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242 mean the people's rights, but not when they mean the people's wrongs," says the President. As an epigram guess that is going some.

Rapid growth of the finger-nails is a sign of good health.

Baldness is increasing so rapidly that it is believed that by the year 2900 all men will be without hair on the top of their heads. Dr. W. A. Hammond is responsible for this opinion.

"If it is true." mused Funnyman, "that a door is not a door when it is ajar, then I wonder if the door jamb is contained in that jar?"

On an average 60 per cent. of people over ten years old are working for their living. This is the rule for all civilized countries.

A woman's hand may be pale and delicate, but she can pick up a hotter plate than a man.

Greyhound has no connection with the color grey. While the derivation of the first part of the word is uncertain, it is possibly from grey or gray, a badger, which was hunted by the hound.

A Chicago University professor says women do not walk, they "wriggle." We pass him over to the mercy of the women's clubs.

The word "crofter" is derived from "cruitnich," or