Waif

At Chicago, police hastened to rescue a waif wailing "MaMa" among some bushes. It was a large talking doll forgotten on a bush and being bumped about by the wind.

Sign

At St. Albans, L. I., Bobby Brown, 4, carries sewn on his jumper front this sign: "Please do not give any food to Bobby."

Herbist

From Petersburgh Junction, Mass., to Berlin Center, N. Y., is 19^ miles. James Brown, 100, too impatient to wait six hours for a train, walked the distance in seven hours. Said he: "I had me a little springtime cold. So I come back over to 'York State to dig me some yarbs and roots to make some syrup for it."

Wife

In Philadelphia and Manhattan, plump Mrs. Frances Munro, nabbed her errant husband by following him into his haunts, dressed as a stocky young man.

Turkeys

At Fort Saulsbury, Del., Capt. William R. Maris, commandant, received from neighboring farmers an anonymous request to refrain from gun firing, thus to protect their turkey eggs from cracking.

Gaffer

At Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein.

Constrictors

In Manhattan, when Henry Bartels went to a recently docked ocean liner to claim six boa constrictors he had ordered from South America, he was presented with 53. Said the ship's captain: "Forty-seven were born on the way up here. Ship six, pay for six, get 53. That's a break for you."

Layman

In Ridgewood, L. L, William Layman, chameleon peddler, tied strings about the necks of his lizards, dangled them before prospective buyers, was fined $25 for cruelty to animals.

Rooster

At Sing Sing prison John Santanella, a trusty, had only 55 more days to serve on his sentence. Yet he fled. Philip A. Brown, who wants to become a policeman, found him roosting in a tree, bayed until guards arrived, who took John Santanella back to prison, where he risks spending seven to 15 years more for his defection.

Teething

At Beverly, N. J., James J. Carr, 52, is doing what dental authorities say has never happened, but what his physician Dr. Parry Scott and his dentist Dr. Harold Winkelspecht testify is a fact--teething his third set of teeth.

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