Bees

In Hillsdale, Mich., one A. N. Thorpe working on his house, found between two walls a solid honeycomb, six feet high, three feet thick.

P: In Odessa, Mo., one Farmer Shupee, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were attacked in their auto by a swarm of bees. Mrs. Shupee at the wheel, sorely stung, sideswiped the car ahead, drove into a ditch, killed Farmer Shupee.

P: In Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks.

P: In Philadelphia, James Arati, 71, Nurseryman, hoeing shrubs, stirred up a swarm of hornets. One bit him on the lip. He died of shock.

Porky

Off Ocean Park, Cal., one "Porky" Jacobs sat in an anchored floating barrel, stuck out his bearded face after more than 100 hours, announced himself world's sit-in-a-floating-barrel champion.

Cat-Walk

Carl Geores of Kenilworth, N. J., motored with his Maltese cat to his summer cottage at Mariaville, N. Y., 210 miles. The cat walked back to Kenilworth.

Turtle

Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed.

Rocker

In Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280 1/2 hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together."

Drive In Waxahachie, Tex., a golfer drove a high ball that landed in a rising airplane, was carried 158,400 yd.

Bald

In South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards.*

*Turkey-Buzzards (vultures) have nearly naked heads. The heads of "bald" eagles are covered with white feathers after they are several years old, before which they are brownish black.