, 1926-03-17
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One Thing and !
Another :

NiSHt lrdNeierS III the WOOQeQ Sec
tons of Smoland, Sweden, will meet
couples, men, or even single women
riding bicycles on their way to or
from the old fashioned barn dances.
The Williams in Chinese drama have
no hair on the upper lip, for only the
good characters wear a mustache.
Early automobile courtesy decreed
that every auto driver should stop
and lead every horse he met past his
car.
Horse pulling contests were COM
mon in England NOR than a hundred
years ago, the teams being hooked
to trees and horses that tried longest
and went to their knees oftenest won
the stakes.
There were only forty-four rural
free delivery routes in the United
States on July 1. 1900.
There is a tribe of snake charmers
in India immune from snake poison.
They catch cobras by charming them
with music.
Magnus Swenson, now president of
of the Norwegian American steam
ship line, gave the Wisconsin legisla-
tors a molasses bath in the early
eighties when the centrifugal mach
inc he was demonstrating began go
ing too fast, throwing the sticky syr-
up over the assemblage.
The prong-horned antelope, the
swiftest four-footed animal of our
western plains, is native only to Am
erica.
Dutchman, a horse that made a
three mile trotting record that stood
for thirty years, was once a brick
yard worker, but was discovered on an
election day when his owner pressed
him into the service of carrying the
free and independent voters to the
polls.
The jointed cactus, introduced from
England into South Africa in 1878 as
a garden plant, has become a destruc-
tive weed which has ruined many of
the farms.
The village blacksmith of New
Moorfield, Ohio. is the towns cham
pion cake maker, having annexed his
seventh prize in competition with wo-
men widely known for their skill in
cake baking.
Captain William Hogbin, Civil War
veteran and one of the family of 81
children, was driven out of Dubuque,
Iowa, in 1877 because he talked a.
gainst liquor.
English college athletic teams have
no highly paid coaches, for athletics
are entirely in the hands of the stu
dents there.
The earliest automobiles were leg
ally classed as steam engines.
England, with her love for open
fireplaces, consumes three times as
much coal per capita for domestic
purposes as does Germany with her
closed stoves.
After keeping weather reports for
fifteen years showing the losses on
the Great Lakes from unexpected
storms, DR.. /. A. Lapham secured the
adoption of U. s. Government fore
casts in 1870.
On a recent Friday, the 18th, the
BARRIERS of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin,
shaved all corners for 10 cents a face,
and it is said that most of the village
male population over Is years of age
~patronized the shops on that day.
Kissing under the mistletoe may
soon disappear, because the United
States Department of Agriculture has
started a drive to exterminate mistle-
toe from u national forests.
Seventy-fve prisoners at Waupun,
Wisconsin, are taking correspondence
courses from the state university.
The town of Fachi, on an oasis in
the Sahara, is built Of salt. II Is said
TO have only 100 inhabitants.
A healthy beggar in a Chinese city
let one Of his finger nails grow TO a
length of twelve inches.
Habitual spitters will be disappoint-
ed to learn that there are no cuspidors
in the bright and shining waiting
room Of Chicago's new Union Rail
way Station.
The first state gasoline tax wns
passed in Oregon in 1919.
In 1894 ogden's Mare, the famous
hackney, trotted forty miles in three
hours, carrying a 152-pound load in
the saddle. a feat which authorities
say no living horse could do today.