Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

A single diamond mine in South Africa
yielded 1928 for every minute OF last
year.
The German flag was first unfurled in
1867, and floats over an empire OF o.
100000 people.
The longest fence in the world was built
by cattle company in Mexico. 1t Is
IS miles long.
In Norway servant girls hire for hall a
year at time by contract at public regis
try offices.
The New York Telegram asks: "Should
woman wear hat two seasons = Yes.
But she won't.
Eggs are highest in Alaska, average -
cents per dozen; cheapest in Texas, aver
age ~ cents per dozen.
Dancing masters have decided to drop
the title professor, taking the stand
that it is a much abused word.
Last year the hen produced almost
$137, 100000 worth of marketable pro-
geny and over $l44,0OO,0O0 worth Of
eggs.
When YOU are tempted to eat a green
apple Just remember that it is two to one
YOU will be operated on for appendicitis.
A Chicago editor declares that there
is no fruit more wholesome and delicious
than the prune" That sounds like a
bluff.
"Let me see," said the minister, who
was filling out the marriage certificate
and had forgotten the date, "this is the
fifth, is it not y ''No sir !" said the
bride, with some indignation, this is
only my third!
If you have "little store, /" run 1T ~
"big way" Advertise it as though Il
were twice as big-and it will soon be
twice as big.
The Japanese diet of vegetables, fish
and fruits is said to be responsible for the
wonderful health and enduring power OF
the victorious warriors.
Kentucky's Oldest man is dead at the
age Of III years. He was a native OF
North Carolina and his descendants num-
Der more than six hundred.
That the silly season is once more
upon US is shown in the revival Of the
cackle about shirtwaists for men and the
propriety of such garments for church
costume.
The sewing machine, the folding bed,
the carpet-sweeper and the gas stove
were invented by men, but it was some
girl probably, who first thought Of the
hammock.
There is nothing so deceiying as the
so-called friends one has. When put to
the test they are much like our UNI
brellas-easily lost, hard to open up, and
generally missing on rainy day.
The deepest coal mine in the world is
in Belgium, coal being got at depth Of
3,iI3 feet below the surface.
There are 2l3,63s depositors in the
saving banks OF Canada, and they have
to their credit $6O,77l, 126.
Besides those $50 locomotives which
the Japs have bought, they have now
ordered 1000 freight cars and will con
tract for 800 more. Must be going into
training.
All the states but one grant divorces
and for pretty nearly the same causes,
though the number Of these is greater in
ina is the exception; it grants no d.
vorce.
Frank G. Bigelow Of Milwaukee will
spend but one year in prison for each
$4,000 misappropriated His defal-
cations Of bank funds reached 81 $780,
600, and his address will be Leayen-
worth, Kan, for ten years to come.
For the first time in the history OF tile
government military academy at West
Point two representatives Of the Chinese
Empire were on Friday admitted as
cadets in the institution. The two young
Cinnamon are Ting CHA Chen and Wing
Hsing Wen.
A missionary says that native OF
India having translated tile hymn,
Crock Of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide
myself in Thee" the version proved to
be literally as follows: Very old stone.
split for my benefit, let me absent my
self under one Of your fragments"
The smallest and most isolated Of
American possessions is Brooks Island in
the Pacific Ocean, $500 miles west Of
San Francisco. 1t was discovered and
claimed in 1859, but never occupied until
1908, when it was utilized as a station
with ten operators for the trans Pacific
cable. 1t is about two miles across. 40
feet above the tide, and a rocky reef
keeps the waves from submerging it dur
ing great storms.
1t will do no longer TO contend that
the sea serpent is myth. On Saturday
last there fioated onto the golden sands |
of Old Orchard, Maine, a serpent whose |
sinuous body stretched in long wave of
sand more than forty-five feet. Yester-
day over 1000 people focked to the
shore to convince themselves that the
mystical, haiffegeHdarY feviatf1au, had
proved reality. The tail and the upper
jaw are missing, but the loyer jaw runs
back fifteen feet, the tongue itself more
like a snakes tongue than that Of an
animals, is ten feet long and as big as 4
mans leg, incased in peculiar kind Of
bone. DIR. Henry Reynolds, who is con-
sidered an expert on sea life. saws the
monster was without doubt, over lO0
feet long alive and that it had evidently
been dead for several weeks.