Middletown transcript., 1876-01-29
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The human mind should be globe
of humanity moving on the poles ol
truth.
He that lags behind 10 road where
many are driving always will be in q
cloud of dust.
RIcHsoND ladies treated their New
Year callers to peanut cake and butter
milk !"
When fortune means to men most
good. she looks upon them with =
threatening eye
To give pain is the tyranny, to make
happy the true empire. Of bsauty.
Steele.
A good recipe for beginning the new
year is to get receipts for all the bills
you owe.
He is not only idle who does moth
ing, but be is idle who might be better
employed
Another Cresus announced his in
tention Of putting up another mammoth
hotel in Frisco.
Augusta Evans has received from
Carleton. the publisher. $lOO. 900 in
eight years.
Life is short. but the msiority Of
the people manage to outlive them
selve anyhow.
Miriam Cole Harris Cole author Of
Rutilege has an income Of $4,000 year
from her books
Bismark will be happy now. They've
named tbousand-pound hog after him
in Pottsyille.
Fortunes made in no time are like
skirts made in no time; it's ten to one
if they hang long together
New Jersey turned out $500, 900
pounds of grapes last fall; 209,O
were kept for making>wine, and the
rest exported.
It.is now stated thst the reason that
Charles O'Conner still; lives Is that his
stomach would not not retain any medi-
cine.
Fashionable sofas and chairs are
made in the stiffest and most uncom-
manner that guests may not
stay too long.
We must row with the oars We have,
and, as we cannot order the wind, we
are obliged to sail with the wind that
blows.
Never set your feet in dirty and
,rooked path for the love of money.
It is work that win bring bad interest
t You wish to suck honey Of thistles.
Patience and attention will bring us
lar. If the cat catches long enough at
he mouse's nest, the mouse will not
escape.
There are some ideas that seem, like
ain drops. to fall upon a mans head,
he rain itself having nothing to do
With the matter.
Eight States have made census re-
urns for 1875. At the rate of increase
ndicated, We shall have SO, 000, 900 Of
'eople in 1880.
Reason is the director Of mans will.
discovering in action what isl good for
be laws of we'll doing are the dictates
It right reason.
Genuine morality is preserved only
q the school of adversity, and state
+ continuous prosperity may easily
rove a quicksand to virtue.
No one ever got married without
omebody calling him a fool .-Rich-
aond Eaqairer Yes; and nine cases
ut of ten it is his wife who does it.
The act Of divine worship is the
lestimable privilege of men, the only
reated being who bows in humility
nd alteration. = Hosea Ballou.
A Yale professor says that no person
an learn. remember and speak over
fteen different languages. Seven or
ight are enough for poor folks.
Trying to do business without ad-
ertising is like winking at a pretty
irl in the dark; you may know what
gu are doing. but nobody else does.
Error is always more busy than ie-
Drance. Ignorance is a blank sheet,
, which we may write; but error is
'ribbled one from which we must iirst
'ase.-ColtOn.
Proportion and propriety are among
le best secrets Of domestic wisdom;
I'd there is no surer test of integrity
AN a well-proportioned expenditure.
: Hannah More.
A good book and good woman are
.cellent things for those who know
" to appreciate their values. There
e men, however, who judge of both
I'm the beauty Of the covering .-Baf-
10 Courier.
If you cannot be a great river, bear
g great vessels Of blessing to the world,
u can be little spring BY the way
lie Of life. singing merrily all day and
night, giving cup Of cold water to
cry weary. thirsty one who passes by.
Contentment produces. in some mea-
re, all those effects which the alche-
st usually ascribes to what be calls
3 philosophers stone.s and il it does
t bring riches. it does the same thing
bapishing the desire Of them, if It
Dnot remove the disquietudes arising
IN mans mind, body, or fortune, It
.kes him easy under them.
"There is little reason in my opinion
envy pursuit in which the most it's
votees can expect is that. by selin-
ishing liberal studies and social COM
t-by passing nights without sleep
summers without one glimpse Of
} beauties Of nature-they may attain
It laborious. that invidious, that
sely-watched slavery, which is mock
with the name Of power."-Aacau-