Middletown transcript., 1905-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
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The Russian soldiers draw II cents a
month.
Every man owes the world something
that will help another.
Persons who keep their heads during a
panic keep their seats.
IT'S smart man who makes stepping
stones out of his stumbling blocks.
John Jacob Astor owns twenty-five
automobiles and w. K. Vanderbilt
fourteen.
The Indians of the Choctaw tribe, in
Indian Territory, have formed a good
roads association.
Men that get rich through making
their neighbors poorer can not be said to
be model citizens.
Germany is able to feed about nine
tenths of her nearly 10000, 900 inhabi-
tants on the products Of her own soil.
On March 4th, 1906, $1,000 red men
in the Indian Territory will give up
tribal rule and become American citizens
There are nearly 22,OOO,OOO horses in
European Russia. No other country in
the world has SO many horses as Russia
1t is pretty tough that Kansas man
can't dig cyclone cellar without strik-
ing an oil well and being flooded out.
A Frenchman has new invention for
manufacturing cloth from wood We
will soon be able to get our board and
clothes together.
One often hears the expression "never
too old to learn," and while it may be
true there are lots of people who are too
young to realize it.
Pop-"When I was boy l used to go
to bed with the chickens"
Tommie-"Did the chickens used to
sleep in the house, or did you 60 out to
the coop, pop?"
The husband of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
is living. He is an editorial writer and
contributor to the New York Journal and
the Chicago american.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius con-
tinues, the volcano showing four new
openings, through which lava flows,
while the immediate surrounding country
is covered with ashes
81 never complained of my condition
but once" said an old man, "when my
feet were bare, and l had no money to
buy shoes; but met man without feet
and became contented."
Outside the polar regions there re-
mains unexplored, it is estimated, about
one-fiftieth of the land surface of the
globe. Fifteen years ago the unknown
portions were about one-eighth of the
earth's total.
A peasant has found at Pompeii girls
skeleton, laden with splendid antique
gold, emerald and pearl bracelets, neck
let and earrings. The skeleton was COW
cred with ashes and its position shows
that the girl was overtaken while in
flight.
Mr.. Roosevelt believes in showing the
vice-president the respect that should be-
long to that high Office. The courtesies
extended to Mr.. Fairbanks are altogether
deserved and call attention to the dignity
Of the vice-presidencv.
Grant was unknown and discouraged |
1T forty, hero and president at forty
seven. Lincoln went into the White |
House at tifty-two, Taylor began to be a |
strenuous president at sixty-fve. Wash
ngton fathered his country while in the |
'orties and fifties and became chief mag
strate at fifty-seven. Benjamin Franklin |
lid his best public service after he was
seventy. So examples could be multi
piled Indefinitely. In the United States
enate to-day, out of the ninety members
more than a score will reach seventy
5ears of age before 1907.