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Show Strange Facts I Worth Quarter More I ' Sleepers' Etiquette I Rents the Earth The ruler of Jaipur, India, the Maharaja Sawai Mau Singi Bahadur, Baha-dur, like his predecessor, uses Sawai Sa-wai in his name to increase his prestige. The word, meaning "one fourth better than others," makes him a maharaja and a quarter. ' Lest his subjects forget that they have a 125-per cent monarch, his royal flag carries a quarter-sized " duplicate directly beneath it. When the Great Bed of Wear, which holds 12 sleepers, was presented pre-sented to King Edward IV of England Eng-land in 14C3, he employed a special spe-cial guardian and had prepared a list of rules of etiquette that all who slept in this bed had to observe ob-serve for the peace and comfort of their bedfellows. In Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Venezue-la, a city with a population of more than 150,000, all the 600-odd street intersections have their own individual names, such, -as Las Gradillas or La Torre. They, instead of street names and numbers, num-bers, are used as addresses. Each time a horse show, rodeo or circus is held in Madison Square Garden in New York city, the Garden has to provide 700 tons of earth, which it rents from a local contractor at a cost of about $2,500. Collier's. |