Trivia

Jamestown colonists by 1609 had 500 chickens. Not surprising. Seafarers carted cooped chickens all over. For eggs, fresh meat.

Q. Why did poet Carl Sandburg flunk out of West Point?

A. “Deficiencies in English,” the record indicates.

Q. Which catches the more colds - male or female?

A. Boys more than girls, women more than men.

“Sue’s Snapshot Shop” is not too hard to say just once

Early American farmers probably looked at their weathervanes more often than you look at your television, though maybe not as long. Weather was key, all the time, not just under threat of storm. It decided every day’s work.

Mostly it’s the rich who play that game called squash. Why is not clear. Sports historians believe it was devised in the 19th century by men in a debtors’ prison.

Autographs of Presidents Nixon, Ford or Carter might cost you $300 each at auction now. Autographs of the Three Stooges some time back sold for $3,750 each.