Anne Boleyn's fascinating smile split the great Church of Rome in twain, and gave a nation an altered destiny.

Napoleon, who feared not to attack the proudest monarchs in their capitals, shrank from the political influence of one independent woman in private life, Madame de Stael.
It was a little thing for a cow to kick over a lantern left in a shanty, but it laid Chicago in ashes, and rendered homeless a hundred thousand people.
The discovery of glass was due to a mere accident--the building of a fire on the sand; and the bayonet, first made at Bayonne, in France, owes its existence to the fact that a Basque regiment, being hard pressed by the enemy, one of the soldiers suggested that, as their ammunition was exhausted, they should fix their long knives into the barrels of their muskets, which was done, and the first bayonet-charge was made.
A jest led to a war between two great nations.

The presence of a comma in a deed, lost to the owner of an estate five thousand dollars a month for eight months.

The battle of Corunna was fought and Sir John Moore's life sacrificed, in 1809, through a dragoon stopping to drink while bearing despatches.
"You do no work," said the scissors to the rivet.

"Where would your work be," said the rivet to the scissors, "if I didn't keep you together ?" Every day is a little life; and our whole life but a day repeated.