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BASSETT'S SCRAP BOOK

SCRAPS THAT MARCH.

Why not muzzle March hares?

Cycle shows spring up in March.

Lady Day, March 25, was the old New Year's Day. But that was a long time ago, 1751.

A well known physician says that that man is in perfect health who never gives his health a thought.

Says an Oklahoma editor: "There are two ways of spending a dollar." If he knows only two ways that editor certainly never had much fun in his life.

The United States has a greater proportion of school children to population of any country in the world. About 190 per 1,000 of her population are children at school, while in Russia the proportion is only 20 per 1,000.

Hand a man enough lemons and he'll get sour on the world.

What a happy world this would be if people could come to a thorough agreement on everything like they do on the weather.

It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.—From the Spanish.

Good judgment largely consists in the ability to convince people that you have not made a mistake when you really have.