Middletown transcript., 1906-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That viii Interest Every
Member of the Household

without cent III his pocket.
The use Of fenye.o pes was scarcely known
until after penny postage was intro.
dnced.
There are no white soldiers or police in
British New Guinea, where the natives
number 100000.
It estimated that the annual consump
ton Of coal in New York is fifteen and
one-llaIf million tons.
New York estate officials are not gem
uine now unless they bear the trade mark
"Made in Washington"
Tie German government pro6tted last
year over SIG, 100000 by its postal, tele.
graphic aud telephone systems.
The proceedings in connection with the
separation Of Norway cost Sweden 1917,
US, according to the Swedish budget.
A man was sent to the asylum recently
because he wanted the moon. The
people who want the earth are still out
side.
Russia proposes to eeonomize sby cut
ting the salaries of all government ems
ployes. The Cossacks are getting q cents
day.
Tired OF working for the small payment
which the state allows them, the Austrian
country doctors are preparing to strike,
When the Bank OF England was estab-
Iished By charter in 1864 it alone was al.
lowed to do banking business in the king
dom, and 1t was not until the passing OF
1926 that join stock banks began to be es-
tablished.
Chicago is the EIysium of beggars.
Harry Reid. the "Prince of Reggars,a =
says: ANYONE who works for living in
Chicago is sucker. A good hard luck
story will get you more money in day
than you can earn honestly in week"
A Kansas paper recently remarked that
"Although every woman cannot have a
vote, every woman can have voter. y
But an exchange quickly picks it up and
replies that it knows of several hundred
old maids who "are looking for theirs" "
Here is the pithiest sermon ever preach
ed: "Our ingress into life is naked and
bare, our progress through life is trouble
and care, our ingress out OF it We know
not where, but doing well here We shall
do well there. I could not tell more by
preaching year"
An Iowa editor has handed out the
knocker hard jolt in the following: "The
sorriest man on earth is the fellow, who
will sit around and cuss his own town. II
lived astride OF the north pole l would
call it home and be ready to boost it up.
If could not say anything nice about
it'll would say that my ice bill didn't
come high. would not stay in town
had to cuss-not while the world is as
big as it is now"
Major Smith was seated at the dinner
table with his guests. The coIored waiter
was just entering with smoking hot tur-
key, when he slipped and fell to the floor
together with crash of dishes. The
major, arising from the table, held up his
hands and said: Gentlemen, great
calamity has just befallen US; here We
have the downfall ofturkey, the breaking
up of China, the spilling OF Greece and the
humiliation OF Africa.
Even lamb chops are no longer secure
against adulteration. Butchers can now
make them out Of almost any old thing.
Professor Wiley, chief Of the bureau Of
chemistry OF the department of agricul-
ture, found the adulterated lamb chop.
He appeared before the committee on
ways and means OF the houses to tell OF
the adulteration of wines, and in discuss
ing the expertness with which adulterants
were mixed, said: Il stopped in local
butchers the other morning and ordered
some lamb chops sent to my home.
When got home looked at the chops,
not because suspected anything, but be-
cause of their excellent appearance. In
examining one of them found that the
meat about the bone practically pulled Oft. /
On further examination found the meat
coarse grained and not lamb at all. The
chop was counterfeit. The bone OF the
lamb was there, but in some manner
meat-what kind | do not know-had
been nearly pressed about it. In cooking
the meat would have adhered to the bone
and only careful examination would
have shown the deception"
The question, "Shal I advertiser
comes to every merchant at the time
when business is dull, observes an ex-
change. He sometines satisfies himself
with the conclusion that while business
is dull lie cannot afford it. This is the
time when he should make an extra effort
TO afford it. When business picks mp, one
merchant will say that he has all the
business Ire needs, and another will say
that while business is good he will adyer.
tise. There is with many merchants a
mistaken idea in regard TO advertising.
A man who has business should adyer-
tise it continually. When business is
slow, endeayor to liyen it up, and when
it does liven up, endeayor to keep it alive.
Some business men say that with their
particular business they have nothing to
advertise. If not, then they ought to
keep their names before the public contin-
nally in way that will attract attention.
II you can't advertise your goods, adyer-
tise your personality, and if people do not
buy your goods because of their merit,
make them buy out Of respect for your
pluck and ingeru ty IN placing them
before the public Advertise with all the
money you can spare. 1t pays.
The national Grange and the labor
and the labor unions are liable to come
into collision. At its recent session the |
former adopted a resolution declaring |
''that We, as American citizens, believe it |
is every mans privilege to work as many