Trivia

That renowned telegrapher Thomas A. Edison - he who invented everything - gave his first two children Marion Estelle and Thomas Alva Jr. - the nicknames “Dot” and “Dash.”

Those tropical bats that eat frogs only eat male frogs.

Q. What do men look at first when they’re trying to guess a woman’s age?

A. Her hair. Or so university studies purport to prove.

The trinity - three - is lucky. The trinity of trinities - nine - is even luckier. From that it came to be said the lucky cat has nine rather than some other number of lives.

A Johns Hopkins doctor sometime back offered another possible way to gauge your weight: A man should allow 115 pounds for the first 5 feet of height, and 5 pounds for each additional inch. A woman should allow 100 pounds for the first 5 feet, and 5 for each additional inch.

Milk of the Dutch Belted cow, I’m told, is naturally homogenized.

Item No. 493A in our Love and War man’s files is a client contribution that reads: “Don’t go to bed to meditate. Bed is for sleep or love. Profound meditation inhibits both.”