Middletown transcript., 1877-04-28
Uarietiss.

Parker clips the ambrosial eurls at
I'll King street.
No thoroughly occupied man was yet
ever miserable.
We have more Incidence in the mind
! than in the body.
The Illinois psnitentiary contains
; over 1900 convicts.
London dispensed last year about
$35, 900, 900 in charity.
In Switzerland $50, 900 persons OBJ
tain living BY watch making.
The product of the Wisconsin dairies
is estimated at $4,000, 900 per year.
London omnibus conductors work
fifteen hours day for four shillings.
There are twelve miles Of shelving
for the books in the British Museum.
A new style Of postage stamps of the
three cent denomination is to Be issued
in May.
During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 400, 900, 600 pounds Of
rosin.
Over 5000, 900, 900 are annually
spent in this country for cigars and Gig
arettes.
A wife can always make home attrac-
tive to her husband BY hiring q pretty
chambermaid.
Kansas anticipates very large emf
grafton in the Spring from Wisconsin,
Minnesota aud Michigan.
Earl Township (Pa. } boasts of very
young grandfather, viz, Nathan Rae,
who is not yet 50 years of age.
During 1876 the various ferry boats
plying between Camden and Phiadel-
phia carried 1850. 900 persons.
In the year 1876 the seeds received
in Chicago, principally clover aud tim
othy, were valued at more than S4, ,0O0,-
600.
With love, the heart becomes a fair
and fertile garden, glowing with sun
shine and warm hues, exhaling sweet
odors.
A new Methodist church in Boston
is to be the largest belonging to that
denomination in America, and will seat
5000 persons.
When a woman smiles at an afront,
one Of two things is certain. She has
either lost all modssty, or she is assur-
ed of her revenge.
No good that the humblest Of US has
wrought ever dies There is one long,
unerring memory 10 the universe, out
of which nothing fades
There is at the present time in the
Mexican treasury, the sum Of seventeen
cents in specie. 1t has slipped into a
crevice, and cannot be got at
The republic of Mexico, covers an
area of 760. 900 square miles, and is d.
vided into twenty-three States, having
a population Of about 5000, 900.
SUFFER- not your spirit to be subdued
BY misfortunes; but, on the contrary,
steer right onward, with q courage
greater than your fate seems to allow.
A very old married couple named
Minor, live at Fall River, Mass. The
husband is more than one hundred years
of age, and the wife eighteen months
younger.
The shock from the firing Of the 80
ton gun at Shoeburyness, England, re-
Gently caused bottles to fall of a glass
shelf in window of a house sixteen
miles distant.
Many who find the day too long,
think life too short; but, short as life is,
some find it long enough to outlive
their characters, their constitutions,
and their estates.
Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves be-
hind deep impression even when she
departs; while joy trips BY with step
light as wind, and scarcely a trace up
on our hearts of her faint footballs.
A person out West is Offering for sale
grass seed gathered from the path of
rectitude. A religious contemporary
fears that the path must be sadly over
grown with grass, as it is SO little tray
SlSu nO"-a-uaJ5.
A Chicago widow has brought a
breach of promise suit against a widow
sr. who, she says, promised to marry
her and take her to the Centennial. He
says if she'll wait he's willing to take
her to the next one, and marry her just
before starting.
We've suspected for some time past
hat measures would have to be taken
% check the alarmingly rapid growth of
he Smith family. And here, new, sure
enough, Pennsylvania man proposes
o put on exhibition a "Smith roller
md crusher"
The German word for "life insur-
nee" is lebensVersicherungesellscbaft.
t has the great advantage that, while
be agent is pronouncing it, the victim
5 fairly warned, and has an opportunity
o climb over the fence and hide under
he barn.
Il wish to consult you upon a little
roject l have formed" +" said noodle to
is friend. Il have an idea in nav
cad" Have you" interposed the
'iend, with look of great surprise.
Then you shall have my opinion at
nee. Keep it there 1t may be of
,me use before you get another"
The baby was doubled up with the
ramps and yelling at the rate of mile
minute, as the father and mother stosd
YER the crib with the laudanum bottle
etWeen them. "NO, Mariar, be said.
emily, but firmly. ''you pour it out:
lat child is growing SO ike your moth
that can't trust myself"
"Beforc we were married" be said
friend ''she used to say 'by-by' SO
Veetly when went down the steps"
Al