Trivia

Every dog in the White House has been known either as the president’s or the first lady’s dog. Every cat in the White House has been known as the White House cat - even Chelsea Clinton’s, once it moved in. Dogs are identified with people, cats with places.

If about a third of your weight is in your legs, you’re typical.

That renowned Roman naturalist of yestercentury, Pliny the Elder, told drinkers they’d get over their hangovers if they wore garlands of violets around their necks. Seemed to work, if worn long enough.

Our chief prognosticator thinks small tea rooms will make a big comeback soon - to give the designer coffee stalls a little more competition.

One out of every four homes nationwide now reportedly can be listed as “manufactured.”

George Bernard Shaw wrote: “A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” He wrote much, Shaw did, to show what a deep thinker he was.

Long functioning in the small community of Longnor in Staffordshire, England, has been a nine-member action committee, organized to preserve the right of the individual to smoke cigarettes, cigars and pipes. The committee’s founder was the village undertaker.