Middletown transcript., 1877-03-03
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The California silk factories are do
d ing fair business.
Pittsburg clothing thieves nov Op-
: crate on wash lines.
Canada has 800 oil wells, Of which
. 200 are being operated.
Little girIs are employed as pages in
/, the Kansas Legislature.
The toy trade in Paris during the
. holidays amounted to nearly $500. 600.
The average daily consumption Of
. water in Brooklyn is $4,000, 600 gall
r Ions.
More than 100000 persons are year
9 ly found intoxicated and incapable IN
the towns Of Scotland.
A total abstinence club at Lowell,
! Mass, has 1000 members, including
the Mayor aud other representative
citizens.
Milan, in Italy. has 275. 600 inhabi-
tants, and maintains twenty-five thea
tres. Of which more than pay expsn-
sss.
Gin. weakened with As per cent Of
water, has been lately decided, undar
the British act, to be a punishable sdul-
teratiOn.
The Museum Of Comparative Zoo
logy at Cambridge has cost about 1885,
600, of which the State has given
1920, 600, private individuals $685.
| 900.
How we cling to every soft October
dav that dies, knowing that sfterward
nothing can come. nothing win come,
nothing ought to come, but winter and
SHOWS.
There is in every good mans heart,
a sublime strength aud purity Of attach
ment, which be never does feel, never
can feel, for any woman on earth ex-
cept his mother
Glory follows IN the train of great
men, and increases after their death.
for envy does not long survive thom
nay, it sometimes dies before them.-
Plutarch.
A woman in Jersey City tore up the
flooring and weather boards of the
house she lived 10, to save herself and
children from freezing to death and
was arrested on charge Of malicious
mischief BY her landlord.
Solitude, kindling under the torch Of
Christian revelation, may become trans
figured forever, passing from blank
negation into secret hieroglyphic from
God, and shadoEing in the very dim
NEST Of His truths.
Too often. from common liking for
even the lowest pleasures, rather than
the standards Of common faith, moral
ity or what great principles you will,
are the bonds Of human friendship
formed.
Let US decline being tugged and
tossed like a boat at some steamers
stern in spiritual mendicancy. Think
and act for yourself. We have heard
enough how religion soothes, let rs
know how it urges &c. A. BartOl.
In England they are getting nearer
to the root Of that dreadful disease.
drunkenness. At recent temperance
meeting in his diocese the Bishop of
Ely said that he attributed drunkenness
in poor men not to a desire for liquor,
but to the comforts of the public house,
and the discomforts of their homes.
People think they can be generous
hypoorites. and hide their feelings
we'll; but they cannot.
All vain tenderness, conscience, pride
Of honor, of fear of giving pain. cannot
swaddle up a truth Through some
interstice Of glance or action it will ap-
pear naked and cold. yet a tangible,
living truth.
know not why we should delay our
.okens of respect to those who deserve
hem until the heart, that our sympa-
hy could have gladdened. has ceased
% beat. As men cannot read the epi-
apis inscribed upon the marble that
covers them, so the tombs that we erect
o virtue often prove only our Fepen-
ance that We neglected it when With
Is.-Bal,per Lgtton.
There are probably about 10, 900 diff
erent kinds of butterflies now known
nd about half of these are so distinct
color and marking that they can be
eadily distinguished by this means
lone. Almost every conceivable tint
nd pattern are represented, and the
ues are often of such intense brilliancy
I'D purity as can be equalled by neither
irds nor flowers.
The just man says, "Do not let me
urt;" the good man says, 'sLet me
less" The just man says, "Let me
Ike nothing from my fsllow-men;"
lie good man says, "Let me bestow
uch upon them" The just man
iys, Let me be pure;' the good man
iys, Let me draw all men into
lrity." One is equitable; the other
benevolent One seeks his own per-
ctness: the other seeks the welfare of
lose about him.
Men and maidens (servants) in
'use are often better of than their
asters and mistresses; for they have
} houshold cares-have only to do
cir work; and when it is done, it is
me, and they can eat, and drink, and
ng My WOlfand 0rths (Dorothoa,)
y man and my cook, are better Of
an my Katie and I. for married life
d the ordering of household bring
th them their trials and the holy
When We are fullest of heavenly love
} are best fitted to bear With human
trinity, to live above it and forget its
rden. Il is the absence Of love to
lFist, not its fullness. that makes us
patient of the weaknesses and incon-
tencies of our Christian brethren
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