Lane

In New Brunswick, N. J., at petition of residents, De Russey's Lane, famed scene of adultery and double murder in the Halls-Mills case of 1922-27, was renamed Franklin Boulevard. Realty in the neighborhood had boomed.

Shrewd

How could a man, stranded penniless in Asbury Park, N. J., obtain the cash round-trip fare to Manhattan within a few moments, and without stealing, begging or earning?

One method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps: 1) pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long distance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish.

Last week a Mrs. F. Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J. after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch.

Cats, Rats

Hundreds of persons whom one John J. Carey, realtor and insurance salesman of Atlantic City, N. J., regards as "good prospects," last week received in John J. Carey's envelopes the following letter:

Ratski & Company

Promoters & Organizers

McKee City, N. J.

Dear Sir:

Hearing that you are always open for an investment in a good live business proposition, we take the liberty of presenting to you what seems to us to be a most excellent offering, in which, it is hoped, you will take a lively interest.

We propose to organize a corporation to operate a large cat ranch near McKee City, where land can be purchased cheap for that purpose.

To start with, we will collect 1,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75-c- for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30-c- apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross.

A man can skin 50 cats a day; he will charge $2 a day for his labor; it will take about 100 men to operate the ranch; therefore, the profit will be about $9,800 a day.

We will feed the cats on rats and will start a rat ranch adjoining the cat ranch. The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, and if we start with 100,000 rats we will have four rats a day for each cat, which is plenty.

We will feed the cats on the rats, and in turn will feed the rats on the stripped carcasses of the cats, thus giving each rat one-fourth of a cat.

It will be seen by these figures that the business will be automatic and self-sustaining. The cats will eat the rats, the rats will eat the cats, and we will get the skins.

We propose to capitalize at $100,000 common and $1,000,000 preferred stock, giving ten shares of preferred stock gratis with each share of common stock bought at par. We can sell all the stock and more right here in Cardiff, and we offer to let you in only because we think that it would be selfish to keep all of such a good thing in one city. But you best wire us what you want to do about it, for our friends are pressing us hard for all the stock.

Please advise us the amount of stock you wish to subscribe for toward the formation of a corporation for the exploitation of our idea.

Yours very truly,

(Signed) RATSKI & COMPANY

By-product: Have made a contract with the Fiddler's Union to take all the catgut.* P. S. We propose to place all our Fire Insurance on the ranch buildings through John J. Carey. What do you think?

Cake, Smith

At Lynn, Mass,, T. Frank Tyler, wife, son and daughter-in-law of Blacksmith Tyler who stands "under a spreading chestnut tree"! in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, cut open a soldered box and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by eating a cake baked by Blacksmith Tyler's wife when they were married.

Can

In Lynn, Mass., one Michael Cekriotis drew $1,135 out of a savings bank, put the cash in a tin can, hid the can in a closet in his home. Later, when he needed the money to pay for some property, the can was gone. His small son, Alex, sorrowfully revealed that he had used the can for a football, that some of his friends had taken the can away after the game. Consternation ruled in the Cekriotis home.

Mrs. Cekriotis, cleaning out the closet a few days later, found both the can and the cash intact. Alex had used another can.

Again, Albums

A $2,000,000 advertising campaign to bring the family album out of the attic and onto the library table was announced last week by the Photographers Association of America, assembled in Manhattan in 45th annual convention.

"Albums today must be bigger, more ornate and useful articles of furniture, so that one won't be ashamed. ... By Christmas the market will be flooded with the sort of albums I mean," said one-time President A. H. Diehl of the Association.

Two high-powered slogans will be used to aid the album comeback--"Photographs Live Forever," "Photographs Tell the Story." Filling of albums with; locks of hair and baby's first tooth will be discouraged.

* A mistake catgus is made from sheep gut.

/-Poetic license for horse chestnut.