Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-22
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Iron, the first metal found in America.
was discovered in Virginia in Ills.
There are 200 companies who make
machines for molding of concrete blocks.
An eastern professor declares that the
earth is becoming unsteady on its axis.
1t takes an unmarried woman to tell
you how a husband should be discil-
pined.
A girl never likes to see a Young man
she admires squander his money-on
other girls.
A Chicago man advertises for "a lady
stenographer," requesting that she Estate
her ege"
An eastern fashion journal says women
are wearing larger shoes. They are
probably numbered as small as ever.
Rubbing the nose is, according to a
German professor, relief for hay fever.
So is sneezing, but it doesn't seem to
last.
The Russians may devote themselves to
extracting consolation from the assurance
that "That whom the Lord Loveth He
Chastizeth."
The ''frigate bird' can float at all ele-
vation of ten thousand feet and cross the
tropical Atlantic ocean in single night.
The way of the transgressor may be
hard, but it is by no means lonesome.
There's whole lot of people travelling the
same road all the time.
The japanese worship their ancestors.
Rich Americans whose ancestors drove OK
teams into the primeval forests can't seem
to understand why.
The cost of the worlds wars since the
Crimean war has been $l2, ,263 900, 900, or
enough to give $40 to every man. woman
and child on the globe.
'Men who stay at home every night
are not good for anything" says DR.. Julia
Holmes Smith. We don't know who
Mrs. Smith is, but hurrah for her any
way.
A Jewish landlord in New York who
threatened to dispossess his tenants has
been warned by the "Black Hand' that
all his bones will be broken unless he re-
duces the rent.
The common little rhyme beginning
Thirty days has September" if not as
old as the hills, at least is as old as 1896,
for in that year it was printed in London
in an old arithmetic.
The Lindsborg, (Kan.) Mars tells
about a girl that makes two bites out OF
in the presence of her beau, but
who puts thirteen clothes pins at once
into her mouth on wash day.
Tommy" said little Mabel, "Tm
writing to the Lord for little baby sis
ter. What is the Lords first name?"
Pm not sure" replied Tommy wisely,
but mama always calls him O. Lord"
The longest days of the year, according
TO the World Almanac, were the 18th,
18th, 10Th and 22d of June-each %
hours and 5 minutes. The 23d, 24th and
18th lack l minute OF being among the
ongest days.
Mark Twain has added two new
naxims to the worlds already valuable
collection. They are as follows: eve
'ught never to do wrong when people are
ooking," and "No real gentleman will
ell the naked truth in the presence of
adies.''
Among the Alps there are several post
ffices at height of 5000 feet or 1000
eet. A letter box on the very summit OF
he Laugaud, from which the postman
makes four collections daily, is nearly l0,-
90 feet above the sea level.
Chicago is said to be the most thor
ughly dominated by trade unions OF all
he large cities in the United States, and,
erhaps, in the world. As near as can be
scertained, it contains about 100000
'age workers.. OF these about 100000
re members of trades unions.
An inventor has hit upon a method of
utting what are practically stone soles
n boots and Shoes He mixes a water
roof glue with a suitable quantity OF
can quartz sand and spreads it over
he leather sole used as a foundation.
hese are practically inductible, and to
we the foot firm hold even on the most
ippery surface.
Admiral Togo is a man "a years old
I'D looks much like an English or an
merican sea captain. He began life
lmbly but with generations of fighting
lcestors behind him. He loved and
nged for the sea and gladly embraced an
,portunity to 60 to England and be
aimed for the navy. His training
ows itself, for the vessels on which he
's served are the closest copies of ships
the English navy.