Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

and There :
\ company is known by the men it
keeps.
The Christian Sabbath is legal rest day
in Japan.
A single Greenland whale is worth
more than $4,000.
They that stand high have many blasts
to shake them.
There are thirteen Ohio bankers in the
state penitentiary.
Nobody cries, ',Foulr' if an idea hits a
man when he's \.
The man who can buy but doesn't,
must give way to the man who can't but
tries.
The only difference between rut and
the grave is the length and breadth.
As it takes two to strike bargain you
must advertise to get the other one inter-
ested.
The rule still holds good that the most
liberal advertiser secures the lions share
of business.
Some people go bareheaded on the
streets and put their hats on in church.
Wouldn't that shake up saint.
Under the new California marriage cer-
tificate law the young couple must swear
that they are not insane.
Gout-which is the rich mans disease
is said to be curative by living on 10
cents day and earningit.
The train that goes ninety miles an
hour will be safer when there is a watch
man at every switch and crossing.
Massachusetts, is consi dering the pro-
ject of securing the Daniel Webster es-
tate at Marshfeld for public reserva-
ton.
Sioux Indians are reported to be invest
ing in automobiles. Let the government
officials keep sharp eyes on the Sioux.
They may be preparing to 60 on the war
path.
The fisheries OF Japan annually yield
about 5000, 900 tons of fish, worth $780,.
100000 to the Japanese fishermen.
American fisheries produce about 1,0O0,-
600 tons year..
There is nothing that pleases the men
so we'll in church as the call from the pull
pit, chats off, please" And there is an
immense sight of religion in it too. The
spirit OF unselfshness demands that hats
come off.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
have 500, 750 acres of coal lands, of which
Ill, $50 acres are leased for thirty years to
l13 different operators, the leases mostly
dating in 1S99-l9O2 and covering an aver
age of about 960 acres each.
Indiana has borrowed 500, O,000 to
be used ia building railroads.
President Roosevelt has objected to a
picture taken of himself standing beside
ladya newspaper correspondent, whose
skirt was too short to suit his taste.
Rheumatism seems to be practically un-
known in Japan. A French observer at
tributes this to the sobriety of the people,
their largely vegetarian diet and their
abundant use of water. They not only
drink about gallon of water day, but
are frequent bathers.
president Lincoln once remarked"
said Senator Scott, OF West Virginia,
"that if we gave $50 ton for iron rails
made in this country We would have both
the rails and the money, but that if We
bought them in England, the rails only
would be ours, while the Britishers would
get the cash."
An encyclical issued by the Pope yes
terday causes no little surprise as well as
comment in political centers, as it urges
all members in political centers, as it
urges all members of the church, and es-
pecialy the priesthood, to take an active
part in politics and public affairs. The
reason given is the need that all good men
shall join in concerted campaign against
the spread of socialism.
According to return OF vital statistics
just issued in England, the longest lived
of European nations are the Norwegians
and Swedes, and the Spainards the short
est. The average duration of life in
Sweden and Norway is so years; England,
As years and 3 months; Belgium, A years
and II months; Switzerland, A years and
months; France, 43 years and 6 months;
Austria, 80 years and 8 months Prussia
and Italy, 80 years; Bavaria, SO years,
and Spain 81 years and months.
Nay, nay, my son, don't you believe
that the editors are the only ones who
may say mean things about their competi-
tors in business. Just keep your ears
open, my boy, and you may hear some
physician eulogize in the negative some
professional brother; don't be surprised if
you hear some lawyer friend say uncom-
plimentary things about some brother at
the bar, and don't be shocked even if you
hear some brother of the cloth say things
about another minister of the gospel that
would sound very human, for really they
are all human, just, just as much so as the
rest of us.