Middletown transcript., 1876-06-03
Narieties.
The imported New York drags cost
about $4,000 each


about $4,000 each
Ambition is like love, impatient both
of delays and rivals.
May Day in Georgia was ushered in
with snow storm.
A mans own manner and character
is what best becomes him.
The mind grows narrow in proportion
as the soul grows corrupt.
Right reason is mans guide, but
moral principle his only safeguard.
He who swears informs us that bis
bare word is not to be credited.
One hundred twenty thousand trout
have been placed in Lake George.
The (dag) pole tax 10 the city Of
Philadelphia is said to be enormous.
Mr.. Moody was given a purse of
81. 800 during his stay in Augusta, Ga.
The Trenton Gazette predicts an inn
mense crop Of apples in Jersey this sea-
son.
There is nothing evil but what is
within Us the rest is either natural or
accidental.
1t is about an even chance whether
Parson Brownlow will die or go to Con-
gress this season.
New Mexico's claim to admission as
State is fourteen hundred American
voters and bankrupt treasury.
The latest argument against bache-
lor Sam Tilden for President is that the
country doesn't want a man that no
woman would have
The National Prohibition Convention
has nominated Greene Clay Smith for
President and G. T. Stewart for Vice
President.
A North Carolina newspaper men,
tions the death from diptheria, recent
ly, of eight persons out Of one family
in Caldwell county. in that State.
Don't hoard up every piece Of silver
you get. Keep it moving right along,
and all will get little. If you don't
silver will soon be as scarce as ever.
In Boston many Of the church choirs
have been dispensed With this year, and
the salaries of others have been mate
rally reduced.
"No clerk in the Custom House lives
in as economic style as did the bach
elor President, James Buchanan, " SAYS
Washington letter
Do right and fear no one; thou
mayst be sure that, with all thy consid-
GRAFTON for the world, thou wilt never
satisfy the world
How would a little of the ten COM
mandments do for political platform ?
They seem to have been forgotten BY
both parties
Don't moralize to man who is on
his back. Help him up, see him firm
ly on his feet. and then give him ad-
vice and means.
There is 6ve-year-old in Fremont,
N. H., who chews, smokes and swears
like an army veteran. and never fails
to get drunk when he can get liquor.
Two little boys, neither of them over
nine years of age, were arrested at
Shelbyville for entering house and
making of with ST. ,616.
The first Christian newspaper ever
published in japan has just been issued
at Kobe. 1t is in Kama characters,
which all the people can read.
Lemons can be preserved by varnish-
ing them With a solution of shellac in
alcohol. The skin Of shellac formed 10
easily removed by rubbing the fruit in
the hands.
ST. Luke's Church. located in Isle of
Wight county, Va, was built 1882. 1t
is still occupied, but is in very dilap-
idated condition, and contributions are
being solicited for its repair.
Blessings brighten as they take their
fight. and it's observable, now that
silver is actually in circulation, that
currency is more in demand than ever
before.
Somebody, who has been looking into
the literature of the eighteenth century,
finds that some of the most immoral
novels in the English language have
been written by women.
Good out of evil The pumice Of
the late volcanic eruptions in Iceland
makes grass grow where it never grew
before. and the Icelanders who we're
threatened with famine are found -four
ishipg on fish
The Centennial Fourth of July will
be celebrated on scale of grandeur in
every section Of the country never
before equaled. Extensive and elabo-
rate preparations are in progress every
where, and the patriotism of the people
has only been parallcled in days when
their liberties were threatened and the