Middletown transcript., 1906-05-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Ever!
Member Of the Household

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Cannon and small arms were intro.
duced in $780,
Although paper money is soft it is Of
ten hard to get.
Germany in 1905 consumed 5000, ,000,.
600 pounds of meat
1t is possible in London to send per
son by parcels post.
There are now 3a3 schools in Canada
for Indians, who number l07, ,937.
The carpenter is again with his ham
mer. He's knocker that counts.
Seventy ships were completely wrecked
along the German coasts last year and
356 were damaged.
About 6,OO0 stars are visible to the
naked eye. The most powerful telescope
reveal about fifty-six millions.
Yale is to have chair of numbering
students, members of this class will be
expected to do m,re than saw wold.
While it is interes ting to hear that
money is easier what we should like to
know is weather the people who have it
are "easier."
There are more than 100000 negro
Baptists in this country, with fifty insttiu-
tioLs oflearning and forty five denomina-
tional papers.
He giveth twice who giveth quickly,
but this is a case in which the quickest
giving will seem all too SLOW Better
give some more.
The people of Porto Rico have found
that wearing shoes is cure for the "lazy
bug disease That is not always the
case in town.
Schwartz invented gunpowder in 1928
But Roger Bacon, thirteenth century
alchemist, gives a receipt for it in q, work
OF his in 1870.
Patent medicine manufacturer flourish
in South Africa, where medical call ii
| bIlG ClbN COSts Yc, hhliC III UbO SOhhIhy th>
charges are almost prOhibitive.
The city of Johannesburg. South Africa
prohibits all advertisements regarding
liquor and gambling on penalty of SIP
or two months imprisonment. This Law
is enforced.
| TI;no1S oroat uolI woc rananiIv p,noo
ured by an engineer, the height being
given as eighteen feet. For 1900 mile
\ the wall goes over plains and mountains
every foot of the foundation being o
granite and the rest of the structure solit
) mfsInry.
There are now over 600trust companie
J doing banking business in the Unitet
States, with resources of more than 81,
' 100000 and aggregate deposit
amounting to nearly $4,000, ,000,0 900, o
\ nearly one-ffth of the total deposit of al
; the banking institution in the country
\ A German scientist says the time vii
! come when the supply of water will nc
be sufficient to support life on this earth
; A member of the New York Iegisls
ture is irving to have bill pasagd to re
! quire that all Chinese laundry check
shall be written in English. This re
] minds us of the fact that no legislator
i has recently wrangled over the questio
\ Of having doctors prescriptions write
$ in legibIe United States.
OF the more than 1,000,0 600 immi
) grants who came to this country in 1905
very few reached the newer regions oi tn
! West. According to the western railroa
\ passenger association which has made
report Oh the subject, over 1000 G
! them dropped down in New York state
and 221, 800 in Pennsylyania-about on
5 half the whole number stopping in thos
\ two state. Ohio obtained 81, 900 and II
! linois 79, 1000, but less than 10000 seem
! to have gone beyond Illinoise.
A fly salesman dropped in one Of OIL
Young business men the other day, carry
ing in his hand a finely polished oak cat
5 | met. 81 want to sell you a peach of
talking machine" he said "Got one,
! replied the young business man. "Wha
kind ?" was asked. 1.-The Best kind O.
EARTH" was the response. ''Where di
+ you get it ?'' was the next question
"Married it, said Y. p. M, and the sales
5 man hiked off to look for victim else
\ where.
) The fellow who gets angry at you
pretty apt to say some unpleasant, cuttin
7 things but if, instead OF losing yuur ow
temper, you will listen to him calmly, b
is almost certain to present among til
: compIaints one or more faults that 70
had never before thought of, and ths
your friends hated to tell you about
Sometimes our loudest voiced enem
Y may prove to be our very best friend
Just because he shows us oiIr worst fault
in their most unsavory light.
The beautiful is needed in our con
munity life. We all have characters t
s build, strengthen and maintain W
y need the beautiful. Dress and live 6
savages and we would soon become sa,
Y ages in action. The city or village tC
4 tally void of beauty would be tbc abnd
of tile sensual immoral and lawless
! community of taste and beauty mus
\ necessarily be composed OF refined an
: cultured people, and true culture leads
\ highes morality. There are about ou
\ village many things that commend i
Z There are things that are capable Of in
: provement, Public sentiment will
\ much toward beautifying our dwelling
Y our streets and alleys. Neatnpss, tast
n and beauty will help us all. Our mors
Y life would be higher and our social iii
4 pufer.
v It las teen said talking life throug
2 and tbrouoh - the LARGER mart of rorro,