Miscellany

Finger

In Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY -- HEATED -- LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger of Pianist Stock's right hand. . . . The finger had to be amputated. Last week the victim sued the Yellow Taxicab corporation for $100,000, stating that with seven fingers and two thumbs he is no longer able to make a living. Pianist Stock is now studying medicine.

Teeth

In Manhattan, thugs entered the dental office of Dr. H. A. Parr, stole from his safe sheets of gold, six original mouth interiors mounted with full sets of teeth in gold and platinum. Not for these did Dr. Parr, Civil War veteran, mourn, but for three gold "sets" which were of immense historical value, being copies of oral equipment that Dr. Parr had constructed to assist President Ulysses S. Grant and Mrs. Grant, and President Chester A. Arthur to masticate their food. This celebrated trio were all onetime patients of Dr. Parr.

"Those sets," said Dr. Parr, "were of more than passing interest because they illustrated the best work done more than 50 years ago. . . . I intended to give the plates to a dental school. They have already traveled to many parts of the world, and have been used in lectures in dental schools in nearly every state in the country. . . ."

Calf

Near Port Jervis, N. Y., lives one Marcus Porter, a farmer. Farmer Porter is renowned throughout Orange County for his calf. It is a fat calf, smooth and perfectly formed, but most of all remarkable for the fact that it is absolutely hairless. Last week Farmer Porter was offered $700 for his calf, which is the only one of its kind that has ever been seen in the district. He refused.

Dog

At Molde, Norway, a large white dog emerged from a doorway. The street was snowbound, deserted; the dog, lonely. When a pedestrian did pass by the dog nuzzled her sleeve, seized her tippet, trotted beside, baying. Alarmed, the pedestrian, Gunaelia Lovenskiolde, charwoman, aged 72, took flight, stumbled screaming, fell heavily, lay motionless and silent. The dog lay down beside, where its owner, Olaf Stang, found it on his way home. Fearful lest the dog get chilled, he led it to his hovel, locked it in, before assisting the unconscious woman. Neighbors witnessing, had Olaf arrested "for loving his dog better than his neighbor."