Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Keep Your Own Secrets

Never tell your resolution beforehand. -- Seiden
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Just So
It is not every bicycle rider who can lower the record, but it s a poor bicycle that cannot lower the rider.
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Spider Builds Strong Web
Spiders are met with in the forest of Java whose webs are so strong that it requires a knife to cut through them.
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Hatpin in Cow's Heart
In the heart of a cow that died at Tamworth, New South Wales, was found part of a hatpin 5 or 6 inches in length.
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Red Headed Dwarfs
In the Valley of Rebas, in the Pyrenees, is found a race of dwarfs. They all have red hair, broad faces and flat noses.
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Talk Less and Listen More
"In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression, but he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely." -- Proverbs of Solomon, x:19
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In a Few Words
The short and simple annals of the "bird man." Aviation, adulation, atmospheric agitation, pulverization, cremation, canonization.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.

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