Saturday, June 23, 2007

Women First Forbidden To Wear Glasses

1896

Roger Bacon was the first to suggest the use of spectacles. When they came into use in Italy about the year 1825, on the recommendation of Allessandro di Spina, a monk of Pisa, women were forbidden to wear them, because it was thought such facial ornamentations would make them vain.


Trivia

The king of beasts in his native wilds often lives for 100 years. A lion in captivity in the Tower of London lived there seventy years, and his age was unknown when he was captured.

Sitting Bull's pony, which was in his possession when he was shot on the Standing Rock Reservation some five years ago, is now owned by a farmer in Stanley County, South Dakota.

Poland in the fourteenth century had a pigmy king, Ladislas the Short, who won more victories than any other northern monarch of his time, and who left a great name as a jurist, statesman and ruler.

The claim of being the youngest mother in the state of Oregon is made for Mrs. J. F. Magee, wife of the marshall of Mitchell Township, who is a little over fifteen years old and has a handsome and healthy boy baby.

Cherryfield, Me., has a fire company bearing the odd name of the Egg-Beater Fire Company. It appears to be a good company, too, for the citizens of Cherryfield have just presented to it a silver trumpet in recognition of recent good work in fighting a fire.

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