Middletown transcript., 1877-05-19
Uarirties.

j have women for school officers.
! Conscience is a terrible punishment
, to the villain who yet believes in here
after
1t is easier to enrich ourselves with
a thousand virtues than to correct our
selves Of single fault.
An English announcement is that
'ladies, without distinction of sex, are
invited to attend.n
Whims are harder to remove than
sorrows for time, instead Of weakening,
strengthens them.
Chester shipyards will turn out five
new steamers, all iron, this year, for
the southern trade.
The col,red people of Georgia own
457 ,635 acres Of land and property in
the aggregate valued at S., 488, 1867.
When you are 10 danger from exter-
nal enemies, look out When the per-
il is from your own unbridled passions.
look in.
Alexandra Palace, London, has been
offered for sale. One bid of S2,225,-
600 has made, but the buildings re-
main unsold
Chicago packers during the present
packing season have slaughtered ,490,-
756 hogs, against 1.489, $50 for the
same period last season.
The New York Port Society has two
hundred and twenty loan libraries aloat
bearing the names Of the donors, each
of which is exchanged when the vessel
returnes into port.
Twenty theatres are now open in Lon
don, fifteen of them being within ra-
dious ofa mile from Charing Gross. The
city supports twice as many playhouses
as it did twenty years ago.
Let it be impressed upon your mind,
let it be instilled into your children
that the liberty Of the press is the pal
ladium of all civil. political and re-
ligious liberty.
The liberty of the press is blessing
when we are inclined to write against
others, and calamity when we find
ourselves overborne by the multitude
of our assailants
Lowell says of Carlyle, that His
Imagination is so powerful that it makes
him the contemporary of his charac-
ters, and thus his history seems to be
the memoirs of cynical humorist"
True religion teaches US to reverence
what is under us, to recognize humility
and poverty, and, despite mockery and
disgrace, wretchedness, suffering and
death, as things divine. Goethe.
If you must form harsh judgments,
form them OF yourself, not of others,
and, in general, begin by attending to
your own deficiencies first Ifevery
one would sweep up his own walk, we
should have very clean streets.
Virtue is a service a man owes to
himself, and though there we're no
heaven nor any God to rule the world,
it were not less the binding law of life.
Il is mans privilege to know the right
and follow it.-Hindu Scriptures
In the half year ending April. 1876,
126 persons were killed in England by
factory accidents, 4S1 amputations we're
necessary. there we're 260 fractures of
limbs or bones. and 2193 other iniu-
ries-in all 2497 males and 769 fe-
males
The last census of the Almsheuse, in
Philadelphia, shows a population Of
400, which is a greater number, is be-
lieve, than has ever before been lodged
and fed within its walls 1t tells very
plainly of wide prevailing destitution.
Oakland, California, has just passed
an ordinance prohibiting all persons,
except railway employees, from jump
ing off trains in motion while passing
through that city, and afixing as PEN
atty fine Of from So to $50 for each
offense.
Many readers judge of the power of
4 book by the shock it gives their feel
ngs, as some savage tribes determine
be power of their muskets by their
-ecOil; that being considered best
which fairly prostrates the purchaser
Have the courage to give OCCASION
lily that which you can i'll afford to
pare; giving what you do not want
Tor value neither brings nor deserves
hanks in return. Who is grateful for
drink of water from another's over
owing well, however delicious the
raught?
There never was any heart truly
reat and generous that was not also
euder and compassionate. It is this
oble quality thaFmakes all men to be
t one kind; for every man would be
istinet species to himself, were. there
0 sympathy among individuals.
We can more easily understand why
eformity of person should make one
retched, than why beauty should
AXE one vain The weakness which
asires to please is an amiable one, and
lere is no good reason why the recip-
mt of Gods bounty should be vain Of,
Ither than grateful for it.
I heard of very old man like my
If, who was asked what his age was
. answered, "the right side of eighty"
| thought you we're more than eighty"
id the inquirer "Yes, I am beyond
F." he replied, "aud that is the right
de, for I am nearer to my eternal
St -Rouland Hill.
Language is properly the servant on
ought, but not unfrequently becomes
master. The conceptions of feeble
ritter are greatly modified by his style,
man of vigorous powers makes his
yle bend to his conceptions, a fact
mpatible Of Dryden that rhyme has
ten helped him to an idea.
Bepin the edncation Of the heart not