Middletown transcript., 1877-02-03
Bariehts.
Fine manners are the mantle Of fai-

J. minds.
1 The man who talks least is most apt
b to keep his word
: A wise man will make mere oppor-
tunities than he finds.
Why is Watchdog bigger by night
than by day. Because be is let ouG at
night.
j Why is dog biting his tail like
j good mauager2 Because he makes both
ends meet.
. The Mercantile Library. Of New York
| city. BY recent large and valuable ad-
} ditiOns, now contains 10, 900 volumes.
A cOlored orator. during the recent
campaign, declared that be never would
sell bis birthday for nest Of partridgss.
In come tseks exclaimed the editor
of the New York Times, as be sudden
ly arose from stool in q hardware
store.
Read nature, nature is q friend to
truth; nature is Christian, preaches to
mankind and bids dead matter aid US in
our creed.
What is the difference bstwsen a.
donkey and postage stamp? One is
licked with stick, the other is sticksd
with lick.
| We must row with the oars We have,
aud as We cannot order the wind, We
are obliged to sail with the wind that
| God gives
''If there is no moonlight, will you
meet me BY gaslight, dearest Juliana p
mo. Augustus, I Wsn'tl am no gas
meter" replied she.
Be truel be true be true Show
freely to the world, If not your worst,
yet some trait whereby the worst may
be inferred. .-Has0thorBe
Thermometers are made in Nevada
By filing stovepipe with whiskey.-
When the whiskey freezes solid change
in the weather is predicted.
Green bulldog with ultramarins eyes
in cardinal red landscape on yellow
velvet, is a good design for No. 5 slip
pers designed for friends with No. II
feet
A Yankee gravs-digger, who buried
Mr.. Button, put the following item in
the bill which he sent to Mrs. Button:
"To making one Button-hoIe. FIVE dol
lars"
Prosperity shines on different persons
much in the same way that the sun
shines on different objects. Some it
hardens like mud. while others it self
ems like wax.
The more enlarged is our own mind
the greater number We discover Of men
of originality Your commonplace pso-
pie see no difference between one nan
and another-PaschaE.
A cynical man insists that the fewer
relations Or friends We have the happier
We are. In your poverty they never
help you, and in your prosperity they
always help themselves.
A lady, at Willimantic, Conn, 6s-
sected lately an old-fashionsd straw
bery-shaped needle-cushion which had
been in the family for over ffty years,
and took therefrom 213 needles.
A clergyman in Northern Indiana
asceudsd the pulpit the other Sunday
and said ''NO man can serve the Lord
while he has the jumping toothachs. |
therefore dismiss the congregation"
Let US be as the trees, which yield
their fruit even to those that throw
stones at them; and as the fruitful
bough bends towards the ground, so let
our good works beget humility.
The past is disclosed, the future con-
cealed in doabt. And yet human ma
turs is needless of the past, and fearful
of the future-rsgard net the science
aud experience that past ages have un-
vailed
The chief objection to the system that
merchants have of making up their ac-
counts on New Years seems to Be that
/ man has only a week to enjoy a
Christmas present from bis wife before
be gets the bill for it.-Norsoich Bull
stiR
The best way to present TO life the
manifold uses Of friendship, is to cast
about and see how many things there
ire which man cannot do for himself;
md then it will appear that it was
Jparing speech Of the ancients to say:
That friend is another himssIf;" for
! friend is more than himself.
Men of the world hold that il is i'm
possible to do q disinterestsd action.
xcept from an interested motive for
be sake Of admiration, il for no grosser,
more tangible gain. Doubtless they
re also convinced that when the sun Is
towering light from the sky, he is
My standing there to be stared at.
Nature always wears the coIors Of the
pirit. To man laboring under cal
nifty the heat Of his own fire has sad
ess in it. Then there is q kind of
of the landscape by him Who
as just lost BY death a dear friend
be sky is less grand as it shuts down
yer less worth in the population.
'nsers0n.
Kind words are like the flowers We
'atter around as, whose fragrance rises
P like incense; or, better still, they
mind Us of the girl in the fairy tale.
ON whose lips, When she spoke, beau
ful pearls fell Bat they are of more
llus than pearls From them We reap
rich reward here, and they are trsa-
res laid up in heavsn-and they cost
'thing.
You wouldn't think it. but Tn told
is actually SO, that very high nsun-
ins increase in size every year. This
owing to the great quantities of snow
hich fall upon their tops. Some of
is snow slowly melts and runs down
A uountain. .sidas. b,k -s,,.L ..-..:--