Dorchester High School for Boys - Red and Black Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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Curious llddities by Qenafcf Wings of the common house fly vibrate at the rate of 19,800 beats per minute. Yale was the first U. S. college to play football with eleven men on each side. The first bricks in America were made in Virginia in 1612. A safety razor blade can be sharpened by merely drawing it through a cork a few times. A thimble full of flucrescein is sufficient to color the combined Great Lakes to a distinct green. Pigs perspire through their feet: not their pores. If all the money in circulation were to be divided equally, every one in the U. S. would have 35038. The average cow gives 4,000 pounds of milk a year. A parachute ensemble, consisting of harness, main chute and emergency chute, weighs 25 pounds. About 22? of the land surface in the U. S. is desert. If a man, weighing 150 pounds, were to have all the water in his body dry up, he would weigh a mere 50 pounds. Two hundred billion cigarettes are smoked annually by the population of the U. S. A chicken becomes a fowl at the end of one year. A cake of yeast is composed of enough living plants to equal seventy times the population of the earth. A frog will suffocate if it keeps its mouth open. I Only one game in about every 1400 major league baseball games is won bya no-hit, no-run pitching performance. The owl is the only bird that can look at one object with both eyes-all others having to use a single eye to see a single object. England has more than 150 castles and mansions which cannot be rented at any price because they are haunted Chinese children commence smoking in their infancy. Parents do not object. . E in-is Q.-if MSAQQ During a minute's piano playing the fingers make as many as 2,000 movements. A crab's teeth are in its stomach. A tooth is the only part of the human body which cannot repair itself. A lady bug can eat ten times its own weight. I-lot water runs through a faucet faster than cold water. The light given off by the North Star requires 47 years to reach the earth. A tank car loaded with helium gas shipped by the navy weighed 92,000 pounds less than the empty car did. It costs the government 3.0082 to print each U. S. bank note. A sperm whale will eat as much as a ton of food a day. Nlules injure more people in the U. S. than airplanes. The human jaw can exert a pressure of 500 pounds. Wilderness was originally written Wild-er- ness. A queen bee can lay two times her weight in eggs in twenty-four hours. According to police file and insurance records. the safest time of the day or week is Tuesday between six and seven in the morning. Youngsters learn a new language much quicker than a middle-aged person. Ukulele means jumping flea. Many redwood trees are large enough singly. to furnish the lumber requirements for twenty- two average-sized homes. A soldering iron is not a soldering iron: it is made of copper. The smallest wire is so fine that one mile of it weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram. The most nourishing fruit is the banana. Arabic figures were not invented by the Arabs, but by the early scholars of India. Common salt is not a salt and has long been excluded from the class of bodies denominated salts. ln Siberia, if a man is dissatisfied with the acts of his wife, he tears a veil from her face, page eighty-three

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The Bridge You'll Never Cross Grenville Kleiser lt's what you think that makes the World Seem dull or bright to your Your mind may color all things gray Gr make them radiant hue. Be glad today, be brave and Wise, Seek truth amid the dross, Waste neither time nor thought about The bridge you'll never cross. There's useful Work for you to do With hand and brain and heart: There's urgent human service, too, ln which to take your part. Make every opportunity Worth while and not a loss: The best is yours, so do not fear The bridge you'll never cross. lf life seems drab and diflicult, Just face it with a Willg You do not have to Walk alone, Since God is with you still. Press on with courage toward the goal, With truth your shield embossg Be strong, look up, and just ignore The bridge you'll never cross. page eighty-Iwo M 8 P CODMAN SQ. THEATRE Always a big double j feature program at l popular prices t FREE PARKING Telephone TALbot 4040 Poor Richard says: ONE TODAY IS WORTH Two ToMoRRoWs BUY - WAR SAVING STAMPS TODAY AND EVERYDAY

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and that constitutes a divorce. Lemons were used by the Romans to keep moths from their garments. The onion was an object of worship with the Egyptians two thousand years ago. The wooden Indian used as a t0bacconist's sign did not originate in the U. S., but in England. Tibet is the highest country in the world, 16,000 feet above sea level. Some mountain roads in Tibet are so steep that ladders are made of notched logs and are used for steps. Benjamin Franklin first suggested daylight saving time in 1784. A 22 caliber rifle shoots a bullet at the rate of 1400 feet per second: even faster than sound. All U. S. Navy ships are named by the Secretary of Navy. Thimbles were first used on the thumb and were called thumb bells. The meadow lark is the only bird of thousands of American species that is the official bird of seven states. The average college football game contains less action than the majority of the other sports as the ball is in motion only twenty per cent of the time. The remaining time is taken up by huddles and formations. The common barn owl catches more mice than a dozen cats. 1 Driscoll Hardware Co. Complete line of Ar ed? SECRETARIAL SCHOO I2 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON 16, MASS. L JAMES W. DORAN 8z SON STOCK CUTS PHOTO ENGRAVING 470 Atlantic Avenue BOSTON Paint - Kitchenware 1 WUI! Paper MASS. 855A Washington Qnear Puller St.D Tel. CUN. 1930 Boosters IV-51 1 Harpo Bertazzoni John Joyce Bill Boyle Harold Cowan Herbert Smith Hugh Ahern John Lucas Steve Vlachos Harold Meneely Fred Driscoll Compliments of A Friend page eighty-four