Middletown transcript., 1906-04-21
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
The British government owns more
than $4,000 camels.
Siam was cotton producing country
1900 years ago.
Success never comes to man who is
afraid to face failure.
Advertisingour Affections only increases
their circulation.
The Church of England has an income
OF rs, 900, 900 year.
A geographical or land mile is $3.50
feet; nautical mile, 6,0S6 feet.
The new remedy for rheumatism is cal
led arthralgonicon. 1t tsounds convincing.
The Angora goat furnishes most of the
hair which adorns ordinary dolls. This
product is valued at 100000, 600 year.
The New Jersey legislature has appro-
priated $3.50, coo for the work of exter-
minating the New Jersey mosquito.
''Steam OK" and ''steam camel" are the
names given to automobiles by the natives
OF German Southwest Africa
How early people get around who have
kicks to make, aud what a time it takes
them to come who have compliments to
give!
There are forty-fye states and FIVE ter
ritories including Hawaii and not includ-
ing the district of Columbia or the
district of Alaska.
Burial with the head to the west" is
BASED OH the idea of the face to the
east in the belief that the coming of the
bodily resurrection is from the east.
The new troyedo of the United States
navy is one of the most powerful sea
weapons in existence. 1t will travel more
than two and a quarter miles, or twice
the range OF the White head torpedo
which it supersedes.
The emperor of China has a household
consisting of 500 pesons, including thirty
bearers Of state umbrellas, an equal num-
Der OF fanbearers, thirty physicians and
surgeons, seventy five astrologers, seventy
six cooks and sixty priests
A better idea OF the magnitude of the
shingle industry Of the state of Washing
t,n can be gained when it is known that
the state produces fully forty per cent. of
tile material manufactured in the United
States. Entire shiploads of cedar shingles
are exported from Puget Sound, owing to
the extensive foreign demands, not only
for roofing but for other purposes.
The editor who can please every one is
not fit for this world, but is entitled 10
wings. Human natu is constructed SO
that some like scandal, some don't some
like fakes exposed, others don't; some
like the truth told about them, others
don't. Some like to take the paper for
seven or eight years and never miss an
issue or pay cent and get mad and stop
their paper when they get statement of
their account others don't. 1t is some
consolation to know the Lord himself
failed to pleased everyone while on earth.
There is no moral support equal to the
sincere affection of,those whom we honor
and respect. The love and admiration
of ones friends keeps one striving to live
- clarion, i,1ooJ that thay, hnp.,
created. There are men and women vino
can scarcely exist without encouragement
and sympathy, these wonderful soul tom
les that keep one brave and strong. II is
the iife duty of every individual to pass
through each day as slniIingly as life will !,
permit and TO give to others what one /
Graves oneself. There is no day so gray
with clouds that it cannot be made brill |
liant and beautiful by the tender words |
Of friend or the light OF smile.
The cutting off of pas et by certain
railroads calls to mind the remarks OF an
Irish orator in contrasting the difference
in fares paid by the classes in the 'tould''
country and America. He said : .tOver
there the aristotra:s pay three cents a
mile, the middle class two cehts and the
abo els n and hall. But in Amer I
ca tie laboiing man pays three
mile, the mercl ait pays two cents
cents and the rich ride on passes"
With II ,00n, 900 pounds of coffee stored
N one building in New Orleans, there
appears to be no immediate daug-t If
coffee famine.
1t was scornfully said when the anti
agitation was started that the
lext thing monopoly would seek would
De to make commercial commodity of
he air we breathe and that is being done.
Compressed air has within the last few
months been made into commercial
commodity. 1t is now being sold to con-
umers for SO much cubic foot, the
anne way as gas is sold. George West
nghouse, head of the Westinghouse