Flowers

In Chicago, White Hozie, Negro truck driver for the Aristo Floral Co., attempted to sell some flowers, was arrested. They had been picked by him from graves in the Bohemian National Cemetery.

Cats

In Manhattan, a patrolman found one John Sawyer, 65, lying face down upon the floor of his basement apartment, dead from a fall or foul play; around the corpse, unblinking, motionless, sat six cats.

Glands

In San Francisco, the Southern Pacific R.R. was adjudged guilty of adding 80 pounds to the weight of a female passenger. Aboard a Southern Pacific ferry, Mrs. Elsie Rea, 20, fell. Injuries to thyroid and pituitary glands set in motion chemistry that raised her weight from 145 to 225 pounds. Damages for plaintiff: $1,500.

Trays

In Pittsburgh, Pa., one William Nauer, husky Lithuanian, had by last week washed 500,000 trays since last August. Object: to discover the effects of soap, water and dishcloths on the surfaces of the trays, a new product of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

Plumage

In Havana, a Mrs. Bernard Duis bought two bright, lively birds whose plumage matched her red hair. When she reached Manhattan by boat last week, the birds no longer matched her hair. Artificially dyed, their feathers had "run," faded.

Dream

In Grand Rapids, Mich., Laborer George McGowan dreamed that a wall fell on him and crushed him. Impressed, he told his employers about it but went on with his job of building a concrete wall in an excavation. The wall fell, crushed but did not kill Laborer McGowan.

Denatured

In the Springfield, Mass., District Court last week, one Thomas McGregor announced that he had been drunk for the full six months of a term he had just served in Hampden County Jail. He said he drank the denatured alcohol used for shellac in the prison workshop.*

Drudge

In Manhattan, one Frederick Weybrach, 14, told his playmates he was going to drink poison, darted into a hallway, downed a dose of iodine and rat poison. A policeman and emetics saved his life. "I don't want to be a mollycoddle," explained Frederick to his father, whose second wife had been making Frederick do her housework.

* Denatured alcohol is made by adding to grain alcohol some substance which renders it unfit to drink. The denaturent is not always a poison (TIME, Nov. 26, Letters).