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Show ODDS an ENDS Blonds with healthy scalps have an average of .about 140,-000 140,-000 hairs on their heads; briN1 nets average 105,000; red-heads average less than 90,000 . . . The Burmese say women are better snake charmers than men . . . Motion picture apparatus has been installed in 120 Methodist Me-thodist churches in England . . . Ilj has been estimated that over a million people in the U. S. suffer from stuttering speech. j "Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it." 'Many a fellow who yelps for a square deal merely wants all of the aces'. . . . Seventy per cent of the films show,n in 72,0 97 theatres in 90 foreign countries in 1937 were produced in the U. S. . . . The used car business in 1936 and 1937 averaged nearly " 7 million cars. "Its not so important what, a man stands for as what he falls for". "If you've tried your hand at a thing and failed, try your head." "In( this world you cannot get something you have not worked work-ed for, unless someone has worked work-ed for something he did not get'. "Why is it that the fellow who wants to show you where you are wrong always has to borrow your pencil?" Trouble. . .Some people bear three kinds - all they have had -all they have now, and all thty ever expect to have." Ring Lardner once said: "You can't rise with the lark it you have been on one the night before". Although slot machines of one sort or another are banned in about twenty per cent of the United States, there are said to j be 3 million coin machines in operation throughout the country coun-try . . . They include models for selling razor blades, aspirin, books, hard-boiled eggs, social! security number plates, and fruit juices . . . Newer machines include in-clude a sun-lotjion sprayer, a vibrator for tired, aching feet, and a voice recorder that makes a tfi inch phonograph record for a quarter. "Many of us never attain happiness because we spend too much time worrying how to gain it,." There are nine distinct varieties vari-eties of peanuts grown in the U. S. . . . . About S00 million' pounds of roasted peanuts a year are eaten, fed to monkeys and elephants, and otherwise consumed con-sumed by Americans. . . .Southern .South-ern farmers, seeking substitutes for depressed cotton and tobacco, produced about 1,179,505,000 pound of peanuts last year. . . . Peanut oil is used in cooking oils, margarine, and soap, and eventually may be found in lubricating lu-bricating oil, cosmetics and ink. "Good thoughts, even if they are forgotten, do not perish." "A man's intellect is judged by his ability to disagree without, with-out, being diragreeable." "The older a little girl gets the more her candy costs." "None of us is perfect, and some of us are absolutely Impossible." Im-possible." "When you think you have reached the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." "The man who mind his own business generally has a good one." |