Middletown transcript., 1908-10-17
QUAINT AND CURIOUS

Coal keeps best under sea water.
A squirrel can bite deeper than dog.
Telephone girls become "leaf.eared."
: The criminal class of London number
10000.
The painting of the Forth bridge costs
| $4,000.
i The rabbits range of vision takes in
the entire horizon.
| Influenza, like cholera, always travels
from east to west.
a mole eats 10000 earthworms in
the course of a year.
Contracts already let for the work on
the New York barge canal amount to
over $22,0O0,O0O.
The grand hall of the recent Bordeaux
exposition will be re-erscted for the Mar
seilles exposition.
In Saxony practically all of the live
stock is stall-fed 300 days of the year, and
the largest portion the full 365 days.
A gander on the farm of Henry strass.
meyer, near Wright City, Mo-, killed
three-year-old boy by striking him with
his wings.
A recent German estimate OF the
worlds railroads give them total length
of 563,77l miles. The increase is less
than that for six years.
Twenty per cent of the population of
Canada earns its living in connection with
the country's carrying trade. Railroad
employees alone number 124,50O.
The industry of flintmaking still thrives
in Brandon, Eng. The fints are
sent to Africa and other countries, where
the guns of 100 years ago are still in act
i've service.
Twin sisters named Moore of Chicago are
so much alike that DR.. Charles A. Street,
dentist, in love with one of them was
forced to identify his sweetheart by her
teeth.
When the first passenger train in Eng
land took its trail spin along the tracks
OF the Stockton & Darlington railway in
1925, horseman, bearing a red danger
flag, galloped along just ahead of the en-
CINE to warn the crowds Of spectators, and
to act as part of what was intended as
railway pagent.
In London there is one clergyman to-
every 1000 persons.
New York City is now spending on
education $l20, 1878 each school day.
The total wages paid to textile workers
in Germany increased from $62, lis, 600 in
1886 to $122, $40, 600 in 1905.
In the United States last year 1O3, ,OOO,-
600 railway ties were used, which de-
nuded 60O, 600 acres Of forest to supply.
The carcass of the average horse yields
1863 pounds of meat, as shown by the OBJ
of the French horse butcher.
Much as it rains in England there still
prevails an indispositiou on the part of
both men and women to wear rubber
0vershoes.
After living seven years in cities, q
horse broke out of stable at Wabash,
Ind, and went to his old home in the
several miles distant.
A Tennessee farmer has been shipping
lcorns North for some time, receiving as
high as 81 bushel for them. The acorns |
IRE used for planting.
Great attention is being given in Bo.
lemia to the building of mountain dams
lot only to provide water power, but to
essen the damages from floods.
In the vicinity of Lonoke, Ark, about
900 acres of prairie land was planted to
ice and the yield was about 1900, 600
ushels of rice valued at $5O0,O0O. u
In Switzerland uniformity, or fixed
rices, may be arranged, but agreements
D discriminate against or to prohibit the o
ale OF any article are not permitted by
Nv. 4
A mill at Great Darlington, Mass, was
hut down when water bugs, crowding P
ito the space around the engine-stop
ush button, produced short circuit and Z
le consequent stoppage.
The London Express mentions a case of !"
private who for failingASo recognize =
nd salute his officer was condemned to y
larch past and salute a barrack pump r
n two hours each day for b week.
The Flemish population of Belgium is
cry careful to preserve its language and
Icial identity. Its representatives, in the Tn
lingual parliament Of that country
em indeed to be almost exorbitant in