Middletown transcript., 1906-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST 10 EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That viii Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member Of the Household
A Missouri man claims to hare found
process for liqnefying coal.
Two tons Of bananas can BE- grown Oil
the space Of ground which will produce
forty pounds wI.eat.
Germany is now making !, 800, 900 tons
Of beet sugar yearly. and exported more
than million tone.
Over 300 British vessels plying in
eastern waters are manned BY Chinese
crews.
Il Isl said where one boy smoked uccas-
ionally ten years ago. 500 smoke regular
ly to-day.
A Japanese commission has come to
this country to study Christianity.
A married man always looks foolish
when you ask him how he proposed.
The unfortunate thing about divorces
is that it seldom cures the parties of the
marrying habit.
Il is dull market day in New York
city when 100000 eggs and 100000
pounds of butter are not received.
All things may come to those who wait
but much earlier possession can be ac-
quired by hiking after them.
Todoy Har,ardjs andc,,-n,a,. o,aonnta
to SIS, ,0OO. .OOO, that OF Chicago 500, coo, 600,
and that OF Leland. Stanford to possibly
twice as much.
He put his arms around me, but he
never squeezed me-" declares a Chi
cago lady who is suing man whom she
accuses Of having swindled her out OF
$500.
This definition of education is given by
the Jewel County Monitor: Education
consists in knowing what and in know
ing where to get il when yoa want it
and In knowing bow to use it when you
get it."
An Indiana writer says that sleep is
caused by the retraction of the dendFites
Of the cortex cells interrupting the con-
neetions uf neufons. A man who know
ingly bad any such thing the matter
with him ought to welcome the Interrupt
ton.
Close within our reach often lie the
very things needfll to make our hyes
happy, usefuls and beautiful; but with
our eyes on the sky, dreaming of stars
We can never reach, we are disdaining
the treasure that rest ON our own hearth.
stone.
One tug on the Mississippi river can
take, in six days, from st. Louis to New
Orieaus, barges carrying 10000 tons Of
grain, which would require seventy
railway trains Of fifteen cars each. Tugs
in the Suez canal tow vessel from sea
in forty-four hours.
. Rabbits which were once the scourge Of
Australia are now a source of profit TO
the farmers. The careasses are put in
cold storage and shipped to England and
the far east, and thare is good money in
canned rabbits, too, but the most valuable
part of these small animals is the value
derived from the skins, and in fact, SO
profitable has become this part of the in
dustry, that many trappers are devoting
themselves to il, retaining only the skins.
The work of building a. town. isp't 80
far different from that of advancing the
concerns Of AN, individual. The fdhiy
difference is that if is easy to- iinteteat
most persons in their immediate
concerns while men often overlook the
fact that their material welfare is INSOFAR
able from the general well being of
town. The man who has dollar invest
ed in given town and who earns his
livelihood in it is vitality concerned in
the moral and material well being of
that town and he is neglecting his own
concerns, when he lets an opportunity
pass to do all within his power and re-
sources to advance the common good.
The man who makes two spears of grass
grow where but one formerly found sus-
tenanse has been much praised. The
man who provides employment for two-
where but one formerly found employ
ment lacks much of being an enemy of
his kind also.
Everybody gets tired Of everybody else
once in while, and at those moments 1t
is good thing to lock oneself in ones
room and 90 through mental examina-
ton.
No one will ever succeed at anything
he has to push himself to, and when
mans performing work that he has to
fight to keep up an interest in he had
better change it as quickly as possible.
Luck in most things is largely q matter
of care and precaution. Ifa man has the
enthusiastic determination to win he Will
not stop to worry about what he has to
do to get there" butwill take up the
first thing at hand and do it as we'll as
be can till something better comes along