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The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

An animal authority says the breathing of four-footed creatures is coordinated to their pace one breath per full stride.

Q. What do Wall Streeters mean by a “sleeping beauty”?

A. A corporation, rich in assets, ready for a takeover try.

Telegraph poles in Australia’s outback cast long thin shadows, and pilots in hot weather look down to see sheep lined up in them in single file, sidling as slowly as the dark wands on sundials.

Q. What’s the most popular ornamental plant in the world?

A. The rose.

The man who invented the Graham cracker, Sylvester Graham, told all who’d listen that people came down with the dread disease cholera because they ate chicken pie and behaved lewdly.

On the island of Melville off Australia is a bird called the scrub fowl. It’s only about as big as a rooster. But it builds a nest 50 feet in circumference and 15 feet high. Some nest. That bird is paranoid. It buries its eggs 3 feet deep in there.