Middletown transcript., 1906-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Korea is taking more to beer drinking
than either Japan or China.
Tea was cultivated in China 2, 700 years
before the Christian era.
Can it be possible that this country
was settled few million years too soon?
The United States gasoline torpedo is
now an official weapon. It's speed is 81
knots.
Three -fourths of the area of Japan is
mountainous, aud less than l6 per cent.
is under cultivation.
1t is calculated that England loses over
800 acres yearly through the sea en-
croaching upon the coast
1t Will take a long string OF earthquakes
60 jar the home sentiment out of the peo-
Pile OF San Francisco.
1t pays to advertise useful article. Nine
times out of ten there'll be a buyer before
the ink is dry. Try it.
A toreador recently carried away from
the City of Mexico $14O, 900, for twenty
two buil-fghting performances.
Twenty-three hundred million bushels
of wheat are required annually by the
5l7, ,000,00O breadeaters OF the world
A Utah editor died the other day, leav-
ing four widows. An editors assets do
not usually figure up as much as that.
1t is stated that there are about 225, 900
miles of cable in all at the bottom of the
sea. Each mile costs about 81 900 to lay.
More than 81, 900 people are on the
municipal pay roll in New York city and
are wondering why the officials do not
take care OF them.
Japan is now able to construct battle
ships of any size in her own dockyards,
without importing anything except brass
tubes and certain machinery.
! Cuba is to have her first high building.
The structure is being erected in Havana
by the National Bank OF Cuba, 1t is a
six-story building and called a sky
scraper.
A Cincinnati Judge has decided that
married woman's infatuation for her pas |
is not proof of insanity. She simply CAR
ries few bugs in the pan in which sensi- |
bic women carry their brains.
As nearly as possible 5000 gallons OF
fresh water are used in a large battleship |
daily. About two-thirds OF this is taken
up by the boilers, and the remainder is
used for drinking, washing cooking, etc.
There are 100, 900 hungry and hopeless
poor in the city OF London.
Alcohol for fuel and manufacturing
purposes can be made from corn.
Viscount Suizo Aoki, first ambassador
to the United States from Japan, accom-
panied by the Viscountess Aoki and T.
Myiaka, the new counselor OF the Japan
ese embassy, has arrived in Washington.
Cuba is receiving large influx of
Spaniards. 1t is said that something like
five thousand or six Thousand immigrants
are arriving every month and going into
the interior to develop the sugar and to-
bacco industry.
The newspaper is law book for the ill.,
dolent, sermon for the thoughtful, a Ii
brary for the poor and an admonisher for
the lawess. 1t may stimulate the most
indifferent, but it cannot be published
without cost and sent free to subscribers.
This is 10 joke.
A sea mile is about l.I5l5, or l 1-6
statute mile. To be precise, sea mile is
minute of latitude that is, one-sixtieth
of degree, or 1-2l, ,6O0th part of the
earth's circumference, if the earth were :
perfect sphere, instead of being nubbly.
The formation of society Of tie Blue
and the Gray at Atlanta, Ga, by Union i
and Confederate veterans shows the ex- ,
tent to which the antagonisms of the great
war have died out. The new organization .
will no doubt be popular in all cities
which have numbers of both classes of !,
veterans. .
Luck means rising not later than six I
O'Clock in the morning, living on dollar t
a day if you earn two, minding your own v
business, and not meddIing with other t
peoples. Luck means the appointments s
you have never failed to keep. the trains r
you have never failed to catch. Luck @
means trusting in God and your own re- v
sources. c
For sometime engines have been taking
water without stopping, and mail cars
have been picking mail sacks from posts
without SO much as pause. Now all ap- =
pliance for coaling engines witout stop
ping has been invented and experiments :
with it are said to have been satisfactory
The next movement to save the running
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time of trains will be device for throw
ing passengers on board and off without :
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A professional cistern cleaner says that a
at least once year each housewife should n
put cupfu of common baking soda into c
the cistern. 1t not only kills all insect b
life that may be in the water, but renders
it softer and better for all purposes, even e
for drinking. 1t will make cleaning un- b
necessary, unless trash has been dropped s
into the cistern.
Here is recipe for sponge cake that
will capture every thrifty house wife
Go to the drug store and get nice tender
sponge that has been freshly picked.
Then break four eggs in dish and whip :