Memory

In Birkenhead, Herbert T. Coker, back in England from the U. S. for the first time in 43 years, was summoned to court. In 1888 he had been ordered to pay $1 a week to a Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey for support of her child. He had never paid it, was $260 in arrears (the child had died aged five). Said Herbert T. Coker: "This is quite a surprise to me." Boomed Magistrate T. Rees: "The law has a very good memory, sir!"

Balloon

In Omaha, Neb. last November, Mrs. Robert Tunberg got a balloon with her name and address on it as a favor at a dinner-party. She released it. Last week she said she had received a letter from Henry A. Prentice, miner, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who said:

"We went out of fresh meat and I tracked a bear up the canyon and dropped him on a high ledge. On the way up I found the balloon.

"You don't happen to be single and unattached, white and 21, willing to cook the grub for a couple of lonesome old batches away up here in no man's country?"

Glover

In Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Etta L. Glover, 30, divorced wife of Dr. W. B. Glover,* 80, was awarded $50-a-month alimony. He had forced her to sleep nightly with his favorite dog.

Triplets

In Breathitt County, Ky., triplets were born to Mr. & Mrs. Levi D. Eaton. Names: Amos, Andy, Mme Queen.

Twins

In Chicago, Stephen and Thomas Hall, 21-year-old twins, incurably crippled with Friedreich's paralysis/- for twelve years, sat in their two wheelchairs, drank two glasses of poison. They had planned suicide for six months. They were rushed to a hospital, the poison pumped from their stomachs. They were expected to live. But Friedreich's paralysis is incurable.

Maids, Cats, Mice, Bees, Clover

In Rochester, Minn., Dr. George Marsh Higgins, Mayo Foundation biologist, revealed a relation between the amount of red clover and the number of spinsters in a given district: "Old maids keep cats. Cats prey on mice. Mice eat bumble bees' nests. Bumble bees pollinate red clover blossoms. The more pollination the better the crop."

*Not to be confused with Dr. H. Clay Glover, inventor of famed Glover's Mange Cure (now known as Glover's Farcoptic Mange Medicine & Antiseptic Hair Application).

/- An inherited disease of the brain and spinal cord; cause unknown. The victim's hands, feet and eyes wobble when he tries to use them. Until late stages of the disease, his intelligence is good.

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