Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Her
and There
Argentima's constitution is modelled OF
! hat of the United States.
Medical inspection shows that onl
half the pupils in New York city arr
sound.
The drink bill of Great Britain anC
Ireland last year was $Sl7, 7,000,00 il
round numbers.
Ed. Green, the Texas railroad man
and son of Hetty Green, has become a
practical florist.
California produced 29, 649, 434 barrels
of petroleum last year-a fourth of the
total of the United States.
The average tax for each Frenchman
has risen from SIS. .25 in in 1876 to more
than $25 year at present.
1t is estimated that there are between
$50 and 200 thirty-third degree Masons
in the United States.
The man who succeeds does not wait
for opportunity to knock at his door; he
rings it up and makes date.
"Onr liquor bill," SAYS the Atlanta
Constitution, sis 81 100000, 1000 per an
num-" Why not try the water wagon,
brother?
Germany, with forest area Of about 26
per cent, realizes annually nearly $780,
100000 worth of timber therefrom.
People who are certain that they would
not waste their time if they had their
lives to live over again keep on wasting
it.
The New York Fire Insurance Ex-
change on investigation, finds that there
are 2,9OS fire-proof buildings in the
United States.
According to the Japanese Blue Book
for 1895, the empire of Japan, comprises
nearly 100 main and nearly 500 adjacent
small islands.
Modern Free Masonry dates from 17l7,
when the four lodges then existing in
London were chartered and organized
into grand lodge.
The floating dock that is building near
Baltimore for the PHILIPPINES is 600 feet
long, 100 feet wide and forty-two feet
deep in the clear.
Italy, China and Japan have all re-
fused to let their subjects work at PAN
anna. Possibly they had been consulting
with engineer Wallace.
w. L. La Toilette, a son of Governor
La Toilette, of Wisconsin, is said to be
making fortune in fruit growing on the
Snake river, Washington.
1t is just as we'll to always have good |
word to say for yourself, as your friends |
will doubtless attend to keeping in cir
culation the other kind of weather re-
ports.
Sumatra grows the largest flower in the
world 1t measures yard and three in
ches across, and its cup will hold six
quarts of water. Ratflesia Arnoldii is its |
name.
A century ago France had 26 per cent.
Of the population of Europe; now it has
only IL per cent. French is spoken by |
100000 people German by 100000
600 English by l50,000,000.
Manchura is a vast territory. 1t is 500 |
miles in length, 500 miles in width and |
contains 1900 square miles. This is
more than France and Germany COM
bined. 1t is twice as large as Japan.
1t takes four hours for light from the
sun to reach the fatherest planet in our
solar system, though moving at the rate
Of $4,000 miles per second yet at this
nconceivable speed it takes six years and
| half to reach the nearest star.
There is 16-inch gun at the outer de-
tense OF New York harbor which is the
largest in the world. The cost of powder
or one discharge is $3.50 and the pro-
ectile weighs 2370 pounds and costs 5000.
The gun cost 100000 and shoots 2O.76
niles.
"Why am like pin ?'' asked Mr.
Jones triumphantly of his wife. He ex-
,ected she was going to say, Because
you are SO sharp" but he was simply
,aralyzed when she replied. Because
+ you should get lost it wouldn't be
worth while to spend any time looking
or you."