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About The Midville news. (Midville, GA.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1934)
Coinage Statbtica Tho United States gold dollar con talus 25.8 troy grains. A troy pound contains 5,700 troy grains, but tho more familiar nvolrdupols pound contains 7,000 troy grains. A mil lion dollars la United States coin, therefore, WC!ghs 3.0SG.4 pounds avoirdupois. The standard sliver dollar weighs 412.5 troy grulns, und a million dollars In such coin would weigh 50,031 pounds, or ucarly 21V6 tons. Mamed for Benofactc* Purdue university, Lufuyetta, bid., was established by act of the general usserubly of the state of In* dluna following the act pawed by congress concerning 1 und-grant col leges. Iu 1SC0 John Purdue, a philanthropic business man of La fayette. and other citizens, contrib uted $200,TOO 'and a tract of 100 acres of land to the school. Tho major part of tho contribution was from Mr. Perdue, and because ot this tho Institution was called Puis due university. When honor goes, all Is gone. • * « Don't do It If you can't do It right. • • • It it Isn't tho truth, don't repeat it. • • • A good life is hotter than a long one. • * • Prudence and haste can't live together. • • * Good health, plus good sense make a full life. • • • There’s more greatness In goodness than goodness hi greatness. • • • Paupers and plutocrats are oquul In death. • • • Fits of temper make us hot—they leave others cold. • * • Folks aro always "down” on tho things they’re not "up” on. * 9 * Nothing in the world Is important enough to worry about-not even death. This is an every-day street scene In the Mexican village at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Fifteen foreign vil lages offer the visitor the equivalent o.' a tour of the world In a day or two at the exposition this year. Low travel costs and added Free Fair features make a Fair vacation cheaper this summer. THE women of the quaint vlllnge * f* of Splugeln, in the mountains of Switzerland, do their washing In n picturesque setting. But though the surrounding scenery may be well nlgli perfect, few American women would care to trade their gloaming faucets, their Oxydol, which multiplica itself live hundred times In suds, and their other mod ern washing conveniences for these primitive methods of laundering. Splugeln is In the Engandine re gion, famous for Its Alpine scenery, which aunually attracts thousands of tourists from all parts of the world. c7iie FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHER'' Dy ALFRED DIGGS asr ISXlCO
