Middletown transcript., 1906-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST no EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That wiIfInterest Every
Member of the Household

| AS 4toStaPue iuot VIII interest Every
Member of the Household
1t is hard to down man who doesn't
mind being downed.
| Accepting the directory publishers
estimate, Chicago has population Of 2
800, 900.
Pasco in Peru is the highest town in
the world, standing as it does Il, ,27t feet
above sea level.
The king Of spain's full name is A)ion-
SO Leon Fernando Maria Santiago Isi lore
Paschal Marcian.
The price of starch has been boosted,
but the linen collar from the laundry
still comes up to the scratch.
The total value of the product of tie
coal mines of Pennsylvania for 1905
amounted to 1856, ,OOO, 600 at the mines.
The River 0inoco has more tributar.
les than any other river. The total num-
Der is put at $500, including 1876 large
streams.
Including lslets and uninhabited rocks I
the British isles consist of at least $500
different islands. Only about 4oeare in
habited.
The tolling OF bell at fnneral is a
purely pagan custom. The idea was to
drive away evil spirits. Funeral bells are
known to have been used by the church
in the sixth century, A. D.
John Jacob Astor is said to be the larg-
est private eiieF of ef automobiles III this
country. They number twenty-four, the
average cost OF each is about S., 900, maxi
ing total OF $4,000 invested in his
machines.
Tackle the average farmer on the sub
lects OF national, state or local politics,
and you will find him much better post
ed than the average city man. You will
find that he is always ready to give a rea-
son for his political beliefs. He is not
the sort of a man that waits for some poll.
ticiaa to tell him the way he should vote.
He reads, ponders and does cheap OF
thinking"
The bones OF III men, 123 women, So
boys and IS girls were taken from the
graves in the municipal cemetery at Qua
dalajara, Mexico, during the past week.
The leases on the graves had expired.
The bones have been stacked in the corner
of cemetery and will be sold to a pur-
chaser from the United States. Many
car loads Of human bones are shipped
out of Mexico yearly. The bones are
used in preparing fertilizers.
A man was heard to remark on the
street one day last week that he would as
soon believe be sprang from camel as
to believe he sprang from a monkey.
The camel will work seven days without
drinking and a man occasionally drinks
seven days without working. If one is to
be judged by habit be might be led to be
believe that a man sprang from goats.
They are the only animals that poster
tobacco, wear whiskers and are in
clined to butt in.
In an article on the subject of "What
Can Young Man Do," written by Frank
w. Rollins, Ex-Governor of New Hamp-
shire, and published in the Boston Pilot
the writer says: "There never was
time when there was such demand for
good men, for men fitted for positions,
for men who have vitality and energy,
and who know their business. There
are not enough good men to-day to
do the work; the demand exceeds the
supply. Brains are at premium"
The rural mail carrier found iu box
On his route two unstamped letters intend
I'd for the owner of the box, and put there
by some one in passing The letters were
,onfiscated and sent to Washington with
! request for ruling. The governments
anproyed the action of the carrier and
aid that all mail found in any box with
,ut stamps or the proper amount OF post
,pe must be taken to the postottice and
held for postage. This ruling means that
The owner OF the matt If box Has re eentrol
over it.
The manufacture Of paper from the
iber of the cotton stalk is one OF the lat
sst and most interesting inventions, and
/ has been unquestionably demonstrated
hat all grades of paper from the beat
'orm of linen paper grade to the lowest,
an be manufactured that will prove the
,ntering wedge of checking the present
cost of paper. The practical
,ffect of this new invention will be to In
,rease the value ofsthe southern cotton
,rop nearly million dollars annually.
IN the southeastern section Of the cotton
,elt the new industry will prove bless
ng as the removal Of the stalks from the
ields will sound the death knell to the
,olI weevil. Several mills will be erected
ire long in different sections of the south
md will be in operation early in the year.
I Try to catch onto what you want
make a grab for it, and hold it if you
10 not bIubber, for that never does any
,ood. Try again. II is the cheerful
nan who succeeds, who when his balloon
.ollapees, goes to work Immediately to in
late another one. The saddest failure in
his life is the man who gives up. Keepa
tiff upper lip, face the future With cour-
ge and always be deserving of suc-
ess whether You attain it or not. Don't
magine that to make money is the only
,bject in life. The most successful man is
he willing worker who is contented with
easonable reward for his effort. and
lmost every man can attain that il he
does his best with hopeful