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SCRAPS OF HISTORY, FACT AND HUMOR OFFICIAL ORGAN LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN Entered as Second-Class Matter, March 10, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Vol. 5. No. 3 MAY, 1907 5 Cents. MAY INVITES US TO THE OPEN. "When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; fresh violets open every day; to some new bird each hour we listen." — Lucy Larcom. A figure of speech — naught set down in maHce. Work keeps a man from doing mean things, but there can't be enough of it to keep him from think- ing them. A spider will eat 27 times its own weight in a day. Beats the hog. The letter "i" was not so commonly dotted until the fourteenth century. The first dotted "i" is in a manuscript dated 1327. May will bring out the bicycles. Hope you ride. The hours at which fewest people die are twelve midnight to one a. m., and from noon till one o'clock p. m.