On Manhattan Bridge, the stranger said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river.

Cruelty

In Manhattan, a man bit a horse, was fined $10 for cruelty.

Wrong Number

In Brooklyn, last week, the telephone rang in the home of William Banks. He awoke, answered it. It was the wrong number. Had the telephone not rung, he, his wife and their five children would have died. They were all partly overcome by escaping gas. Banks opened windows, telephoned police, thanked inept telephone operators.

Suit

In Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM!"

Disclosure

In Atlanta, one Robert Elliott Burns, 38, American legionnaire, broke, held up a grocery store, stole $4. That was seven years ago. Since then, he escaped from a chain gang, became moderately rich, respectable in Chicago as editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine (real estate). Last week, in court, he waited to discover whether he would have to return to chains. His wife, his one time landlady who, he said, discovered his record, forced him into marriage, had disclosed him at last. Reason: She, 51, was jealous of one Lillian Salo, 22.