Middletown transcript., 1877-06-02
Uariehes.
Illinois prohibits pooI selling.

with invisible wire.
Nearly 1000 dogs have SO far been
licensed in New York city.
Belgium is building 800 iron railway
cars for her State railways.
A statue to George Sand, the French
authorcss, is proposed.
Many housewives in England cook
their meals in American kitchen ware.
A lady asks how '.Old Dog Tray"
can be faithful and yet be-Tray?'
1t is just ninety years since the great
Minton pottery, in England, was estab
lished
A State Reform Convention is TO be
held at Dexter, Maine, on June 9th and
7th.
The town of Schenectady, New York,
is suffering from typhoid fever cpl
demic.
Boston has been enjoying east winds
and their accompanying rains for II
days,
Next month the college commence
ments will take their turn in filing up
the newspapers.
No more theatrical exhibitions for
money are to be allowed by the Harvard
College faculty.
The Unites States and Russia possess
horses in greater numbers than other
nations do
1t is stated that there are now but
II, 900 English Quakers. A century,
ago they numbered 60.000
Willis Brazeal, an inmate of the
Jefferson county, Ala, almshouse, is
said to be 129 years old.
Georgia's cotton manufactures are
prospering, and she is constantly add
ing to their number.
President Hayes owns tract of sew
eral thousand acres of mineral lands on
the Tug river, in Virginia.
Buffalo is to have Polo club, and
the polo-neighs will once more again
be in fashion in that city.
Picnic posters are beginning to or
nament New York fences "ComiDg
events cast their shadows before"
During the year 1876, 1,120, ,494
persons visited the Museum of Natural
History in Central Park, New York.
A life-size statue of Esculspius, With
both arms gone and broken nose, has
been unearthed at Athens.
The glove trade is looking up, and
Glovesville, its great head centre in
this country, is busy once more.
A California paper cheerfully ex-
claims that 1.-THE new and elegant jail
at Redwood City is now open to the
public. y
The Worcester, Mass, Public Liz
brary is, strange to say, largely sup
ported from moneys realized from taxes
on dogs.
The new white whale captured off
the Labrador coast for the New York
Aquarium has just been received in his
new quarters.
According to a French paper man,
who recently fell from a steeple $50
feet high. was "not injured, but was
very much scared" +"
New York ''swells" of aristocratic
pretensions now think it necessary to
drive four-in-hand to maintain their
social positions.
Not to be Beaten. n.-First little girl
with doll: "My doll can open her
eyes" Second ditto: "My doll new
er shuts hers Punch.
Winter is not over yet in New
Hampshire. A trout fisher the other
day stumbled into snow drift "a inch
es deep, near Pennington, in that
State
Every man is born for heaven; and
be is received in heaven who receives
heaven in himself while in the world,
and he is excluded who does not.-Sioe-
denborg.
George Wm. Curtis has accepted
the position of Honorary Chancellor
of Union College, n Y. and will de-
liver the usual Chancellor's oration
on Commencement day.
If poor pay makes poor fighters,
Russia will fare badly in the present
contest A colonel in her army gets
but S400 a year, or about as much as
a section man on an American railroad.
A Boston paper remarks: Zone
cannot be too careful this weather A
swell exchanged his heavy winter cane
for light bamboo, and caught severe
cold that laid him up fora week"
The question of removing the capital
Of Georgia from Atlanta back to Mill
edgeville is still agitated in some parts
Of the State and demand for vote of
the people on the subject is being de-
veloped.
As polo is a game in which broken
heads are the principal regards. it is
by an exchange that the
players hereafter wear helmets or those
ron heads worn by divers who go down
10 the bottom Of the sea.
Gov. Robinson of New York has We
oed bill allowing the proposed oil
oipe line from the Bradford county re-
yions to the seaboard to pass over the
Jattaraugus Indian reservation in north
,rn New York
Mr.. Aghornath Chattopadhyay has
ocen pronounced worthy of the de-
yree of Doctor of Science by the Facul-
y of the University of Edinburg-
hough how they managed to pronounce
lin remains mystery
The editor of a weekly paper publish
ID in Montana, begins an article on
he Russo -Turco war as follows: "If
he Powers we're to take the advice we
rave offered time and time again, this