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The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. We were taught that nobody could build a perpetual motion machine, but haven’t we finally done it with the satellites that circle the earth?

A. Not quite. Particles afloat in space eventually will bring them down.

You rarely see in print the name of that Kentucky place called “Typo.” Maybe the proofreaders delete it.

If the native men up the great South American river had cut their hair, which they didn’t, the explorers would not have thought they were the legendary female warriors. And the Amazon River might have been called something else.

How this was calculated isn’t clear, but the calculators claim a basketball player would have to sink an 88-foot shot to equal the feat of a golfer’s hole-in-one.

You can say that word “scientist” is old but not ancient. A British scholar named William Whewell coined it around 1834.

So China runs Hong Kong. Not much has changed so far, but Americans there say a few barber poles have disappeared. Brothels of the great city long marked their whereabouts with old barber poles, a pattern that no doubt served to disappoint many an innocent sailor looking for a haircut.