Middletown transcript., 1896-02-15
Local News.

q full line of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hand.
$40 per month and expenses paid good
men for taking orders. Steady work. APP
ply the Protective Nurseries, Geneva, NY
The pupils of McDonough public
school will give an entertainment at the
school house for the benefit of the school,
Friday, Feb. 81, at Z p. m. Admission,
Adults, 25cts. Children 10 cts.
During the discussion Of Marriage and
Divorce" at the session IF the Archdeacon-
ary at Newark ON Tuesday the statement
was made that "there are TWEEN VI five
thousand divorces annually in this country
while in England there are not more than
twenty-five"
"A very interesting letter written by
subscriber to the TRANSCRIPT, a Delawarean
now in the Sunny South, may be found on
the first page of this issue. If other friends
would follow "V's" example and write Of
the things that interest them it would be
appreciated by the readers of the TRAN
SCRIPT.
More sweet corn should be planted
next spring. 1t may not be known by
some that sweet corn can be cut from the
ear, and dried, to be used on the table in
excellent condition and with little labor,
in winter, but such is the fact, and no
doubt it could be introduced into market
in that form and find ready sale, instead
: of being canned.
The extent of the egg business of the
United States is not generally realized. In
1880 the first hen census put the annual
egg production at 456, $3.50 dozen. Ten
years later it had risen to 81, ,211, ,146. an
increase of 800, ,211, ,146, dozen, and there is
every reason to believe that the proportion
ate ga in since then has been even greater.
The wind in New York City is said
to have blown IS mil es an hour ON Tues
day. No measurments were taken here
but it blew everything away that got out
that day. But few people ventured out
even in town. One of the windows i'll
Messick's store, being cracked, gave way
and will have to be replaced with a new
one.
I'm 1895 the bicycle manufactures in
America put out more than 100000 bicycles.
The output for 1896 is estimated at from
900, 900 to 750.O0 The general opinion is
that prices will remain about the same as
for 1896. No fear is expressed in any quar-
ter of there being any falling off in the
demand because of waning interest of the
public.
"There are too many gentlemen farmers
said friend this week, discussing the
"hard times" In the Farmers Column
will be found brief article along this line
and if any of the re aders of the TRANSCRIPT
take exception to it the columns of the
paper are open to the other view. Is the
"Live within your means;pay your
debts, and live within your means?'
Farmers have an idea that advertising
can in lno way benefit them, but if they
would try it they would change their |
minds. II they wanted to buy horse. in |
stead of spending q vain search for one
they would put 25 or so cent advertise |
ment in their local paper, the object they |
desired you'd soon be brought to their |
doors. The same would hold good when |
wishing to sell produce, etc.
The first install ment of the February |
Court victims were pun ished at the pillory |
and whipping post at New Castle Saturday |
Edwin Meyers, convicted of burglary, stood |!
an hour in the pillory and afterwards re-
ceived 20 lashes. The following were also |
punished at the post, all for larceny: John
Burke, 20 lashes; Benjamin Somers, colored |
10; William Mitchell, colored, S: The Sheriff |
piled the lash briskly, and all the culprits
had their backs well scored, although no
blood was drawn.
Why is it called leap year? 1t is because
he Julian calendar, in which the custom
if adding day to Febraury every fourth
year was introduced, provided that the ad-
iitional day should be inserted not at the
md of the month, but six days earlier,
forming second sixth day; hence arose
he word bissextile, which is still retained |
IS the name of the year in which the addi-
.ional day is inserted, though now it is
added at the end of the month. The name |
cap year refers to the fact that for year
lfter insertion Of the eadditionalday eachdate |
lays latter in-the week than it comes two
came the previous year, instead Of on the |
ollowing day of the week. as in ordin nlry |
years The dates may be said to leap over a |
lay, audience the name.
How few people know how to talk |
,yen of those who do the most of it; that |
s to talk well and entertainingIy. Call
own meeting, or perhaps better illustra-
ion would be a church meeting, and how |
many are there who SO realize their def
,iency in this respect that they will not even
attempt to stand upon their feet and speak |
few sentences. Bashful! difidentl Not so |
much; it is the lack of training in talking, |
n conversation. Many people gable like
reese and know itnot. 1t is kept up through |
ife, when little training would have made |
hem so different. You do not believe it
Read sThe Art of Conversation" a clipping |
IN the first page, a thoughtful article and |
lold that mirror to your face and see whose
LIKENESS is before you.
Come on; Wen Atten to Addickss
Representative. Smith. of Cecil, last
yeek prepared a resolu ton for introduc-
ion in the House of d Delegates, asking for
he app pointmeDt of joint commission for
.he purpose of fconferring with like COM
mission of Delaware in regard to attaching
he Eastern shore of Maryland to the State
# Delaware. The matter is taken seriously
~ some, and Delegate Smith and others
iii undoubtedly make an effort to have
he resolution pushed through. Others
reat the matter as an after-campaign joke.
,ent county does not want to 60 to Dela-
vare. Boss German and Boss Wellington
ne eouallyas satisfactory as Gasman Ad.
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