Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

Desert air Wind pudding-Ed. l.
ToriaIle.
"Hail, gentle spring''-and it hailed.
Buffalo Courier.
The mule who is tame in front is
often wild behind.-Hoger.
Solomon was the first man who want
ed to part his hair in the middle
SteubenUille Herald.
When a pretty Irish girl is stolen
away they suspect some Boycotter.-
NeoC Orleans Picayune.
The oyster and the ice cream plate
now shake hands across the chasm of
anticipation. SlCeeley.
Fashion Editor Journal: What does
Delaware Elerated RailUay Journal.
Why, the cape Of Henlopen, Of course.
-Baltimore Erery Saturday.
Some new colors are threatened for
next summer and the suicide fever has
again broken out among married men
in consequence thereOf.-G. b. Garrett.
A police court is very accommoda-
ting place to transact business. If you
haven't the money to pay cash, the
Judge generally gives you time.-Ed.
I. 10rrialle.
In speaking Of the Altoona, Pa, fat
man, who died recently, an exchange
says "his legs refused their office. 7"
These legs had never lived in Ohio
Ne,C York Commercial.
''You don't know how it pains me to
punish you," said the teacher. 81
guess there's the most pain at my end
of the stick, Y replied the boy, feelingly.
"'T any rate, I'd be willing to swap. -
Boston Transcript.
The man who goes to the top Of the
tower of success on an elevator, cannot
appreciate his position as well as he who
has pulled off his coat, and Skinned
hand over hand up the rungs of the
ladder Whitehall Times.
"Lenora" sent us poem, beginning
81 ask but one small share, in that
great heart Of thine.'' You had better
emigrate to Utah, Lenora, where they
keep such material in job lots. We do
a strictly wholesale business g. Modern
Argo.
Four st. Louis ministers get Sc, 900 a
year apiece, with slippers, afghans, Sc.
thrown in. Young men should think
of these things before embarking in
the precarious profession Of journalism,
where there are no slippers, only boots.
-NelC York Commercial.
Mrs. Mollie Huckleberry, Terre
Haute widow, shot and slightly wound
ed George Arbuckle, the other day,
because he would not marry her. He
refused to be buckled to her and she
buckled to and went for him, and that's s
the kind Of a huckleberry she is.-Bo8-
ton Times.
We never saw but one lung pad that
we would have, and that was the one
Bernhardt wore in the third act of
Camille. 1t was made Of diamonds and
reached from her neck clear across the
level plain to where her corsets hook at
the top, and must have cost thousands
of dollars. And yet she seemed to be
catching cold every minute Peck's
Sun.
The long hair of lady of Pine Val
ley, n. ", became wound round her
neck i'll her sleep so tightly that, had
not help been at hand, she would have
suffocated in few moments This is
the disadvantage Of wearing hair that
can't be hung over the back of chair
at night. Nature doesn't always get
what the poet calls ''the bulge' on art.
--NorriSt0tCa Herald.
Gilhooly is an equestrian .Gilhooly
hired a horse the other day to take
little exercise on. He got all the exer-
else he wanted, apd as he limped to the
edge of the sidewalk to rest himself,
after taking 50 much exercise, kind
friend asked him 'What did you
come down so quick for 90 "What did
l come down so quick for Did you
see anything up in the air for me to
hold on to ?''-GdlUeston Ne,Cs.