Middletown transcript., 1905-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST OF EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

SnOrt Fungent paragraphs udlneFeu Her
and There
California shipped its first cherries o
the season eastward on April 7th.
Cape Colony has borrowed $1,775, ,OO(
for railway works, local improvements
: ETC.
A car off the track is absolutely help
less. Many people are like car off the
track.
The back yard should be kept as clean
and tidy as the lawn in front of your resi-.
dence.
He who can take no interest in what is
small, will take false interest in what is
great.
Thirst for knowledge and the delight Of
of overcoming difficulties are the true mo-
tives for study.
Mr.. Bigelow is clearly entitled to the
distinction of being the banker who made
Milwaukee famous.
Just remember, if you please, that
oftener than occasionally fools rush in
and win-where angels fear to tread.
The cost of living, according TO an Off
cial bulletin, has increased 200 per cent. in
Guam since the American occupation.
The Garden of Eden from the top of
the apple tree wasn't marker to the
garden of millinery as seen from the pull
pit.
What are the rich in America doing to-
day?" asks the Boston Globe. We do not
think it necessary to reveal our plans.
According to Santos Dumont, air yachts
will soon become the fashion. "Castles
in the air" may yet lose its significance.
The secret OF many mans success in
the world resides in his insight into the
moods of men, and his tact in dealing.
with them.
An ordinance has been sent to the
council in Chicago to fine the landlords
SIS to 500 who bar children from living
in their flats.
Confidence is great. But it is we'll to re-
member that it is better to have too little
confidence in yourself than to have too
much in others.
In the calendar year 1904 the importa-
tions of rice into the United States
amounted to 137, 900, 600 pounds as against
l7S, 900, 900 in 1908.
Every one has his vanity card to play.
The preacher gets man into the fold by
telling him of the'great influence" he has
upon others.
Do not send away for wife or husband
in other words do not patronize matri-
monial bureaus. The Chicago police have
closed up GA of these meccas for lovelorn
men and women who cannot be suited
with the homegrown stock.
In Japan the morning salutation,
"Oheyo!' is pronounced exactly the same
as the name of the State, Ohio In Japan
it means "Good morning.
"How shall the masses be reached?'
asks Secretary Shaw. We can assure the
Secretary that there is no better way than
through the advertising columns of this
paper.
Including all hands from the pretty
"hello girls'' to brawny ground men" it
takes 10000 people to keep the telephones,
local and long distance, in the United
States, working.
Some men wish they had a million dol
lars. What for? They cannot take care
of what they now have. 1t is not the |
amount of money we have that counts,
but what we do with it.
Do not tell everything you know or you |
will soon be without friends. If some
men knew enough to conceal about two
thirds of what they know they would find |
that they would be more popular.
There is much talk of the advantages |
for education that the children nowadays |
have over the children OF a generation ago.
But it should not be forgotten that the lat
ter had the benefits of Webster's spelling
book and McGuffy's readers.
Dewey's birthplace, which was valued
at $4,000 few years ago, is now
regarded as being worth less than the
mortgage of $2,5OO that some body has on
it. The public can lose lot of interest
in hero in the course of six or seven
years.
Some one has figured out that in the
raising of a forty acre field of corn in the
old way prevalent forty years ago man
walked $50 miles to plow the field, SO
miles to harrow it, so miles to cultivate it
and $50 miles to husk it, while now there
need be no walking at ALL
An old criminal was once asked what
was the first step that led him to ruin and
he said: ''The first thing that led to my
downfall was cheating an editor out of
two years subscription. When | had
done that the devil had such grip on me
that could not shake him off,
Tie new Panama Canal Commission is
getting down to business and proposes to
begin "rush work." 1t was concluded
the other day to purchase a number of
modern powerful locomotives for carrying
off the dirt excavated in the digging of
the big cuts. These locomotives are to be
three times the hauling capacity of the
small engines now used.
Two urchins appeared at the postoffice
window and the larger of the two was
handed long square box by the clerk on
which was a label reading "Tapering
Waist Effect" Lets see it," said the
smaller urchin, as he made grab for the
box. "Nit," said the other, 'tyou don't
get look in on this, its Mammals and
she don't want anyone to know she's got
it,"