Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 August 1939 — Strange Facts [ARTICLE]

Strange Facts

200,000 Descendant* Sat on Their Liquor Simple Life on Coins

The total number of descendants of any colonial family that settled in this country between 1620 and 1640 is estimated to be more than two hundred thousand. England’s aleconners, who practiced their profession of testing ale and beer up to a few years ago, determined the sugar content by pouring some of the liquor on a wooden stool and then sitting on it. If their leather breeches stuck, they considered the brew satisfactory. All fees of Amer can attorneys are not left to their discretion. The United States Code, for example, prohibits a lawyer from Charging his client more than $lO for prosecuting and obtaining a claim for a pension. Today many oil tankers plying the West coast do not have to “come in” for loading, reports Collier’s. They get their cargoes through a buoy-marked flexible hose attached to a huge pipe that runs out into the Pacific from a point near San Luis Obispo. Instead of dignifying their new coins with engravings of political heroes, the Irish make them gay with pictures of pigs, hens, plants, and other farm produce.—Collier’s.