Middletown transcript., 1906-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member of the Household
Learn to swim and then keep in th
swim.
1t is estimated that a cent changes
hands 10000 times in the course OF it
life.
The British house of commons favor
paying members of parliament 81, 800 9
year each.
The gross receipts of the Chicago post.
office for the year ending Jan. 30th, 1906,
were $11, GAS, ,295.
"lf women ran the government" as
serted the lady with a mission, ''they
would speedily abolish all red tape. !"
"No doubt they would" growltd the
mean man. "And install baby blue and
nile green and old gold and lavender
tape in its stead"
| Undertake brayely that which in your
heart you desire to accomplish. The
mistakes you make will help you toward
success.
Japanese need not worry about their
small stature. They look big enough to
people who get into difficulties with
them.
l. would be very impolite tax-assesso
who would call at the Longworth resi-
dence with printed list of the wedding
presents in his hand.
An Iowa professor returns from the
Philippines, and says that the natives
have an innate aversion to work. Why
not make United States Senator out of
them !?
Congress- proposes to make a sweeping
investigation of all railroads. One object
for investigation is doubtless to ascertain
why some OF the railroads no longer fur
nish passes to congressman.
Among the modern institutions which
Toxic will not adopt. is the sky scraper.
In country where they rock the babies
to sleep by means of an earthquake, the
forty-story building would hardly be pop
ular.
1t is estimated by the statistician of
leading European Almanac that John D.
Rockfeller's wealth equals the annual
budget of fifteen European states. His
fortune in dollars and cents would form
double circle around the earth and if his
wealth was transformed into pieces of
silver, it would weigh as much as two
fully armoured and equipped cruisers
But is he very happy?
A small boy rushed up to a Doctors
office and shouted, "Say, want the doc
tor to come to our house right away"
s'Who are your" asked the doctor.
"Gee, don't you know me? Why we
deal with you regular we had baby
from here last week.
The merchant who gives the same at
tention to his advertising as he does to
his sweeping, dusting and replacing stock
will never argue that advertising doesn't
pay. The man who argues that advertis-
ing doesn't pay is the man who would
neglect to attend to it, No doubt if he
would leave his store for month without
changing the goods, he would conclude
that it doesn't pay to keep store. Adver-
tising is an expense. but if it didn't pay
large business houses would never expend
thousands OF dollars annually to push
their trade.
1t is more fun to see man read a puff
on himself in newspaper than to see a
fat man slip OH banana peel. The
narrow minded man reads it over seven
or eight times and then goes around to
appropriate what copies me can. The
kind hearted man goes around to the
Office and pays what he owes. The sue
cessful business man who advertises regu-
larly, and makes money by it, immed-
lately starts out to find the editor and the
two walk silently down the street and
the business man takes sugar in his'n and
they both eat Glove or two and life is
sweeter and peace settles down on their
hearts for moments. Such is the exper-
fence of mustard seed that falls on diff
ferent ground.
1t has been said that spelling is getting
to be lost art. It is not strange, per-
haps, that persons whose vocations do
net require much writing should be
floored occasionally by words in common
use, but what shall be said of school
teachers who manifest that weakness A
few days ago the $50 school teachers of a
county in Pennsylvania we're subjected to
a test in spelling. Only thirteen words
we're given them, all common words in
general use. Only one teacher passed the
test successfully. The words were auxil-
larry, beek-steak, Tennessee, proceed,
precede, picnicing, sieve, seize,
siege, cylinder, succotash and desiccated.