O.K.

In Buffalo, sentenced to seven years in Attica Prison for stealing 100 chickens, Max Zulek remarked, "O.K." Thereupon bad-tempered Judge F. Bret Thorn said, "If that's O.K., I'll make it ten years." "O.K.," reiterated Max Zulek.

Mailman

In Bridgeport, Conn., Substitute Letter Carrier Suss S. Scalo was held in U. S. District Court on the charge that when he found he did not have time to deliver mail he burnt it to save red tape.

Embarrassment

In Chicago, when Sheriff's Deputy Will Cabler from Brownsville, Tex., arrived to arrest W. H. Westphal on a charge of selling mortgaged property, Mrs. Westphal removed and locked up her husband's trousers. Will Cabler, unembarrassed, rode all the way home to Brownsville, sitting in the train seat behind trouserless W. H. Westphal.

Jail

In Spring Valley, Ill., when Prisoners James Gardini and Felix Mayeski asked Mayor-Judge Tonelli for mercy on the grounds that they could have escaped from the jail had they chosen, the Mayor bet them their freedom they could not escape. He locked them in their cell, walked upstairs and out the jail's front door, where he was met by Gardini and Mayeski, who had twisted off the rusty bars of their cell window.

News

In St. Joseph, Mo., jailed on a charge of theft, Joe Taylor was handed a letter from home:

"Dear Joe: Someone stole the door off your house. The cow has been poisoned and the plaster in two rooms upstairs has fallen down. A man came and said you promised him he could have 12 quarts of peaches. I gave them to him. Did you promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell you they stole your last four chickens, but I couldn't find a stamp. The moths are in the clothes and two blankets. Both children have mumps. Harry says he will sign your bond if the weather fairs up."

Mouse

In Kansas City, Mo., a score of nightclubs introduced a "Mouse in the Cage" gambling game. Patrons bet on one of six colors painted above six holes around the sides of a mouse cage. The live mouse is released from a tin can in the centre of the cage, usually picks the red hole (even money), then blue (8 to 1), last of all gold (16 to 1).

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