Middletown transcript., 1905-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

George B. Cortelyou, formerly secre-
tary to the president is now postmaster
general.
Abraham Lincoln at the age of twenty
two simply knew how to read, write and
cipher.
1t is said 100,000,000 people in Russia
are suffering on account of not being able
to obtain enough food.
Sometimes man loses his job because
| he doesn't know enough, and sometimes
because he knows too much.
Calvin j. Wadsworth, of Saginaw,
Mich, has invented or discovered pro-
cess whereby gasoline may be rendered
non-exposive.
More than 100 samples of quack medi-
cine were analyzed by the police, and
over so per cent. were of absolutely no
medical value.
A snuff manufacturing concern reports
net earnings of $2,45S,419 for the year
1904. A business like that is not lightly
sneezed at.
DR.. Guthrie discovered chloroform
while practicing medicine at Jewettsville,
n. Y. He also fired the first cannon
ever fired by percussion power.
The newest substance for prolonging life
is called yagburt, which looks like cream
cheese gone bad, and tastes similarly
Give US the shorter life
| Illinois loses every year at least 5000
people from tuberculosis, most of them
dying in the active period of life and after
being disabled for several years.
Uncle Sam was recently handed
check for $4,000 which some sinner
who had repented had defrauded the gov
ernment out OF long ago. Wish he owed
an account at this Office.
1t creates an uneasy, apprehensive
feeling in fellow with a weak back
and an antipathy toward the spade and
rake to see his wife looking over garden
seed catalogues and making copious notes
on the margin.
Notwithstanding Roosevelt's repeated
warning of race suicide, bachelor clubs
for both sexes still thrive and flourish
independently, and will fully ignore the
Presidents yelled command of "Get
together"
Thirty-fve years ago W. H. Newman
was brakeman on southern railroad
at So day; to-day he is president of the
great Vanderbilt system, with salary of
$220,000 year, palatial residence in
New York and private car so sumptu-
ously appointed that king might envy
it.
i. There are times when dollar bill |
goes farther than wagon load of SYM
pathy.
French chemistry has produced |
plausible imitation of the ordinary egg of |
commerce. The shell is male with a |
blow pipe by combination of lime and |
bismuth. The white is made from sui
phur, carbon and beef fat and yolk with
beef blood and magnesia colored with
chrome yellow.
There is movement extending all over
this country to put an end once for all to
the disgusting and unhealthful practice
of expectorating in the streets and public
conveyances, and though the penalty
may seem severe in some cases it is the
only means, evidently of stamping out
this pernicious habit.
Much has been said at various times
about Roosevelt's luck Good fortune
attended his efforts. He was especially
fortunate in being born with good mind
and remarkably rugged body, but this
is not enough to account for his success
in life. He has wisely and carefully hus.
banded his energies both physical and
mental and his every act has been clean
and honorable. This is the real secret
of his marvellous "luck"
1t is asserted that a change is contem-
plated in the form of money orders issued
by the postoffice department. This is
deemed advisable on account of the large
of forgeries recently committed
by St. Louis drug clerk, whose opera
tions during the past few months have
to $500. Swindlers purchase
orders for small sums and then erase the
amount by means of chemicals and refill
the blank to suit their will The old
blank with marginal tear-off made such
'windles impossible. /
Gen. L. F. Jones of Binghamton, N.
T., former Lieut-Governor, the "Jones
ne pays the freight" so well known to {,
,he business world, and well remembered
n Massachusetts as the Colonel of the
amous 9th regiment in its memorable
march through Baltimore at the out
break of the civil war,-is blind at the
lge of n years. He has learned to knit c
md year ago, he finished novel. lie
has typewriter for the blind, and has I
watch with which he can tell the time.
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Don't snub boy because he wears v
habby clothes. When Edison, the in
entor of the telephone, entered Boston, a
le wore pair of linen breeches in the
epth OF winter. Don't snub boy be- Il
ause his house is plain aud unpretending te
Ibraham Lincon's early home was in
og cabin. Don't snub boy because of the b.
ignorance of his parents. Shakespeare. ii
he worlds greatest poet, was the son of
man who was not able to write his oil
wn name. Don't snub boy because he
hooses humble trade. The author of d
Pilgrims Progress" was tinker. Don't fe
nub boy because of physical disabil-
y. Milton was blind. Don't snub boy ST
ecause of dullness in his lessons. Hog a,
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