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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. What country’s flag is emblazoned with the outline of an AK-47 assault rifle?

A. Only Mozambique’s.

The deeper you go, the bigger the jellyfish.

Our Love and War man is mulling this philosophical query of a deep-thinking husband: “If a man speaks in a forest with no woman present, is he still wrong?”

Among musicians in the big orchestras heard at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the American-born players are outnumbered by about 5-to-1 by talents from Japan, Taiwan, Germany and Russia.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi disliked school. Intensely. But he got married at age 13, so he missed a school year, and that helped some.

The naturalist John Burroughs late in life wrote: “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells on the beauty and wonder of the world.”

If your matrimonial mate snores, send that worthy into outer space. Astronauts when up there don’t snore. Weightlessness lets the soft palate float.