Trivia

Am told Rule No. 1 among dog trainers is: “Never give a command you can’t enforce.” It has its counterpart among children trainers: “Never make a promise you can’t keep.”

In French court records is the case of a woman who got a divorce on the grounds her husband purloined all her mystery novels before she had time to read them and wrote the names of the murderers on the title pages.

Claim is Vermont has more resident writers per capita than any other state.

Some people stick to exercise programs, and some don’t.

Question is, what makes the stickers stick? Lengthy research suggests the successful exercisers have these in common: 1. A regular program three times a week. 2. Support of the matrimonial mate. 3. A high credit rating.

A bluebird’s eggs are robin’s egg blue.

Charlemagne, once the most powerful man in Europe, was illiterate. His name on documents was written by scribes. He drew a cross in it as his personal signature.

Picasso paid his tailor with drawings.

Woodsmen rick their firewood bark side up.