Trivia

Approximately 400 people live in the village of Ocobamba, Peru, a correspondent reports, and before they had regular mail service, before electricity, even before running water, they had battery-powered television sets.

Los Angeles reportedly has more judges than all of France.

Q. Can I say nobody over 100 years old is afflicted with that ailment called senile dementia?

A. That’s too strong. Specialists who study the aged only say they know of none such.

Q. I know a National Football League player can be fined if he’s caught on the field with his socks down around his ankles. But fined how much?

A. Up to $5,000.

Abraham Lincoln wrote short. He didn’t much care for lengthy legal briefs. He said they were like the sermons of “a lazy preacher who got to writing and was too lazy to stop.”

Report is a swiftly growing number of young women are collecting odd pieces of fabric for the same reason their great grandmothers did: To make quilts. By working together, they create not only their patchworks but what might be called conversational therapy sessions, although they don’t talk much about that part of it.

Q. Why are grapes grown in the Champagne district of France considered so special?

A. Under the topsoil are chalk beds loaded with mineral-rich fossils. They feed the vines with distinctive flavors. That, and a great public relations effort.

It has been reported that autumn moves south about 13 miles a day.

Can you refute the Philadelphian’s claim that his city’s Elfreth Alley is the oldest continuously inhabited street in America?

Q. Don’t all insects with royalty have queens but not kings?

A. All except termites. They multiply with either or both. Lagniappe: Termites are said to have “the earth’s oldest civilization.”