The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-10
TAKE A SMILE.

A revenue cutter-ye clipper Of cou-
pons.
To lay a carpet well requires good
deal of tackled.
Some men pay attention who never
pay anything else.
It's wise railroad stock that knows
It's own par nowadays.
The north side of tree is said TO fur
nish the strongest timber.
Taken rs n hole the artesian well is
well enough as far as it goes.
The watch lacks self-respect; IL is
always trying to run itself down.
A man who drinks 10 excess can
hardly be said TO have steady employ
ment.
Quarrymen at Huntington, Pa, have
brought to light large quantity of
fossil shells.
Laziness kills and drugs seldom cure,
but you couldn't make tramps and in
valids think so.
If a smile is the daylight of the soul,
a good hearty laugh must be a long
summer day.
DIR. Book, of Leipsic, holds tea and
coffee accountable for nervousness and
peevishness.
A bad lot-One which is three feet
under water, and ten per cent over the
market price. N. Y. News.
Question no mans inactivity, if you
are yourself too lndolent to improve the
opportunity that he neglects.
If you had tircsome relation in the
money-lending trade, would it not be
well to get him to leave you a-loan?
Charity does not cry aloud in the
streets, but it goes quietly round and
ties up the wound and fills up the lard
er.
The man who never courts favor is
the man who is as mad as blazes if some
one else receives one.- Marathon III
dependent.
Modesty in your furniture, equipage
and words will show that your mind is
well-reguated and your heart free
from passion.
Canned squash can be taken clear
around the world and not lose its flavor
Let's have little more reverence for
the vegetable.
Geologists estimate the area of the
coal fields of the United States at over
1000, 100000 square miles, with an av-
erage thickness of fifty feet.
A beet has been raised at Wells,
Mimi, that measured twenty-one inch
es in length, six and a half inches in
diameter and weighed twelve pounds.
Said he as he stole one, 'I seal nv
love with kiss" They got married
and in little alteration with her moth
er-in-law she sealed her love with
whacbs.
1t has been suggested that prett,
girl in front and tax collector be
hind would keep the average pedestri
an up to five hundred and fifty mil,
score GPuck.
A New Jersey man went out shoot
ing yesterday, and biased away at al
immense object sitting under q tree
Upon investigation it proved to be
mosquito. Result One charge of sho
wasted, and but one wing of the insec
disabled.
The fact that two million years frou
now the sun will have burnt itself on
and six-inch coat of ice cover the sur
face of the earth, is enough to strik
terror to the heart of the most stoli,
ice dealer and produce a panic in tn
coal market.
1t rather disturbs the unites for
lover to hear his girl talk about eihe
realized friendship, the gossamer wing
of love, the thin and permeable textur
of affection, and that sort of thing, an
then see her sit down and eat bi
piece of roast beef, four biscuits and a
! apple pie.
A Nevada miner has two large spo
ted lizards as pets. He keeps them in
cage, to which is attached wheel i
which they play as cheerfully as thoug
they wers squirrels. The miner is yer
fond of his pets. In speaking of thei
,, he said: "They are jist the cunnine
! little cusses in the country"
I Some women fill the air with the
=
Y strength and sweetness, as the orchard
r in October fill the air with ripe frui
e some women ciing TO their own hous'
IKE me s noneysuckle over ine door, an
l INC II, nj al the region win the sn6t
: ,ra?rahce Vi .nelr goouness-ahu the
t again some OF them don't.
IL is said that Boston man broke
:, his engagement with young lady "b
|. cause she spelled hugglng with one &
The provocallon was great, to 6e'sur
but as long as she practlced hugsiI
: with two arms, we-that is, some YOU
I men-wouid not nave cared II she spt
!; led the word without any gs at all.
y We have our eve on the most abse,
minded man in ihe countrv Yeste
= dav he annroacbed an omen gate ,vh;
! ont driving. As he was fold 10 clo
The oate behind him he dronned !
lines and GOT ont and closed n and IN
resumed his place In the buoov on,y