Middletown transcript., 1906-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the HOuseh0 Id

The scheming mamma is the one who
usually makes the engagement ring.
The price of tarch has been boosted but
the linen collar from the laundry still
comes up to the starch.
Sydney Smith long ago remarked that
"a great deal of talent is lost to the world
for the want OF a little courage"
King Leopold defes the world 10 inter-
fere with his slaughter of millions of help
less natives in the Congo, and the world
accepts his bluff.
Learn to carry out your ideas, to plan
your ambitions and make them workable.
Finish your tasks and end one before YOU
begin another.
ln eight years the population OF Osaka,
Japan, has increased from 81, 800 to over
l.026,O00. The number of factories has
increased sy 99l.
We are judged BY results, not by empty
longings and aspirations that get now here.
One small result is worth heaps OF grand,
soggy intentions that never get beyond
the threshold OF lazy brain.
A Kansas man published the declara-
tion that the water below a dam was
softer than that above it, and after every
scientist in the state had taken a fall out
of him, explained that the fall over the
dam broke the water.
Congressman GARNER, Of Texas, repre-
sents the greatest goat raising region in
the world. There are more than SOC, 1000
"Nannies" and "Billies'' in the twenty
two counties composing his district.
Uviade county alone has $4,000.
The female fly lays about 100 eggs and
these eggs hatch in about one-third of
day. The laryal stage is three days, the
pupa stage five days, and the fly rounds
to the full adult fly in about ten days
There may be twelve broods in summer.
1t is false economy to make children
earn their bread too soon. While at
school, the history, geography, grammar,
aud natural philosophy they
learn, constitute the knowledge that will
be their capital when they enter on the
business of life.
The most valuable of all the fishery
products is the oyster, in the output of
which the United States surpasses all
others combined. The crop of 1905 was
%. Co., 900 bushels. Virginia ranks first
IS an oyster producing state, the yield be-
ng over eight million bushels.
Shrink cotton and all kinds OF wash
FOODS by leaving in the original folds,
hen fold in a small rather tight roll. |
lay it in the bathtub, running enough |
Fater over it to cover it we'll. Leave it |
'ver night. In the morning stroke some |
# the moisture out, but hang on the line
tripping. Handled in this way it losses
'ery little of the new book.
In Japan, where the people live an out
'f-door life, consumption or tuberculosis
9 practically unknown. In this country,
where we have packed our working
'eople into dark and unwholesome flats
nd knonfoopFc - hoe boo,, aet;,,a4o5 &hok
'Eer 200, 600 people year fall victims to
his scourge and million unfortunates
re afflicted by it.
Days are beginning to shorten at both
nds and will continue to decrease until
december 2lst.
One William Reed has written big
'ook setting forth his proofs that the
arth is hollow and that the poles are the
penings to big hole through the earth.
lie thinks it probable that some of the
xplorers who have gone in search of the
orth pole, sailed into the center of the
arth and Of course are unable to return;
nd he thinks that if Walter Wellman
caches the north pole in his drigible bal
BON he will be drawn into the great tun-
el and will never return.
The great South Dakota Cave is the
argest cavern in the world. 1t is situated
n the region of the Black Hills in Amer
"a, and exceeds even the Mammoth Cave
n Kentucky. It is fifty-two miles long
nd contains |, 800 rooms, many OF which
re over 200 feet high and are massed !
nth stalactites and stalagmite OF great
ize. There are streams, waterfalls and
lakes in this .ast subterran-
an world 5000 feet above the sea level
nd 400 feet deep.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth, of London,
England, owner and editor of fifty-eight
periodicals including London
nd country daily, weekly and monthly
ewspapers and numerous magazines, has
btained from the government of New
concession of 10000 acres of
orest land as material for paper SO that
is publications may never suffer from a
aper famine He is very friendly to the
United States, and eight years ago, when
e had the Windward, vessel fitted for
rctic explorations on his hands, he gave
TO Commader Z. E. Peary for one of the
expeditions to the Arctic regions.
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Next to the primary teacher, that pub | /
c servant which, in our judgment, is
1ost entitled to our sympathy and our
ind treatment, is the hello girP in the
zeal exchange. She sits lit is. always
she, no man will take the iob) at the
SO to speak of all the stew and
ret. the rush and the worry of the CONF
lunity. In the use OF the telephone. as
j everything else, people 60 in crowds.
S If actuated by some mysterious power
/ telepathy everyone wants to use the
slephone at exactly the same moment.
rom local, rural and long distance pat.
pms storm OF yells, rings and hellos
Dme pouring into the ear OF central
18th the rattle and the din Of hail on a
ii roof and with the rush and roar with
hicll the water is said to have gone over