Teeth

Mathias Blau of Chicago persuaded his wife, Helen, to have all her teeth pulled. Then he refused to buy her false teeth because, he said, it was cheaper to feed her on soup than on solids. Mrs. Blau went to court, was awarded two sets of store teeth and at least a beefsteak a week. Judge Jonas told Mr. Blau that he had committed "the meanest trick" he had ever heard of.

Watches

Joseph Davidson of Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested.

Rats

There are 7,800,000 rats in Detroit. They do a damage of $60,000,000 a year. So says the U. S. Public Health Service.

Camera

"Go on; you can't see straight," said Fred Genazzi of Point Reyes, Calif., to Captain W. B. Sellner, State Fish and Game Commissioner, who had accused him of dumping garbage on his (Sellner's) property.

Then Captain Sellner produced a bedspread and a movie camera, entertained the court with scenes of garbage-dumping in which Mr. Genazzi played the leading role. The court gave Mr. Genazzi 30 days in jail.

Butcher

The deer was tame. "My little boy showed it to me through the window. My boy went out and whistled and called to it and it came to him," said one witness.

The deer was killed. "I saw the deer drinking from a little slough. Then the police car drove up and two men got out. One had a rifle. He fired a shot and struck the deer in the foot. The deer staggered up a little knoll. He fired again and it fell. Then he walked up and shot it through the head as it lay writhing on the ground," said another witness.

The killer of the deer was Chief of Police H. M. Haight of Park Ridge, Ill. (suburb of Chicago). He took it to a butcher, had it dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot a tame deer at all is anything but sportsmanship. And no sportsman would shoot a roe if he knew it."