Middletown transcript., 1906-02-24
ITEMS OF NTEREsr 10 EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member of the Household
Work is one of the greatest things on
earth as long as you don't have to do it.
DIR. William Osler's mother recently
entered her Tooth year at her home in
Canada.
1t doesn't take long for the taint to rub
off dollar after You get it in your
pocket.
Dancing is not as popular with relig-
ious people as it was in the days of King
David
A Boston hen was sold last week for
$780, Sine must have come over in the
Mayfower.
Pittsburg, Pa, is now the sixth city in
population in the United States. having
over 100000.
Eng!and's great fleet sums up total of
$50 ships. 1t is supported at cost of
| $3.50, 600, 900 year.
Last year the United States alone made
800, 900 cameras, working with the mere
pressure of bulb or button.
So far this winter twelve men have
died with cold in the City of Mexico and
man has been overcome with the hest
in Pittsburg.
At one time the Indians thought SER
iously of deporting the entire Caucasian
race to the other world, but they aban-
doned the idea.
There is man in New York who has
set his ambition at ST. 900, 600, 900 and if
he ever lives to acquire it he will be sofry
that it is not 81, 900, 100000.
The telephone people firmly believe it
would enlighten the burdens of the post
Office clerks if every body wrote fewer let
tiers and used more telephones.
The Pittsburg physicians are puzzled
over the case of boy who, once having
started to run, is unable to stop until he
is exhausted, one time running twenty
three miles.
Australia has adopted the system of
drying milk which is said to have been
very successful in London, England. The
milk is dried between steam rollers and
sold as powder.
A concession for railway from Irkutsk
to Behring Strait, to cost $500, ,O00, 900, has
been granted to a Franco-American COM
pany, which undertakes to build it with
out government subyention.
Two boys went to market with 60
ducks. The larger boy took 30 OF the
largest ducks and sold them two for 81.
The smaller boy took the remaining 80
ducks and sold them three for 81. They
received for their ducks $25.6 When they
got home they told their father they sold
their ducks at the rate of five for 81 and
gave him S24. Explain how it was posi-.
BILE for the boys to make the dollaf by this
transaction.
An exchange says: "Men have various
ways of carrying money. Grocers, but
chers and millers carry it in wad, bank
ers in clean bills laid full length in
pocketbook. Brokers always fold the bill
once doubling the bill as it were. The
young business man carries it in his vest
pocket while the sport has his in his
trousers pocket. The farmers and drov-
ers in their inside pockets, whether it be
$50 or l5c. Printers usually carry theirs
in other peoples pockets.
If our business men would make
practice of sending collector around to
their customers, in town at least, who
owe them, on the first of the month, we
believe it would prove more satisfactory
to all than the present method of waiting
until the bills get large and then sending
them statement of their account. 1t is
much easier to pay small bill than a
large one and the business man who in
sists on bills being paid when they are
small will hold the friendship and trade
Of the buying public longer than the man
who does not, and at the same time do "a
safer business.