Middletown transcript., 1905-02-25
F, ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

people than any other European countr
| All the shiDs of the United States ar
being supplied with steel furniture.
1t costs a beautiful $1,000 day to re
move the ugly snow from the streets.
Three hundred and thirty people wer,
killed in Chicago last year by railway &C
cidents
The nan who can successfully copt
with "a lady book agent is fairly vel
equipped for the battle OF life. =.
The smallest screws made are for the
fourth jewel wheel of watch. A thin
BILE will hold 100, 900 of them
Chicago's new swing bridge across the
Chicago river has a movable part 275 feel
long, each leaf of which weighs 1000, 00(
| pounds.
An Elkhart, Ind, man has just become
the father of twins a second time. That
Indiana climate is simply wonderful.
One of the courts has decided that an
American girl who marries a foreigner
with title doesn't have to pay his debts
London's places of entertainment
would hold all the inhabitants of Mil
waukee-3l2,000 about then there
would be several thousand vacant seats.
A Michigan girl tainted upon being
kissed, and the chump of fellow doused
cold water in her pretty face instead OF
using the "simila simillbus curanter"
treatment OH her.
An eight-foot steel chimney, 230 feet in
height, has just been completed, and will
be erected in Mexico. This will be the
highest steel chimney in America.
The precise number of words in the
Old and New Testaments are 773, ,692 ,and
by reading something like ten minutes
day at the pace of 200 words minute
one could read the Bible through in a
year.
You don't need to advertise because
every body in town knows who you are
and where you are? So does everyone
know who the other fellow is and where
he is. What is going to keep them from
going to see him instead of you?
As long as there is life there is trouble
and taxes. A widow is never satisfied
with her own name. 1t is not necessary
to have four legs to be hog. Office
seeks man with about as much energy
as rogue seeks policeman.
A Japanese boy presented an essay in
ole of the English school examinations
which contained the following: "Until
recently the japanese use to fight with
bows and arrows, but now they are
equipped with the complete arms of
Chris tian."
Mr.. Carnegie is apparently getting a
long wav toward the accomplishment OF
his ambition to die poor. His return to
the tax assessor in New York shows that
he has but a measly $5,000,000 left, or
just double the amount confessed by Mr..
Rockefeller.
Fl. L. Eowdcn of Boston, an amateur
autonobilist, smashed the worlds record
for mile by driving the distance at the
terrific rate of los miles an hour, he hav-
ing covered the distance in "a 1-5 seconds.
A professional from England made mile
in one-fifth second more. The previous
auto record for the mile was made by
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., who made a
mile in thirty-nine seconds.
When a petition is handed to you to
sign it is a mighty good thing to stop and
read it before putting your name down.
Besides men as rule are too busy now
adays to stop for little thing like that.
The other day man went through big
Office building in Chicago, on wager and
secured 20 names to petition asking the
public executioner to hang everyone of
the signers.
Last year the output of coal in the
United States exceeded 100000, 900 tons,
or over third of the worlds annual
supply, and only 8 per cent. of this enor-
nous output was exported.
At Fort Apache, Arizona, there are
of ravens, shiny black birds,
much bigger than crows. One day dog |
took bone out on the parade ground |
and settled down to gnaw it. Two raw
ems flying by spied Him and thought |
they would like the bone, too. They |
went down and circled about the dogs |
head, talking to each other all the time.
Every now and then they would make a |
dash at the bone, but whenever they
were within reach the dog snapped at |
them. Finally one of the ravens lighted /
On the ground behind the dog. while the
'ther still flew about his head. Then
,he raven that was on the ground went
up close to the dog, seized the end of the
logs tail in his bill and. gave it hard
pinch. When the dog whirled round to
lee what was hurting him, the raven that
vas in front of him pounced on the bone
and flew away with it, and the raven
III the ground jumped quickly aside,
pread its wings and flew after its mate.
The deepest shafts in the world are in
he famous copper mines of Lake Super
or. They penetrate seven furlongs into
he earth. A mile down has more than
'nce been aimed at, but the attempt has
IS vet been doomed to utter failure, and
he principal debarring influence is the
farming increase of temperature when
learing that immense depth. The tenn
'eratnre increases one degree for every
10 feet down.
A Freeport, ILL.,, man owns dog to
Which he is greatly attached. Recently
vhen the animal was sick, he took it to
veterinary surgeon who saved his life.
later the owner decided to give
he dog "A thorough washing and used