Middletown transcript., 1906-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Ever,
Member of the Household

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Spain has lawsuit, stillunsettled, til.
has been in the courts $3.50 years, or sine
1917.
We are told by the bug men that ther
are 100000 different kinds of insects. W
believe it.
Some brands Of coffee are now adultel
ated with sawdust. Let us hope the saw
dust is clean.
No man has any right to STAY in IL
church baby carriage when he might b
pushing its bread wagon.
When man takes pride in being con
sidrred rough diamond tits pretty eer
tain that he would Dot be hurt by littl
polish.
Forty thonsand Is the number of th
graduates who go out from colleges AM
universities this month to find thei
places in the world.
Next we will be hearing about the gov
ernment prowling around trying to fnt
out what the cheap restaurants have beef
putting in the hash.
A man in Philadelphia allowed 1tl
angry bees to sting him to prove the stirq
cured r1eumatisn. At least it shoule
prove man can forget rheumatism.
4 It is hard for married man to under
/ stand how bis wife can find any pleasure
in watching another woman as she enters
into the bonds Of matrimony.
] Science informs lis that it is the female
mosquito that does the singing 1t has
been observed, also, that the singers are
quite expert.with their stingers.
Steve EIkins notes that poor men
whistle more than rich men do; hence
they are happier But The poor man fire.
qnentTy pays dearly for his'whiatie.
Twelve hundred barrels OF sweet mash
wlliske5<afe turned out every seven days.
by onetdfstff1ety in Kentucky. making
total annual output Of 80, 400 barrels.
It must not be supposed that the man
ufactnrers of black pepper are confined to
the use Of lampblack and tspioca. They
can make an excellent article out of
ground cocoanut Shells.
As soon as it grows easy for man TO
get along without friends he begins to find
that their numbers increase without any
effort on his part.
A New jersey girl weighing 260 pounds,
in her hurry to greet her lover, tripped
and fell ON his neck, breaking it. Seven
doctors could not save his life. Beware Of
the heavyweight girl.
The cost of living cannot be fixed by
any standard. 1t varies from $500 year
for some preachers to $500, 600 year for
some some stock gamblers but some
happiness is not in proportion to income,
There are no orphanages in Australia.
Eyerp child not supported by parents be-
comes ward Of the state, is placed in a
private family and provided with board
and clothes until the fourteenth birth. |
day.
DR.. Erasmus Hoit, Of Maine, says the
highest possible yalne Of any human be-
ing is exactly $50, ,344.6S. Tie docter is
not optimistic enough. regarding the ltg.
man family, to make successful life in
surance agent. 1
Tire publisher of several agricnlturali
papers advertises the rural field as the
'.only one unspoiled left for the adver-
tiser.n Tie country press might take mo-
tice Of the fact and impress upon adyer.
tisers that the: local home paper is the
best medium for this field.
Hasten the day when our intellectual
life has so far developed that a clean
paper will be in greater demand than "a
sensational one, when the public shall eat
Of the meat of knowledge, rather than
iced on the aromatic husks that excite
the passions and tester national life.
Here is where Cupid is put out OF busi-
ness. The little god is no auditor OF ac-
counts. When lie draws bis bowstring be
shuts his eyes and if the loosened shaft
lodge in the heart of plutocrat or the
breast of peasant it is all one to him.
The world is full OF want, but Of actual
there is little. Want and need
are By no means Synonymous. It is not
. nice question whether there are not
more people who have more than is really
good for them than people who have not
enough.
Il is estimated by Darwin that there are
one hundred thousand earthworns
quietly at work fortiie advantage Of the
upper six feet Of every acre Of earth.
They continually yturn over the soil and
drag down leaves and grass. and thus
they loosen the soil and fertilize the
ground, SO that the necessary air can
reach the roots that spread and grow.
Tie meaning Of the word luck may be
fully explained in the following Luck
means rising not later than 0 o'clock in
The morning. living on dollar a day if
yon earn two, minding your own business
and not meddling with other peoples.
Luck means the appointments yon have
never Jailed to keep, the trains you have
never failed to catch. Luck means trust.
Ing In God and your own resources"
Tie Standard Oil Co. has discovered a
way to avoid building sidewalks in front
of their business buildings in cities and
and towns all over the country. They
simply deed the land allowed for side-
walks and the cities and towns are obliged
70 build the sidewalks themselves. The
KqterIoo Reporter, dowa,) says that is
what they are doing there and other
places also. Rockefeller could give the
Devil pointers on how 10 run the internal
regions.
An interesting fact in regard to dia-
monds is that II Is not Uncommon for the /
crystals to explode as soon as they are 7
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