War

In Texarkana, Tex., in 1912, Charles Settle's Leghorn hen laid torpedo-shaped eggs that tapered at both ends. On the basis of that hint he went on record as predicting a world war in two years. Last week one of Settle's Minorca hens laid torpedo-shaped eggs. Said Farmer Settle: "If another war doesn't break out within two years then my hen doesn't know her business."

Funeral

In Buffalo, N. Y., as kinsmen of the late Michael Budnik carried his coffin into Queen of the Peace Church for the funeral, the coffin began smoking. The mourners opened the coffin, doused out the flames started by a cigaret that a mourner had dropped before the lid was put on. As the pallbearers carried Michael Budnik up the aisle of the church, the coffin smoked again. Thoroughly drenched, Michael Budnik was buried.

Fall

In Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies.

Dodger

In Elgin, Ill., Maniac Kenneth Ortt, 20, dodged around the top of a 150-ft. water tower, threatening suicide while a squad of firemen with a life net tried to keep under him. Ortt jumped, missed the net by 20 ft.

Why

In Ossining at New York's Sing Sing Prison, of 1,371 answers to a questionnaire, only eight convicts said they were in jail because they had been framed by the police, 55 ''declined to go into the matter.'' Warden Lewis E. Lawes said this proved that convicts are becoming more honest.

Couple

In St. Louis, Wilma McClain Kirby, 13, divorced her 18-year-old husband. The child charged nonsupport. The boy replied that his wife had nagged him.

Evidence

In Chicago, to prove her divorce contention that her husband was an habitual drunkard, Mrs. Madeline McCarthy produced in court a photograph of Mr. McCarthy snoring in a bathtub. "Unfair," said Mr. McCarthy.

Marathon

In Los Angeles, Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, celebrated his third week of nourishing himself exclusively on beer by drinking his 285th bottle, showing reporters he had lost 25 of his 260 pounds, could still twist an iron bar.

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