Foe. At Fort Riley, Kans., Private Woodrow Kirkpatrick crept silently towards an imaginary enemy, crept smack against a real jack rabbit. The jack rabbit kicked him in the eye, sent him to the infirmary.

Salesman. In Washington, a medical examiner at the Marine recruiting office saw a man fall on an icy sidewalk, took him in, treated his knee, gave him a physical examination, had him sworn in as a Marine 40 minutes later. In four hours the man was en route to a training camp.

Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped.

Handles. In Portland, Ore., two autos had a brush in traffic. The drivers: Vernal Forrest and Sylvan Woods. In Dothan, Ala., Private Harvard Yale Princeton reported for duty. In Washington, Earl Wedding sued for divorce.

Research. In Manhattan, two psychologists reported that when they presented a rat with a difficult problem he bit his nails.

Lost. In Freeport, L.I., a thief entered a dentist's waiting room, made off with two smoking stands, left a quart of sauerkraut in exchange. In Manhattan, police arrested a clothing-store burglar wrapped up in his loot. The loot: five women's dresses, four playsuits, 137 pairs of socks, 70 pairs of stockings, 39 pairs of anklets.

New Order. In Occupied France it was decreed that, if any hen in the Somme failed to lay 50 eggs a year, its owner would be fined.

Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Frues sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman.

In The Bag. In Royal, Neb., a women's club held a stuffed-handbag contest, voted as winner a woman whose purse contained 98 separate odds & ends.

Solution. In overcrowded Washington, ailing George M. Carhart, 79, waited and waited for bed space in a hospital, finally shot himself.

Find. In San Francisco, a county official hunted in a home for the will of a stenographer who was believed to have died penniless. He found a secret panel, slid it open, put his hand into a rattrap. Under the trap: jewelry, papers, a bankbook with deposits of $30,000.

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