Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-09
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Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
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| Because man is poor is no reason fol
him to feel cheap.
There are more reindeer than horses
more sheep than cows in Norway.
man seldom gets into hot water un'
less he furnishes the fuel to heat it.
Certainly fast travelling isn't unsafe.
It's the sudden stopping that hurts.
Oil and water won't mix, but, fortu-
nately for the milkman, milk and water
will.
census of the New York states pris-
ons discloses the fact that they contain
1913 lawyers.
Itremained for Kansas paper to an
nounce that prominent citizen had
resigned from his wife"
A mother feels sad when young men
begin to call on her girls, but she feels
worse if they don't call.
Miss Bessie Balm, who lives near
Chatham, N. Y, has been appointed
overseer Of highways in her district.
.Russia's new legislative body is referred
to by the czar as a gosudarstvennaia
douma. Oh, but he must be mad
An Oakland man has phonograph say
his prayers for him. The average man
allows his wife to say his prayers for
him.
Three hundred millions of Buddhist
women whose only hope of salvation is
to be born boys in another state Of exis-
tence.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
contributions in past quardrennium were
$1,812,O00, and from the beginning ST.
250,OOO.
New York school authorities fear that
accommodations for 81 900 additiona lpu-
pills now being provided will not supply
the demand.
wife can sue husband for support
and obtain judgement against him for
money necessary for her support without
getting divorce.
At the recent session of the head camp
of the Modern Woodmen, the bond of
the head banker was increased from
$500, 900 to 81, 100000.
Restful couches are said to have saved
more minds and nervous systems than
all the physicians and medicine chests
put together. They are the best refuge
that the overworked house mistress has
and their only shortcoming is in want of
use
The peace ENJOYS are to get 5000 day
each as long as the conference lasts. Is
it any wonder that they are proceeding
cautiously?
Little Avery Scott Littlejohn of Free
port. ILL.,, has been awarded the first prize
of $50 for being the handsomest baby in
the United States.
A Turk and his three wives are now
OH exhibition in New York theatre and
drawing big crowds. We may look, but.
we may not go and do likewise.
Thomas A. Edison says: 81 do not like
to deal with men whose lives are devoted
to getting money" Neither does any OF
the rest of US, but most of US have to.
The higher education of woman, and
her service in giving the gospel to the
scheduled women OF the world, is one of
the most far-reaching events of the past
century.
The world abounds in rascals and fools,
but there are no bigger rascals or greater
fools than those who attempt to steal from
Uncle Sam. And of all who attempt it
there are no bigger fools than the dis
honest employees of the postoffice.
Miss Lillian Gonzales Robinson, the
youngest woman linguist in the United
States, who has just been appointed head
of the department of romance OF the
University OF Oklahoma although only
23 years old, has already mastered
twelve languages.
Walter Kittredge, the man who conf
posed the song "Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground'' is dead. He was born at
Merrimac, n. H., Oct 9Th, 1884.
The man who invented Dukes Mixture
is dead. But many of those who rolled
it into cigarettes beat him to the happy
hunting grounds by many years.