Middletown transcript., 1877-08-04


Natural History which possesses a fine
| library and museum.
Of the 2O82 Chinese children in San
Francisco, 109 go to private schools.
There are none in the public schools.
A murderer escaped from the jail at
Somerset, KY, the other day, by elOp-
ing with the shefif's daughter.
The farmers along the Cumberland
valley have secured heavy crops Of
grain, and are now busy harvesting
oats.
A New York exchange remarks that
''nearly 1000 dogs have taken passage
by water for the happy land Of
canine"
Memories of the Great Exhibition
still Enger. A New York baker ad-
vertises @Vienna bread fresh from the
Centennial"
DoubIe-deck cars in New York 60
half empty inside, but are so crowded
on the second tier as to have several
passengers standing.
There are moments when petty
sights are harder to bear than even a
serious iniurv. Men have died of the
fostering Of a gnat bite.
Mrs. Catharine Turish, who died in
South Boston the other day, aged 70
years, left twenty-six grandchildren
and ten great-grandchildren.
Senator Blaine, Of Maine. has not
gone to California. After the Wood
stock speech he retired to Rye Beach,
and returns to his home this week.
Danbury Ne,Os 80 Lightning never
strikes twice in the same place, it gen
orally happening that there is nothing
there the second time to hit"
Another deputy dog catcher was ar
rested in New York last week, and
held in 800 bail to answer charge
of cruelty in capturing the animals,
Complaint is made that several
members Of the last Grand Jury IN
the Chicago Criminal Court made at
tempts to blackmail parties. whose
cases were pending.
The Richmond Dispatch devotes
three columns to reply to a statement
recently made that Capt. John Smith,
the Virginia hero, was "notosiously
untruthfal."
Active measures are being taken at
Cumberland, Md, to raise funds and
procure supplies for the relief of the
unemployed workmen, boatmen and
miners of that city.
A misanthrope being asked Why he
persisted in living solitary and alone,
replied frankly, 'It is because am
more accustomed to my own faults
than those of other people"
The Cincinnati Gazette says: @The
quality of the new wheat coming for
ward is 50 excellent that millers do
not require old wheat to mix with it.
This is an unusual occurrence" "
The unlucky yacht Mohawk, IN which
VIM. 7. Garner and party were drown
ed last season, is for sale at $4,000.
The vessel cost 100000, the carpets
and furniture alone costing $4,000.
A Mr.. Charles Dido, journalist,
reported to be walking across the con-
tinent on a $500 bet, is well up the
Sierras, some forty miles ahead Of time,
and expects to win easily, with a day
to spare.
At fashionable wedding in Eng
land the other day a beautiful child
of FIVE years acted as chief bridesmaid,
and wore a white foulard frock, trim
med with torchon lace, and chip hat
with long white feather.
The remarkable spectacle of a coro-
ner reading Misunderstanding, life
giving poem upon the dedication offs
park devoted to the prolongation of
human existence, was afforded in Chi
cago on Sunday last.
An American man, after dining at
a London restaurant, paid his bill and
was about leaving, when the waiter
that the amount did not IN
clude the waiter. "Ahp said the man,
''but I didn't eat the waiterI"
In order to satisfy a Judgment OBJ
tained by the pastor, for arrears of
salary, the furniture Of the Church Of
the Holy Saviour, Madison avenue and
9th street, New York, was, last week,
sold at auction.
A seven-year-old boy, who had been
noticed by New York lady picking
out of ash barrels and attempt
ing to eat it, was admitted to Bellevue
Hospital last week in a dying condi-
tion, produced by actual starvation.