Poet

In Aurora, Ill., Justice Galvin married David Livsey and Fay Sutcliffe. The wedding service: "Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss."

David Livsey: "I do."

"Now, sweet lady, do you say you will promise to obey? Love your husband, honor him, for his sake risk life and limb? Never look at other men, pledge yourself to him; and then, faithful for the rest of life, be his gentle loving wife?"

Fay Sutcliffe: "I do."

"Then, by the law of Illinois, you two are wed; may all be joy. . . ."

Bill

In Houston, Tex., T. C. Grenshaw, 70, divorced by his wife after 27 years of marriage, brought suit against her new husband, Fred M. Terry, for 1) poisoning his former wife's mind ($25,000); 2) alienating her affections ($25,000); 3) corrupting her morals ($25,000); 4) destroying her innocence ($25,000); 5) causing her to break her marriage contract ($25,000); 6) mortification ($25,000); 7) loss of her society ($25,000); 8) loss of right to censure her actions ($25,000).

Inventor

In Manhattan, Earl Freedman Lathrop was given a life sentence, convicted for the fourth time of forging checks. He was the inventor of a machine to prevent checks being raised.

Bath

In Jonesboro, Ark., Raymond Martin, charged with possessing corn whiskey, explained: "We tried everything to relieve my sister, but nothing did any good. So finally we started giving her corn liquor baths. And now she is well." Said the Judge: "$50 . . . jail."

Schenayder

To Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over.

Soup

In Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard.

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