Ghost

In Quebec, an English-speaking vagrant identified himself in the police station as the Holy Ghost. He said he had never been born, hence had no relatives, no race, no nationality. Police noted that all labels had been cut from his clothing. He explained that this was to make it easier to identify him as the Holy Ghost.

Buffet

In Chicago, trying to recover seized property, City Sealer Joe Grein was asked whether he had once run a saloon. Said he: "I once conducted a buffet." He was asked whether people rate the two identical. Said he: "Some people do, but not old Joe Grein."

Carr

In Fairview, Okla. Henry Ford Carr, 8 lb., was born.

Button

In Waynesburg, Pa., State Senator C. W. Parkinson's son Thomas, trying to drive his father's automobile out of the garage, fainted from lethal carbon monoxide gas. His head fell forward onto the pushbutton in the centre of the steering wheel, blew the horn until neighbors came.

Wits

In Port Hope, Ont, hearing that university students sometimes took small doses of strychnine poison to sharpen their wits, High-School Student Gwendolyn Thomas took some strychnine before an examination, died screaming.

Goat

At Wernigerode, Germany, some hundred skeptical psychic researchers climbed to the top of Mt. Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold.

Devils

In Baltimore, Mrs. Annie Aubel, 55, drove a health officer from her door crying "God won't let you in!" Soon came police. While Son Paul Aubel, 30, gabbled "God knows all about this!", they pried, peered, hunted about the house. On a couch they found the body of crippled Son Grant Aubel, 26, and a diary explaining that he died April 4, would arise June 24. Mrs. Aubel and Son Paul said they had given the cripple no food since March 20, "because the Lord told us to starve him to drive out the devils." Gibbered Paul Aubel: "The Lord told me to bind him hand & foot and cast him into outer darkness. I tied his hands & feet, but he chewed the strings and I tied him again. He died the next morning."

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