Prisoner

In Waupun, Wis., speeches were made, presents given, and an old man stood up to thank his friends for remembering him. He, one William Maxwell, 88, had completed his fifty-fourth year in the State penitentiary. He once killed a man in a saloon brawl.

Manager

In Newark, N. J., presents were given, speeches made, and an old woman stood up to thank her friends for remembering her. She, one Elizabeth L. Gray, had completed her thirty-third year in Bamberger's department store. She managed a department.

Turtle

Off Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed ashore. The turtle weighed 500 pounds.

Wolf

Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs.

Penny Match

In Chicago, one George Wilson, arrested for public nuisancing, declared he was not drunk. "Prove it," said the Judge. Wilson asked him for a penny, borrowed a match from the policeman, tried twice to balance penny on match. Twice he failed. The third time, miraculously, the penny stayed on the match for thirty seconds. "Discharged," said the Judge. The penny clattered to the floor.

Rat, Tiger

Another Wilson, this one C. A., in Houston, Tex., put a white rat in his pocket and got into a cage with a Bengal tiger. The enormous feline, striped with jungle shadow, smelled the trembling rodent in Trainer Wilson's pocket. Wilson was his friend, the rat his enemy. He stalked the rat, knocked Wilson down, struck savagely at the rat, wounded Wilson's side, tore Wilson's shoulder, was shot by zoo assistants. Wilson, wounded, recovered. The rat, unhurt, died of fright.

Dust

In Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering.

Trained Girl

In Rock Island, Ill., one Beulah Nichols, 16, guzzled gin, entered the bedroom of one W. H. Mahoney, 75; pointed a revolver at him, disrobed, put on Mr. Mahoney's clothes, forced him to cut her hair below a slouch cap, "hopped" a freight train with her "boy friend," rode to Galva, Ill., spent the day, "hopped" another freight train, "bummed" her way home, was received by her parents with open arms. Soon newsgatherers discovered that Beulah Nichols' mother is "Vashti Dale," author of articles for household magazines on "How to Train Girls."

Needle in Haystack

In Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose headquarters were at the dump ground was kept under observation.