Mouse

In Chicago, Mrs. Iva Gousha sued a bottling company for $35,000 because, upon discovering a dead mouse in a bottle of the company's pop, she had incurred the following damages and expenses:

1) Severe shock.

2) Sanitarium treatment.

3) Trip to Europe, during which

4) Her daughter had to be placed in a private school.

Discipline

In Sacramento, Calif, police found bedraggled Erwin Anderson, 4, sitting on the roof of the Anderson garage, his bloated tongue protruding from his mouth, clamped with two clothespins. They arrested his foster-mother, who said the clothespins were "a disciplinary measure."

Kiss

In Jumilla, Spain, Francisco Perez Sanchez saw his 16-year-old daughter kiss her fiance. Francisco Perez Sanchez took his daughter home, beat her so hard she died.

Coop

In Elizabeth, N. J., William Gemmel complained to a judge that his wife had turned him out of their home, made him live for a year in the chicken coop, built a wire fence around it to keep him from getting out, taken a widower with four children in his place.

Diamond

In Minas Geraes, Brazil, prospectors on the banks of the Saobento River reported finding seven huge diamonds, one of which weighed over 2,000 carats--second largest diamond ever found.-- About the size of a man's fist, a 2,000-carat blue-white diamond is worth $10,000,000.

Eaglet

In Milwaukee, a baby, part Amerindian, was christened Franklin Delano Blue Eagle Knapinski.

Mortgagee

In Clinton Corners, N. Y., to save his home from mortgage foreclosure, Richard L. Hawkes spent the night tearing it down, carting it away in sections, was arrested when the mortgagee drove by in the morning, found nothing left but walls and foundation.

Brain

In Fort Myers, Fla., a physician who visited Negro James Glover in the count) jail found him suffering from paralysis of the right arm, pulled an ice pick three and one-half inches long out of James Glover's brain without an anesthetic. James Glover had not known it was there guessed it must have been driven in during a fight. Said he: "It sure does feel better now, Doc."

*Largest: The monstrous Cullinan, found in South Africa's Premier mine in 1907 by a worker who got $10,000 bonus. It was split up for King George's crown and sceptre.

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