Hurts

In Eldora, Iowa, Hank Schafer, 83, slipped on the ice, fractured his hip. Long ago Hank Schafer was buried alive in a coal mine. Later he lost an arm and eye when he was blown into the air by a cannon. After that he was buried alive under two tons of clay. Next he fell 30 ft. off a cliff. Still later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke. At 82 he was run over by a horse & wagon. At 83 he was run over by an automobile. Thrice has lightning struck Hank Schafer.

Snap

In Denver Max Mannison snapped his fingers and said: "When I die I want to go just like that." Thereupon he did.

Saved

In Michigan City, Ind., night before his execution Uxoricide Harvey Edwards slashed his wrists, started to bleed to death. Prison physicians gave him blood transfusions, worked 22 hours to save his life. Saved, Harvey Edwards was successfully electrocuted.

Milker

In Three Forks, Mont., when a farmer complained that his cows were being milked by marauders at night, deputy sheriffs kept watch. Their vigil was rewarded when the complainant appeared in his nightgown, milked his own cows, threw the milk to his sleeping pigs, somnambulated back to bed.

Both

In Milwaukee an old woman seriously injured in an automobile accident was carried in to Dr. S. A. Levin to be patched up. The old woman Dr. Levin patched up was his mother. Later that day an old man, dead from heart failure, was carried in to Dr. Levin for examination. The old man Dr. Levin could not patch up was his father.

"Any Time Now"

In Turin, Italy, Smerildo Gonnella lay on a wooden cot. wrapped in a tattered shroud, ready for death. Twelve years he has thus been waiting. Predicted Smerildo Gonnella, who has been fed by kindly neighbors, "Any time now."

Words

In Manhattan, Joseph Ferdinand Gould (Harvard, 1911) celebrated the writing of the 7,300,000th word in his uncompleted book. Oral History of Our Times. Said Writer Gould: "I have used no printed material. I have been at work on it for 15 years and everything in it was transmitted to me by word of mouth. . . . My chapter on freedom and insanity is one of the best. It ends with this sentence: 'I have a delusion of grandeur; I believe myself to be Joe Gould.' "

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