Middletown transcript., 1906-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member of the Household
The thermometer in the Yukon Yale
in Alaska showed 80 below zero.
New York is to have beer trust. !
this means long slate some OF the plail
people will not object.
5 There is ice enough in Greenland t.
, bury the entire area OF the United State
9 quarter OF mile deep.
They are sending editors to prison ir
Russia for printing articles that the au
tlolities do not approve of.
The price of hardwood lumber has
been raised. Can you see the finish oI
that house you we're planning to build
next spring?
Bacon to the value of over $40, 900, ,O0O
was imported by Great Britain last year.
No wonder the hens have to work so
hard.
Thomas j. Emery, the multimillionaire
of Cincinnati, who has just died in Cairo,
Egypt, was OH his tenth trip to Africa
and his tiftieth trip to Europe.
Stephen Hesse aud wife have started
from Wichita, Kan, for Germany upon
special invitation from Emperor William
to join in celebrating his silver wedding
anniversary,
| Tho procidopf l,os or,loroJ tho& 3oo,,
ments which the great mass of the peo-
pie do not read shall not be printed
hereafter, thus saving pile of money in
the public printing department. A good
move.
Alfred Belt, the South African mining
king, is said tobe richer even than Rookie
feller. Half the mines in South Africa
belong to him, including the fabulous
wealth OF Kimberley's diamond output.
Fl. E. Huntington is preparing to estab-
lish permanent Indian exhibition in
southern California. 1t will have group
Of every tribe of Indians in North Amer
ica permanently quartered there, besides
an art gallery containing Indian photo
graphs,
A southerner has left $1,000 for the
purchase OF Mark Twain's books Chow to
Be gentleman" and distribute same in
the Y. NJ. G. AS OF the north. He said
men we're all gentlemen in the south.
And to think that newspaper man-A.
w. Carson of Missouri left this 81 900.
Not many years ago fur coat was a
novelty in this country and was consid-
cred luxury. Now they are common
especially among rural folks and prove to
be all economical and comfortable in
vestment.
Eighty volumes containing the sigma
lures Of American women who desire to |
see Senator Reed Smoot of Utah ousted |
from the United State Senate will be |
sent to Washington this week. The
names of New York women fill seven
volumes Pennsylvania, six Ohio, four !;
Iowa, three; Illinois, three. All of the
we-tern aud southern states sent long |
lists OF names excepting Utah, where |
only 472 signatures were secured.
"We want an Independent paper. We
want all editor who. is not afraid to speak
out" How often do we hear the above
remark. This independent" business
simply amounts to this-If you pitch in
and abuse some one else it is all right,
but touch No. with ten-foot pole anG
he is up and coming. Ridicule that
mans religion or his political views, but
don't dare to touch mine unless it is to
endorse them. How we all like to see
the paper abuse our neighbor, but when
he touches US he is ''gol darn" fool.
Judge Grosscup, talented judge,
speaks thus of work and against leisure
1--WE are pretty poor people after ALL"
was his comment Therefore livelihood
AL absorbing interest. We
each OF us are like a man in a boat
Down stream is bankruptcy and famine
up stream is plenty and comfort. To
stand. still is dangerous. We must go
ahead. We must pull, pull. There isl
and can be no such thing as leisure. God
has ordained there be none. He has
made it incumbent for US to work, and
We must"
In the shade Of the old apple tree, I've
waited SO long, love for thee, that the
voice | heard, grows faint with eaclI
word, till it's barely a whisper to me.
There is no more buzz left in the bee,
the blossoms are withered, mel-the tree
that once grew, where waited for you,
has changed to an old chestnut tree,
where you hear the blamed buzz of the {
bee, with big carving knife, that l | !
'wiped from my wife, am waiting and
glee OF daggers l have :
,wo Or three, an ak and a cutlass, you I
zee, and I'll stick all these things, in the !
next guy who sings, I'm the Shade of the :
Did Apple Tree"
Now Russia will bar out our machinery,
electrical supplies and things of the sort,
oy prohibitory tariff-Russia is still do
ng business at the old stand. Our trade
here is not much, some sixteen millions,
,ut indirectly through Hamburg it is
much larger. After March 1.-The date
when Germany's new tariff affecting us
axes place-duties will be raised 100 per
,ent. on the products mentioned. 1t is
-eally Yankee trick,' according to a
of Count Witte three years ago
when similar advance was made. He
aid it was brought about by Americans
Who had been induced to establish factor.
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