Middletown transcript., 1905-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There
Ii we had things to do over again we
would probably do them worse.
Time may be money, but it only pays
a cash dividend when you do the work.
The melancholy daze comes when You
are hit in the pocketbook by big coal
bill.
A man .'too busy" to take care of his
health is like a workman too busy to
sharpen his tools.
It's good thing to make your money
last as long as it will, but it's better to
make it first
The population of China is 402, $50 600.
The letters in ll9 Bibles are not enough
to represent the souls in that land.
A telegraph appartus has been invented
that will send and receive at the rate of
40, ,00G words an hour with the help of six
clerks.
During the first year of the war, not in
cuding Port Arthur statistics, l30,439
Russians passed through the hospital, of
which 4,0O7 died.
There are 44.0OO hotels in the United
States, representing an invested capital of
over $6,000,000, 900. These establish
ments emplo, 3,5OO,O0O persons.
The Standard Oil Company will punish
Kansas by refusing to do business in that
state. But wait till a few independent
refineries start up out there.
In st. Petersburg late hours are the
rule. The principal streets are generally
crowded at | O'Clock in the morning.
Many of the theatres do not open before
midnight
In 1884 one of the leading railroads of
the United States printed on its time
table: "The locomotive will leave the de-
pot every day at ten o'clock, if the
weather is fair"
England's bill for sugar to make into
candy is $2,000,000 every week.
Japan has placed an order for II loco
motives through their agent in New York
city, Mitsui & Co. The estimated cost is
$l,000,O00. They will be shipped to
Korea as soon as possible.
The publishers of M,nseys Magazine
announce that the new rule adopted to
exclude all advertisements of whiskev
and beer frotn tire pages Of Of ttiitis tiitis magazine magazine
will be loss of 900 per year. That
is being real good with a vengeance.
Corn will pop more successfully if mois-
tened first. After putting it in the pol
per, pour over it cupful OF water, shake
the drops off, and pass the pepper min
kernels swell, then hold them near the
Goals to pop.
There are three ways to learn the value
of dollar: The first is to spend it, and
see what you get for it. The second is TO
earn it, and see what you give for it.
The third is to save it, and yearn for all
the things it might buy if you were weak
enough to spend it.
London has the tallest man on earth
on exhibition. His name is Manchnow
and he is aged twenty five years; was born
in n-Caucasia, measures 8 feet, 81
inches in his stocking feet, and is we'll
healthy, intelligent, good
natured mammoth
China paid for opium last year an aver
age price of $50 taels ($4S7) per picul
Q335 pounds, and imported a much
arger quantity than in 1902, when the
average price was 700 taels ($455) per
oicul. The total opium import in 1903
was 5s,47S picuIs (7,795, III pounds,
7alued at AZ, $50, s92 taels (s2S, ,4OO,OS0)
The inventor OF the cake walk, negro
minister named John Morris, is dying in
he hospital at Mt Vernon, N Y. He is
Upward of so years old He was en-
,loyed in his youth by President Roose-
'elt's parents, and visited the president
It the white house recently. The inven-
or of the cake walk should be remem-
,ered
The letters addressed to the President
verage 1900 day. Eighty per cent. of
hem never reach the eye Of either the
Lief executive or his private secretary.
hey are sorted bv the clerks under the
irection of Private Secretary Porter ard
ent to the proper departments for atten
on.
February has the distinction of being
ne birth month of three presidents of
lis nation. George Washington, the
rst president was born February 22nd,
I32 William Henry Harrison, the
nth president was born February 9th,
I73. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth
resident was born February 18th, 1909.
There's spot OH the sun more than
200 miles across A scientist i'll New
ork says the spot is the cause OF cold
Gather. Nine or ten years ago there
ere several large spots on the sun in
lily and the weather was extremely hot.
len this same scientist said the spot
used the unusual heat. Now, wouldn't
at set you to thinking?