Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-08-05
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Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There
For one rich man that is content there
are hundred that are not.
Men hold the reigns of government but
women tett them which way to drive.
Many case of badness and wrinkles
can be traced to the things that never
The American stage will never find
another to fill the unique place so long
occupied by Joseph Jefferson.
Newfoundland is going to export whale
flesh and sell it for SC per pound. They
say it tastes like venison.
The North Pole might just as we'll
come in and give itself up. Commander
Peary now positively declares that its dis
covery is assured.
The Salvation army has purchased in
Chicago site for SIS, 900 training school.
1t cost $26, 520 and is located on west
Madison street.
If New York drank 100000 quarts of
milk during one of its hot days, what
kind OF figures do you 'spose the total of
the more popular, convenient and frothy
stuff would show?
The anti-spitting ordinance in various
towns does not impose penalty for the
fellow who spits on his hands and goes to
work. 1t is intended for the fellow who
won't work-mostly.
1t is only when man gives up in his
own mind that he fails. The man that
keeps on fighting, no matter what the
odds against him, is always in the way of
seeing his hopes fulfilled; is always facing
victory.
''The Frenchman loves his native wine,
the German loves his beer, the English
man loves his 'alf and 'alf, because it
brings good cheer. The Irishman loves
his whiskey straight, because it gives him
dizziness, the American has no choice at
all, so he drinks the whole darn busi-
ness.
The loftiest concrete chimney in the
world and an object of much interest to
tourists, belongs to the Tacoma, WASH,
Smelter company, which was built to
carry away the poisonous fumes from the
works. This big stack from the base to
the top is three hundred and seven feet.
six and three-fourths inches, and was
built at cost of twenty-eight thousand
dollars.
As a family record, the following
would be hard to beat: In the town of
Thurso, England, a man eighty-seven
years old still follows his duties as super
intendent OF some fagstone quarries.
Among the workmen he has seven sons,
six son-in-laws, twenty-nine grandsons
and two great grandsons. Forty-nine
members OF one family, all connected
with the same trade, employed in the
same works and living in the same dis
trict is something decidedly out of the
common.
As men grow older and gather family
about them, as they feel the sorrow and
misery in the world, its harshness and its
coldness, they awake to realization that
without domestic happiness there is no
real happiness; that the joy of life is in
the home. Ones home is always better
if one has the confidence and esteem of
the men and women who know him.
She was bright girl and they were at
a baseball game. She had won his en-
thusiastic heart understanding the game
right off and he loved her more than if
she had been his sister. SIT reminds me
of the household" he says, "the plate,
the batter, the fouls and the flies" And
it reminds me of marriage" she added.
'First the diamond, where they are en-
gagged, then the struggle and the hits,
when the men go out, and finally the
difficulty they have in getting home"
Then he sat and thought and thought.
The season of lemonade comes at the
wrong time this year, for the little yellow
fruit is now taking a trip skywards that
threatens to make lemonade cost almost
double,the present prices in few days.
The prices have advanced at the rate OF
25 cents and even dollar box at time
so rapidly that now one has to have a
telescope to see how high they have got.
The limit has not been reached either,
and the merchants are receiving word
that the prices will be considerably
higher before there is come down. Ten
cents per dozen is to be the added figure
to the retail price.
Why does man soon forget his own
childhood when it comes to dealing with
children? The boys rights are just as
dear to him as the mans. The boys
troubles are just as real and as heavy for
him as the mans. The boys fond plans
and ambitions mean worlds to him, and
yet often they are ruthlessly dashed aside
by the man without word of prepara-
tion or reason. 1t is no wonder that
older people lose the confidence and con-
troll OF children when they cease to have
a genuine respect for the feelings and
ideas of the young people, fail to enter
into their enjoyments and troubles, and
insist OH substituting grown-up plans fiat
footedly for the visions of latitude of
youth.
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