Middletown transcript., 1905-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

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Japan expects a boom in electric rail.
ways.
The Lehigh Valley R. R. now refuses to
employ cigarette smokers.
Joseph II. Choate tells us that we are
working too hard and too fast and doing
too much. Possibly, but we "need the
money"
Wonders will never cease. Nowadays
cast iron can be welded, something that
was not thought of few years ago.
A. D. Parker, the new yice-president of
the Colorado & Southern railway, five
years ago was 'grubstaked To-day he
is worth nearly million.
Some people go ahead and do things;
others sit back idly and crticise the do
ing. Which class is of greater benefit to
the world?
When We look at Germany's new tariff,
we can get some idea of how the United
States tariff looks to the business men of
other countries
Methodist bishop sa rs that the future
man will be part white and part black.
That is what they are now if you knew
them all real WELL
Investigation reveals the great truth
that all the men in the history or bust
ness who awoke to find themselves fam
| GUS did a lot OF hard work before going to
bed.
A millionaire in New York who has
recently given 100000 to charity has
applied and granted pension as an old
soldier. He will receive Sl2 month.
The drainage channel has cost to date
nearly $50, ,0O0, COO 1t cost S., 600 to get
out report telling how the money was
expended. Nearly 500, 900 was spent on
the legal department.
At Winnipeg the other day indignant
Canadians tore down several American
flags and picture OF President Roosevelt
which had been used to decorate a
church. Oh, if Canada were not SO lit
tie!
The postal department of this country
has more patrons than any other business
in the country in spite of the fact that
they have no bargain days. Five stamps
or five thousand sell at the same rate.
That play of Bernard Shaw's entitled
"Mrs. Warren's Profession" must have
been very bad indeed to have stirred up
so much fuss in New York. Mr.. Shaw
made mistake in playing New York.
He should have opened at Chicago.
We have department stores here where
you can be incubated, raised educated,
grow to old age trying to look over the
place and be buried without leaving the
establshment.-New York Erening 1ele-
gram.
Ii the United States accepts recent
survey made by both American and Brit
ish engineers she will lose strip of land
IA miles wide and between 200 and 800
miles long north OF the Portland canal
and on this strip is mining property worth
many millions, controlled by capitalists.
Not only has New York City increased
her population by half million in the
last five years, or about 16! per cent,
but the state at large is gaining in popula-
tion at nearly the same high rate, more
than equalling the gain in the states of
the middle west. There are now $685.
672 people in New York state. In 1900
the population was 7, ,26S, 1894, and in 1890,
6OO3,l74. The population of the state
has increased, therefore, during the past
five years 797,77S, or IL per cent, as
against an increase during the preceding
decade of !, 265, 720, or 2l.1 per cent.
The price of shoes will 60 up sharply
before spring. This is the concensus OF
opinion among dealers. The general be-
lief is that gigantic trust backed by the
combined millions OF such men as the Ar
mours, Swifts, ETC., are at the bottom OF
the affair. Color is given this by the TAX
ing over OF the United States Leather
Company, by the Central Leather Com
pany, which is claimed to be confirmed
though details are not given. The exIs-
tence of leather monopoly has made
itself felt for three months by steady
advance. The manufacturers were first to
feel it, then in turn, the burden shifted
to the retailers and the turn of the con-
sumer comes next and is soon due.
The significance of this is apparent to
those who know that in the past the ten
ure of office of the country postmaster
has not depended on the way in which he
did his work, but on the will and pleasure
of his representative in Congress-assum-
ing that the representative belonged to
the party which was in power. Ifapost-
master was not sufficiently jealous in his
efforts to promote the political fortunes of
the representative, word at the post-of-
flee department sufficed to secure the re-
moval of thessluggish political worker
and the appointment of more active
one. Technically the representative "ad-
vised' change. Practically he ordered