Middletown transcript., 1906-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household


It's hard for the Cubans to get over
the revolution habit.
A rich Pennsylvania has hired train
ed nurse for his sick bulldog.
The one hundredth anniversary OF the
discovery Of Pixies Peak is about to be
celebrated.
TIE Cuban Congress has authorized the
president to sp,-nd $l,0O0,O00 to encour-
age immigration.
There are but four days IN the year
when the sun and clock exactly corre4
ponds. In other words there are but four
days OF the s65 in which the sun is direct
" south at noon.
II is snnonnGed that the penns, lyauia
Railroad company is building large
number OF alI-steel cars for passenger
traffic, which are expected to be practi-
cally indestructib!e, and that the COM
pany c'iitemplates tquipping its entire
passenger service with such cars ae rap
idly as they can be built.
Niagara river il 60 miles long from
Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It has falls
33aa4 feet. The river is dotted With 36 is
lands Of which Grand Island is the larg-
est, containing II ,ai4 acres OF land. Goat
Island Of WHICH so much has hesn told,
is just above the great falls aud contains
about 70 acres.
Tremendous frauds have Deen discover
ed in the operation of the Siberian railway.
Even the cars seem to have been taken |
apart and sold by the agents of the govern
ment. So far it has been learned, 800 |
cars have completely disappeared asld no |
trace Of them can be found. A shortage |
$s2siA, ,001, 600 has be foAnd IN the &C, |
counts of one agent and the investigation
has scarcely begnn.
That estimate may been excessive, be.
aanse it would be cheaper to carry to
magazines and periodicals in large bulk
t.lan to handle the same weight of single
ie ters, but it Is et tirely within reason to
suppose that the whole deficit is to be
found in secund class matter. Another |
attempi is to he made to duce congresses
to revise the Law. A jnint committee |
on the sni.iect is TO give public hearings
in New Ynrk fhis fall.
Alfred Mosely wea tn. EHgiiShman
says American boys are brig! Liter THAI |
English BOYS lie does not appear TO !
know why. One OF the chief reasons Why |
young America is bright is because it
tips the cap to no squire. squrieling or
other candescending aver ln4n And in
addition ta this he nlay tinJ by listing to
the conversation of Uncie Sans sn,s aud |
daughters that each and every ome has u
ambition; not ole ls satI-fied III
step ia n partIlular class il he or she caiI
see a way Of getting higher.
We are told that an old lady in Reads
borO, Vermont, who is more than seventy
three years old has subsisted principally |
upon cracke nee she was girl often.
Her name Cynthia Jilison and the
Eas consumed number over
800, 600, aud would I'll a25 barrels. She
has muncehd crackers foF,breakiast crack
srs for dinner and crackers for supper
Size must be tile
Old wanleIl, who lived on Green Noun.
tain state hill.
And if not dead or gone she lives there
still,
Crackers and drink formed her Chief
diet
And sorrowfu to relate this old lady
could never keep quiet.
More than 100000 pieces OF mail
went astray in the United States last
year because they were not directed web
enough for the experts to decipher the
name and the addresses. Millions OF this |
inmense total went toihc dead letter Office |
where lot Of it was opened, the address
es OF the writers ascertained aud tile let |
tiers or packages returned. But in good |
many cases the writer's address is never
found and the letter Is really "deadn
when neither the sender nor the prospec-
tive receiver can be discovered. Assistant |
Postmaster General DeGraw wants |
to get people into the habit of writing
their own addresses on the outside of the
envelope. This he says, would save trou-
bic for all hands..
Gnod morning, have you had dried
milk for breakfast ? This interesting
article produced by the new soluble |
process is soluble in water, and can be re-
constituted by the addition of enough |
water to the -four. Tile Reconstructed |
milk, which possesses all the exact |
properties OF the fresh liquid, has flat |
taste and is less palatable. The great |
value OF solid milk lies in its use in bak-
ing and cooking or for certain commercial
purposes. Thus in the manufacture of
milk chocolate the make is limited in the |
quantity of milk which can be added to |
the ground chocolate, because the result
ing mass mnst not be too thin or the
chocolate will not harden properly. No |
such difficulty is present II milk flour is
used. As it will keep indefinitely it prom
ises to be solace TO tourists, campers,
explorers, and for military and naval |
purposes, not only as powder but also |
IN tablets. It's use win simplify the trans-
portation Of milk, as its weight is less |
than one-tenth the weight of fresh milk. |
1t will be extremely difficult to aduiterate
for, primarily. no water can be added |
without the possibility Of detection, and,
ID the second place, no chemicals need
be added to preserve unchanged its quail
tiles as raw milk.
Uncle Sans dinner pail is full and |
oyerRowing and filling other peoples
dinner pals. Exports aud imports for