Saturday, Apr. 14, 1923

"TIME Brings All Things" In Greece there are 119 goats for every 100 human beings.

In Germany a new method has been developed of sending kisses by mail. A mixture of honey, gum arabic and cochineal is smeared on the lips and their impression left on the letter.

At Logan, Ohio, after having influenza, a woman talked continuously for six days and then was removed to a sanitarium.

The crew of the Shipping Board steamer West Helix smoked dried tea leaves instead of tobacco for two weeks. On a two-months' voyage from Antwerp to Boston, attended by gales and machinery trouble, they ran out of cigarettes and tobacco.

In Chicago a lecturer who was addressing an audience and having his remarks broadcast at the same time was interrupted by the arrival of a messenger boy. The boy brought 25 cents from a radio listener to buy cough drops for the assembly, whose coughing disturbed him.

One hundred miles off the coast of Mexico the ship Kinnecott steamed through a school of turtles for more than 80 nautical miles.

In Washington, D. C., a wedding party was arrested for blowing their automobile horns in the street. The Police Commissioner ordered their release, saying: " Most people only get married once, and they ought to be free to celebrate it."

Because office buildings are continually replacing dwellings, the population of Manhattan is falling off. In the 1920 census it was 2,284,103. By July 1, 1923, it will be 2,267,001, according to Census Bureau estimates.

A new, natural and absolutely bona fide set of teeth have for several months been growing steadily in the jaws of John F. Koter, of Gulf Summit, N. Y., 88 years old.

Shunned by gambler, and mutilated by superstitionist, the $2 bill must go. Such, at least, is the recommendation of Secretary Mellon's special Treasury Committee on Currency Revision. The reason given is protection against bill "raisers."

In Tupelo, Miss., R. F. Goodlet likes chess and fresh air, so he built his board outdoors. The board is a good-sized "garden" and the pawns are knee high to Mr. Goodlet.