Lost

Around a trunk in the Union Station, Toledo, crowded porters, reporters and detectives. With left hands they held their noses. With right hands they struggled awkwardly to open a "mystery trunk, which stank in a manner to indicate that it might contain matter for the strong stomachs of yellow journalism. Then, with a final "Right." Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar. Out rolled several dozen heads of cabbage. The trunk, emptied, was held for its owner.

Bad Men

Three years ago, one Fred Brown kept two Nebraska girls chained in a hut for two days. A rescuer appeared, whom Brown also chained up. Finally the rescuer escaped, notified the police, and Brown became a "lifer" at Lincoln, Neb., penitentiary.

Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed.

At Houston, Tex., authorities bethought themselves that criminals are criminals, and abolished the "State Honor Farm," from which 49 "honor prisoners" have already escaped this year.

Fire

In Manhattan, a foot-passenger in a vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead.

Straitjackets

In Birmingham, England, the Repertory Theatre, putting Mr. G B. Shaw's The Philanderer into rehearsal, attempted to put H actresses into the corsets which art called for by the date of the play, "in the '80's." Bitterly the daughters of a new freedom complained to the director, and would not lace themselves "into straitjackets. The costumes were altered, realism being abandoned.

Swanson Cottage

Last week the roof of the Park Chambers Hotel, Manhattan, appealed to the luxuriant inhabitant of many mansions as a bungalow site. Gloria Swanson, now La Marquise de la Falaise, approved plans for a $50,000 roof-cottage, to be built immediately from plans already drawn; left for a few weeks vacation in France, while construction is getting under way.