Middletown transcript., 1906-04-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
: One of our women says she don't be-
lieye in divorces, she belives in fight to
the finish.
The beautiful young widow who re-
fuses to get married again is always re-
garded by homely old ladies as heroine.
You cannot catch the same rat twice
in the same trap, but you can a man.
This is no compliment to man.
If all the bread which a man con-
sumes during his life were put into one
loaf it would contain about sixteen cubic
yards.
Ruskin said that man who consumed
more than he produced is a pauper.
Then there are many paupers among the
! rich.
"a man." says the Michita Eagle,
"never gets too poor to chew tobacco,
nor woman too poverty stricken TO wear
: a corset
Sinee 1900 Germany has increased in
population 4,238,00O The inhabitants
per square mile is 30l. The women out
number the men by 868,99l.
In 1898 the first American automobiles
were built. To-day there are probably
$4,000 or more automobiles in the United
States, representing an investment of
millions of dollars.
''Don't look too far ahead, Z, says the
Atctison Globe. ''You go to bed to rest,
not for the purpose OF getting up and GO
ing to work again"
II things fail to come your way go
around ard head them off.
Three Germans were sitting at lunch
con recently and were overheard discuss
ing the second marriage ola mutual friend,
when one of them remarked, 81 tell you
what. A man What marries de second
time don't deserve to lost his first wife.
The inventors of gasoline engines are
getting them down finer every year. 1t
is now possible to get reliable marine
engine of one and one-half horse power
capacity that only weighs eighty pounds
complete, and is reversible and thoroughly
reliable.
The increased cost of living troubles
people all over the world. Vincent Cor
bett, financial manager Of the Egyptian
government, has issued a remarkable re-
port on the constantly growing cost Of
everything foods, and labor alike
in Egypt. The laborer in Egypt gets
higher wages. but also he pays more for
everything he consumes.
1t has been discovered that newspaper
subscriptions are almost an infaIible test
of mans honesty. Ii he is dishonest
he will cheat the printer, and if he
cheats the printer he is dishonest, hence
there is no escape. The editors subscrip-
ton book will be on hand at the judg-
ment day, and some fellow will pray for
the mountains to fall on them because
they didn't square up with the printer.
''Now won't you let me call YOU dar-
ling and let me feel the loving ten.
drills OF your sweet, rosy lips twininp
around mine while the twinkling stars
OF twilight look on and wink approval ?''
Such was the closing OF letter read in q
breach of promise case in Texas court
And the jurors twisted uneasily in then
seats while the judge stopped down be-
hind the bar of justice and took drink
They have found new use for corn
When you lick your stamps now remem.
Der that is not gun arabic that You are
coming in contract with, but new sub
stance discovered by the Illinois Exper-
iment Station and extracted from the
kernels of corn. This should add, il pos
sible, to the already supreme potentate
who rules over the corn belt with such
glory for himself and such benefits for
his millions of subjects
A girl baby was brought to Seattle
clergyman, according to 1.-The Post-Intel-
ligency," of that city, to be baptized. He
asked the name of the baby. "Dinah
NJ" the father responded. "But what
does the M. stand for n asked the min
lister. "0h if she turns out nice and
sweet and handy about the house, like
her mother / shall call her Dinah MAY,
but if she has fiery temper and bomb
shell disposition like mine, shall call
her Dinah Might"
Abraham Lincoln's first speech on the
tariff question was short and to the point
He said he did not pretend to be learned
in political economy, but he thought that
he knew enough to know that "whe1lan
American paid $40 for steel to an English
manufacturer, America had the steel and
England had the $40. But when he paid
500 for steel TO an American manufacturer,
America had both the steel and the $40.
That was the sum and substance of the
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