Middletown transcript., 1906-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member of the Household
Malaga exports 100000 palm leaf hats
to New York annually.
There are fifty-fve establishments
! making shoes in Chicago with capital
oi S., 1851, ,4S2.
If Ham had been sick and Noah had
given him sugar, would he have been a
''sngar-cured Ham?''
The largest coffee market in the world
is the French city of Havre. The imports
of 1904 reached 109,9S9 tons.
At the present time it is estimated that
there considerably more-than 100, 900
Slavs in western Pennsylvania.
Motor car statistics for 1905 show that
1910 machines were built in America.
OF this number %, $40 were sold.
In Japan newspapers are suppressed
for publishing scandalous articles on the
| private life of individuals. Yet we are
trying to Christiauize Japan.
There are in Great Britain Il, 1862 post
office savings banks, which have 8, ,4O3,- :
S52 depositors and an aggregate of depos-
its OF nearly $500, 200, 900, or all average
of $40 to $75 per inhabitant.
President Roosevelt has recommended
the appointment OF commission to in
vestigate, the woman in business. The
investigator will probably find the wo-
man doing so well that they will want to
go in business with. them.
The six largest gas holders in the world,
now being constructed in Astoria, L. L.,
to supply Greater New York are each l.
$50 feet, or little more than quarter OF
a. mile. in diameter, and when inflated
stand 290 feet high.
The most deadly instrument known to
mortal man is the human tongue. Dyna-
mite is not in it as a trouble breeder.
1t is the hair trigger of the freer action.
1t goes off on the slightest provocation. 1t
strikes heavier blows than mule kicking
down hill. 1t causes more heartaches
than tax collector. A tongue can make
sore spot for years. The crimes charge
able to the tongue are criticism, un-
kindness, gossip, lying, scandal, malice and
hate, the aggregate of sorrow and murder.
A novel use OF compressed air is made
by some railway companies in the South
ern States of America, says the Railway
News. When the loads of cotton for ex-
port are being taken to the coast, there is
always some danger of such highly in
fammable material becoming damaged
through sparks from the locomotives,
To prevent this, the locomotive boilers
are filled with compressed air. A train
load of several thousand bales Of cotton
can be hauled by these locomotives at 6
rate OF twelve miles an hour, although no
fire is used in working them.
/, Wouldn't it make you mad If you
worked eight, ten or twelve years for 6
man and al! that time he never had paiC
you cent for your services? And still
we have several just such people on oul
list, persons who have been reading the
, paper every week for these many Ions
years without ever paying one cent fol
the support of the paper. Some day, per
haps, someone will invent a diet com
posed entirely of air and water, ant
then the country editor will be able Il
fare with the best of them-until Rookie
I feller or Morgan corners the air, ther
( he'll go up the flue.
We will act wisely if we make the bes
of things as they come to US. There arr
certain ones in this town who are alwa y
2 putting up "holler" about hard times
, They never see anything to be thankfu
3 for or to feel jolly about. They know
: that the spring is SO backward that thu
crops will be failure this year. There i
always something disastrous going tt
e happen. The worst is to be expected
{ and nothing else will do them. The,
e never look on the bright side and alway
: find the dark places. 1t is just as vel
I, not to be too critical or captious and fint
l something to commend instead of s,
$ mnch to condemn.