"TIME brings all things."

Accident

In Manhattan, Mrs. May Birn, 42, died of bloodpoisoning contracted after an accident. The accident: while both slept, her finger strayed into her husband's mouth, he bit it.

Money

At Ottawa, Ill., George Jakubsen, railroad crossing watchman, drew his life savings, $1,460. from a bank which he was afraid would fail, hid it. Later he looked for the money, could not find it. He brooded, finally killed himself with poison. When officers searched his effects they found the $1,460 between the leaves of a book.

Cigarets

At Danville,Ill., Genevieve Bradford, 16. killed herself with a revolver because her mother had told her she would have to give up her sweetheart if she did not give up cigarets.

Finder

In Newark, N. J., Mrs. Stacy H. Miller found a $500 pearl in her 35c clam cocktail.

Ride

At Columbus. Ind., Herschel Olmstead, 17, signaled a passing automobile for a ride. Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, on his way to arrest Herschel Olmstead for stealing a wristwatch, told him to climb in, took him to jail.

Cigarets

In Jersey City, N. J., John Turkess, 26, wrote a goodbye note to his wife, left $49.40 for funeral expenses, stuffed the door and window cracks of his room, turned several gas jets wide open and lay down to die. As the fumes became stronger he decided to light a last cigaret. The explosion blew out the side of the house, bruised, burned but did not kill John Turkess.

Complaint

At East Liverpool, Ohio, the City Council announced that any Pennsylvania R. R. engineman driving a train faster than 15 m.p.h. through the town would be arrested. Citizens had complained of 100-car trains speeding through the town at 50 to 60 m.p.h. "with unnecessary use of whistles . . . belching of smoke."

Lickers

At Beloit, Wis., Janet and Janice Norem, two-year-old twins, licked off sugar sprinkled on flypaper to attract flies, were taken to a hospital to have their stomachs washed out.

Words

At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a postcard, claimed a world's record.

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