Middletown transcript., 1877-03-10
Darisfes.
A woman is a director in Peoria

g BY tears.
Albani receives in Paris $500 in gold
{ per night.
As every thread Of gold is valuable,
t SO is every minute Of time.
s Pride often builds the nest in which
0 poverty hatchss out its sorrows.
9 There has been an extraordinary NOR
: tality among bees in England this win
ter.
There is in Philadelphia "a school Of
design for women" The dear creatures
don't need one
For most men, life picks it's way
through chances, as pedestrian through
the thOroughfare.
Russia has $40 monasteries and con-
vents which enjoy an annual income Of
nearly $1,000. 900
The Legislature Of Rhode Island is
endeayoring to make education compul-
sorry throughout the State.
Men are generally deserted in adver-
sity, When the sun sets our very
shadow seems to follow us.
i Take things as they are. and make
the best Of them. That is the only
true and practical philosophy.
A man behind the times is apt TO
speak i'll Of them. on the principle that
nothing looks we'll from behind.
You may search round the world from
Beersheba to Dan. and there's no vel
come place for moneyless man.
Contentment is the true philosophers
stone. The poor are rich that have it,
and the rich are poor without It.
The population Of Lyons, France. has
been found By the late census to be $685.
All, gain of 16. .393 since 1872.
Mems hearts ought not to be set
against one another. but set with one
another, and all against the evil thing
only.
A tart temper never melloWs with
age; aud sharp tongue is the only
edged tool that grows keener With con-
stant use.
There are moments when petty sligbss
are harder to bear than even & serious
injury Men have died of the fostering
Of gDat bite.
10 all differences consider that both
you and your opponent are dropping OF,
and that ere long your very memories
will be extinguished.
The death is announced az Tarbcs, at
the age Of 107 years. Of Jean Bour-
guine, who was a soldier during the
reign of Louis XVI.
President Hinsdale. Of Hobart Col
lege. at Geneva. n Y. has thus far
received $1,000 in response to bis ap-
poal for aid for that insiitniion.
Nantucket, Mass, is one Of the Isles
Of the Blest. for it has a Jail without
prisoner. The whole expense Of the
establishment last year was only $685.
80.
A collection of the skulls Of the ami
mails killed BY the Prince Of Wales in
India are now on exhibition 10 London
BY the Princes special permission
Until within a few days there have
been nine inmates of the county poor
house in Ingham. Mich, whose aggrs-
gate ages were 72S years, an average of
81 years.
According to the Scotch Roman
Catholic Directory for 1877, there are
in that country 2S5 priests. 252
churches. 124 congregational schools,
and % convents Fourteen priests
we're ordained in 1876.
Wagner is described in private let
ter as walking about Rome with stove
pipe bat on the back of his head, look
ing at pictures in a wonderful, child
like fashion. asking no questions and
welding conversation generally.
The London Standard has Informs
ion that the Egyptian Government will
despatch a squadron to cruise in the
Red Sea. and visit the ports suspected
If being concerned in the slave trade,
Eith the view Of its suppression.
The French Government has submit-
ed to the Chamber of Deputies pro-
position to appropriate 800. 900 for the
purchase by the State Of silk fabrics in
lyons, in order to give work and relief
o the suffering operatives thrown out
f employment.
Capt. Thomas Desmond has recsived
q San Francisco gifts Of q gold watch
nd chaiR and Of $500 in gold, in re- Z
ogDition Of bis services 10 the Irish
ational cause. and especially for the
art be took in the release of the Fenian
risoners in Australia.
The French Government has lately
ranted a pension Of $3.50 year to the
lidoW Of the French Consul Moulin,
he was killed in q Turkish riot at Sa-
mica last May. In addition to this
be Turkish Government has paid the
ldy. and her children 800. 900.
One day lately in the vicinity Of
harlOttssville, Va. a party Of ladies
nd gentlemen engaged in the exciting
port of an old-fashioned fox hunt. The
dies were early on the ground at the
III Of the horn. followed the dogs
osely, aud were in at the death One
them secured the brush.
Sidney Smith wrote of Miss Mark
am, in carving partridge I splash
her with gravy from head to foot,
ID though saw three distinct rills Of
,imal juice trickling down her cheek,
lie had the complaisaBce to aver that
,t drop had reached her. Such CIR
INSTANCES are the triumphs of civilized
e
II remember" said the celebrated
lesley, "heariDg my father say to my
other, How could you have the pa
euee TO tell that hlockhaad tha sarna