Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1956-09-04
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SYMBOLS


symbol? We finally found
these things out after some re-
search and we present the fol-
lowing:
The Democratic Party got
the donkey on January 10,
1870 when famed cartoonist,
Thomas Mast, used it in car
toon. The Republican elephant
was also NaSt's creation and
has been the symbol ever since
it appeared in Harper's Week
ly about four years later.
oDoITY
The Conrad Hilton Hotel in
Chicago is the worlds largest.
Formerly the Stevens Hotel, it
is so large that if you were to
sleep in different room every
night it would take you over
three years to sleep in 'em all!
HOLY MATRIMoNY
Sometimes when you hear
that certain married couples
are .'inseparable", it just means
that their friends have to pull
'em apart from time to time so
that they won't beat each
others brains out.
BRAIN TESTER
Read the following sentence
once through and tell yourself
how many "F's" are contain
ed therein. (answer is else
where in the column
FEATURE FILMS ARE
THE RESULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC RES E A r c Fl
COMBINED WITH THE Ex-
PERIENCE OF YEARS"
SUCCESS STORY
Father to WayWard son:
why don't you go to work?
Why, when I was your age |
worked for three bucks week
and in seven years ! owned the
entire business"
Son to father; yeah, but
yuh can't get away with any
thing like that these days
they got cash registers!
ANSWER
Answer TO above brain
tester" is that there are six
''Fs' in the sentence. If you
! saw four. you're above aver
age. If you saw five, turn up
your nose. And if you spotted
six, you're genuine genius
and too good to be wasting
your time on this sort of thing.
HUMNN!
Best way to make friends
with a new doctor is to be pa
tient.
LIVING
II is almost as hard to live
within your income nowadays
as it was to live without one
back in the thirties.
MARRIAGE
Marriage is fifty-fifty pro-
position-you know, fifty here
and fifty there ...
VIEWPOINT
The only real trouble with
people. who have inferiority
complexes is that there aren't
enough of them.
LiPSTIck
Cosmetic firms are making
quite a fuss over what they
call "stay-on" lipstick. This is
nothing new and if you think
il is ask any man!
APT
Very apt purchase was made
recently at our neighbor town,
West jefferson The city solici-
tor was authorized to purchase
a site for the new sewage
treatment works over there.
Latest info reveals that the
site chosen is on Skunk Hill.
You just can't hardly get these
no more!
TuRNABOUT
Saw in the papers that col
lege professor answered only
twenty per cent of the ques-
tions on TV quiz program. 1t
is an established fact that
college professor is better at
asking questions than answer
ing them.
OUTLOOK
There are onlv three days IN
an entire lifetime that are
worth living yesterday, today
and tomorrow!
FIRE
News item in a New Eng
land paper tells of fire at
on of those summer theatres
held in barn. In our opinion
the blaze only resulted in lot
of smoked ham.
slGN-o-TlMEs
Reader says that he saw this
on a recent trip - 80 SLOW!
This is a one hearse town.
LIVING
About the onlv way you can
make woman listen II to talk
TO someone else.
LAST WORD
Tact is the art of making a
person feel at home even
though you wish he were.