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Billiards comes from the French word "billard," meaning a stick with a curved end.

If there were not so many mean husbands there would not be so many religious women.

The same force that moves a ton on a road will pull a 32-ton canal-boat.

A little Auburn boy who looks after his grandfather's cuspidor for a moderate salary, offers this philosophy: "When I grow up I shall chew tobacco and have my little boy look after the cuspidor. Then he will not chew."

Nearly thirty per cent. of all flowers are white.