long switch. but just as
you was going to give me IN awful
uIcSoIu tu0 Wuil cduc " al cu0
Didn't I get out Of it easy. though
According to the accounts Of Artic
voyagers. sudden elevations Of temper
atura in the polar regions are not un-
common, even in localities where the
ice is most abundant. These changes,
and the occurrence Of open polar seas,
are usually ascribed to the influence
Of the Gulf Stream Professor Wheil-
don suggests an opposing view, which
is, that open water. melting ice, rain
after snow, and other phenomena Of
like character observed in the polar re-
gions. are due to a circulation Of air in
which warm winds descend from upper
atmospheres, being circulation by
which winds heated at the equator
reached the poles