Saturday, May. 12, 1923
Miscellany
" TIME Brings All Things "
The seventh daughter of a seventh daughter will not die young according to Negro tradition. In Brooklyn such an one just died at the age of 118 years.
At Wembley, England, at a great football match, numbers of spectators entered the stadium by climbing over the fence. Following the match, many of them mailed their admission fees to the management, saying that they had climbed over because of the large crowd.
In New Guinea the natives refer to all girls as " Mary's" -- to go a-wooing is going " to catch a Mary," according to a professional woman traveller recently returned.
In the first three months of 1923, 15,000,000,000 cigarettes were manufactured in the United States--half again as many as during the same period in 1922.
Delmonico's Restaurant, Manhattan, established in 1827, long the most famous and fashionable restaurant in the United States, went into the hands of the sheriff for nonpayment of rent.