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Show WINCHELL GATHERS ARRAY OF ODDITIES By WALTER WINCHELL Thlnga I Never Knew Til New English scientists have discovered liquid which makes it possible pos-sible for expectant mothera to choose their baby's aex. (Eddie Can- tor will be glad to learn.) Any writer who produc a rejection rejec-tion slip can gt a free meal at Constant Con-stant In B. Visas' restaurant. In Minneapolis, Minn. IThy get a turkey dinnar, no doubt. I All the Inhabitant of Khudao-rak, Khudao-rak, a village In soviet Kueela, ara poela. , ti. u. Walla' Uat of th eix grtu men la hietory ara Jaaua, atuddha, Aaorka, Aristotle, Roger Bacon arid Abraham Lincoln. tComo, coma, H. don't be ae modt!l Padaatrlana in aaexlco City now have te walk la kna and put out thalr banda when they turn a corner. cor-ner. A lot of grandfathers are going to be turned la lor ivae moo-1 moo-1 thla falLi The original Hoetonlan, William Blackaton. left Boston before h died because ha preferred tha company com-pany of Indiana to Boatoniana. Wa fl the same way about It.) Soviet Russia ia using almoat three tlmee aa much eoap aa caarlat Russia did. (Probably because be-cause that'a tha only way they can get the soapboxes. ) In Aaaam tha fammea cover only their breaets. tha rest of their anatomy anat-omy being completely nude. According to census figures, the group which la multiplying moat rapidly In the U. & la the Indian. (Vanishing American, huh?) An American'a chancee of dying from a snake bite are one In 25 000 (The only enakea w have to worry about ara tha two-leggad variety.) In tha alxteenth century druggists drug-gists had to know, how to play chaaa. I Because medlca pre-scribed pre-scribed the game aa a cure for various ilia.) In Japan crickets ara used aa watch dogs. (They atop chirping if a stranger enters the house at night. Kissing a girl because aha late you. according to a college paper, la like scratching a place that doean't Itch. When Tibetans meat, they great each other by aticklng out thalr tongue. The only way a guy can become a copy in. Peru la to be born one. (Tha Job la handed down from father to eon.) A popular belief In ancient Roma was that eupld aneesed every time a pretty glri was born. (Ha must do an awful lot of sneeilng In Dallas, Dal-las, Texaa!) 1 When you tip a Jap you're aup- posed to give him the dough In en envelope. (Yoa offend him if you i hand the money to him openly!) ' Only U out of every 1000 Amerl-i Amerl-i cane have normal eyesight (But our sense of email la O. Ki, thank heaven!) Chicago. In Indian lingo, means wild onion. All snakes are deaf. (When they eway te muaie. it'a because they feel the vlbsationa.) |