Middletown transcript., 1899-04-01
CURRENT EVENTS.

Some idea OF the enmity pneumonia bea1S
to human kind may be drawn from the fact
that of 249S deaths from all causes in Chic
ago last January no less than 535 were from
pneumonia. 1t attacks every age and sex.
of the 100000 cases of tomatoes annu-
ally packed in the United States, 1900 900
are packed by canneries on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. Thirty thousand acres have
been contracted for the coming season by
Gamers on the shore, although 16, 900 acres
is the most that was ever before contracted
for in one season.
In 1910 there were seven occupations
open to women in the way of wages earn
ing, whereas now the field includes several
hundred branches of industry. About 81
per cent. of the women of Massachusetts,
between the ages of Is and IS years are
wage earners, domestic, servants forming a
much smaller class than other occupations
After much squabbling among their
numerous generals, the Cubans have finally
agreed TO accept the $3,0OO,00O proffered by
Uncle Sam on condition that the troops
disband, and to give them start, after
years of life in the bush. Now let them go
to'work and earn an honest living, other
wise Americans will conclude that they
have no such desire.
DR.. ]. H. Kellogg said in the course of a
lecture at Washington the other day that,
:'there is more intoxication in a cup of
black tea than in glass of ordinary beer"
DR.. Kellogg is strict vegetarian. He con-
demns such articles as mustard and pepper
and blames coffee and tea for causing var
ious sorts of nervous diseases in women.
Neither drink, in his opinion, has any val
ue as food.
There is special class of farm laborers
in Sweden who are given so many acres of
land for their own use in consideration of
so many days labor during the year for the
owner of the farm. These "torpares" are
sort of fixture to an estate, and the like ex-
lists in no other country. Their movements,
however, are not controlled, and "tor-
pare" can leave the "iortorp" at the expir-
alton of his contract. OF these tenants there
are 1859, ,739.
1t is not often that one has a chance to
read his own obituaries. But when John
Sherman's death was prematurely an
nounced last week, many of the daily
papers gave extended notice of his life's
work, and one of the New York yellow
journals even went so far as to give illus
trations of the death-bed scene, who was
present, etc. Since then the aged stateman
has greatly improved, and the hope of all
is that he may be spared for a long time
He was brought to his home in Washing
ton this week from Havana in very feeble
condition.
The Glasgow Herald, in recent review
of the boot and shoe industry in 1898, sum-
med up the situation as follows: "Humil.
iating as it is, it is nevertheless fact that
the Americans, in upper leather almost en-
tirely, and in sole leathelsto great degree,
completely eclipse our curriers' and tanners
who are compelled to own that they must
adopt American methods if they can hope
to compete in the future. The question
continually asked in the boot and shoe
trade is: How comes it that America is able
to deliver to our very doors boots and shoes
at prices considerably less than can be ac-
cepted by our own manufacturers, while at
the same time American leather, of which
by far the largest proportion of our boots,
and shoes is composed is sold to our manu-.
facturers at prices even less than to Ameri
can manufacturers. And to make the solur
ton all the more obscure, it is also
known, and proved beyond question, that
the boot and shoe operatives in America
earn wages almost double ours"
Marriage is not failure, for the man at
least, ifa German investigator may be be.
lieved. He has been interviewing insur-
ance companies, and visiting hospitals and
insane asylums, and he has now pro-
mulgated the result of his labors. He finds
that of the men who die, commit suicide or
become insane or seriously ill in early life,
the greater number are bachelors. He says
that disease of the digestive organs are the
ones which cause the most trouble to un-
married men. This is a distinct complir |
ment to the good cooking of the average |
wife. Among matrimonial statistics the |
following French oues are interesting:
Thirteen out of 100 young women marry |
between the ages of fifteen and twenty:
between twenty and twenty-five the aver
age is sixty out of 100 between twenty-five
and thirty, twenty-five out of 100, between
thirty and thirty-fve, twelve out Of 100;
from thirty'five to forty, six out of 100;
from forty to forty-fYe, only five, and from
'orty-fiVe to fifty just one solitary woman
'ut of the hundred.