Middletown transcript., 1905-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There


Adversity is the cranbury sauce OF life
Europe is turning to America for idea
in building hotels.
Shoes were not made rights and lefts'
earlier than l4I2.
1t is easy to waste enough strength
lodging your duties to do them twic
over.
Work as if you were to live forever
live as if you were to die tomorrow.
One hundred and seventy-two Alp
climbers have been killed during the pas
year
The buget for the Turkish Sultan
harem amounts to $l5,0O0,000 ever,
year.
Fridtjof Nansen, the Arctic explorer
has been appointed Norwegian ministe
to Great Britain.
1t is difficult for the Canadian banks t.
get clerks enough now to carry on thei
business properly.
Occasionally you meet man who ask
for only half chance, but the majorit.
prefer their chances whole.
Next to knocking your own town come
the detestable habit of trying to show NJ
all the weak spots of sister city.
The fund for aiding the sufferers il
Russia raised by sympathizeis in thu
United States has now almost reached the
100000 mark.
The average man walks four feet sec
ond. The ordinary jog of dog is eigh
feet second. A horse trots twelve feet 9
second.
The Emperor OF Germany wants 8
larger navy, but the British taxpayers are
devoutly hoping that the German people
won't let him have it.
Tie temn ef Gemrie, Iewa, IS fitting n
a municipal playhouse and it is expected
that it is the only city in the country
owning and managing theatre.
A circus trust is now talked Of Just
imagine the luridity that will burn up the
adjacent atmosphere when all of those
grandiloquent advertisement, writer's
bunch their hits.
At San Antonio, Tex, last week a
preacher of the gospel was arrested for
having five wives. Love such as that,
like the love of which he preached,
"passeth all understanding.
A Missouri editor who no doubt keeps
one of the anti-pleasure things at his
own fireside, says, in referring to picnic:
"Many OF the men went out for pleasure.
Others were accompanied by their
wives"
1t is scarcely fifty years since the first
friction matches were invented. They
were merely splinters or shavings OF
wood tipped with sulphur. The sulphur
would burst into fame on being dipped
into bottle of phosphorus.
school teacher tells this little story.
"Will some one in the class give me a
better form of the sentence John can ride
the mule if he wants to- One urchin re-
sponded, John can ride the mule if the
mule wants him to.
The nations greatest and most valuable
asset is pure minded young men and
women who are physically and mentally
strong. If 1.-THE American people could but
realize this the effect would be marked,
yea, it would be marvellous.
81 do not believe in sandwiching court
ship and religion" said the Secretary Of
the Young Mems Christian Association
in New York, recently. "No man can
hold a hymn book with charming
young woman and pay attention to what
the minister is saying" Fudge!
Kansas is not a treeless state by any
means. 1t has 553, 1893 acres in forest and
the census shows that there are 559,.
1916 trees growing in the streets of cities
and towns. There are ,639 acres of land
occupied by rural school houses and in
Guiding city schools and colleges fully
$4,000 acres are used for educational in
sttutions.
Can anything be more disgusting than
this promiscuous splitting on our public
sidewalks? Convention declares thai
ladies must wear skirts below their ankles
Did you ever stop and watch ladies pas
over a walk where their noble protectors
(?) have expectorated, and see how tht
folds OF cloth touch the vile substance!
and are transmitted to other places? TX
deposit our refuse in public places is bae
enough, but to contaminate wilfully
other people besides ourselves is criminal
It is an abomination which We as citizens
should not tolerate, and why do we allow
it to be done?
A writer in the RerieW of Reuiers sums
up the qualities OF the country weekly
paper as follows: Each copy is read moi
only by the people usually credited to the
ordinary paper but twice that number
In many instances subscribers pass theil
papers ON and on to inmates of less Sfortu
nate homes. These publications are pre-
eminently the home papers of newspaper
dom. They are not specifically scanned
while men travel to business, then left t6
brakemen to- be gathered mp. They &c
directly intu homes and the reading o.
t,em is duty as well as pleasure
Hence their peculiar value as molders o
public opinion"
The departure OF the Japanese Minis
ter from Washington will it is understood
be.followed by tie appointment of Barol
Kaneko to that past. 1t has not yet beer
officially anne,nced that Mr.. Takahir,
will not retuf, but it is pretty general.
understood& Baron Kaneko was in thi
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