Middletown transcript., 1905-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered ffer'
and There
A l4-year old boy is practicing law il
New York.
Dandelions are selling in the Eastern
markets for dollar bushel.
The Cosmopolitan magazine has beer
purchased by William r. Hearst.
Government owEed railroads in Japar
have yielded profit of S., 575, 900 for the
fiscal year.
Here's summer vacation that will be
good for You. Kansas is calling for more
harvest hands.
Vermont paid New York $4,000 fol
her claims to the territory before it could
be admitted into the Union.
1t is estimated that the railroads of the
country could find use to-day for $4,000
more cars than they have at their dis.
posal.
The latest New York fad is calling cards
for dogs. Presumably the dogs card is
sent in with that of the monkey that
owns it.
A man might better be born blind who
cannot look up from business long enough
TO notice the flowers that bloom in the
spring.
Free lunch will be offered as an induce
ment to men to.come to series of Satur-
day revival meetings at Moody Bible In
stitution, Chicago.
Turn to the right on meeting a person
on foot, bicycle, auto or carriage, but al
ways pass on the left from behind.
That's the royal American rule.
Milwaukee did not fully realize the
magnitude of that bank presidents steal
until it was figured out that it was about
the price of 30, 900, 900 beers.
For the first time since it was built in
1865, the dome of the capitol at Washing
ton is being painted. Four painters are
working 1S5 feet above the floor.
For ten days and nights an expert rat
killer with two dogs and two ferrets
roamed the capitol building at Washing
ton and killed almost a thousand rats.
Some rules have been published for dis
covering counterfeit bank notes. What
| the average man wants are few simple
facts for discovering the genuine article.
OF the four negroes who have achieved
literary distinction in the last ten years,
Washington, Dubois, Chestnut and
Dunbar-only one, Dunbar, is a pure
negro.
The bible has already been translated
in 470 different languages and yet one
half the people on the face of the globe
cannot read it because it isn't in their lam
guage.
A -- county young man sued his
old parents for 81 200 for work done on
their farm, and the jury gave them over
$500 that they had over paid him, and
now he knows more.
Not long ago a youngster and his
mother were going home from church and
the mother was finding fault with the ser
mon. The boy noticed the amount of his
mothers contribution and said, "Well
ma, you can't expect much for cent"
A Chicago woman was married one day,
eloped the next, was arrested on the
third, brought back home on the fourth.
forgiven by her husband on the fifth and
went back to live with kim on the sixth.
1t is not SO stated, but it is presumed that,
like the Creator, she rested on the
seventh day.
There has never been an age where
more thought was given to mental and
physical growth than the present. How
to be strong in mind and body is study
of interest to all. An Oriental philoso-
pher declares no one need lack the
strength of Sampson if he breathe well,
walk much and laugh lots.
Down at Hot Springs, Ark, two veter-
ans of the Civil war, one a northern man,
the other a southerner, were arguing as to
the valor displayed by their respective
sides. "Wel," said the northern man
finally, eve whipped you, anyway"
eyes," answered the southerner, "but
according to the pension reports We
wounded every man of you that got out
alive"
1t isn't the man who can say the sweet
est things to woman, but the one who
will buckle down to good hard work, who
will find it a pleasure to forsee her pleas
ure and to take it upon himself to pro-
vide for her. Love is very fine thing
in fact, it is the one thing that makes the
world place OF rose mists and rainbows
but love without real attentions is not
ndeurable.