Servant

In Raleigh, N. C., a Negro servant named Eugene was told by his master to guard his car, stayed faithfully in it four days and three nights. Meantime his master forgot where he had parked, concluded Eugene had run off, stalked darkly homeward after notifying the police.

Mother

In Lanzo, Italy, ornithologists tagged a mother swallow's foot, carried her 79 miles away from her nest, released her. Hurrying back to her babies, she was clocked at an average speed of 108.5 miles per hour.

Name

In Pasadena, Calif., two brothers petitioned to have their names changed because "persons to whom these petitioners are introduced are unable to resist hackneyed remarks or gibes." Their names: Charles and Gilbert Raspberry.

Bookkeeper

In Mineola, N. Y., a bookkeeper who last year skipped with a $700 payroll gave himself up to the police. It was his third attempt to get arrested. He had previously given himself up to police in Mexico and Texas, but since the New York authorities would not pay his transportation back to Mineola, he hitchhiked.

Death

In a village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the last minute John Koevecs again opened his eyes, sat up, stopped the show.

Nurse

In Manhattan, Nurse Edna Burdick was driving along a viaduct when her car blew a tire, crashed through a guardrail, plummeted 100 feet to a sandlot. A policeman rushed up to the wreck. Nurse Burdick, scratched but otherwise uninjured, stepped out, asked him to help find her pocketbook.

Toad

In Boston, Mass, 30 years ago a chiropodist picked up a toad in his mother's garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home--though from Dallas, Texas it took him a year. Last week Teddy was set down at Oakland, Calif., began hopping patiently along the railroad tracks toward Boston. The chiropodist expects Teddy home again by April 1941.

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