Trivia

Tue., Oct. 29, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

In the Gold Rush of 1849, California was also where men went to die. One out of every five forty-niners was dead within six months of arrival.

Some waitresses started drawing smiley faces on their tabs. Their tips went up about 5 percent. Waiters tried it. Their tips didn’t.

Cost of one wire clothes hanger at last report was 4 cents.

Those home gardeners who buy bulbs and such out of catalogs reportedly now average $41 per order.

Q. Do most women get better looking after they’ve married?

A. Most women think so, surveys show.

Skeletal evidence mounts to prove that syphilis was taken by sailors from the New World to the Old, not vice versa.

Circus lions live five to 10 years longer than lions in the wild and lions in the zoos.

Q. In what subject, statistically, is a student most likely to get an “A”?

A. American History. That subject in which a student is most likely to get an “F” am English grammar.

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