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Things Not Generally Known: Persons

IO years Persons. Age. 134 45 years 66 15 66 20 25 66 66 30 66 35 66 40 66 131 50 66 129 55 124 60 119 65 70 66 66 I12 66 103 722" Persons. 90 .. 73 54 35 25 17 13 So that if thirteen persons, each of them seventy-two and a half years old, sit down to table, the death of one of them in the course of the following twelve months is a scientific probability, Thor. (Scand. Myth.) A son of Odin and Frigga; the god of war, and, in that capacity, the defender of the gods against the frequent attacks of the giants. The fifth day was sacred to this god, and hence it was called Thor's day, our Thursday. Three Tailors of Tooley Street. Canning is responsible for this expression, founded on the fact that three tailors of Tooley Street, Southwark, addressed a petition detailing certain grievances to the House of Commons, beginning, "We, the people of England," and signed by the three tailors of Tooley Street. Hence the phrase means an insignificant pretentious minority.