Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 28

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Historians differ as to the exact amount of the original Pony Express riders' salaries, hut they probably got about $100 a month. And a place to sit. Q. What's a A. A crossbreed between a standard poodle and a wolf.

Farmers use Teflon-coated plow blades to turn sticky clay ground. POLAND Poland is now in NATO. Amazing, no? The country wasn't even on the maps of Europe for 123 years from 1795 to 1918. But the Poles preserved their own identity most remarkably for four or five generations under alien language rule. Q.

You said the "right whale" was so called because early seamen thought it the right whale to catch. But why did they think so? A. It has a lot of baleen, swims slowly, and floats when dead. In outer space, say the astronauts, there is no "up" and "down," only "inside" and "outside." Ancient Egyptians used stone pillows. http:www.LMBoyd.com Crown Syndicate, 1997 JUNGLE HUNTERS Q.

Jungle hunters in South America kill game with blow-pipe darts dipped in toxin from poison-dart frogs. But how can they eat the meat without risking poisoning themselves? A. They taste it most carefully to find the poisoned part, then cut it away. Report is the Chinese long have put firecrackers in household corners to serve as fire alarms. Q.

Ask your Love and War Man: After the first five years of a marriage, what year is a divorce, if any, most likely? A. First year after the last youngster leaves home. A chimpanzee has no more hair follicles than a human being. OYSTER QUOTES Q. Wasn't it Andrew Carnegie who said, "He was a bold man that first eat an A.

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