Trivia

Women make better hog callers than men. A contest in Waycross, Ga., proved it. On a still day, the best of the female callers could be heard for 4.7 miles. Best of the male, 3.6. Or so the reporters said. Quite a ways, if true.

Average age at which schoolgirls start to wear bras is 11.

Pliny the Younger of old Rome was a trout fisherman. He saw to it his bedroom in his villa on Lake Como was situated far enough out on a pier so he could cast from his bed. He was a politician.

For the do-it-yourselfer: You’ll need one alligator for a pair of shoes, three alligators for a pair of boots.

Item No. 992 in our Love and War man’s file indicates 39 percent of those wives younger than their husbands are satisfied matrimonially, while 56 percent of those wives older than their husbands are likewise content. Why do more of the wives slightly older than their husbands rank in the contented category? That remains unexplained.

Thirty-seven percent of the grown-ups nationwide own four to six pairs of denim jeans, surveys suggest.

Napoleon said, “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

The Chinese invented rum, too.