Middletown transcript., 1906-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREsT 10 EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member Of the Household

Mistakes are often good object lessons.
There are niue George Washingtons in
Chicago.
The flag pole on the state capitol at
Harrisburg, Pa. cost $3.50.
An army officer and his five children
are living in New York on s. week.
Brains will accomplish more than luck.
Have you good supply Of the former2
There are nearly $50 miles Of asphalt
pavement in Chicago. Hall the streets
Of the city have no pavement OF any
kind.
The duke OF Marlborough must be
highly Objectionable ard unpleasant per
son il it is worth $1,000 a year TO be rid
Of him.
The youngest war veteran is Perry
Bryan OF Seattle, Wash. He enlisted as a
drummer boy August 22d, 1862, at the age
Of nine years.
Detroit is now the center OF automo-
bile manufacture. The output for 1906 is
estimated at $4,000. 900 and that for 19b7
at SIS, COG, 900.
1t is estimated that Uncle Sans army
of pacifcation will cost Cuba 81 200, 600.
That will cut Cuba's surplus down frem
its present unlncky $4,000, 600.
liarper's Bazaar announces that blue-
e, ed girls are again coming into style.
If they ever went out OF style they did il
so quietly and une stentatiously that no.
body observed it.
II tie insurance companies were called
upon to pay for all the tohaccq that goes
up in smoke, they would lind themselves
in worse plight than the San Francisco
fire left them.
Secretary Shaw announces plan to in
crease bank note circulation by $l8, ,000,-
900, for which purpose he will accept se-
curities other than government bonds for
deposits in national banks.
In Australia several kinds OF snakes are
eaten roasted. They are said to be equal
in delicacy and favor to the finest stewed
| eels. A traveller declares the steam from
the roasting reptiles is by no means un-
sasory.
| Ellison, the great inventor, promises
within six months to supply the world
with storage battery at cost OF not
/ over $500, that will enable its owner to
travel without fourther cost any distance
for fifteen years. He says the horse is
doomed.
/ The fateful word comes echoiBg from
London that whiskers are once more to
be the fashion. The last decade has un-
tionabiy been that OF the clean sllayen-
clean shayen except possibly for the mus
taeEe and even mustaches have been
growing fewer
One day this month $3.50, 900 was raised
By the citizens OF Seattle, Washington,
for the exposition TO be held in 1909, and
il more money is needed it will be FORTH
coming. The fair site has already been
chosen, a slightly tract of 355 acres, sit
nated picturesquelY on the shore OF Lake
Washington, within twenty minutes ride
of the city. The management intend it
shall be a big show, larger than that OF
i Portland last year or the one next year at
4 Ia,nestpwn VirOinia
Blessed be the potato. 1t keeps Ireland
i alive aud furnishes no small part of the
bread Of life to the people Of other coun-
tries. II provides the shiny surface on
tile shirt front of the society youth, when
he goes forth to corquer and now it is
about to reach new use and dignity. De-
natured alcohol for use in the industries
is made largely from potatoes and thus
tile humble tuber, in addition to all its
4 ether uses, will soon be furnishing light,
heat and power to all the people.
I The costliest -four that st. Louis ever
baked into cakes brought $4,000 pound
and ginger snaps that it produced sold for
81 each. Even at that high price people
bought them By the dozen. Ii was one
of tile rare instances when the high price
Of foodstuffs comes as blessing, for every
cent OF the money went to swell the fund
Of The sanitary commission organized by
DR.. Henry w. Bellows OF Boston during
the civil war which furnished more than
| SI5, 200, 900 in supplies and 5000, 900 in
money to relieve the sufferings Of the fed
eral troops.
i When the authorities of the university
u Chicago few years ago took the first
steps toward separating the sexes in that
instilutionit was recognized that the OBJ
ject aiIAed at was the complete abolition
i Of the co-ducation. The late President
Harper was resolved that young men and
young women should not be educated to-
gether and his plans have now been fully
carried out, Dean McCIintock's an
nouncement is that hereafter the sexes
will never meet in classroom. lecture
i hall or chapel and that there will be in
effect. two distinct universities affiliated
under one supreme management.
The romantic, modern history Of the
metal, copper, has been made in America
and is still being made there. The
4 United States is tile largest producer l65
to 70 per cent. Of tile worlds supply ]
land the freest consumer Of II. Copper
mines all over the world are becoming
exhausted, while those III 4his country
are each year giving up a greater qnali-
J tits Of the metal, Europe is now as dc.
pendent on our copper as elie is on our
cotton. A famine Of the ore would stop
electrical progress in Germany, France
and Holland as completely as q cuitail-
ment of the Southern staple checks the
looms in the mills Of Manchester.
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