Debtor. In Paducah, Ky., a robin to whom E. N. Smith had fed crumbs every day turned up at the back door with a dollar bill in its beak, dropped it on the porch, flew off.

Wedlock. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frank Nowels, married ten days, won a divorce when she testified that her husband had played basketball on Friday, golf on Saturday, baseball on Sunday, poker the rest of the week. In Manhattan, Mrs. Gesine Heitmann, who won a temporary separation from husband Charles in 1905, asked a court to make the separation permanent.

Invitation. In Bethlehem, Pa., a child returned a library book entitled A Good House for a Mouse, paid for the damage done its pages by a ravenous mouse.

Message. In Newark, N.J.,a young man stopped a dance band, started to make a speech, refused to be hushed, enraged 3,000 impatient dancers who were joined by 1,000 onlookers in a free-for-all that took police an hour and a half to break up. Nobody remembered what the speaker said.

Decision. In Columbus, Ga., Ernest Pershing Rasberry could stand it no more, asked a court to change his last name to plain Berry.

Lifter. In Patchogue, L.I., Frank T. Marino, who had gallantly given a lift to a woman whose car had broken down, was given 180 days in jail for returning to her car and stealing two tires.

Busybody. In Baltimore, within ten days, three-year-old Joe DeAngelis broke his leg, cut it, got seven stitches in it, tangled his left foot in his tricycle wheel, got eight stitches in it, fell off a table and fractured his arm, broke a glass and stepped on it with his right heel, got seven more stitches, was then put to bed.

Last Word. In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer."

Surprise. In Arkansas City, Kans., Realtor R. D. Anderson found that one of his vacant houses had been repainted, repapered, given new plumbing and a new roof by a buyer who had gone to the wrong address.

Service. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mao McElhinney got his shirt back from the laundry, plus the address book he had left in its pocket, plus twelve new girls' names, addresses, phone numbers.

Literal. In Windsor, England, an escaped bull ran into and wrecked a china shop.

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