Middletown transcript., 1906-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That viii Interest Every
Member of tlle Household

IisIS 4 dI dsi dpuS AHdl VIII inttfesk Every
Member of the Household
Land in the Dakotas has doubled in
| value in the last decade.
Haakon VII, King OF Norway, has a
civil list of about s2OO.0O
| Many men have gone broke in trying TO
support a sealskin wife on mnskrat in-#
come.
Over sixty new farmers telephone COM
panies have been Incorporated in South
Dakota this year.
81 have noticed, says Chicago sase,
''tIiat the stork does most of its travelling
on unpayed streets. .
The person who has had any one OF the
fifty or more varieties of headache has no
curiosity as to the others.
Egypt is the only country IN the world
where there are more men than women.
The males exceed the female by 10000.
'You get de gold fever all right said
Brother Dickey to member OF bis flock.
"but what you amt got is-de tliggin'
principle p
The largest pin factory in the world is
that in Birmingham, England, where s.
0O0,00o pins are manufactured every
working day.
The fastest battleships OF the American
navy is the Georgia, whose trial trip was
made on Thursday. The record speed
was 10 rs knots an hour.
Faint-hearted advertising which is us
ually merely non continuous or INSULT
cient advertising As no better for your
store than faint-hearted wooing for a
suitor.
As a rule newspaper men are not
hard hearted. Many good story has
never known publicity because it would
wound, mothers heart or disgrace a
fathers name,
If misfortune should ever smite Japan
with destructive hand Milwaukee would
be:the first American city to fly to her re-
lief. The Japs drank :, 800, 900 gallons of
beer last year.
A few years ago baby at Anderson,
Ind, fell from tbird-story window to
cement sidewalk and was picked up unin-
Jured. 1t must have been one of the
bouncing boy babies of which we read.
Paste this over your desk If You
haven't a desk, on your Iooking-gass
If you haven't looking, glass, over your
bed ! If you haven't bed, wear il next
to your heart Be sure to keep it by you,
so that you may remember, a dollar is
your best friend
The rural free delivery carriers have
been hoping for some time that they will
be placed in the same class with the city
carriers and be given fifteen day vaca-
tion on full pay, and there is good pros
pect for this to be done. The senate last
week Included in the appropriation bill
$500, 900 to pay for substitutes who will
work for the regular carriers. In addi-
ton to this the carriers will get the legal
holidays allowed to all government oific-
ials.
Two young men were having an argu-
ment and one OF them quoted verse of
scripture. The other said, "Come of.
I'll bet ten dollars you can't repeat the
Lords Prayer" Yes | can." said the
first. Now l lay me down to sleep, I
pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep if 1
should die before ] wake, pray thee,
Lord, my soul to take. Amenn 'sWeu,
here is your ten dollars" said the friend,
'but wouldn't have believed YOU could
have done it.''
''Do you know what we're coming to p
asked shoe manufacturer. "Well, here's
a forecast along my line. We're going
back to the days of Greece. In five years
we won't be wearing anything but san
dals, in summer time. Leather sandals
for children were introduced by us sew
eral years ago. They sold like hot cakes
last season and they're going better now.
We're turning them out as fast as our
factory can be operated. And this year
we've been making quantity of large
sizes. They re almost exclusively for wo-
men, but the men will be wearing them
in year or two, and mark my words IN
about five more seasons, the summer
leather sandals will be the whole thing.
Well look like the Greeks, all right, aud
We'll feel mighty comfortable
You say you have tried dozen times.
and failed. Well, what of it? Try
again. Nothing worth while is won with.
out effort. keeping everlastingly at it,'
brings success be sure you 90 at it in
the right way. 1t isn't SO much the do
ing as the manner of doing. Suppose
conditions are adverse to success. Are
you going to let that handicap you, or
are you going to rise above it and make
things easier for someone else asks Spare
Moments. The world waits your smiles,
your hopes, your aspirations. She al
ready has too many frowns and tears.
Open mind and heart. Be awake to pos-
sibllities OF the moment. Opportunity,
like will-o'-the-Sisp, fits before him
whols to tlnid or too indolent to stretch
Lorth his hand and make her his own.
Lovingly she comrades with him whose
wish Is viii whose; willis TO dare whose,
iarlng is to achieve. Remember energy,
and tireless effort alone spell
success. be sure your vision is clear.
your purpose right, then push on with
might and main. Let nothing YOU dis
may"
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