Middletown transcript., 1906-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Or Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
q The pay roll of the New York police
m department contains s, ,s27 names.
Milk sells at from 20 to 80 cents per
u quart in the Panama canal zone.
The greater part of the Kansas wheat
crop will be stored by the farmers, this
, year, in anticipation of better price.
Neither male nor female convicts In
English prisons are permitted to see a
mirror during the period OF their incarcer-
alton.
The kicker is sure to meet with lots OF
criticism and abuse, but it is well to re-
member that it is better to kick than to
be kicked
The largest shark ever captured was
pulled in at San Pedro Bay, CAL, recently
and measured 50 feet in length and
weighed 14,O00
In passing hung-out washing now
adays none but an expert can tell whether
those long black things ON the line are
hosiery or gloyery.
/ The pope has blessed some American
automobilists. Quite variance with the
thing we do to 'em over here after des-
perate just-in-time dodge.
1 New Jersey high school principal
hugged and kissed pretty scI1oolmarn,,
and eleven teachers promptly resigned.
The jealous things
The dressmakers complain that girls
waists are considerably larger than they
used to be, but the boys claim that they
can get around tie difficulty just the
same.
Chicago preacher tells his flock:
Better to be has been than never
wasser." He would no doubt be pleased
if every worshipper in his congregation
was right mower.
fashion writer advises beny ladies
not to wear peek-a-boo waists. 1t must
be admitted that it is not pleasing to the
peeker to see the bony points sticking
through the peek holes
The first shipment of $1,000 railroad
ties purchased by Hartman, the great
). T. magnate, have arrived at San Fran
cisco and the rest of the 100000 will
soon be en- route. He got them in Japan.
Ii an admirer says you are SO Intelligent
and useful the world can't spare you, and
that you will live forever, don't feel too
good about it; consumption or Bright's
disease, or liver complaint will get you
just the same.
A London paper gives a number of +.
reasons why women should not kiss each
other. They should not do SO because it
is but needless waste of lip nectarine.
that could be used otherwise to better and
more blissful advantage.
Ii you are married man do not let
your wife convince you that the new
dress with the short sleeves is cheaper
than the other kind. To be in fashion
she must have pair of silk gloves over
two feet long to cover up the bare places.
Sand capsules are now on the patent
medicine market put up by a Chicago
firm. The Chicago company states that
the particular brand of grit they put up.
eures-now DISQUALIFICATION nervous
dyspepsia, chronic dfarrhoea, constipa-
tion, catarrh of stomach and bowels, gas
tritis, kidney trouble and rheumatism.
They are sold for only 75c per doz. The
sand capsules will be extensively adyer-
tised in the papers.
Investigations Of the English jam fac.
tories reveal filthy conditions, but what
will the small boy care? He knows he
must ''eat peck of dirt before he dies"
and perhaps prefers TO take it mixed with
jam.
The new Hotel Belmont (28 stories five
below the surfaeel in New York cost
$8, 100000 and is absolutely fire-proof.
No insurance against fire is carried on the
property.
An ex-employe of one of the big pack
ing-houses OF Kansas City states that it is
the regular practice to bod the grease
out of entrails and use it in making but
terine and eleo-margarine. OF course
boiled entrals make fine spread on
warm biscuit
The distinction of being the tallest man
in the United States army belongs to Err
nest D. Peek, first lieutenant in the En-
gineer Corps He is six feet four and
Dne-half inches in height. Lieg Peek is
4 native of Wisconsin and graduated from
the Oshkosh high school.
1t is stated that within the eighty-six
years Of its existence the order of Odd
Fellows has helped 2, SOC, GOO of its MEM
oers in times of need, relieved more than
zoe, 600 widowed families, buried nearly
In equal number Of its honored dead with
i'll the honors and ceremonies of Odd
and to do all this has involved
he outlay of over s6s, ,OOO, 900 which has
,een cheerfully contributed to the work.
Two dollars that had been taken into
i'll were holding conversation together.
This was not an unusual circumstance.
because everybody understands that
money talks 81 would hate to be the
vile of the man who owns us noW.s said
ne dollar to the other. tHere too,
aid the other dollar. If he squeezes her
. he does Us, be will break every bone in
ler body Il noticed, however, an
wered the other coin, THAT the man who
queezes dollar hardly ever takes the
rouble of squeezing his wife.
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