Middletown transcript., 1906-11-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member os the Household

Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member Of the Household
a nlinute to-day is worth all hour To-
| morrow.
Trying to avoid work is often tie hard
ell kind.
Never ierrow trouble but always lie
ready to l-ieiit.
Money la.ks-and it is usually in a
hurry to cay good bye"
Immigrants from Italy ontnumber
those from Ireland four to one.
Tie government patent Office is two
years behind With its work.
The brass industry alore supports TO-
coo people at Waterbury, Conn.
Goose oil, persistently applied for
weeks, will loosen stiff joints.
One Greenland whale weighs as much
a, IS elephants or 440 bears.
Sleeping out of doors is much more
exItiarating if man doesen't have to.
A Salvation. Army lass says that the
sslnnnkeepefs are the most generous
givcrs.
ClevpIan,rs Y. NJ c. A. has decided
that mult-miIlinnaire cannot be an
honest man.
There are 100000 600 people facing star
vatiou in the northern part OF Central
China.
They were engaged while in bathing
and now their friends are calling it
swimming match
Instead Of having surplus OF Sl5, ,000,-
600 Cuba is found to be in debt to the ex-
tent Of 81, 900, 900.
The hide of horse yie'ds about twenty
pounds OF leather, while that froma COW
gives thirty five pounds.
Fifty years ago our grandads said
'Skedaddlep' Today We cay "SkiddoI"
And one Is as bad as the other.
Tie British government gets an income
Of $25, 5,OO0,0O0 from the railways, river
boats and forest Of India.
A sorehead in Kansas says there are.n
women mummies because woman never
was known to dry up and stay dried.
The first plows used in this country |
were made OF cast iron and were objected |
to from the belief that the metal poison
ed the ground.
A man who has been married FIVE times
says he has .asons to believe that Solo
mans wisdom was acquired by association
with Ills numerous mother-in-laws.
Spain is building some new war ships,
which are to be equipped with American
machinery; but that Will not do much
good. They arp to be manned by Spain
ards.
The Empire of Russia is rich,in horses.
tc the statistics of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture at Washington, there
are on earth go, 455, 600 horses, of which
Russia alone has 33,O00,0OO. averaging
twenty five horses per hundred inhabi-
tants
The uses made OF peat other than fuel
are Increasing. 1t is used largely as
body for stock. food manufacture. Now I
We are Informed that it makes excellent
course paper of a fine dark slate color,
for wrapping paper, for pack
ing purposes and for protection under
carpets.
David Rankin, of Tarkio. Mo-, is now
86 years old and he never fails to 60 the
rounds of his farms in good weather. He
OWNS fourteen big farms containing 22,-
600 acres of land, and from these farms
and his cattle and hogs he cleared over
81 ,000, 600 in 1905; this year is expected
to be equally as profitable. This, the
IN the United States finds largest farmer
returns in the business.
On his recently completed tour aronnd
the world Mr. Bryan was accompanied
by his wife, who put i'll typewritting all
the newspaper articles lie prepared.
Mrs. Bryan not only studied law and was
to the bar soon after she mar
ried her then uniistinguished husband
but she also learned to manipulate the
typewriter as a further means of being
OF practical help to him in his work.
Lovers of tobacco in its various seduc-
tives forms who have been at times
trifie conscience smitten by reason Of the
alleged deplorable effects of the tobacco
habit upon the mind and body should
be able to smoke their pipes
in peace since no less an authority than
the London Lancet, the foremost journal
Of the medical world, has risen up to de-
clare in the most deliberate and positive
way that tobacco smoke contains an ap-
preciable amount OF formaldehyde, one
of the most powerful OF antiseptics and
germ killers.