Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONI
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

OHOfl FuliSdut dI dSI dpnS OdthSi GU iCi
and There
Business failures are fewer this year
! than la t.
King Alphonso Of Spain draws salary
OF 81 100000 year.
The motto: 'In God We Trust" was
not placed OH American coins until 1865
When Lord Curzon travelled as viceroy
OF India he was usually accompanied by
120 attendants.
Money comes SO hard to the average
man that the friction rubs off all of the
taint before 1t reaches him.
Total American imports of bananas and
cocoanuts last year were to June 30, 1904,
q, 900, 600 punches OF bananas and "a, ,000,
600 cocoanuts.
"Wanted, strong horse to do the work
OF country minister" is all advertise
ment which appeared in an English news
paper the other day.
1t takes some people long time to get
acquainted. Then the surprising thing is
as soon as they know each other well
they are ready to scrap at the drop OF the
hat
''If marriage is a lottery, why don't
they arrest the preachers?" asks paper.
"And the county clerks who sell the
tickets for the drawing, brother. Jail the
whole guilty caboodle!'
The casual advertisers like the hare that
sleeps by the wayside while the tortoise
keeps steadily at it to the post Constant
advertising, like dropping water, makes its
own mark.
The son Of one OF the life insurance
presidents claims that he worked twelve
years for 81, $50, ,267. Poor boy he must
have started from the bottom of the lad
der Of finance and been shot up.
\ Massachusetts, paper says the news
paper is the bible OF many an American
home. If this be true, the mothers
should be careful to select the right
papers. Some OF the red and blue score
sheets are long ways from being biblical
| tracts.
As matter of fact, ''cold'' is not a
cold nor is it caused by cold. When the
so-called cold begins to develop it is a
fever in its incipient stage. Like con-
sumption, it is house disease. 1t can
neither attack or exist unless there is a
lack OF fresh air in the lungs, and the skin
is abnormal,
| A college professor says an education is
"a transformation from an indefinite in
coherent homogeneity to a definite coher-
ent homogeneity by a series of differen-
tiation." The professor hit the nail
squarely on the head, all right, all right.
He had better take something for that at
once.
In Pittsburg office building system
OF washing the air and removing all dust
has been introduced.
How much OF the insurance graft would
ever have been exposed if it had not been
for the newspapers?
China is after American -four. They
have ordered 10000 tons from Mime
apolis mill This is equal to 10000 bar
rels.
A Virginia court has fixed the price OF
a kiss at $40, showing that there has been
no decrease i'll the cost OF the necessities
of life.
A New York preacher thinks many OF
the churches ought to be burned.
What's the matter? Are lady angels
shown in the memorial windows?
The largest locomotive in the United
States, operated on the mountain division
of the Santa Fe railroad, weighs more than
100000 pounds.
Some Englishmen think there are too
many Americans in London. There is,
however no complaint of superabun-
dance of American money there.
The Manila Railway Company has just
paid dividend of 10 per cent. Evi-
den.lv manifest destiny knew what it
was about when it went into business.
According to VIM. f. Curtis, in the
Chicago Record-IIerald. eastern. tourists
spend S25 100000 in California every
year and right in the vicinity of Los An
geles, too.
The Panama canal commission has ap-
pointed a press agent at $1,000 year.
Before they have been at work very long
they will be willing to pay several times
that for good press censor.
A recent count shows that there are
1O,OS0 milionaires in the world, more
than half of whom live in this country.
Still, we had supposed that Pittsburg
alone had more than 10000 OF them.
One OF our exchanges gives whip with
every paid-in-advance subscriber. This
may be all right, but wouldn't it jar the
editor if some irate female should use one
of these premiums on him? An editor
takes great chances when he puts whips
into the hands of his subscribers.
Before the section of chemistry of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science in Philadelphia recently,
DR.. Leon L. Waters declared emphati-
cally that the extent to which foods and
medicines were adulterated in this country
n .nrtitnted a nnenaca to the health of the