City Sticker. In Slough, England, after police caught him .carrying a gin. bayonet, Nicholas Smith told a magistrate's court: "I was going to London, and you know what life's like there."

No-Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance."

Dental Powder. In Paris, after he fell asleep in his dentist's waiting room, Amedee Picart awoke to find that the dentist had locked up and gone off on vacation, was forced to call police to let him out of the office.

Home Fry. In Baltimore, after her husband walked out during a quarrel, Mrs. Mary E. Love set fire to their apartment, explained: "I did it so he wouldn't have a house to come home to."

Sorehead. In Toledo, arrested for bopping a bar companion with a beer bottle and lifting $65 from him, John H. Foraker told the judge: "I didn't need the money; I was just mad at the world."

Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley.

Prescription. In Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. Hattie Joles, a Winnebago Indian, was charged with practicing medicine without a license for selling a spring tonic containing bittersweet, pebbles, a piece of glass, rubber bands, insect fragments.

Fine Distinction. In Los Angeles, objecting to a speeding ticket, Roberta Jean Huggins told police: "I was not doing 75 miles an hour, although I may have been going 74."

A Place to Visit. In Huntsville, Texas, released from the penitentiary four months before the end of a five-year forgery stretch, Clayton Nash went home to Beaumont, Texas, found his wife's nagging unbearable, hopped a freight to Dallas and demanded, as a parole violator, to be locked up for the rest of his term.

The He & the Mighty. In Oxford, England, Mrs. Marion Crabtree was put on two years' probation after the constable who stopped her for riding her bicycle on the sidewalk testified that she whacked him with her cycle pump, hit him with her fists, finally threw the bicycle at him.

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