Middletown transcript., 1876-05-06
Uarieties.
Barney Williams was once printers

Virtue deserves respect even in beg
gar's clothes.
Real glory consists in the conquest
of ourselves.
Hawthorne says that the idle are al
ways cruel
OfTenbach gets back yearly $50. 900
as his income.
The Khedive of Egypt is As, and
has four wives.
The cattle drive from Texas this
year will number $50. 900.
DR.. Franklin says that ''every little
fragment of the day should be saved"
The moment the day breaks set your
self at once to save the pieces.
| San Francisco Cinnamon sent over
| $960, 900 worth of fish to China last
year.
Belknap must be innocent. You
can't impeach "private citizen" you
know.
10000 shade trees have been planted
in Washington during the past three
years.
Kentucky peach-growers expect one
fourth of an average crop the present
| season.
A new 100000 iron bridge is to be
built across the Niagara river at Lewis
ton, Canada.
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
Happiness grows at our own fresides,
and is not to be picked in strangers
garden.
There is an artesian we'll in Prairie
du Chen I'll feet deep, which yields
10000 barrels Of water daily.
A Mormon tabernacle has been erect
ed near Albany, Oregon, and many
conversions are reported.
The moment a man is dissatisfied
with himself. everybody else is dis
satisfied with him.
Wisdom is the olive which springs
from the heart, blossoms on the tongue,
and bears fruit in the action.
Failure, after long perseverance, is
much grander than never to have striv-
ing good enough to be called failure
Violent passions are formed in soli-
tude. In the hustle Of the world no OBJ
ject has time to make deep impression.
An orange grove opposite Pslatka,
Fla, has at present 5000 bearing trees,
which last year made crop that brought
$8O.0O0.
Russian newspapers express conf
dent belief that there is nothing in the
existing situation to endanger the peace
Of Europe.
There are more sorrows of women
than of men. just as in heaven, there
are more eclipses Of the moon than Of the
sun.
Seeing what is ahead Of US may teach
US to advance slowly. The snail, whose
eyes are at the end of its horns, is the
slowest animal.
The March coinage Of the San Fran
cisco mint amounted to $3.3O8. 900,
against $2.542 900 in the correspond
ing month oflast year.
In your intercourse with men, if you
mean no." be manly enough to
speak it, yet generous enough to speak
it with kindly courtesy.
Silver mines which bear traces of
having been worked by a prehistoric
race are said to have been discovered
in Madison county, Texas.
Let no one count the number of his
friends till they are bolted in the sieve
Of bis own adversely. for there is much
bran in prosperous friendship.
You who are ashamed Of your pov-
erty, and blush for your calling, are
snob. as you are who boast of your ped
igree or are proud of your wealth.
Tears are as dews which moisten the
earth and renew its vigor. Remorse
has none; it is a volcano, vomiting
forth lava which burns and destroys.
We have heard many women com.
plain Of their husbands neglect of home.
A spoonful. of honey will keep more
bees in the hive than will ten of
vinegar.
There isn't ia single Republican daily
paper in Georgia. a State containing
10000 Republican voters. This shows
the grade of intelligence of the party
there.
Since the issue Of silver commenced
many worn pieces that had been laid
away as souvenirs Of the former times
of hard cash have come in partial cir
culation.
No one can tell the misery of an un-
loved and lonely child; in after life a
degree of hardness comes with years,
and the man is not susceptible Of pain
like the child
At recent dinner in the mountains
given to Don Carlos, the principal toast.
''Viva King Charles VII, p was drunk
standing. The King himself was drunk
sitting.-Graphic.
The Church Of St. Nicholas, Just
completed at Hamburg. is the highest
in Europe. It is four hundred and
seventy-two feet high. eleven feet higher
than the Strasbourg Cathedral.
That kind of discipline whose pun
gent severity is in.the manifestations of
parental love, compassion and tender
ness. is the most sure Of its object. It
SO contrlves the administration of chas-
tisement as to convince the understand
ing of those who are exercised by it,
that reformation is the object aimed at.
As Jonah's gourd. having done him
no service in the night. when he needed
it not, withersd in the morning, when
he honed for most hena6t hu - :.t