Show strange si trance facts fac ts t new jobs vs antiques positions t taps for E evil vil spirits the captain of one new yorkers private yacht draws a larger salary than the master of the queen mary the colored manager of a harlem dance hall is paid more than the governor of pennsylvania and a midwesterner received more money as the president of a local musicians union in 1938 than mr roosevelt received as president of the united states for a number of years at least three quarters of all antiques imported into this country have been fakes more europeans are employed in a certain large industrial plant in detroit than there were americans employed in all the industrial plants in europe before the outbreak of the present european war the three volleys fired into the air at military funerals were originally intended to frighten away evil spirits and therefore prevent them from entering the mourners hearts which stood ajar at the burial of a comrade colliers |