Middletown transcript., 1905-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

is and There
" Wiz t becomes of the money a ma
" saves by not smoking.
n Every thing comes to him who lets tn
:. otl.er fellow do the waiting.
Tie largest island in the world is New
Guinea, 100000 square miles. Grea
Britain is So, ,S96
+ Russ a has exchanged 1866 japanese
prisoners for $4,000 Russians That's
about the fighting ratio
A contract has been let for the building
of new island in New York Bay. 1t
will cost $4,000.
The total attendance at the Lewis and
Clark exposition was 2,545,5 500. The pro-
iect was success, financially.
Colorado reports say that this has been
a good year for sugar beets Every year
seems to be good one for dead beats.
A Missouri editor is said to be slowly
worrying himself to death over the ques-
tion of what becomes OF the wind when it
doesn't blow.
Ii at first you don't succeed, don't stop
long enough to make it necessary to try
'again." just keep right on trying in the
first place.
1t ought to make man feel very happy
not to have any money and be able to
think how many fool investments he
| didn't go into.
Californa's cut of redwood for this
year will approximate 3G0,000,000 board
feet. Eucalyptus is now coming into use
| as commercial wood in that state.
This country has ambassadors to eight
countries: Austria Hungary, France, Ger
many, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, Rus
sia and Brazil. We have ministers to
about thirty more
There are only 100000 ont of the 49,
900, 600 young men in the United States
and Canada who 60 to church. What a
shame! Cannot something be done to
reach the men and get them into the
church ?
The Chicago 4 Alton Railroad Co. has
doci1od fo disoop+ipua tba r,,p,,;po of oil
local freight and passenger trains on
Sunday, the object being to give as many
employees as possible rest OH that day
A Chinese newspaper has just rounded |
out the fourteenth hundredth year of its |
existence. Subscribers who stopped the
paper with the idea that it would have |
to suspend publication can now see how |
foolish they were.
The czar is planning a tunnel under
the Caucasus. The huge mountain range
is to be pierced by bore thirty-two miles
long at a cost of probably Sl500OO, 900.
1t will be the biggest thing of its kind
ever attempted and the costiest.
There are in America to-day more than
200 fraternal beneficiary orders, with a
combined membership of over 5000 900
who are protected to the extent of more
than s., 500, 900, 900, and have distributed
benefits to disabled members amounting
to more than 1925, 100000.
Few things in this world trouble people
more tlan poverty, or the fear OF poverty;
and indeed it is sore afflcation; but,
like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it
has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The
iudcious appliction of industry, pru-
dence and temperance is a certain cure.
'She was standing in front of the mir
Tor divesting herself preparatory to retir-
ing. "My hair" she solioquized to her.
SELF sis my crowning glory. But, she
continued, ''uneasy lies the head that
wears crown And then she took it
off and hung it tenderly over the back of
a chair
The Panama zone, the use and control
Of which in perpetuity was granted to US
by treaty of November Is, 1908, is ten
miles wide five miles on each side OF the
canal.) 1t begins in the Caribbean sea,
three marine miles from mean low water
mark, and reaches to and across the 18TH
mus into the Pacific ocean to distance 9
Of three marine miles from mean low !
water mark.
The cost of making paper from stalks
rom SD to $25 per ton, while that from
'ags or pulp reaches $50 to S65 At pres
snt it is estimated that 53,000,000 ton of }
,orn stalks rot annually in the fields. In
he new process every part of the stalk
will be utilized. Fine paper will come from
he pulp, while coarse wrapping paper }
md box board will be made of the hard K
utter covering. Other portions of the
talk will 60 into varnish, powder, gun =:
otton, papier mache, celulose, lubricants
md other material.
Plans have been almost completed for
religious gathering to be held in New
FORK City under the name of the Inter-
hurch Conference OF Federation. All of
he Protestant denominations of the
Jnited States will be represented by dele
ates to the number of 500 to 600 1t is
expected that twenty -four sects having
membership of more than $4,000, 900 will
end delegates. The object of the move
lent is to bring the various denomina-
ons into closer fellowship by perma-
ent organization which will make it
ossible to voice the attitude of the
nited Christian churches on such social,
thical, economic and religious questions
5 never before, and in way that will be
ffective in promoting church activity
nd lessening church rivalries and relig-
,us bigotry.
BISHOP M'CABE TO PRESIDE