Stare

At St. Louis, Mo., a bandit, flourishing a revolver, entered a restaurant late one night. To James Morkides, the night manager, the bandit resembled a ferocious lion, and he remembered having read that lions may be cowed by a cold, unswerving stare. Coldly, unswervingly he fixed his eye upon the intruder, who falteringly dropped his pistol, turned, fled.

Boy

At Paoli, Pa., Edward Walters, 15, walked into a store, calmly cleaned out the contents of the cash-register, marched out again. Chased by a policeman, he fled along a railroad embankment, when suddenly he caught sight of an express train bearing down on him and his pursuer from behind. Realizing that the policeman was unaware of the express, he turned, tackled the officer, rolled down the embankment with him, where he was arrested. In court, Edward Walters returned the stolen money, heard himself praised as a lifesaver, received from the policeman money enough to get back to Cleveland, his home.

Two

At Scarsdale, N. Y., Joan Marcuse, 2, wandered with a playmate of the same age three blocks to the Bronx River and fell in. The playmate trotted back to Joan Marcuse's home, told a nurse, who with a passerby fished out Joan Marcuse's body.

Mud

At Spanish Fork, Utah, a car in which Robert Olsen Jr., 2, was riding overturned, threw him 20 ft. Robert Olsen landed in a mudbank, was unhurt.

Gum

At Buffalo, dinner was announced in the home of Jack Farrell, 5. Jack Farrell was chewing gum. Before he took his seat at the table he put his masticated gobbet not behind his ear, as is a popular fashion, but in his ear. Surgeons had to cut his ear apart, get the gum out.

Funeral

In San Francisco, William Williams heard the intonations of a minister and the music at his mother's burial service in Schenectady, N. Y. Unable to gp home for her funeral, he had made arrangements with the telephone company to "sit in" by wire.

Brothers

At Van Nuys, Calif., Dr. R. L. Thompson was arraigned on traffic charges before his brother, Judge Clifford Thompson.

"Speeding," said the Judge, "will cost you $5. And if I recall aright, the last time I was ill you prescribed for me."

The Doctor snorted: "You just imagined you were ill. I prescribed castor oil."

The Judge made a wry face. "I can taste it yet. For the taillight offense, $2, Doctor, please."

Philtre

At Zipser Neudorf, Czechoslovakia, a widow named Andrejcak was arrested on a dark night carrying from the local cemetery the disinterred body of a small boy. She confessed in court that her lover, Joseph Koery, seemed less fond of her than he had been; that she was going to use the body to compound a love-philtre.

Law

At Santa Barbara, Calif., citizens alarmed by rumors of nakedness on the beaches sought to have young men & women night bathers arrested, until shown this city ordinance, enacted in 1881:

"During the hours from 8 p. m. to 6 a.m. it shall not be unlawful for any person or persons to bathe on the beaches in the nude."

Dancer

In Manhattan, Eugene Kelly, 18. was arrested after he had set two tenement houses afire. He admitted setting a dozen or more fires during the past month, saying: "I always set them when I was coming home from dances. It was fun to watch the excitement."

Father

At Bloomfield, N. J., Mrs. Jessie Mc- Laughlin picked up her daily newspaper and saw a photograph of several men grouped around a faro table in Reno, Nev., illustrating the renewal of legal gambling there. One of the men was her father, Frank McCormick, who disappeared 13 years ago.

Foah

At Bartlesville, Okla., Negro Toots Champ, 60, wanted to roll a four in a crap game. Rattling the dice, he cried: "Ah nevah did make a foah. 'Specks if Ah did Ahd drop daid. Wham!" Two deuces (the "hard way") rolled out of the hand of Toots Champ; he died.

Cross

In Honolulu, the local Board of Agriculture & Forestry began to give away some 300 sausage trees.-- Territorial Forester Charles S. Judd took occasion to explain that his department had tried unsuccessfully to cross the sausage tree with the breadfruit tree and the mustard plant to produce a hotdog plant.

Fall

At Stone Mountain, Ga., Frank Trainor of Rye, N. Y. started one day to climb Stone Mountain. As he neared the summit, he met some boys, whom he told: "I'm going to climb this mountain until I fall off." Shortly afterward, Frank Trainor slipped, fell 500 ft. down a perpendicular cliff, caught a projecting ledge, remained there seven hours. Shortly after dark, sightseers heard him cry, sent rescuers. He was undamaged.

--Kigelia Africana Bentham.

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