Middletown transcript., 1876-06-24
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{ A well.bred woman never hears an
t impudent remark.
: The slanderer and the assassin differ
|. but in their weapons.
! A friend that you buy with presents
: can be bought from you.
This years strawberry crop Of Ken
!, : lucky has never been equalled.
, In quarrel it is always the we'll
, bred who is the first to give way.
, A great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want Of . little courage.
The rose has its thorns, the diamond
its specks, and every man his failings.
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
sometimes found in good looking frames.
A thing is never too often repeated
which is never sufficiently learned
Seneca.
The most laudable ambition is to be
wise, and the greatest wisdom Is to be
good.
4 A fool is often as dangerous to deal
with as knave, and always more in
corrigible.
| It il quite cool up on the Kennebec.
200, 900 tons of ice ucsold is still housed
there.
| The Fourth Of July, 1776, occurred
on Tuesday. It falls on the same day
this year.
The love of justice in most men is
nothing but the fear of suffering from
injustice.
5,515 is the weight of Tennessee
bullock steering this way for exhibition
at the Centennial. 81 q
There are between thirty and forty
American ladies now receiving lessons
in opera at Milan.
Self.will is so ardent and active, that
it will break world to pieces to make
stool to sit on.
To think kindly of each other il
good. but to act kindly towards one
another is best Of all.
The man who never alters his opin-
| ion is like standing water and breeds
reptiles in the mind. w
A man that keeps riches and enjoys
them not, is like an ass that carries gold
and eats thistles.
A man will not listen to truth told
him by an enemy; and be very rarely
gets it from friend.
The famous impeachment trial Of
Warren Hastings. before the British
Parliament, lasted eleven years.
If you intend to do mean thing,
wait till tomorrow. If you are to do
noble thing, do it now.
As daylight can be seen through very :.
small holes, SO little things will illus |.
trate persons character.
A desire to say things which no one
ever said makes some people say things
no body ought to say.
There are sharp thorns hidden among
the fairest flowers, there are treachsrous {
quicksands in the sweetest valleys.
To sneer and denounce il very easy
way of assuming great deal Of igno-
rance.
Most Of our misfortunes are more
supportable than the comments of our
friends upon them.
To lose our charity in defence of our
religion is to sacrifice the citadel to
maintain the outwprks.
Teach children to love everything
that is beautiful, and you will teach
them to be beautiful and good.
Faith, therefore, is a certain stead
fast beholding. which looketh upon
nothing else but hrist.--Lather.
Boys at the Saratoga Springs who
deal out water are to wear an ''import-
ed uniform" of blue and scarlet.
There is no reader way of bringing
our own worth in question, than to de-
tract from the worth Of other men.
We are safe at sea, safer in the storm
that God sends than in calm when We
are befriended by the world.-Jsremy
Taylor.
Nearly $50, 900 persons are inferred
in the cemeteries Of Calvary, Green
wood and Cypress Hills in the vicinity
of New York.
A thousand dollars month rent for
a cottage at Newport is considered by
no means remarkable, but it takes q
man of means to pay it.
All the good some people do in this
life is the good they do to themselves:
and he who lives for himself alone lives
for very mean fellow.
More hearts pine away in secret an
guish for the want of kindness from
those who should be there comforters
than for any other calamity in life.
It is true, practical wisdom to mako
the faults Of others serve as so many bea-
cons to warn US from the rocks and
shoals on which they have been wrecked.
Of all the acts of cowardice the
meanest is that which leads rs to aban-
don a good cause because it is weak,
and Join bad cause because is is strong.
In the natural history Of insects the
grub turns into butterfly: but it often
occurs in the natural history Of man
that the butterfly turns into grub.
The confessional was the means by
which Mr.. F. E. Whitcomb, of Boston,
lost pocket-book containing
. check for $500. besides other valua-
bles.
Do good for thine own satisfaction,
and care not what follows. Cause not
gray hairs to any one; nevertheless, for
The truth, even gray hairs are to be dis
regarded.
Who is wise? He that is teachsble.
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