Middletown transcript., 1877-03-17
Uarieties.

e London dispensed last year about
o $35. .000, 900 in charity.
,f The first cafe 10 Paris is said TO have
been opened in 1872.
9 Singing Bees" are quite popular in
l Germany and England.
In Switzerland $50. 900 persons OBJ
tain living BY matchmaking
A recent census Of the Black Hills
shows the population to be $3.50.
Owing to the hard times the English
+ army is being rapidly recruited
There are twelve miles Of shelving
for the books in the British Museum.
, At Sacramento. CAL, the young la
dies have organized "morning mush-
room parties"
In London ladies' dresses are kent
close to the figure by means of slastics
sewed to the creases.
An Oakland, Zeal woman who en-.
tertained sick stranger got S140, 900
BY the latter's will
A number of families in Mifain coun-
y, Pa. will emigrate to Kansas and
Texas in the Spring.
A Californian now proposes to sail to
Liverpool BY way Of Cape Horn, in q
boat only twenty feet long.
Twelve men, uBder sentence of
death, are now confined in the jails Of
Carbon and Schuylkill counties. Pc.
In Paris there are ffty-eight butchers
of horses. who last year sold 9271 hor-
ses. asses and mules, in joints and
steaks.
The Italian lottery system brings in
not less than $12. 900. 900 in each sue
ceediug year to the national sxchequer.
The new Church Property Tax law
Of Maine exempts from taxation church
property worth not more than $4,000.
An old-fashiOn piano, which was
made for Beethoven. and used by him
in Vienna, in nov to be seen in q music
store 10 Zurich.
At late sale Of timber lands By the
0nerIH OF Oiiut0u o01utt1T, T nz -, 4911
acres were sold for $500. The tim
Der tracts had been cleared Of pine trees.
Promotion in the English civil SER
vice is SO blocked BY the number Of aged
members in it that it is proposed to re-
sort to compulsory retirement.
The boating men of Troy, Albany,
and the neighborbood are talking Of
organizing large association to be
known as "The Upper Hudson Navy"
The violet grows low. and covers
itself with its own leaves; and yet Of
all flowers yields the most delicious and
fragrant smell. Such is humility.
The Women's Missionary societies of
the United States support 2S7 mission
aries in foreign lands, and raised in ell
about 81 .563. .56S for the cause.
Nearly 100000 Germans are settled
in some forty counties in Texas, par
ticularly Comal and Guadaloup, and
they are highly successful as agricul-
turalists.
A very old married couple named
Miner live at Fall River, Mass. The
husband is more than one hundred
years of age, and the wife eighteen
months younger
An English official report on the
Chinese coolie traffic. says that Of the
more than 140. 900 Chinese who sailed
for Cuba, upwards Of 10000 died dur
ing the voyage
The Germans say there are three
armies that follow every war. and are
disbanded only BY death-an army of
mOurners. an army of cripplss. and an
army of thieves.
The Newark Common Council refuse
to make the appropriation of e220,15O
to the Board of Education in that city
until the school teachers have their
salaries reduced.
Youth is the vernal season Of life.
and the blossoms it then puts forth are
indications Of those future fruits which
are to be gathered in the succeeding
periods.
To be truly great, it is necessary to
be truly good and benevolent, for all
other distinctions the clods Of the val
ley will cover. and the greed worms
destroy.
Accustom yourself to overcome and
master things Of difficulty; for, if you
observe, the left hand for want of prac-
ice is Insignificant. and not adapted to
general business, yet it holds the bride
'etter than the right, from constant
lse.-Pliny
| find no quality so easy for man
o counterfeit as devotion. though his
ife aud manner are not conformable to
!; the essence of it is obstruce and
ccult. but the appearances easy and
hOWy.
Repentance hath a purifying power,
nd every Tear is of cleansing Virtue,
ut these penitential clouds must Be
till kept dropping; one shower will
ot suffice; for Repeusance is not one
iDgle action, but course e-iSouth
A New Milford (Gonn. J maiden, who
puma hsrselt IN unpleasant company
fter accepting an invitation to take a
sigh ride with young man, dropped
er handkerchief on the road. and when
e got out to pick it up. piled the whip
nd drove home without him.
Remembrances last longer than pres
1t reality as have conserved blossoms
any years, but never fruits. Yes
Iere are tender female souls which in
xicate themselves only among the
ossOms of the vineyard of joy as
hers do only with the yinehill.
The first step toward making a man
your son is to train him to earn what
spends; then the best way to teach
N to be frugal is to take away his
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