STRANGE BUT TRUE

• It was megalomaniacal French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who made the following sage observation: “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

• Orchids are lovely flowers, and many people dedicate years to growing them and finding rare specimens. If you’re like most people, though, you probably don’t realize that the word orchid comes from the Greek word “orchis,” which means “testicle.”

• Records show that the town of Helena, Montana, had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world — way back in 1888.

• In the early 1970s, a British plumber nam...