8 Humble TT. In Buffalo, when results of an annual mathematics contest arrived rom 61 schools in the region, more than one out of four of the teachers' tabulations contained mathematical errors.

Down & Up the River. In Warsaw, a Polish court pondered the law on foreign currency, decided that it was legal for a Pole to win dollars from a foreigner in a jard game, but he would be subject to a jail term if the luck shifted and he used the dollars to pay off his losses.

Cracked Whip. In Jefferson City, Mo., State Senator Albert M. Spradling leaned over too far backward in his chair in the Senate chamber, later received a telegram from a constituent: HEARTILY APPROVE OF YOUR POSITION ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE.

Curaider. In lola, Wis., a series of burglaries ended with the arrest of Dr. Ralph Wiley, 42, a village physician, who explained that he had been collecting patients' antiques in order to start a Waupaca County museum.

Shmoo Horn. In Toledo, police invoked the suspicious-persons ordinance, arrested a young man because he was wearing rubber gloves, carried a red face mask in his pocket, had let a pistol fall out of his pants leg.

Free Throw. In Hamilton, Ohio, Police Captain Thomas Bagley announced that he knew about a hidden weapon in a cell block of Butler County jail, threatened a TV blackout of a University of Cincinnati basketball game if it was not turned in, immediately received six billy clubs and two hacksaw blades.

Stratification. In Colchester, England, Geologists Leonard Knowles and Frank A. Middlemiss published an article called "The Lower Greensand in the Hindhead area of Surrey and Hampshire." said: "The authors express their appreciation of those landowners, farmers, and quarry-owners who have permitted them to enter their property, and their apologies to many others for trespassing."

Schuylkill Passport. In Pniladelphia, an ad on the wall of Don's Sunoco station says: FOREIGN CARS WASHED ONLY IN IMPORTED WATER.

Zoo Plate. In Manhattan, members and guests of the Explorers Club ate a smorgasbord of roast caterpillar, barbecued Japanese snake, fried Japanese ant eggs, fried grasshoppers, pickled African honeybees. Bombay duck, stuffed squid in its own ink, roast seal flipper, hard-boiled quail eggs, salted whale skin, bits of reindeer steak, broiled Italian sparrows, fried Mexican Agave worms, raw calves' eyes Armenian.

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