Misc Story Notes

ODB Dec. 18 devotion, Jan 11 07 Jan 17, Jan 18 2007-02-14
Heaven is the heart’s true home.
When my traveling days are over . . .
God uses illness to draw you closer to Him.
One day, when your Lord comes for you, He will heal all your cancer.
You may forget God, but He will never forget you.
Life expectancy in 1901 was 49 years.
The biggest thing to improve life expectancy was clean water. Chlorine as a disinfectant. Waterborne diseases included cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery. Could wipe out entire communities. (the rule of 3 . . .)
Sodium bicarbonate when heated gives off CO2 which makes cakes and cookies rise during baking.
When we free ourselves from all the things that encumber us, we can begin to build a relationship based on being partners and not a relationship based on dominance or fear.
In 1901 the life expectancy was 49 years. The biggest thing to improve the life expectancy was clean water. Chlorine as a disinfectant was first used in ___________. Waterborne diseases include cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery. They could wipe out entire communities.
“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.” -- Alan Valentine.
You win a heart by outshining the competition, not by being jealous.
When people are told something they don’t want to know, they often resent the messenger.
Depression is anger turned inward.
Dead Ringer—The definition of ringer, from which this phrase comes, is “substituted racehorse.” Unscrupulous racehorse owners have a fast horse and a slow horse that are nearly identical in appearance. They run the slow horse until the betting odds reached the desired level, then they substitute the ringer, who can run much faster. Dead in this case means abrupt or exact, like in dead stop, or dead shot.
Dead Ringer—Gangsters with contracts on their lives might hire a person who looked similar to them, a ringer, to appear in a public places. The lookalike would often be convincing enough to fool the contracted killers, you can guess the part about dead.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~ Cicero
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
About 1888, the Office Specialty Manufacturing Co. introduced its Rapid Roller Damp-Leaf Copier which used pressure supplied by rollers to copy letters onto a roll of dampened paper. After copies were pressed onto the paper, the paper entered the cabinet under the copier, where it dried on a large roller. Copies could be made more quickly with a roller copier than with a letter copying press. Roller copiers also competed with carbon paper. A roller copier could make a half dozen copies of a typewritten letter if the letter was run through the copier several times.