Middletown transcript., 1907-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

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q There are at least 9S5 Five aud +,
s Cent Stores" in the United States.
II Tapioca is going up in price. Still,
: is possible to live, after fashion, wit
: out tapioca
IRe discovery by science that properI
htted glasses will destroy the appetite 1,
stfong drink may throw many of us viii
Wear glasses open to the suspicion tl,s
We are taking the jag cure.
I. Il is all right to do good deeds expecl
tfng some return, but We get tired of th
many very good people who practice tyim
string to every piece of bread they cas-
upon the waters.
| Mr.. Holden. the corn expert, SAYS tha
every ear Of corn intended for seed TO
next years crup that is hung up and drie,
thoroughly before the hard fre, zin.
weather will go towards adding million,
Oh dollars OF profit to the corn crop.
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II was only thirty years ago that lIle
telephone was born to the world and
already there are over a billion dollars
invested in the industry. In New York
Glty and its immediate vicinity alone.
shere are at the present time over $50 OOo
telephones III service.
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one hundred and ten million pounds
OF cheese we're made in Wisconsin last
year, almost twice as much as was Iro-
ouced i've years sgo, according to the
University of Wisconsin bulletin just pre-
pared by Prof. II. L. Russell, OF the Wis.
consln college ol agriculture.
Carl shaklees, l5-year-old boy living
IN Summerfield, O., claims to be the
biggest boy in the United States. He il
o feet inches tall, weighs 4sS pounds
and is in fair health. His chest measure1
nent is "A inches, his waist 72, his thigh
is % inches in girth and the calf Of his
leg is "a. Carl wears a No. 10 shoe and a.
z 1-5 hat.
Postage stamps OF the issue of 1907 put
on sale at the 5000 presidential postoffices
will bear on their face the name of the
state and city in which the postofice is
situated. The chief reason for this limo.
vation is said at the postoffice department
to be the belief that it will help to do
away with the big postoffice robberies
and make it much easier to trace crimi.
mails.
A learned scientific authority who
Urges the use OF milk more generally,
gives the ratio OF the value of a Quart
Of pure, whole milk in digestible nutri.
snts, as follows Equivalent to nutrition
in ] pound beef chuck / pound fowl 4
pound veal shoulder 2 pound mutton y
eg; 8 ounces beef round ounces veal
outlets ; in 2 pounds ounces solid oys-
ers 2 pounds ounces bluefsh.
December was go called because it was
he tenth month OF the year. But some.
low the machine jumped a couple of
ogs and it is now the twelfth month.
doweyer, let the children understand
hat the operations of nature have gone
N without break-it was the ignorance
i man in times past that put the reckon.
ng out Of gear and left to their posterity
job OF repair work on the almanac time
ables.
Comparing our lives with those OF the
'iss.ssirn fathers, we ara rich beyoaa thel
reatest dream or desire. ImnsalerisI :
nings dia not worry them as they do us !;
ley asked only to be free to worship
iod and had dared an unknown sea and
n untried world for this principle, and
lere on the 'rock bound coast" planted
le seeds OF freedom that were TO bring
nth fruit on through the ages.
Society in Cincinnati is said not to have
ken kindly to Mrs. Longwortb's fond.
ess for politics, and another woman that
as not taken to it is Mrs. Longworth's
aid. The pretty daughter of the presi-
snt does not think anything too good
r the people and wore all her smart
t Partisan gowns, to the despair of the
seper of her wardrobe, who sighs as she
Its on the pretty gown that is. jast as
zely as not to be ruined in the crush.
Il may not be generally known among
merican girls who go or hope to go
road that there is in Berlin an Ameri-
n Women's club, founded in 1894.
rs. Charlemagne Tower. wife of the
nerican ambassador, is its president and
re. John Cleves-Symmes its treasurer.
ubs of this sort are Invaluable to girls
iveling or studying abroad, and, as the
arly subscription is smaiI-in this case
ly $2 5o-a membership presents no
difficulties The club is at
Kleist strasse W., Berlin, Germany.
Harry Woodruff, star of Brown Of
award, y a former sweetheart of Anna
aid, is going to marry the Countess
steilane. Some years ago Woodruff
s engaged to marry Anna Gould, it is
d. An arrangement was made to send
a to Harvard University for more
1plete education than he possessed.
. Gould fortune was placed at his dis
sal and an agreement executed that he
uld not make any attempt to marry
!, daughter Of Jay Gould until after he
s graduatred. When Anna Gould met
mt Castellane Woodruff was Tilted.
There is fear that civilization may
sntnally wipe out the wild flowers of
I country. Slowly but surely We are
priving them of their wild retreats.
Hess we do all in our power 20 preserve
a propagate every species, we may rest
nred that few centuries hence many
our beautiful wild flowers will no longer
the common wild flowers Of America.
d We not all become members of great
iety for the preservation Of our wild
wers The only requirements are that
never wilfully destroy harmless
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