Middletown transcript., 1906-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

I Member OF the Household
A woman's brain declines in weight af-
! ! ter the age Of 80.
: Grecian women had very long feet.
Hot,en.ot women cut of a finger joint
when they retlarry.
Ellen Terry is passionately fond Of cats.
Brides in Australia are peIted With rose
: leaves.
III Africa wives, are sold for two packets.
Of hairpius.
Pae.i sleeps viii, a silk scarf about her
neck.
: In stature Esquimo women are the
shortest on eHrtl.
No photographs are ever taken Of
\ women in China.
Sarah Berpharll has huge bed fifteen
feet long.
New York has q, 600 women Who sup
port their husbands.
/ Only one woman in 100 insures her
life.
/ A well-knownocuist says that only one
pair Of eyes in every fifteen is perfect.
Sea birds, which frequently spend
weeks at sea, are believed to quench their
thirst partly from the falling rains and
partly from the fat and oil whicllthey de-
your rayenously when found.
Paris has 2,72olnoo people.
America fakes nearly onehaif the
worlds crop Of rubber.
! The chief labor unions Of Germany col
lect over 81, ,0O0, 900 year in dues.
| Since so few of MS are useful, it's up to
all OF US totry to be ornamental.
Nhitewash doesn't last long, whether
il be pnt upon a all or on areputation.
1t is predicted that American hard
wood forests will last only thirty y-five years
longer.
John D. Rockefeller pays 25 cents each
for snakes killed on his huge estate in the
Pocantico hills.
Since the Sues cansl was opened its an ,
nuai revenue has increased from 81 ,80O;-
600 to $20,000, 900.
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Iron MAS first discovered in this country
IN North Carolina in 1886 The first at
temptto manufacture it was made in Yir- !
ginia in 1918
There is being built on the Minnesota
State fair grounds in Minneapolis the
largest live stock ampllitheatre in the
world at a cost OF 100000.
Uncle Sam doesn't carry chip on his
shoulder bnt il anyone should happen to
tread on the tail of his star-spangled coat b
he has ! l ,l26s $50 men subject to military a
service. f
The vile Of an army contractor wants :
$lSl 1858 for ice furnished troops during
the Civil war; If ice was issued to the il
troops the men iii the ranks never sus- ii
pected it. Someone may next put in a I
claim for pillow shams and nighties fur y
nished the soldiers.
A Norwegian scientist, DIR. Hansteen, /,
Of the agricultural school at Asa, predicts a
that moss will become recognized staple 4
food. He says it is more nutritious than r
many vegetables now used and it makes
a dish that is good eating. Mossbacks
may yet be popular, even amongst Canni- 2
balls. IL
There are people who can't trust them !. .
selves, who know that they are totally Z {
but they go about asking =
others to trust them with money, goods or
other property. sc
Ten millions for battleshipl Congress D
gives tout Of taxes wrung from the poor, II
for the poor are the final payers of all %
taxes. That would have erected 10000 81
cottages costing $1,000 each. What a
boon that would have been to the poor I'll
alun population of any great city. But q
to ask congress to do that and rent them bl
at So month (six per cent. ON the in "
vestlnent) would have been tile worst to
kind OF paternalisn, SO it would
Yet the people are educated to believe !,
that tile government is to protect themI = :
This marked difference between the $;
ministers and the number of +,
is seen in very nearly all OF the 3
larger denominations. Baptists, for in !.
52,9l9 churches and only
81 600 ministers; Disciples of Christ have
II ,033 churches aud 6,475 ministers ia
Lutlerans, 1888 churches and 4 1856 tn
ministers; Presbyterians all bodies, have IN
1902 churches and 1868 ministers; su
Episcopalians, with 7,l46 churches, have oil
but 5,l09 clergynlen. The Reformed ar
have 1910 ministers 10 2,536
United Brethren have q, ,4O7 In
and but 2, 1856 ministers. There ~
are but few exceptions among American r.
religious bodies to this disproportion be- ar
tween the number Of churches the minis "
ters. A notable one, however, is the !,
Catholic church, which has II ,6S7 s.
and Il sle4 ciergymen.
There is report that Mr.. Edison an i,
uounces that in few days now every y =
body will be able to own and operate an = =
automobile, because lie, Mr.. Edison, has = =
ionnd cobalt in North Carolina II this = =
really means everybody there are likely s. $
10 be more wrecks in every street than =
here have been on the coast of Puget e
sound, Tie majority Of people cannot y
run ieakettle successfully. to say nothing
II an automobile. Hans body at all is to pr
be left to go afoot he is not likely to be be
iers grateful to Mr.. Edison. pc
The manufacture OF cement in the us
United States continues to make remark y