Trivia

Thu., Nov. 28, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Can you name the earliest restaurant to serve ice cream?

A. Caf, Procope, the first caf, in Paris. In 1670. Same year one John Ray put into print such sayings as “Blood is thicker than water…” and “Haste makes waste…” and “The last straw breaks the camel’s back…” and “…many irons in the fire…” and “I’ll trust him no further than I can fling him.” Reusable lines endure, do they not?

A hotel in France that caters to English-speaking guests put “Extract of Fowl” on its menu. Eggs.

An unexcited elephant takes 12 breaths per minute.

Early Maori of New Zealand did elaborate tattoos. Seeing same in the late 1760s, sailors with Captain James Cook aboard the Endeavor copied them. Back home the English thought their tattooed sailors pretty sporty. Men of the sea thereafter took tattoos far. Into the general populations of the western world. And into every prison, might add.

The writer Edith Wharton said, “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”

Biggest ice cream buyers nationwide at last report were the people in: 1. Portland 2. Omaha, Neb. 3. Seattle 4. Des Moines, Iowa. And 5. Buffalo. N.Y.

Texas grows more roses than any foreign country.

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