Middletown transcript., 1906-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
: Member of the Household

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Member Of the Household
Chicago rules the worlds prices for
hides.
American oysters are sent as far as
Shanghai.
Now the time for everything never
the time for nothing.
Some Of the big department stores en-
ploy as high 5000 people.
Perseverance will clothe you with sue
cess and You can weaveit as you go.
Berlinlhas the largest searchlight in the
world. Ut is of three hundred and six
teen million candle power.
In the service of the railways of the
United states to-day more than a million
and Quarter of men'are employed.
Persons who adulterated food in Ger
many are liable to six months imprison-
ment and fine of fifteen hundred marks.
Some people go ahead and do things
Others sill back idly and criticise the do
ing. Which class is of greater benefit to
the world ?
In Menominee, Wis, there are 5000
people and 2.20O are children of school
age and attending the public schools,
record hard to beat.
A. D. Parker, the new vice e-president
of the Colorado & Southern railway, five
years ago was 'grubstaked" To-day he
is worth nearly million.
j The Illinois Capitol building at Spring
field (the dome) is 1854 feet-high. It is
the highest dome in the country. The
dome OF the national Capitol at Washing
ton is 2sS feet high.
By an Italian law every circus which
does not perform every act promised in
the printed programme, or which mis-
leads the public by means of pictures is
liable to a heavy fine of each offense.
An innocent child was standing by
watching her papa write his sermon.
tDoes God tell you what to write ?"
eyes, my darling, God tells me what to
write" '"Then why do you scratch so
muchP'
st. Lotlis is now the largest boot and
shoe city'in the country, according to the
Shoe and Leather Gazette. It's product
last year was valued at 1924, ,S75, OPT. Fac
tories outside the city, but owned and
operatedPy St. Louis concerns, put out
more thSh Sc, 900, 900 worth.
1t is said that by the closing of the
month the African mine, Bonanza"
one of tie richest mines in the world,
will be practically worked out. During
its life of eleven years there has been
produced from its eleven claims over ten
million dollars worth of gold, ten times
its capital and pain dividends.
Richard Witterstater sold to the
Chicago Carnation Association, of Joliet,
ILL.,, the caranation "Aristocrat" for $685.
600. 1t is deep pink, was produced at
the Wittefstater green house. The high
est price previously paid for caranation
was the 5000 Thomas W. Lawson paid
for the one named after Hmm. Y.
Tribune.
The American falls at Niagara are 1,O6O
feet across and 167 feet high. Fifteen
per cent pf the total flow OF water passes
over thenA The Canadian falls are 1,O1O
feet across and 1853 feet high. They carry
35 per cent. of the total volume of water.
II the grapts for power now pending are
allowed, the American falls will cease to
exist.
If every merchant would do cash busi-
ness it woilld be a blessing to humanity.
AS general rule, the man who can get
credit abuses the privilege. If he had to
pay cash he would learn to economize
and would finally learn to live within
bis means, A grocer claims he could do
business for cash on half the money he
now has invested and could afford to
sell his goods cheaper. MOI only 90 those
who pay bave to pay for what they con-
sume themselves, but they help make up
The loss for those who never pay.
There is a general determination among
The farmers of the west who have to hire
men for the season to do away with keep
ing hired mans horse. This is graft
which has become a nuisance, as it is
Stained that, having horse, the man is
100 much given to night buggy riding,
and in many cases the mans horse is fed
and cared Tor at the expense of the far
ner's own teams. We know Of number
Of men who the coming season will hire
40 man With horse unless ne will put
he animal IN and work it every day on
,he farm