Husband

In Manhattan, to get money for a ticket to Ireland, Mrs. Fred Cordes offered to sell any woman all her rights in Fred Cordes for $1,500. Inducements: he had been a good husband for 17 years, was Manhattan's "best tutti-frutti ice cream maker," now unemployed.

Inventor

In Chicago, police solved the ingenious suicide of Miles Kramer, 38, unsuccessful inventor, when they discovered his last and most effective invention, a short length of lead pipe which was fixed over a gas stove flame which exploded a .38 cartridge inside the pipe, which killed Miles Kramer.

Toenail

Near Binghamton, N. Y., Zena Brown went swimming with red painted toenails, suddenly felt something bite off her right big toe. Her companion, Colonel Elmer E. Johnson, explained that a snapping turtle or big fish had been deceived by the painted toenail.

Marshmallow

In Manhattan's Aquarium, a little blackfoot penguin sprained its ankle when it stepped on a marshmallow someone had dropped onto the penguins' pool platform.

Bet

In New Orleans, La., Sidney Magnon, 53, banana trimmer, bet Walter Massarini $25 he could stay under water for 25 minutes, won. The $25 went to the relict and four children of Sidney Magnon.

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