Middletown transcript., 1905-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
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Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
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If you would succeed learn to know
what you can't do.
The Kaiser owns eight automobiles. all
big touring cars.
The way OF the transgressor often is
hard on other persons.
II your subscription is due U-C-U-O US.
Why don't you pay itS
Italian laborers are superior to negroes
in the raising of cotton.
The grape culture in France gives en-
ployment to Cover two million people.
Happiness is like woman. Pretend
not to see her and she will pursue ;'ou.
The total authorized strength of the
malitias of the States is 17S, 7S7 men.
A distinguished scientist estimates the
age OF the world at SOC, 600, 900 years.
Don't growl at the newspaper il it don't
contain all the news, if you never give
any.
| Death and taxes are no more certain
than the collector for the installment
house.
A locomotive consumes on all average
of forty five gallons OF water for every
mile it runs.
The small steel screws used in watch
making are worth six times their weight
ingold.
There are 272 cities and towns in the
United States having population OF 5000
or more.
"AIan will eat two hundred or three
hundred more foods in the year Of 1000
than he eats now, said chemist.
OF the So 600, 100000 of gold in the
world, the United States possesses 81 ,3OO,-
900, 900, or nearly one-fourth.
America makes more barrels than any
other country. The annual production
is 200,0OO,0O0 barrels and circular pack
ages.
Now that the war is over, we may ad-
nit that it has taught many of us good
deal OF geography-American as well as
| Asiatic.
There are forty eight words in the Eng
lish language which have two distinct pro-
nunciations. Bow" tear" ''invalid"
are the best examples.
''During the five years, 19O0-l904, in
elusive, the Modern Woodmen of America
has made net gains of 1902 beneficial
members and 1888, ,5lS, 500 insurance in
force-net, mind you, that's climbing
some! The business of the society for the
first six months of 1905 has surpassed its
business for any like period since 1901"
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is said to be the
fastest growing city in the world. 1t is
thirty years old, has population of S0,0O
and has seventeen banks.
Leghorns are the best layers among
chickens. Each hen lays from $50 10 2OO
eggs yearly. Hamburgs lay about 10;
and other breeds from l30 to $50.
1t is far easier to tear down than to
build up. One lusty professional Kicker
can do more harm to a community than
half dozen good citizens can rectify.
At cost OF 25 cents japanese doctors
can dress the wounds of 500 men. They
use finely powdered charcoal obtained
by the slow combustion of straw in closed
furnaces.
In setting out fruit trees woman must
hold the tree while man sets it and
tramps the dirt about the roots. This
makes it sure bearer according to many
Pennsylvania Dutch communities.
"Good Old DIR. Dowie," says Zion City,
will have surplus of $3.50, 100000 in a
few years, which may be just another
way of announcing his intention of start
ing Zion City Insurance company.
Newspapers were first invented by
physician, who, finding his visits well
come whenever he brought any news or
gossip, applied to Cardinal Richelieu for
patent to publish the Paris Gazette, in
1922.
The town of Orotava, in Teneriffe, has
probably the finest climate of any town
on earth. The coldest month, February,
has an average temperature of 81 de-
grees, and the warmest, July, of " de.
grees.
Every enterprise that benefits the town
benefits every man in it. If your neigh
bor starts new scheme to help along,
don't jump on it with both feet just be-
cause You did not happen to think of it
first. Aid him to boost it. 1t will help
you, too.
81 live in town which is the greatest
seat of the plug tobacco industry in the
world, the town of Winston Salem, N.
c." said the Hon. J. G. Buxton of the
Old North State Last wear as the rec