Middletown transcript., 1877-05-26
Uarieties.
phiIadslphia has 5000 unrsntod

House-hunters in Philadelphia have
their pick from 5000 vacant houses.
Myra CLARK Gaines, the terror Of
New Orleans. is over seventy years
old
During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 400. 1000, 900 pounds of
rosin.
The product of the Wisconsin dali
ries is estimated at $4,000, 900 per
year.
Over 5000, 100000 are annually
spent in this country for cigars and
cigarettes.
Laura D. Fair, the fair emotional
shootist of California. has gone into
bankruptcy.
"A new style Of postage stamps Of the
three cent denomination is to be issued
some time soon.
Wendell Phillips lives next door to
sample room" This may account
for some things.
The President of the Unitse States
Mortgage Company is appropriately
quartered at Chicago.
Those men are worthy to be re-
membered who have left the world
better than they found is
Halstead offers George Francis Train
an unlimited supply Of peanuts if be
4 will come 10 Cincinnati
Kansas anticipates very large emf
grafton in the Spring from Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan.
During 1876 the various ferry boats
plying between Camden and Phiadel-
p6ia carried 1850 900 persons.
In the year 1876 the seeds received
in Chicago, principally timothy, we're
valued at more than $4,000, 900
With love the heart becomes fair
and fertile garden. glowing with sun
shine and warm hues, exhaling sweet
0iUrs.
The Turks believe that those killed
in battle will go right to Paradise, and
some of them will soon be sadly taken
in.
The Republican party is not dead.
o DO Some Of the ablest post-ofiee
papers in Indiana are still edited by
Republicans.
A new Methodist church in Boston
is to be the largest belonging to that
denomination in America, and will seat
5, 900 persons.
Printed posters play an active part
in political contest. but they are gen
orally neutral, because they are always
on tue fence
Hon. John A. Kasson, the new min
lister to Spain, lives when at home in
Des Moines, Iowa. in plain brick
house One-story high.
The era of reform has dawned at last
Eli Perkins has gone to the Black
Hills America expects every Indian
to do his duty.
A maudlin New Yorker has buried
his dog in a silver-plaied mahogany
coffin, and has ordered an imposing
tombstone for the grave.
No good that the humblest of US has
wrought ever dies There is one long,
uuerriug memory 10 the universe. out
of which nothing fades.
This is the process of divorce in
Iowa: The wife says to the husband,
go along, l have had enough of you"
The divorce is then complete.
The republic of Mexico, covers an
area Of 100000 square miles. and is
divided into twenty-three States, hav-
ing population of about 5000, 900.
Suffer not your spirit to be subdued
BY misfortunes but, on the contrary.
steer right onward, with a courage
greater than your fate seems to allow.
Not one in a thousand of the readers
of Frank Leslie's publications know
that Frank Leslie is nom de plume,
and that the proprietor's real name is
Henry Carter.
Ole Bull gave another farewell con-
cert in New York the other night. His
farewell concert has become such an in
stitution that we should feel positively
lonesome without it.
Flattery is a safe coin which our own
vanity has made current, and which
will never be out of credit as long as
there are knaves to offer it and fools to
receive it.
Any work, no matter how humble,
that a man henors by efficient labor
will be found important enough to Sc
cure respect for himself and credit for
his name.
Here is a question for genealogists.
A and B. being widowers, marry each
the others daughter What relation
exists between the children of each BY
this second marriage This is a case
in Lincoln county.
Thirteen years ago a negro burglar
shot man in a house in Atlanta, Ga.
The other day he wrote from Kentucky
inquiring if the man died Of the wound,
and his letter has led to his arrest for
the murder
1t is proposed to hold grand ball on
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, on
the 4th of July. The street is to be
closed to vehicles, brilliantly illuminat-
ed and decorated, and fifteen bands are
to furnish the music for the occasion.
It is dangerous thing to leave
woman alone in a house. The best
dresses this spring are buttoned in the
back. And if she takes notion to go
visiting and can't reach the two but
tons between the shoulders, either a
suicide or smashed set Of furniture
follows.