Ali Baba

In Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish.

Fisherman

In Crookston, Minn., Everett Latta. fisherman, saw a golden eagle soar past him. Everett Latta cast his line, hooked the golden eagle, knocked it off a tree with a chunk of dirt, strangled it to death with his fish line.

Tooth

In Erie, Pa., a dentist extracted a tooth through the right ear of Raymond Petit.

Teaspoons

In Central Islip, L. I.'s hospital for the insane a doctor extracted from the stomach of a woman inmate 48 teaspoons, two bolts & nuts, a large screw, a needle, a pencil, a piece of glass, said that the 48 teaspoons had been stacked neatly in her stomach.

Blood

In Ossining, N. Y. huge James Cullen gave his soth blood transfusion, calculated that he had sold 54 pints of blood at $50 per pint in the past six years.

Pursuit

In Calumet, Mich., world-weary John Korr, 55, put a stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket, lit the fuse, walked into a room where his landlady Mary Chopp and her daughter were sitting. They fled. John Korr ran after them, chased them until the dynamite exploded, blew him to bits.

Burial

In Newark, N. J., excited Chauncey Harris, Negro, told police: "A big shiny car stops near me. A woman and a man in swell clothes get out. The man digs a hole. The woman takes a baby out of a suitcase, kisses it, puts it in the hole. The man throws dirt on it." Twelve police-men and detectives, three taxicabs full of reporters sped to the vacant lot indicated by Chauncey Harris, dug, disinterred a black kitten.

Hitcher

In Tenino, Wash., D. M. Major, publisher, justice of the peace, published this advertisement in his newspaper:

Marry a poor girl

And settle down.

Marry a rich girl

And settle up.

We do the job artistically.

Major & Co., hitchers.

Pitcher

In Franklin, Neb., Clarence Mitchell, 42, once with the New York Giants, pitched for both sides in a game between the Arnold and Thedford teams, gave only four hits, defeated himself 2-to-1.

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