Middletown transcript., 1876-04-01
Oarieties.

The new French telescope magnifies
thousand times.
Florida and California are each try
ing to be the FIRST in peas.
Racing on the ice is the popular
amusement at Minneapolis.
The new Trinity Church at Boston
will cost 300. 900 to $500, 900.
The king of Sweden writes editorials
for Swedish Journal.
The Hawaiian alphabet has only
twelve letters.
The first water works in Texas are
being established at Austin.
One banana plantation, near Salt
Lake, Florida, has 10, 900 bearing trees.
| Pottstown boasts of five brothers who
bring down the scales at 1888 pounds.
A man at Northampton. Pa, will
shortly ship $4,000 school slates to
japan.
Women are now employed almost
exclusively in the Italian telegraph
Offices
Scranton had haunted piano until
the top was raised and rat allowed to
jump out.
The Carlist war draws to close
This is q heavy blow to the Atlantic
Cable business.
An orchard of 1000 grown trees was
blown fiat to the ground at Greenwood.
Ind, last Sunday.
The proverb says: Laugh and grow
fat :" What saving of corn it would
be if pigs could laugh.
The Paris newspapers are advocating
the holding Of another international
Exposition in that city.
There is an abundance of moonshiue
in this world, even in the dark Of the
moon.
Oftentimes acts are the wicked real.
tiles and laws the beautiful fictions Of
government.
Statistics show that $500 persons
are killed by Wild beasts annually in
Lower Bengal.
you want to get rid of your money
put it in q lottery or burn it up Either
way will clean you out.
Mean spirits under disappointment
like small beers in a thunder storm
always turn sour.-Randolf.
At recent fair held in Baltimore .
chair was voted to the LATEST police
man. bat he was too lazy to accept it.
The Peru (Tnd) Republican says
that although that city has popula-
tion Of 1000, it has neither hotel or
opera house.
The California papers sympathize
with q man when he takes to drink,
but show no mercy to such as take to
writing poetry.
This is spanking fine vinegar,
said John Henry. "Ought to be spank
iDg," replied his hopeful. "there's
mother in it."
Prairie wolves are becoming very
numerous in some parts of Michigan,
and wolf hunts are taking place to ex-
terminate them.
According to recent census, the
population Of Japan is 33.30O.675
which shows an increase of 189, $50
within the last three years.
In England thirty nine per cent. of
the population are married. in Ireland
thirty per cent. and in Germany only
nineteen per cent.
The state is merely the community
acting in combination for those purposes
in which combined action is more con-
venient than individual.
MisfortuDes are troublesome at first;
but when there is no remedy but pa
tience custom makes them easy to us,
and necessity gives US courage
One beautiful trait in woman's charac-
ter is her invariable readiness to smooth
her husbands temperament, even if she
has to do it with an aching heart.
The export Of American leather is
increasing to substantial figures. It
has risen from 800, 900 sides two years
ago to 100000 sides this year. =
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over man than this. that, when
the iojury began on his part. the kind
ness should begin on ours Zillotson.
In matters Of love and appetite be-
ware of surfeits Nothing contributes
to the duration Of either SO much as
moderation in their grati6cation.-
Bovee.
An immense ledge Of isinglass has
been found in the mountains near
Snake river, Idaho 1t is thirty feet
wide and is said to be very valuable
discovery.
It is proposed in France where the
natural ice forms too thin for CONNER
cial uses to compress the thin sheets in
an ordinary screw. press until one solid
mass is obtained.
knowledge cannot be acquired with
out pains and application. 1t is trou-
blesome. and like digging for deep wa
ters; but when once you come to the
spring, they rise up and meet you.
The old adage. "He who tries his
own cause has fool for lawyer" like
everything else in law. has its exception.
In the court Of Hymen every man can
best plead in bis own cause.