Middletown transcript., 1905-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

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and There
Never say fail. Leave that to your
friends
''Nice is contagious" and so few OF IL
have been successfully vaccinated.
Modern Japanese coins bear legends il
English as well as in Japanese.
The beggar in the street may once have
had ambition greater than yours.
What's in a kiss ?-,S Louis Globe Dem,
ocrn. Microbes, the scientists tell us.
Printing was introduced into America
at Mexico by Viceroy Mendoza in 1886.
A shipyard in Ominato, Japan, still in
opertion, was established /, 900 years ago.
A larson is always best man at a we'd
ding. He gets the coin and takes nc
chances.
Mr.. William Rittenhouse established
the first paper mill in America at Ger
! mantown, Pennsylvania, in 1890.
Missouri according to the United States
Fish Commission, is the greatest frog pro-
! ducing state in the union.
Hongkong is the biggest seaport in the
world, its shipping surprising that of
London or New York in quantity.
The fellow out of job wants to work,
and the fellow with job wants to take a
clay off" This is the way of the world
If men could always drop their tasks
and 60 away to recuperate when they
feel the need of rest little work would be
done
There is but one editor in the Ohio
penitentiary, and he was sent up under
mitigating circumstances. He shot de-
linquent subscriber.
Frank Brooking, of Macomb, ILL.,, has
patented an ice cream freezer that turns
out Its product in sticks, something like
the candy maker.
Plans have been completed and the
building is under way for the all-night
bank established as a venture in New
York. 1t is to be an History building
costing $500
The diameter of the earth has lately
been accurately ascertained after thirty
years labor at cost of S500,000. 1t is
1926 miles at the equator, I, 1899 from pole
to pole.
"What would be the result ii you
should break one of the Ten Command
ments ?" Kansas Sunday School teacher
asked of bright jayhawk boy, and he
promptly replied "Then there would
| only be nine"
A New Jersey Judge has decided that it
is allowable for man to hold out cents
for himself after giving the balance OF
$l620 of his weeks wages to his wife.
Pshaw! What if he should squander it ?
All told, foreign loans, domestic loans,
war taxes, increased custom duties, ETC.,
Japan has raised nearly $3.50, 100000 for
war purposes. As wages in the United
States are at least six times higher than
in Japan, the amount raised by that
country is equal to our raising SIS, 100, ,000,-
600.
Uncle Sam began making coins in 1893,
and he tried his hand first at making
copper cents. The coin presses now in
use cost the Government $4,000 each
and weigh fifteen tons. There are twenty.
four of them at the Philadelphia mint.
One of the modern machines also is on
exhibition at Portland, where it is used
for making souvenir coins.
Swain's island in the county of Han.
cock, down in the state of Maine, is
claimed as the only veritable Utopia in
the world. 1t has neither paupers MOI
thieves Tramps cannot swim so far.
The island contains $4,000 acres popula.
ton of 1,0O0 largely engaged in lobster
fishing; has three churches, three schools,
no lookup, no poorhouse; light taxation,
nobody rich, nobody poor. All doors are
devoid of locks. All laws are automati
cally enforced.
In Norway and Sweden before couple
can be legally married they must be vac
cinated, it is said, and accordingly, before
the nuptial rites are performed, it is the
duty of the minister to inspect the vacci.
nation marks of both bride and bride.
groom. Therefore, if you were to ask a
young lady in either of these countries
where she was vaccinated, she would
probably not be compelled to blush like a
peony and murmur almost inaudibly "In
Boston, sir p
The directors of the menagerie in Cen.
tral Park, New York, attributes the CON-
parative decrease in the number of fe.
males among the animals under their
charge to the delicacies which are fed the
animals by visitors. The cakes, candies
and biscuits given to the animals, accord
ing to the directors theory, tends to pre-
determine the sex of their young. Tie
fact that these delicacies, which the ami
mails have learned to prefer to the feed
given them by their keepers, contain
hydrocarbons is held to influence for
male progeny, while the old diet col :
tanned more albuminous food and re-
suited in bringing more females into tie
ZOO.
"Times are hard, money is scarce, busi-
ness is dull, retrenchment is a duty.
Please stop wbiskey? "Oh no;
times are not hard enough for that.
Please stop my''-tobacco and cigars?
'No, no-not these, but l must retrench
somewhere. Please stop my"-jewel, :,
ornaments and trinkets? 'Not at all:
pride must be fostered if times are ever O
hard. | must think of something else
All, have it now. Please stop NV sub.
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