The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

Why q marriage isn't legal In rnr-
 land, if it isn't performed between
 Q Q. in. and D. m, ., Whv
 Fresno, cal, prohibits the manufac-
 ture cf cream pies from June l6
 % Oct, l, each year !. That q
 junk yard in aront of railroad
 crossing in Denver hes this slRn:
 "0o ahead, take 6 chance Well
 buy the car."
 Why more savages than civilized
 people are left-handed. (Probably
 because they don't exercise their
 right hand knifing people in the
 back.) That Senator Rob-
 ert Wagner receives an average of 300 letters Q day and answers every
 one of them promptly. (Wonder
 what he does with his spare tlme7)
 That in Rhode Island Q Tnar-
 riage proposal isn't legitimate un- less the man gets down on his knees to pop the question :. That among the ancients numbers had sex. The odd numbers were masculine and the even numbers feminine. (That eight Is Q cute little ylunber) That one of the Japanese Islands pro- hibits birth or death by law. (When 6 man gets sick or 6 woman is iyl- Anticipating, they must leave the island until the respective Illness or birth is past.) ... That Colonel Stocpnagle's latest invention Is al revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
 whether you know that city-
 dwellers inhale Q teaspoonful of dirt e day. (And that doesn't inc clude some of the plays we inhale.) That the fastest thing hue man can do is wink his eye, which takes about one.tenth of c second. (Yoo-hooD .. That it's no won- der everyone is nuts about Bette Davis. She would have given her right arm to play Cassandra in the movie, "Kings Row." she wanted the part that badly. But the coveted role was given to Betty Field be- cause she was recommended to the studio as the ideal actress for tho part by-you guessed it--Bette Da- viSi That the ruler of Nepan should be addressed as: Ills Majesty MaharajadhurajR Tribhubana Sir BirkraHn Jung Bahadur Shah shum- shere Jung. (Huh797)
 That the reason Handel, the com. poser, never married was because the parents of hIs first sweetheart demanded that he quit composing music. Chats the way I like 'eYn- with q happy ending) ... That the Swiss drink more milk that any other people in the world, 232 quarts per person Q year whether it's true that blue-eyed men make the best rifle shots Why kissing is verboten in Chicagos parks, even for married couples ii. That If you want Q shock, get this: Last year, bombOrs over Britain killed 10000 persons. Autos killed 38,000 persons in the U. 8. in the same period
 That Napoleon's head was 60 sen. sitive that whenever he got c new hat his valet had to break it in for | him by wearing t for 6 few days Whether it's true that the Chinese make the best surgical patients That the Nazis re. gently ran c German newgFeel in q Norwegian film house showing Ger man ships being unloaded on the docks of Oslo-the idea being to convince the resentfui natives that the Germans were bringing their own supplies to Norway. The Nor- wegiAns, catching on fast, started | to hiss, and shouted: "Stopl The | film iS being run backwards"
 whether 1t would make you wanna | set the world on fire # we told you | the apples real name, as known to botaniBts, is TnaluS fnalus. Chats funny, 1t tastes just like an applei) l {. Whether you know that you don't have to stand when "T'he Star Spangled Banner" is played over a Whether you've heard the ono about the German town where night after night anti- Nazi and pro-RusSlan slogans were up on walls and fences everywhere. Finally, the NaZiS, who were tired Of erasing the slogans, wrote above them: "Why don't you do this in broad daylight, you COW. ards?" Next night came the answer -"Decause in the day time we're too busy parading with you fel- lows"