Middletown transcript., 1877-06-23
Dariehes.

Friendship IS Infinitely betteF til1u
kindness.
An expensive wife makes a pensive
husband.
Things past may be repeated, but
not recalled.
50 sad, so fresh the days that are
no more.
There have been fewer friends on:
earth than kings.
A Southwest Georgia Fair AssOcia-
ton is to organized.
The greatest truths are the Simplest;
and so are the greatest men.
Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volumes of the
week.
Men exist for sake of one another,
Teach them, then, to bear with one
another.
Men of genius are often dull in sOci-
ETY.; as the blazing meteor when it de-
scends to earth is only stone.
The most powerful of all beauty is
that which reveals itself after sym
pathy, and not before it.
A late census of Nashville gives that
city population of 1868 white, and
9582 coIored.
Economical Newport, B. L, viii only
spend $3.50 in celebrating the @glori-
GUS Fourth"
Miss Drinkwater is the appropriate
name of a noted temperance advocate
in Pittsburg.
Peaches were shipped north from
Kinds county, Miss, as early as May
24th.
Lancaster cigar stores attract Gus
toners by serving up daily "free pret-
eel lunches"
They are generally better satisfied
whom fortune has never favored than
those whom she has forsaken.
Fools and their money soon part.
It's worth while being fool to have
the money to mart with.
Not many women are blacksmiths.
we learn from the Worcester Press,
@but most of them can shoe a hen"
Modest men conceal their joys as
well as their sorrows, for they consider
the one as undeserved as the other.
entered this world in impurity.
have lived in anxiety, / depart in per
turbation. Cause of causes, pity me
Had l but served God as diligently
as I have served my king, he would
not have forsaken me in my gray hairs.
That awful lad again ma, pa has
got the best of you-you can't strike
matches on your trowsers like he can"
Adam and Eve, we suppose, were
the first to start turning over new
leaves" they did it to keep up the
fashion.
An Irish sailor once visited city
where, he said, they "eopper-buttoned
the tops of their houses with sheet
lead"
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms
of insects will surround you in sun
shine.
Let him who would have me for
listener speak positively; of the pro-
blematic have enough without my
self.
Senator Burnside is regaining bis
health by personally directing the ag-
ricultural work on his farm at Bristol,
RI
At the State fair in Atlanta, Ga,
this fall, prizes of $3.50 and $3.50 viii
be awarded to the best drilled military
and fire companies.
The lock tenders at the State dam at
Troy, N. Y, caught sturgeon weigh
ing two hundred pounds in the lock a
few days ago.
Were we as eloquent as angels, yet
should we please some men, some wO-
men, and some children much more by
listening than by talking.
Piety gilds mortality with rays of
immortal light; and through faith en-
ables its pOssessor to triumph over sin,
sorrow, tribulation and death.
God gives food to every bird, but he
does not bring it to the nest. In like
manner he gives US our daily bread,
but by means of our daily work.
There is no merit where there is no
trial and till experience stamps the
mark of strength, towards may pass
for heroes, faith for falsehoOd.
Mental pleasures never cloy. Un-
like those of the body, they are in
creased by repetition, improved by re-
lection, and strengthened by enjoy
ment.
With every exertion, the best man
can do only a moderate amount of