Middletown transcript., 1876-11-04
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| ISemoESe IL tue ecnO OF lOSt Virtue.
True repentance is to cease from sin.
Those who weep over errors were not
formed for crimes.
The highest happiness is unaffected
by extransous influences.
Strong love is to be tried by princi-
pie not BY fervor.
Be servants Of truth and duty, each
in his avocation.
Attention to little things is the econ
omy of virtue.
All life mistakes proceeds from wrong
beginnings.
Electricity is destined to furnish the
heat Of the future.
Autumn poets seem to be about as
thick this year as ever.
Dispatch is the soul of business;
method the soul Of dispatch.
The Lee monument fund now amounts
to $25. 900.
Horse cars are being introduced into
all the leading French cities,
Cultivate alike the wisdom Of expert
snce and the wisdom Of hope.
Employment and activity are funda-
mental laws Of human happiness.
Work that is simple easy and pleas
ant does not make robust minds.
There is little hope Of equity where
rebellion reigns. P. Sidney.
Neither great poverty nor great
riches will hear reason -Fselding
Who loves a child gives more than
he receives. 1t is self-sacrifcs.
1t is no use running; to set out be-
times is the main point.-La Fortaine.
Two thousand Spanish pilgrims are
preparing to set out from Rome.
God lets his sun shine on the evil
and on the good. but the evil need it
most.
People who make much noise with
their feet seldom make much with their
heads. sg B9ia
1900, 900 copies Of the tract, .'The
Dairyman's Daughter, have been cir
culated. 81 ~. 4s.t..,
The belle of Fon du Lac, Wis,
makes all her own clothes and does the
marketing.
If you desire the happiness Of your
child, teach obedience and self re-
straint. 3np s ssssib
Bancroft, the historian, spent his
seventy-six.h birthday at the Centen-
nial on the 3d..
It should not discourage US if our
kindness is unacknowlsdged !; it has it's
influence still.
Apples are SO abundant in some por-
tions Of Michigan that they are being
fed to the stock. 1855 #sf 80 bia
& Jewish mechanics havs received $780,
600 from England to erect houses out
side the walls Of Jerusalem. -5,
Mindful of the present do not neglect
the past; and turn not with indiffer-
ence from the future.
The certain way to be cheated is to
fancy ones self more cunning than
others. .aeaas a3saa
A New England Puritan mob killed
the frst elephant that landed in this
country. .
This country imports 81, ,000, 900
worth Of buttons each year, besides US
ing up the IS. 900. 900 worth made at
home. * -.,
The auther of II would not live
always,I ask not to stay" is so years
old, and people have lost confidence in
him. &Ro5gsi9y f.
Since 1873 the Consolidated Virgil
mia mine has yielded about $40, ,00O,-
900, nearly one-6fth Of which was
gold. -
Henry Kingslsy, the novelist. left
his widow destitute, and fund for her
relief is being raised in London.
The art gallery at the Paris Exhibi-
tion will be the finest and largest in
Europe. Work on the building has
been begun already.
An old woman at the Stratford,
Conn, poor house spent her Tooth
birthday, Tuesday, in gathering cider
apples.
The same Bible that gives us the Ten
Commandments. enjoins that charity
which belisveth all things. hopeth all
things.
There are no blessings which may
not be changed into evils, no trials or
sufferings that may not be transformed
into blessings.
There is pleasure enough in this life
to make us wish to live. and pain
enough to reconcile us to death when
we can live no longer.
Drummers in South Carolina now
levant without paying their bills and
home that they have fed for
fear Of assassination. 3
No man can raise to so high . posi-
ton in life that his shirt collar will not
unbutton behind at awkward times
and try to lift him up by the back of
the head.
When the political editer of the New
York Times wrote "solid SOUTH" the
put it "sordid soup" and
it read just As wsll.-Detroit Free
Press.
A California paper tells Of NAM
moth pumpkin vine near San Luis,
Obispo, which measures 1400 square
feet and bears $50 pumpkins. some of
which weigh as high as sixty pounds.
''Some pumpkins that" a;1
George Ripley and Charles A. Dana
IRE said to have cleared over $4,000
each as their share Of the profits on the
nd Appleton's Cyclopedia, and will