Middletown transcript., 1877-07-14
Bartfes.
Character is a perfectly educated

Education is the chief defense Of
nations.
We should be honorable, even to.
our enemies.
No mortal can be esteemed happy
till the end Of life.
Boston is largely engaged in ship
ping butter to Europe.
Summer travellers consider 9air
lines" the most comfortable.
Moody and sankey are to labor in
Baltimore during September
Chappaqua, Horace Greeley's old
homestead, is again offered for sale.
About $50 workmen are now en-
ployed on the new capitol at Albany.
A farmer, near Reinholdsville, Pa,
has set'over a million Of tobacco plants.
He that does good for Gods sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, though
sure of both.
With clear eye and an upright
heart, resist every temptation and
every wrong.
Whatever beauty may be, it has for
its basis order, and for its essence,
unity.
Japan is making rapid strides. The
streets of Toxic and Osaka are now
lighted with gas.
If the world did but know the worth
of good men, they would hedge them
about with pearls.
To tell is not sufficient to show is
of great advantage; but to train is the
grand secret of success.
A proper secrecy is the only mys-
terry of able men; mystery is the only
secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
Our thoughts are epochs in our
lives; all else is but journal Of the
winds that blow while we are here.
There are few wild beasts more to
be dreaded than a communicative man
with nothing to communicate.
Worcester, Mass, is about starting
its first cooperative building and loan
association.
The keeping or raising of pigeons
within the city limits is prohibited in
Galveston, Texas.
Proposals were opened in Baltimore
On Friday week for the construction Of
a new $4,000 ice boat.
A New York paper announces that
there are 1900 saloons doing business
in that city without license.
The St. Johns press is rising Phe-
nix-like-Boston type founders have
already forwarded the material.
Mayor Schroeder proposes to buy up
all the fireworks in Brooklyn and have
them exploded on waste land.
Thousands of men are al work on.
the Paris Exposition buildings, which
now begin to assume form and shape.
A German club, aThe Central" has
been formed in Cincinnati. and a mag
nifcent new club house is talked Of
Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory, and yet the shortest
way to glory is to be guided by con-
science.
That only can with propriety be
styled refinement which, by strength
ening the intellect, purihes the man
ners.
The wise men of old have sent most
of their morality down the stream of
time in the light skiff of apothegm or
epigram.
Some goodness is like the glow worm
in this, that it shines most when no
eyes, except those of heaven are upon
Human life is gloomy chamber. in
which the images of the other world
shine the brighter the deeper lis dark
sned.
If the eagles head on one of those
confusing coins points to the left it's
quarter; if to the left, twenty cent
,iece.
The Pennsylvania Teachers Asso-
'iation meets at Erie on the 9TH of
August. The session will last three
lays.
James Williams, day laborer in
VT, is said to have re-
eived bequest of $1,OOOsO00 from
elatise in England.
A set of thieves in Mexico had dogs
rained to steal handkerchiefs in the
'athedral and other churches, from
he kneeling worshippers.
All of the original New York Bohe-
lian Club are dead except two, and
ne survivors are not much over forty.
is not healthy.
Atlanta (Ga.) is improving her water
orks, and will thus add two million
gallons of additional water per day
her present supply.
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