Middletown transcript., 1905-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
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Disease may be brought on by sugges-
ton; also by indigestion.
About $4,000 tons of butter are made
yearly in the Great Britain.
The area of the Atlantic ocean is about
100000 square miles.
A soft answer has little effect in turning
away bill collector.
Don't knock at every fellow who is a
little more progressive than you are.
There have been 3l9 statues OF the
Kaiser erected in Germany to date.
Money is of the greatest good to people
when it is at work among them.
Of the 9,204, 900 negroes in the United
States, Il per cent. work in the fields.
Chicago did not get place on the map
until 1910, when its population was 4,47O.
The manager of the Hotel Waldorf
Astoria in New York City gets a salary of
S500,O0O year.
The cost of the pension roll is $l.75
year for every man, woman and child in
the United States.
India rubber trees which are tanned
every other day continue to yield sap for
more than twenty years.
Physicians diagnose General Woods af
Fiction of the head as "extosis.' Is that
another name for swelling?
Near the Panama canal exists gold
mines abandoned by Spain centuries ago.
They will soon be reopened.
German postofice employees must OBJ
tam the special permission of the govern
ment before they may marry.
Breathes there man with soul so
dead, who never to himself has said, 'T'll
pay before | go to bed, the debt.
A skunkery has been established near
Hannibal, Mo-, for the purpose of raising
the animals for their fur and oil.
W. ]. Bryan will soon start on a trip
around the world. He will join Mrs.
Bryan in Japan, for which country she
has already sailed.
Conrad E. Spens, recently appointed
general freight agent of the third district
OF the Burlington system, is the youngest
general freight agent in the country, being
only 30 years ofage.
The crowd that joins church to secure
the patronage of its members is about
the cheapest bunch of hypocrites in the
great procession.
| owe the printer" there are some,
we know full well, who never such table
can tell but they We fear will go to
well, the place where there's no winter.
The insurance companies used to make
great deal of fuss over the "risks" that
they took. In view nf present develop
ments, the policy -holder probably will
think 'hat he IL the one who is taking
the risk
According t" Bradstreet's report 2G,60l
antomohes, valued at $34, ,65O, POO were
pr"iuced in the United States for the
year ending June 80. 1905. There are
100 manufacturers Of machines in the
country, employing S2l 200, 600 OF capital.
The carpricious editor of the Texmo
(Okla Times assumes to know all
about Cupid and his business. He says
'The poorest way in the world for wo-
man to catch a man, is to pursue him.
Be pleasant, courteous and w0many, he
will do the rest.
1t may surprise you TO know that there
are fewer people studying medicine now
than there were several years ago and
that in year or two there will be fewer
doctors in proportion to the number of
people than there has been. 1t is, there
fore, a good time to begin the study of
medicine and especially for one who
holds a high school deplnma.
Abnnt 81, 100000 tons of coal are car
BOMBED in beehive ovens every year, 90
000, 900 tons being carbopzed into coke
for blast furnace used and the balance
for snndry other manufacturing purposes.
In this connection We would like to i'm
press upon your mind the fact that there
goes off as waste prnducts from this 80
000, 900 tons of 80 cents to 81 per ton.
The postal authorizes have decided to
have all the rural mail boxes painted
green. Each carrier will be asked to
paint the boxes on his. route, the
government furnishing the paint and
brushes. They have not decided how
much extra pay they will allow the car
rier, but he will be paid all the same. If
any carrier declines to earn the extra
money some one else will be employed.
King Edward receives daily no fewer
than 5000 newspapers and 1000 letters
while the Gar and the German Emperor
receive each from 600 to 700 letters and
appeals. The King of Italy is troubled
by about 800 and Queen Wilhelmina
from 100 to loo. All these, however, are
by the Pope, who holds first
place with from $4,000 to $4,000 letters
every day.