In Chicago, the Chief of Police took steps to prevent "Freddie" Thompson, hermaphrodite acquitted of murder the previous week, from appearing in vaudeville on the ground that it would outrage public morality.

In St. Joseph, Mo. (according to a despatch in the Atchison, Kan., Globe), a young girl harbored in her stomach a live snake, which there deposited a litter of 15 or 20 young snakes. Waiting until the parent snake grew "hungry," physicians are reported to have introduced a piece of meat on the end of a thread and drawn the reptile out when it took the bait. For the litter, tape worm remedies were suggested.

In Chicago, one hundred women at the wheels of closed cars were turned loose upon traffic. Under the surveillance of umpire observers lurking secretly along the assigned route, they threaded 30 miles of crowded boulevards. They squeezed their vehicles into tight parking gaps, made emergency stops, were checked up on observance of traffic law and drivers' etiquette. When they had finished, the umpires came out of hiding, pronounced Mrs. J. F. Morton champion driver, handed her a diamond trophy. The contest was staged by the Chicago Automobile Trade Association as a curtain-raiser to its first annual Closed Car Show.