Middletown transcript., 1906-06-23
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Member of the Household

Little paragraphs That VIII inteEeSt every
Member of the Household
Bricklayers in Japan receive daily
wage of 81 cents.
Too many people spend their time hop
ing for the best instead OF working for it.
lis a,geod plan 10 pay as You GO
but it is also observable that some people
are very SLOW goers.
trne diplomat is tile man who has
solved the problem of earning his daily
! bread BY the sweat Of other mems brows.
Someone has been figuring ont the
number of words man ulters in a year
and finds the average to be ! l. 800. 600.
The University Of Pennsylvania viii
confer degrees on z545 young men this
week. The time seems to be rapidly ap--
preaching when man without degree
will be good dealof a-enriosity in this.
country.
Tie happiest people. in this world are
those who keep ont of debt. ontofpoIitics,
ont of office, shun notoriety, make an
honest living by honest means, follow
the golden rule, humbly serve the living
God quietly, and neglect nc. opportunity
OF doug good.
We heard on The street the other day
OF man who claimed he was too poor to
take his home paper, but all the same he
read a notice in one Of our county papers,
telling how to prevent horse from slob-
erina, and sent 81 90 for receipt, when
the $3.50 worth of information came it
said "Teacf your horse how to spit. !"
Many families in San Francisco are
still separated as result OF the panic
following tie earthquake and HE aliver-
tisements appearing in some OF The San
francisco papers are truly pitiful Hus-
hands are advertising for their wives,
parents for children. etc. It is certain
that many of these missing loved ones
are now filling unknown graves.
1t is suited that with the eighty-six
years of its existence the order OF Odd
Fellows has helped over 2,5oo, 900 OF its
members in times Of need. relieved more
than 100000 widowed families, buried
NEARLY an equal number of its honored
dead with all the honors and ceremonies
of Odd Fellowship and to do all this has
4 = D.
involved the outlay of over SOS, 200, 600, i
which hes eheerfully contributed to
the noble work.
To pack bottle OF liquid for travelling
roll 1t in the corrugated paper that comes
around breakables from the stores and
leave generous space inside the paper
at the top for sawdust. If the liquid
leaks ont the sawdust will absorb it.
Rubber caps with which to encase corks
are also safeguard. To keep the saw
dust inside the improyised tube it will be
necessary, naturally, to wrap it with
paper and string. For a long journey in
trunk bottles of liquid are safest packed
IN big tin box. with sawdust for filling.
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Grained and Sarnished limitations of
hardwood are best cleaned with borax
soap snds. never letting water touch
them, but rubbing well with cloths wrung
dry. Afterward they should be rubbed
with flannel barely moistened with
kerosene If there is too much kerosene
it viii dissolve and blur the colors. Clean |
hardwood with flannel vet in turpen-
tine, and rub afterward lightly with |
boiled linseed oil. Take off spots with
fine sand mixed in oil, Apply it with |
leather and rHb with clean leather after
ward to bring back the polish.
While in Russia they sell sunhower
seeds as We do peanuts in America. and |
everybody munches them as a dainty.
in this country they have suddenly
yaulted into high repute as a stock food
as well as for the excellent oil that is ex-
tracted from them. Thus Rood Brothers
of Lake Park, Iowa, did so we'll with a
crop of aa acre last year that they have
planted fiye acres this year, having con-
tracts for 81. IS to $500 per bushel for the
seed. They say they can easily raise
twenty bushels to the acre,
Belgium with its forty-two miles of sea
coast and its colonial possessions is one
OF the few civilized nations of the world
without a navy. There are only two1
other navyless nations in Europe-Swit-
zerIand and seryia. Bulgaria, hardly a
great sea power. has torpedo gunboat
and few small steamers. while Rnmania
is proud in the possession of twelve
small vessels. Holland, Belgium's
neighbor has quite an imposing fleet OF
eight iron clad and aotiIla of one hun-
dred steamers. If Bulgaria has the SMALL
est navy in the world the tiny principal
ity of Monaco has the smallest army
126 men all told.
About now physicians are beginning toll
treat electric fan colds" For already
the few days Of intense heat made it
needful to start the little fans whirring,
and woe unto those who sat in the inn
mediate dranght thereof. While the fan
is one Of tile few things that make life
hearable in hot weather, it is, according
TO pllysicians,a a much abused convenience.
Placed where it will stir up the air in the
room without blowing directly upon You,
it is good thing But stood on shelf
where il blows directly down on head or
neck, or where it fans violently on throat
or chest it is bad thing. and one OF the
most potent causes Of hot weather colds, t
bronchial and catarrh troubles. Il
A contemporary says that it should be
remembered that the newspaper is for
every body aud hence mnst publish some.
thing ior everybody, II you see some
thing which IS Of little interest to you,
there are others and that
the entire paper is not printed especially
for you. The very thing that issdull and