In Biloxi, Miss., the United States Marshal was ordered by a writ of sequestration to "seize and bring into court" a 75 ton dead whale, as to the ownership of which there was a legal contest.

In Manhattan an aeroplane wrote "Good Luck" in smoke overhead while Minnie Schlacht and Morris Zuckerbrod were being married.

In Baltimore was filed one of the shortest wills on record--four words: "Everything to my wife."

In tropical Honolulu five Japanese died from cold and exposure. They were climbing Mt. Haleakala, extinct volcano, when a storm over-took them, 10,000 feet above sea level.

In Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital.

In Cincinnati fourteen merchants were invited to a dinner by a commission merchant. When they assembled they discovered that their host was not the man from whom the invitation came--but another man who had disappeared owing them money 20 years ago. He made them a speech and then handed each an envelope containing principal and interest. In East Orange, N. J., license to drive an automobile was refused a man because he was 80 years old.

In Manhattan a 250 Ib. woman laughed herself to death over the cinema Clarence.

In Texarkana, the local Red Cross instigated a war against rats. A six-year-old girl, desirous of being first in point of number of "tails turned in," is feeding 28 captive baby rats until their tails grow long enough to qualify as trophies.

Because he attended his mother's funeral, D. J. Hickey, secretary to the warden of Sing Sing prison, missed witnessing his first execution in 30 years. (He has seen 190.)