" TIME brings all things "

At New Castle, Pa., Mrs. S. Deep (colored), aged 30, whose 15-year-old daughter has a 7-month-old boy, claimed to be the nation's youngest grandmother.*

At Savannah, Ga., Francis Marion Gill, a Confederate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being " the oldest father in the U. S." by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged 36./-

In Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business 14 3/4%.

In Chicago, a hermaphrodite, three-fourths female physiologically, who was simultaneously a wife and a husband, having married a man to escape arrest and a woman " to save her soul," received an ovation when acquitted of holding up and murdering a man. The individual in question appeared in court dressed in trousers and a blouse with low neck and lace collar.

In Chicago, an Italian dance hall proprietress was arrested because she sought to arrange a dance for a " wallflower" by pointing a pistol at a stag and saying: " Dance with that redhead or I'll kill you! "

In Manhattan, a man obstructed traffic by throwing two dollars in nickels, one by one, to street gamins for the purpose of " encouraging young American manhood."

In London, a band of rowdies burst into a narrow street thronged with auctioneers and buyers in a pet animal market, shouted " Earthquake ! Earthquake!" caused a stampede that injured 60 people and destroyed hundreds of caged canaries, cats, dogs, chickens, parrots.

From Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used for alligator bait. " The infants are allowed to play in shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian approaches his prey, he is shot by the riflemen."

The Louisville Herald: " Florida alligator hunters do not ever miss their target."

The price reported as being paid colored mothers for the services of their babies as bait was "$2.00 a hunt."

* Mrs. Frank Wile, 32, of Bamford, Pa., is said to be the '' youngest white grandmother.'' Her daughter, 16, has a 5-month-old child. /- In 1922 three Georgians, each 80, became fathers.