Middletown transcript., 1905-11-08
TENS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pnngant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

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In 1861 there were seven Methods
| Churches in Chicago, now there are al
During the month of September only
one American was naturalized in Grea
BritBin.
A California paper SAYS that bad watel
kills as many people as bad whisky. May
be it does, but we don't have to buy it al
fifty cents pint.
In oldpn times the newspapers an
nounced births, marriages and deaths
under the following heading. "IIatched,' u
"Matched," and Dispatched. Under
the heading Scratched" should be placed
the divorce cases.
A stove desigp,d for use in wagons,
which promises to be a boon to rural
mail carriers. has been invented by a
woman over in Frankfort. 1t is combi.
nation heating and cook stove and eight
inches in height.
A clergyman who resigned his pastor
ate to take up the practice OF law assigned
as one reason for his change "that the
average man will pay more to keep out
of Jail for one day than to be kept out of
hell for an eternity"
About one man in ten really makes
things. The other nine live off him. OF
the nine, one operates on him, or tells
him how to get out OF obeying the law, or
teaches him how to save his soul three
govern him, but five sell him things he
doesn't want.
A carload of chewing gum ought to
keep the young ladies of the northwest
supplied with the luxury for some little
time and such car has arrived in St.
Paul, representing cash order of $12, 200
sent east by wholesale house of the
Minnesota capital. The carload aggre-
gated half million packages, 2,5OO,OO
sticks. Yum, yum
The most trifling actions that effect a
mans credit are to be regarded. The
sound of your hammer at five in the
morning or nine at night, heard by a
creditor, makes him easy six months
longer; but if he sees you at a billiard
table or hears your voice in saloon
when you should be at work, he sends
for I,i t,npau ha pavf In,,
The United States contains representa-
tives Of more races and followers of more
religions than any other country in the
world, yet it is freer than any other from
race and religious outbreaks. One of the
main reasons lies in the absolute separa-
tion OF church and state, and in the con-
sequent liberty OF conscience and of action
which results.
Few persons know why August has
thirty-one days. July, which takes its
name from Julius Caesar, has thirty-one
days and Augustus, who completed the
calendar, declined to submit to the in
dignity Of seeing his own month branded
with the inferiority OF one day less. The
astronomers had accordingly to reshuffle
the lunar cards, and after some perplex-
ity hit upon the expedient Of shearing
twenty -four hours from February's glory,
in order that August might face the world
on footing of perfect equality with July.
"While out strolling last evening"" says
a reporter, I'VE passed house from which
the inspiring strains of music
from piano and the throat of a charming
young lady" The only words the re-
porter caught from the song were some-
thing about 'dear mother" Passing on
and turning down side street the re-
porter saw through the kitchen window
he dear mother with her arms buried |
almost to the elbow in a pan of dough,
he sweat streaming down her wrinkled |
ace and the hot range enveloping her.
She was singing "We'll Work Till
[eusu Comes.''