Tree vs. Children

A huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children.

Cats

In West New York, N. J., at a rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury.

In Heathsville, Va., a strange disease seized hold of all the cats. Felines frolicking in cellars or licking their paws upon doorsteps would suddenly become languid with fever and then, in a short space, perish. What the scurf was, if, indeed, it had a name, no one knew; they knew only that when it attacked a cat, there was no hope left for the beast's life; that it had already attacked and killed most of Heathsville cats; that a year ago, all the rabbits in the vicinity of Heathsville had likewise perished of a mysterious plague.