Middletown transcript., 1906-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That viii interest Every
Member of the Household

Little Paragraphs That will interest Ever
Member of the Houssheld
Giraffes and ant-eaters each hay
tongues nearly two feet in length.
Appendicitis, prominent physician
say, is often only case of worms.
A worlds sunday school conyentiol
will be held at Rome in May, 1907.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh
Take in the ideas of the day, drain of
those Of yesterday.
Andrew Carnesie's library gifts in the
United States last year numbered 2l1
and amounted to over 100000.
More than eighty. churches and build.
ings devoted to religious activity, were
destroyed in San Francisco.
This world is. in reality q huge circus
ring and each of us at times has a turn
at acting the role Of clown.
In the not distant future, rural mail
carriers will make daily trips on auto
mobiles, doing away with horses and
vehicles.
One should enter into new enterprises
slowly. It is far better to go forward
slowly tkan to go round and round ever
so fast.
Last year there were 80, ,211 millions
matches sold in France, bringing into
that nations treasury 5,216, $50, this
being sshte monopoly
A Michigan capitalist who died recent
y left twenty-seyen wills. He must
have been determined that bis heirs
should not live in idleness.
The pope showed his knowledge OF
practical and temporal affairs the other
Jay when he greeted two American auto
nobilists: "God bless ysn-but go
ilow.n
II is estimated that the coal fields of
China and Japan are 100000 square
miles; ours are 1914 900; Great Britain's,
1000; Germany's, 5000; Frances 1900;
Russia's 27 600; India's, 5000.
The eight muscles of the human jaw
sxert q force OF about five hundred
pounds, and yet they are at times un-
able to drive the teeth through a msuth-
iul OF packing house beef that has been
lnder treatment in the hospital OF one of
ihe institutions.
Get busy! To-day, not tomorrow, is
he accepted time. II you would be a
'uccess, be one. No one is stopping you.
Your hands and feet are not tied. You
need not wait till someone drives up in
! 40-hosse-power automobile and invites
fou to ride with him to fame and glory.
Hard word and a little common sense
will do the trick. Get busy.
Elmer Ellsworth, peter of Warren
county, ILL.,, has discovered the secret Of
making genuine china out OF American
Hay. Potters of this country have been
experimenting for years how to accom-
,lish this. He is confident that by his
ecret, the United States can turn out
;hina equal to the imported ware with a
zig decrease in cost.
II the laboring men Of the United States
would absolutely quit drink for one
month they would have enough money
o purchase 500 of the largest manufacture
ng establishments in America. If they
would abstain year they could buy
200 manufacturing establishments and
I they would quit for twenty years they
;ould control all the manufacturing in |
erests in America. If they would only
luit 60 days they could buy the Pullman
Palace Gar works and all its rolling
took.
There are about eight classes Of town
.ihers, and every town is afflicted with
me or more OF them. First, those who
o out Of town to do their trading; second,
hose who are opposed to improvements; |
bird, those who prefer quiet town to
ne of push and business; fourth, those |
Vho imagine they own-the town; fifth,
hose who deride public-spirited men;
ixth, those who oppose movements not /
with themselves; seventh,
hose who oppose every movement that |
oes not appear to benefit them; eighth,
hose who seek to iniure the credit or
equation OF their neighbors.
Down in Texas, according to the
Iouston Post, the man who has three
'asadena cantaloupes for breakfast,
eek of Elberta peaohes for dinner, and
forty-pound watermelon for supper
an hand the hoarse hoot to the beef
rust every day in the week.
A western man who has had consider
BILE experience in raising potatoes says
nat by planting two or three fax seed
! each bill not bug appeared in the
atch. He claims to have tried it
u several years in succession with
ways the same results. This is simple |
nd inexpensive experiment and is
orth trying. 1
Twenty years ago the English hated
That Vas American. We now +
link altogether differently. The
merican women is the pattern upon I,
hich our women are being remodeled;
le Amefican man has wholly altered our
laracter and that of our business.
ritish institutions are being recon-
ructed in accordance with those OF the
nited States.
If every crow in the United States eats
grains Of corn alter il is planted, the
Mount of corn lost that would have
'yeloped would be 81. .4i5, ,668, 600 grains ,
corn, or enough to plant 5ll, ,48S 2-S
res which, in turn wcnld have pro-
ICED the following season 1851, ,4S2 20
lshels OF corn, and enough cobsto treble
9 corn cob pipe crop of Missouri and
axe 8, 542 gallons and pints of pure
srmont maple sirup.