Palookas

In Baltimore, Mrs. Bobby Burns, pugilist's widow, applied to the state athletic commission for the right to box professionally. Said she: "Just fight women? I should say not. I'll take all comers in my class. I can hold my own with a lot of palookas who claim to be prizefighters."

Blanket

In Cincinnati, a 24-foot zoo boa constrictor snapped at a pigeon, caught a fang in an army blanket, swallowed bird and blanket, had indigestion.

Hearts

In Sterling, Ill., Dr. S. S. Kerr was summoned to attend a Civil War veteran suffering from a heart attack. While he felt the patient's pulse, Dr. Kerr died of heart failure. The Civil Warrior recovered.

Pigeon

In Manhattan, Mrs. Millie Hambur entered her Park Avenue apartment, discovered six pigeons in her music room. Five quickly flew out the window, the sixth remained. It had nested on the table. Mrs. Hambur let it stay to hatch squabs.

Hellespont

Near Chanak, Turkey, three U. S. college girls swam the Hellespont. The swiftest one crossed in 80 minutes.*

Ninety

In Cape May, N. J., "Uncle Jimmy'' Clark, 90, Civil War veteran, was refused a renewal of his driver's license because of his age. Indignant, he cried: "I'll bet I can see and hear better than most of the youngsters driving at breakneck speed all over the place. If Commissioner Dill [N. J. Motor Vehicle Chief] thinks I can't, let him come down here during the quail season, and I'll bet you right now I'll get a quail with each barrel when a covey is flushed."

Enforcement

In Chicago, a Dr. I. Val Freedman was arrested by a policeman while hurrying to a patient. In court, a letter was read in which Dr. Freedman invited the policeman to the patient's funeral. The judge declared the doctor's errand had nothing to do with the case, fined him $25 & costs.

Wink

At Wink, Tex., Police Chief Robert Williams made an arrest, was sorry. The prisoner happened to mention that he and the Chief had been in the Oklahoma Penitentiary together, thus identifying "Robert Williams" as Convict Joseph Reocket who escaped in 1915.

* Last summer 17 U. S. college boys and one newspaper man swam the Hellespont at the same place. Other Hellespont-swimmers besides Leander of the Greek myth include Lord Byron and U. S. Playboy Richard Halliburton, who called the swim a "two-hour battle."