Middletown transcript., 1906-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

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Member of the Household
j. 1t cost Chicago $40, 1s9, 800 to run the
city last year.
. Why is it, men and brethern, that the
less man knows the smarter he thinks
he is?
An electric locomotive is now built
which will haul train of 250 tons at 20
, miles an hour
About 200 oysters would be required
daily to supply sufficient nourishment
for one person.
"Fortune knocks once at every mans
door,"
Fortune is knocker, all right
John Barry, an Irishman was the first
commodore of the American navy,
wonderful sea fighter and true patriot.
When mans advertising shows that
he is thoroughly interested in his busi-
ness, his business will become interesting
to others.
the head Of an Eskimo family gives
his doctor fee as soon as he comes. Ii
the patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it
is returned,
small boy being asked by his teacher
to name the principal occupations of the
United States, answered: "Manufactur-
ing and grating"
President Roosevelt has appointed
Frederick w. Whittredge of New York
as special ambassador to represent the
United States at the wedding of the King
of Spain.
A Pennsylvania collector of internal
revenue destroyed 1900 bad cigars. IL
will surprise lot of economical smokers
to learn that cigar even gets too bad to
/, smoke.
There are some easy stunts in this busy
world of ours, among the very easiest and
most commonly put on exhibition is that
of preaching of the right things to do and
then to go and practice something Alto
gether the opposite.
| The American people, it is said spend
Sc, 100000 more annually for chewing
gum than for foreign missions. And the
! figures would be even more startling but
for the fact that most of the girls can
make one piece last a whole week.
Those of our readers who have rela-
tives and friends in foreign countries, and
most OF MS have, will be pleased to know
that reclassifcation of mail for foreign
countries has been established, whereby
articles may be sent to these countries at
the rate of IL cents per pound. The
weight of the package must not exceed
four pounds or the value OF fifty dollars.
1t has formerly cost SLIGO to mail foUr
pound package which we can now send
for 48 cents.
At the age OF so, Simon Hendricks, Of
Los Angles, Cal, went a-wooing and
married a senorita aged 81. When he
was 81 his first child was born. When
he was 96 his seventh child was born
Now, aged 80, he breaks two ribs while at
work and is recovered. Hendricks is
a brick mason of that city and will be 80
years old OH April 90. He says that he
has smoked tobacco and drank liquor
most of his life. He was born in Somer-
set, KY, April 30, 1907.
The idea of converting an unsightly
back yard, strewn with ashes and tin
cans, into little bower of fragrance
and beauty is one that appeals to the
imagination and affords health giving ex-
ercise as we'll as an infinite amount of
pleasure and happiness. The average
householder devotes more or less time
and energy to the front OF his premises,
but the rear too frequently becomes the
dumping ground for the refuse from the
kitchen, and the result is the unhappy
combination ot queen Anne front ana
a Mary Ann rear yard.
One of the lessons taught us by Easter
is this fact: Too often men think of his
torical Christ, and let go the essential
truth of Christ that lives and reigns.
The weakness OF the church is due large
ly to the multitude to realize this. The
world is not to be saved by maxims.
The only hope is in living Christ;
Christ SO living within us that we will
become an embodiment of his teachings,
a personifcation of his sympathy and
love. When the world sees Christ so
manifested in us, then twill listen TO his
voice, and in him the world will find the
answer to its anxious problems.