Middletown transcript., 1876-07-29
Uariehts.
Minnesota is afflicted with grasshop-

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pers.
Oats are selling at ten cents bushel
in Kansas.
All of the Pittsburg glass factories.
except one, are idle.
\ Many man worth a million is utter
ly worthless.
It is q common thing to see fool
fooling with pistol.
! Gay Scotch tartans are seen in cos
tunes for seaside resorts.
Not every one who has the gift of
speech understands the value Of silence.
Men were trusted with souls with the
understanding they should save them.
Over 500 acres are planted in tobacco
between Jersey Shore and Lock Haven.
The city hall in Chester vas built in
1924, five years before Independence
Hall.
.Low shoes and watch chain i'm
part an appearance Of GOODNESS to .
man."
A polite way of putting it-Tronbled
with chronic indisposition to exer-
tion.
What some Of our statesmen want il,
not reach Of intellect, but to get out Of
reach.
The New York Herald says that
men who play croquet are now called
the third sex.
| What is up must come down, and
there is some comfort in thinking about
thermometer.
1t is beginning to be pretty well nm
derstood that men of genius never pay
as they 60. They always 30 first.
"Let memory fail so long a. You
can rely upon your judgment at mo-
ment's notice. ."-Goethe.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning,
not to be measured by the horse power
of the understanding"
California fruit is being shipped to
Indianapolis by express, at cost Of $14
per hundred pounds.
George Washington was rejected by
four women. The truth was not appre-
ciated then any better than at present.
1t is noted that tho worst behaved
children in the country are those at the
watering places.
There is ice on the lake at Duluth as
blue and as hard as in midwinter, and
fifty feet thick.
Three hundred and thirty-6ve chill
dren under Eve years Of age died in
New York last week.
The nuisance of Chinese fire. crackers
is of itself enough to excite prejudice
against Chinese immigration.
A Baptist preacher says there are
three hells. It is good thing to have
something of an assortment to choose
frem.
The young ladies of Aiken, s. c..
have formed Tilden club Il Southern
Exchange. Aiken for the bachelor
Governor, are they
"They came here" said Artemus
Ward of the Puritans, "that they might
worship in their own way and prevent
other people worshiping in their'n."
There is no time when a female looks
so noble, SO determined and SO inspired
as when she is engaged in mailing up
rat-hole.
Chicago begins the new century with
deficiency in its assets Of $3, SOC. 900,
and that's something again to make St.
Louis jealous.
At recent camp-meeting at Albion,
Mich, lady publicly thanked God
that che had never worn polonaise or
hustle.
Two San Francisco butchers own
700, 900 acres of land and employ
1000 men. Both these capitalists are
Germans.
Newport is suffering from drouth.
For the 6rst time in ten summers there.
the lawns are yellow and the flowers
are faded.
No man ever yet forgot by trying to
forget; but be is on the highway to
forgetfulness when he tries to remem-
ber.-Miss Braddon.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has given more
to real charity in two months than her
husband did in all his life. Providence
never makes mistakes.
The Burlington Hawkeye tells Of
surgical operation in which Milwau-
keean had to be amputated in order to
save his ear.
The desk of q letter carrier recently
deceased, in the New York Post Office,
is draped in mourning. and bears the
inscription: "There is rest for the
weary"
In the window of shop in an OBJ
scure part of London is this announce
ment: "Goods removed, messages
taken. carpets beaten and poetry CON-
posed on any subject"
An inebriate recently fell and broke
his nose against q BARRIERS pole On
being raised from the ground be asked,
'What'n thunder 'zat woman wi striped
stockings on got agin me 7"
An Iowa woman has kettle cast in
1853. But unless that kettle was once
tied to the tail of George Washington's
dog. it doesn't possess enough historical
interest to be sent to the Centennial
A Western paper said Talk about
the wind blowing the grasshoppers
One Of them faced gale for an hour.
and then yauked a shiugle of house
for fan. saying it was awfully sultry.
A Kansas bar refused to take red
nose as evidence that prisoner was
fond of whiskey, but explained: "Out.
side Of law red nose knocks the tenn
perauce question higher than a kite. -