
The chewing gum bus- 
iness grew out of an in- 
vestment of $55.00 back 
in 1860. Just before the 
war Americans spent 
more than 1 million dol- 
lars a week on chewing 
gum. 
* 
“One touch of nature 
makes the whole world 
kin.’""—Shakespeare. 
* 
Time, patience and 
perseverance solves all 
things. 
* 
Opportunity is of- 
times unrecognized be- 
cause it is disguised as 
a hard job. 
* 
“Woodman, spare that 
tree! 
Touch not a_ single 
hough! 
In youth it sheltered 
me, 
And I'll protect. it 
now.” 
Morris. 
Punta Arenas, the 
southernmost city in the 
world, at the extreme 
end of Patagonia on the 
Straits of Magellan, has 
only 2 hours of daylight 
in winter months. 
* 
The first labor con- 
tract in the U. S. was 
made in 1886 between 
the newspaper publishers 
and typographical unions 
in Chicago. 
* 
The most effective ser- 
mon is that given by a 
good example. 
* 
There are in the Unit- 
ed States only about two 
birds to the acre. 
* 
A laugh is worth a 
hundred groans in any 
market. 
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to dissolve glue that has 
hardened, or to thin it. 


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grow, must have a fixed 
root place. 
* 
The union label emerg- 
ed from a conflict be- 
tween cigar markers and 
Chinese labor jn San 
Francisco, in 1896. 
* 
When the fox comes 
out of the trap he is 
more prudent than _ be- 
fore. 
* 
Calico derives its name 
from the city of Calicut, 
in Madras, India. 
* 
The Amazon River 1s 
the widest in the world. 
* 
The rock that resists 
the crowbar gives way 
to a tender plant. 
* 
The mocking bird is 
the officially recognized 
state bird of Texas 
* 
Bernard Shaw said— 
“Except during the first 
nine months before he 
draws his first breath, 
no man manages his af- 
fairs as well as a tree 
does.”’ 
* 
Rome was not built in 
a day but someone must 
have started it in a day. 
* 
Less than 10 per cent 
of human beings are left 
handed. 
* 
“I think that I shall 
never see. 
A poem lovely as a 
tree.” 
—Kilmer. 
* 
Some species of eagles 
have been known to live 
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