Nerve

At Atlanta, Ga., A. E. Shipp, structural steel worker, sued Central Railway of Georgia for $75,000 because, since one of their locomotives hit his automobile, he has suffered from loss of his nerve in the practice of his trade. Said he: ''When I stood on a beam and was hoisted out . . . 190 ft. above the water . . . my face broke out in a cold sweat."

Lightning

At Montreal, John Moraine, who had been paralyzed in his legs for three months, saw lightning strike his home and ran away quickly.

Trophy

In Palatka, Fla., H. F. Underwood, jeweler, sold a handsome golf trophy to Palatka Country Club. No golfer, he was offered a "duffer's handicap" to play in the club tournament. He borrowed a set of clubs, won back the trophy.

Spartan

At Chicago Mrs. Mary Mellas, a native of Sparta, gave a pint of her blood to her 5-year-old daughter late one night, gave birth to another daughter the following morning.

Crier

At Peekskill, N. Y. Roswell Moshier. 32, walked through the streets crying "Dynamite! Dynamite!" He had found

40 sticks of it in a burlap bag on the highway, thought he might capitalize his find. A policeman stopped him.

That

At Los Angeles, Willie Soslofsky, 13, was arrested for shooting Nicholas Duane. 15. Said he: "We pulled a half-dozen holdups. Then . . . we both jumped for the gun. But I beat him to it. And that's that."

Baldassare

At Waterloo, N. Y. Barbers James Baldassare and William Menzer raced to see how many heads of hair each could clip in the shortest length of time. Baldassare won by cutting 23 heads in 1 hr., 33 min., 41 sec.

Vanishment

At Lake Forest, 111. Rose Wiggin, 4, and Sally Wiggin, 6, after reading a great number of fairy stories, stripped, coated themselves with their mother's vanishing cream, ran downstairs into a formal, adult dinner-party under the impression that they were invisible.

63,000,000,000,000,000

At Champaign, Ill. Professor Frank G. Dickinson divided a standard billiard table into 398,000 blocks, calculated that there are 63,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion) possible billiard shots.

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