Middletown transcript., 1876-07-08
Uarieties.


highly promising.
Denmark proposes to purchase six
teen field batteries.
Key West receives annually for her
cigars about 100000
An Illinois judge has decided that
washing bill cannot be collected.
A man at Warrington, Eng, recently
sold his wife for half a gallon Of beer.
A woman ninety years Of age earns
her living in Boston by selling news
papers.
Pittsburg is said to have more news
papers than any city Of its size in the
Union.
The Auditor Of Kentucky has report
ed that the population Of that State is
,666. .525.
The fashionable amusement in Ban
gor, Me-, is making excursions on the
river on RATS.
A hog in New Hampshire recently
made his owner happy by roofing upa
box containing $500.
The surest way of being deceived is
to think yourself clever and more cum
ming, than anybody else. ~
The High Court of Justice in Eng
land has decided that the visible horizon
or ofing is three miles.
An English reporter recently re-
covered $4,000 damages from man ]
who called him public nuisance.
Our self-love revolts much more
against the condemnation of our lasts
and habits than Of our opinions.
The evil which we do does not draw
| upon US SO many prosecutions and so
much hatred as our good qualities.
We should be ashamed of our best
actions if the world did but know all
the motives which prompted them.
The clemency of princes is some-
times exercised for vanity-sometimes
for idleness-sometimes for fear, and
nearly always for the three combined.
Of the III young women in the
Michigan University only four have
taken to the legal profession.
New Orleans proposes to inflict fine
of one dollar on persons throwing fruit
peel on the sidewalk.
Let the young remember that the
road to eminence in every calling is
always through hardship and toll.
An American girl, Julia Sinclair, has
just taken her degree as Doctor Of Med
icine at the University Of Zurich.
From present indications the rice crop
in the United States during the present
year will be greatly enlarged.
| The fire of 1000 cannon at Gibraltar
can be concentrated upon any hostile
vessel that attempts the passage Of the
Straits
! A man in San Francisco the other
day, was fined $12O and sent to prison
for sixty days, for throwing stones at a
Chinaman.
New Bedford gains two hundred
houses by the Alabama, that being the
number erected by seamen with money
got from the awards.
| An apple tree in Charlottesville, Ind.
is over nine feet in circumference atthe
base of the trunk and eight feet at the
height Of FIVE feat.
Don't live single hour in your life
without doing exactly what ought to be
done in it, and going straight through
it from beginning to end.
/ The Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they number 800, 600,
rank higher than the natives, and are
generally wealthier than the Dutch
colonists.
A Christian, seeing painter painting
death, as a skeleton with a scythe,
beautifully remarked: ''For my part,
should paint death as an angel with
golden key.
The laws delay. A case was re-
Gently decided in England which first
commenced in the year 1882. The
amount originally in dispute was $4O0,
1000. Nothing is left.
Never put much confidence IN such
as put no confidence in others. A man
prone to suspect evil is mostly looking
for in his neighbor what he sees in him
self.
Opportunity is the flower of time;
aud as the stalk may remain when the
flower is cut off, SO time may remain
with us when opportunity is gone for
ever.
If you want to spoil all that God
gives you, if you want to be miserable
yourself and maker Of misery to others,
the way is easy enough. Only be
selfish, and it is done at once.
= Success in any calling is the result
of mans love and belief in the work
} he has undertaken. Earnest and con-
5 scientious labor often accomplishes more
in the end than brilliant genius.
He smarts not under poverty who has
learned to be content, he frets not
under afaiction who is submissive to
r the Fathers will and lays aside his
own. Keep your desires within bounds.
Of all the loves on earth most like
, the divine love, is that Of the good
s mother-so unselfish, ,unforgetting, con-
$ siderate, watchful, free from jealousy,
\ and desiring the good Of her children
e far more than her own happiness.
. Keep your conscience tender-tender
. as the eye that closes its lid against an
atom of dust, or as that sensitive
, plant which you have seen shrink and
$ shut its leaf not merely at the rude
8 touch of finger, but at the breath of
mouth.
Pride has greater share than good
r ness in the remonstrances which we
make with those who have committed