Middletown transcript., 1905-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

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More than 40,000.000 calendars are
given away in this country every Jan
uary.
The great Barnum circus will cross the
Rockies shortly-the first time in its his.
tory.
Dan Patch will never again meet
another horse in contest, SO his owner
says.
A cynical Kansas editor remarks that
some engagements end happily and some
in marriage. :
Our incomes are like our shoes: If too
small, they gall and pinch us; if too large,
they cause MS to stumble and to trip.
Badness is usually caused by the gray
matter Of the brain circulating too
rapidly ana wearing off the roots of the
year.
The main walls of many OF the houses
in Mexico are from three to six feet thick,
to withstand earthquake shocks.
]. E. Kirbye, president of Drury col
lege, Springfield, Mo-, is the youngest
American college president, being but 30
years old.
Missouri meerschaum products netted
$26S, SOP last year, without in the least in
juring the corn which could be made up
into jng products.
Astronomers have discovered all old
comet with four babies. Such thing
never happened during former admins
! trations It's the Rooseveltian idea.
Missionaries of the American Methodist
church speak no fewer than thirty-seven
languages. There are 5000 of these
workers and 10000 Christians under
them.
A letter written by Abraham Lincoln
in 1S4l was sold in New York for 500
recently A one-page letter signed but
not written by George Washington, Feb
ruary Goth, 100, sold for $2S.
Valentine Tapley, citizen of Louis
lana, Mo-, so years old, claims to have
the longest whiskers in the world. They
measure eleven feet, and the old gentle
man is very proud OF them. For many
years me has Kept his beard plated and
when he dies he wants it to be left in all
its elongated beauty. dime museum
manager once offered him large salary to
60 on exhibition, but he refused.
One OF our girls who is taking singing
lessons asked her teacher: 'Do you think
| can ever do anything with my voice?'
The professor very cautiously replied:
"Well, it may come in handy in case of
fire."
The Boston Herald editor wonders how
Anna Held gets into her gowns. Perhaps
if he were to call upon the little French
butterfly and tell her he is from Mis-
souri, he might secure the desired infor-
nation.
India-that is, the British Indian and
the native states under British influence
is ,766, ,597 square miles in extent, and
has total population OF 294, 100000, or
nearly Al ZOO, 600 more than it had twenty
years ago.
| Major Gordon w. Lille, "Pawnee
! Pilf' has sold his wild west show to a
syndicate of show men for $l50,000.
Major will return to his buffalo ranch at
Pawnee, 0. T., to engage in the raising OF
the now nearly extinct buffalos.
Washington, the capital of the United
States, has colored population Of ninety
thousand, more than any other city in
the world, and New York city follows
with seventy thousand, and Chicago third
with thirty-tive thousand.
The Washington Post says that fourteen
women are cashiers and eighteen assis-
tant cashiers in Iowa banks, and none OF
them has ever been accused of padding
their figures" Possibly they the fig
ures) do not need padding.
A young and handsome woman married
an old rich and decrepit man. When asked
why she tied up with man three times
her age she said that she figured that she
could afford to take the old man for the
sake of the prize package that went with
| him.
"A. E. Meigs, a newspaper manager OF
Detroit, says: "The true barometer of
business is the county editor. When he
is prosperous everybody else must be-
The country editor is the last to get his
dues This year he is doing good busi-
, ness, which means that the entire country
is unusually prosperous"
The time to borrow money is when you
don't need it. If you have $40 in your
pocket and don't need any more borrow
$5 from the first friend you meet. Then
repay him the hext day and he will
imagine himself under obligations to
eon. Then. the next time you really
need money it will be easy to get it from
| him.
The minutes spent in growing at your
luck or at others because they have bet
ter luck than yourself, means just that
many minutes of your own force and
energy spent in making worse your own
health and fortune. Every time you give
room for thoughts OF envy of another, it
is boomerang 1t comes back to you
! and hurts you.
Sir George Williams, founder OF the
Young Mems Christian Association, pres
ident of the London headquarters for
twenty years, died November 9th, and
was buried November l4th, in St. PauPs
Cathedral. Among the many good rea-
sons why consent for the burial in st.
Pau's was given, one was that the asso
citation was worldwide, having now
membership of more than 100000
souls.