Middletown transcript., 1905-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

and There
DON'T think because man isn't in ja
that he is honest.
Marconi SAYS it will he. possible With
two years send wireless message
around the afth.
Too many Young men look upon edu
cation as sort of loophole througl
which to escape work.
In Daytona, Fla, the business house
are open only three days of the week il
the dull summer months.
Houghton, Mich, town of 5000 in
habitants, has two banks and the tota
deposits are S3,000,000. Each man
woman and child is worth 5000 each.
William R. Hearst, who now owns
Sc, ell daily papers, will start three more
It's said The three cities chosen for the
new papers are said to be Pittsburg, St
Louis and Denver.
Don't be too sensitive Don't take
offense at everything you hear or see in
the paper that you can construe as a
thrust at you. Perhaps you were moi
thought of when the remark was made
or the thought written. 1t will make
you miserable to always be looking for
something to get offended at. Don't let
fnalinoc ctinE npt foo p.t,ob
Rails of the Mexican Gulf railroad are
laid on mahogany ties, and the bridges
are built of white marble. In west
Mexico is line with ebony sleepers and
ballast of silver ore drawn from the
mines beside the track, as the engineers
constructing these railways had no other
material on hand and deemed it cheaper
to use these seeming extravagances than
to import the ordinary material.
1t is astonishing how many people
appear to think that it is the business of
newspaper to jump in and lambast
everything in sight at the request of any
modest individual who has not the nerve
to move hen off her nest. If any
honest man has occasion to rake brother
citizen over the Goals on account of a
personal or public grievance, he can send
III letter over his own name and il it is
not libel, we shall let him see how it
looks in print.
According to an exchange. Russian
timber dealer has discovered a valuable
mine of oak. 1t is in a river of south
Russia, in layers three or four feet deep,
scattered over one hundred and fifty
square miles, and its most striking feature
is its variety of colors supposed to be due
to the varigated soil of the river bottom.
No fewer than twenty-one shades of pink,
blue, yellow and brown have been noted,
each log having its own uniform shade.
The logs taken out have ranged from
forty to 200 feet in length and from
fifteen to twenty inches in diameter, and
it is estimated that more than 10000
averaging seventy feet, remain.
The names of American newspapers
are study in nomenclature. In Arkan-
sas are the Buzz Saw and the Black Log;
California, the Condor, the Wasp and
the Tomahawk; Colorado, the Rather and
Yesterday and Today; Iowa, the Postal
Card, the Unit, the Nucleus and the Fire
band; Kentucky, the Salt River Tiger,
the Push, the Boomer; Missouri, the
Rustler, Oklahoma reioices in the Dinner
Bell and the Plain People; South Dakota
has Plain Talker; in West Virginia is
the Irrepressible; Missouri has the Crank
and the Entering Wedge; Wyoming reads
Bill Balons Budget.
If there were no duty on alcohol it
could be used for Illuminating purposes,
for heating, for automobiles and for a
good many purposes for which kerosene
and gasoline are now used. Germany
makes 300, 100000 gallons of alcohol
annually for use in the arts and for
domestic purposes. Representative Muir
dock, OF Kansas, says that the proper
way to fight the Standard Oil is to allow
grain alcohol to be manufactured free of
duty. In Germany they mix it with ten
per cent. of wood alcohol, SO that it can
not be used for drinking, but in this
country they even use wood alcohol as a
beverage, so that some other means will
have to be used. With cheap corn and
potato alcohol could be proftably manu-
factured for use were it not for the
internal revenue regulations.
Just to be good, to keep life pure from
elements, to make it constantly
helpful in little ways to those who are
touched by it, to keep ones spirit always
sweet and avoid all manner of petty
anger and irritability-that is an idea as
noble as it is difficult. To illustrate:
The breakfast was ready but the hope of
the family was not; the sister home from
boarding school called from the foot Of
the stairs: Willie, the Orient is ablaze
and our morning reflections awaits your
presence. No reply being heard the
mother takes her place and calls: Will
liam you lazy dogskin, get up this minute
and come to breakfast" And still there
was no answer whereupon the man
stepped to the stairs and merely said
'Bilv' Coming, STRIP was the instant
response and in three minutes united
family sat at the table,
A Pennsylvania town of 5000 in