Trivia

Twenty-seven percent of children nationwide live in one-parent homes, according to census statistics. Of these parents, 37 percent are listed as divorced and 35.8 percent as never married.

Q. I note the only bridge in the world built exclusively for sheep is northeast of Arizona’s Mesa. How wide is it?

A. One sheep wide. Unshorn.

Do you buy the professor’s contention that the growth of a city is determined by how much its water supply can be increased?

Of arthritis it’s said: If you don’t have it, you don’t know anything about it, and if you do have it, nobody can tell you anything about it you don’t already know. Hereabouts, one out of seven do have it, might mention.

Q. The left eye of the squid is four times larger than the right eye. Isn’t each eye used at a different depth?

A. Quite so. Little eye, close to the surface. Big eye, down deep.

This is how some doctors explain why alcoholism is irreversible: “You can turn a cucumber into a pickle, but not a pickle back into a cucumber.”

“Julia” is from the Greek meaning “youthful.”