Middletown transcript., 1905-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

OaTnegle says ne IOVes ScOGlanQ DeSt ant
America next best.
: Obesity can be cured by alkaloids with
out starving, purging or overwork.
A dollar saved is dollar earned and /
dollar not loaned is the same thing.
Two-thirds Of the male population O
the world, it is estimated, use tobacco.
i The children OF the United States eacl
year consume toys that cost at retail
$4,000 900.
Eightv-five and six tenths per cent o
the freight cars OF the United States now
have air brakes.
/ Russell Sage's secretary has gone into
bankruptcy with liabilities Of ST., los and
assets amounting to 500.
! Often big buffer is called By bigger
one. Nothing wins so completely as a
bluff when it is not called.
Swedish doctors never send bills to
their patients. Each patient pays what
he deems just or is able to give.
A stone house is not so durable as one
Of brick. A brick house well constructed
will outlast one built OF granite.
In Berlin young men have formed a
society whose members pledge themselves
TO snatch birds from the hats of women.
Sweden and Norway are the only coun.
tries where practically every grown man
can read and write. Bavaria comes next
in this respect
Six million pounds weight of adulter-
ated and harmful foods were destroyed
by the health department of New York
during the last twelve months.
A peculiar fact is that 1905 began on
Sunday and will end on Sunday, and
therefore has ifty-three Sundays. This
will not occur again in 1lo years.
Since the beginning of the last century
no fewer than So volcanic islands have
risen from the sea. Nineteen have since
disappeared and ten are inhabited.
The earth contains quantity of salt
equal to one-seventh of its weight. The
salt is dissolved little by little and hence
the saltness of the ocean is increasing.
The river Jordan has long been con-
sidered the most winding river in the
world, but it is not in the same class as
the White river of Arkansas. This river
flows 900 miles in going thirty miles as
the crow flies.
Bill Nye used to tell of an Indiana man
who successfully managed skunk farm. |
'Last year" said Bill, she worshipped at
the Baptist church, but this year the con-
gregation has paid his $5 week to wor-
ship in secret"
The seacoast of Maine is the most
in the world. In a straight
line it measures 225 miles, but when all
the ins and outs are counted the shore
line is ], 1,846 miles. There are fifty-four
lighthouses and twenty-three fog signals
between Kittery Point and Quoddy Head.
The tide at Eastport has rise and fall of
eighteen feet two inches.
The Baldwin Locomotive works at
Philadelphia has received the major part
of an order for 162 locomotives, the
argest ever given here BY foreign
nation. The Baldwin plant has received
The contract for eighty y-seven, and the At
antic Equipment company Of New York,
A Glasgow, Scotland, firm
secured the contract for fifty.
The success of theJapanese commissariat
las set some of our military men to con-
idering the value of fish as part of the
lrmy ration. The Japanese use it in tile
orm of "fish meal" prepared by remov-
ng the bones and compressing the re-
nainder before cooking and smoking.
he meal keeps indefinitely, and insects
10 not attack it. 1t is used for soup, and
haved thin and cooked with rice. Upon
ice the japanese soldier in the field
argely depends, with more concentrated
md stimulating fare as an auxiliary. It
3 not unlikely that one result of the
present war will be some reconsideration
i the ration OF the United States army,
which is at present generous, but perhaps
90 heavy to be hygienically ideal.
An investigation in asylums in the
United States. Canada and England, with l
total Of 1851 patients, has shown Ho-
art Langdon only 703 people with light
air, and only 66 with red or auburn
air. That is, 96 per cent. Of the insane
e brunettes, with brown or black hair.
mong the blonde insane, however, the
ercentage of incurables is much ii
'eater-a fact, like that first stated. for
llich no explanation appears.