Middletown transcript., 1906-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

The transyaal produces about 40t', nee
ounces of gold each month.
An ordinary European railway engine
is equal in strength to 900 horses.
Between 800 and 900 British towns
and villages have namesakes in the United
States.
One British Bible society distributed
last year nearly 100000 copies of the
Scriptures.
Butter WAS used for many years in In.
dia solely as All ointment for applying to
wounds.
In the United States more than twice
as much is spent for liquor as for bread
and meat together.
Over 81, SOB, 600 was paid in sick and
death benefits last year BY unions affili.
ated with the American Federation OF
Labor.
The business of life insurance has de.
yeloped greatly in Japan since 1881.
There was only one company traHsacting
business in that ear.
A ton Of steel made into hairsprings for
watches is worth about 81, 600, ,000-more
than twelve times the value of the same
weight uf pure gold.
1t is believed that japanese rice wine
Is, next to grape vine, the | est alc :
holic beverage known to man, its use in
Japan dating back over Two thousand
years.
From June TO September the average
fly mother accumulates family of 2, 600, :
600 children If all these children lived
the flies would crowd mankind off the
earth.
Numerous as automo' lies now are
there are mo aut, M Jbile caps in circu-
la ion than the manufacturers are able to
provide automobiles for even by working
overtime.
New York beats the cities of the world
in the length of its street railway tracks.
Ii in one single track its surface, elevated
and subway system WI Il extend in a
straight line for LOIS miles.
There was a time when man carrying
a box of American beauty roses got credit
for it because Of the length Of the box, but
the new sty lie corsets are SO long that now
il he has roses everyone thinks it is cor.
set.
In Germany 2, 4O5 dogs were killed for
food in the last year, under official inspec-
ton. How many more were privately or
butchered it would be i'm
possible to sa, and it might be unpleasant
to estimate.
In sill, lie year the total number of
pins manufactured in the United States
was is, $50, 26O gross. The total lumber
Of pins manufactured in the United States
during 1900, the census year, was 6S, $780,
260 gross. There are forty-three factories
ID all with 1858 employees.
B.tween / 800, COO and 1900, 900 women
have signed petitions to the United States
senate to expei Reed Smoot, tile Utah
senator. The documents are SO numerous
and bulky that the committee room Of
The committee OH privileges and elections
could not hold them and they have been
,:ored in the cellar. Oh course, il would
De a physical impossibility to examine
hem.
For years there has been trouble Le-
.ween dogs and mail carriers. The fol-
owing regulation settles the question:
Carriers are not required to delitermail
at residences where vicious dogs are per-
nlitted 10 run at large. Persons keeping
such dogs must call at the postollice for
their mall
One hundred distinct and separatebooks
.elling the complete story Of the San Fran
cisco earthquake and fire, each one Of
,hem tthe only authentic account" are
n preparation i'll The various cities Of the
and they will be offered to the
public before the embers-a are cool "hand-
.omely bound, beautifully illustrated and
great money maker. y
y An exchange thus describes the man
! Ilo does things in hurry: "fhe unMise
nan is always in hurry. lie eats in a
irry and gets appoplexy. lie talks IN
hurry and says too much lie does
in hurry and goes broke. lie
rads in a hurry and is superficial. lie
.otes i'll a hurry and produces corruption.
lie inarries in a hurry and gets divorce.
lie trains his children in a hurry and
rurries them into evil ways. lie gels re-
igion in hurry and forgets il in hurry.
lie makes his viii in Il hurry and leaves
legal contest. lie dies i'll hurry and
ues to the devil, and his tribe increases.
The home most endeared to the heart
1 husband and wife is that which has
'eel bniIt up bit by bit. little now and
little lateron, wherein each piece Of fur
litnre represents many loving acts Of self
| nial and personal sacrifices, and round
hicll fingers the mefnors Of the scheme
and plotting tie getting Of it gave
ise to, and of the pleasure when it WAS
u. Ask the happy aged couple 70 llom
las been tile growth Of years.
hey will tell yon tie happiest time in !
heir lives were the first few years OF mar
led life, when, with mutual love and
elf fdellyiiig patience, they bnilt up their /
itIe home and Watched prosperity gath |
ring around heil-