Husband

In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Alexandria Grodecki applied for a divorce. Grounds: her husband Anthony frightened her by "Dracula-like" behavior, putting lighted candles in his ears, shouting, "I eat blood!"

Ark

In Yugoslavia, during recent floods, Farmer Dragoutin Milovic decided that world's end was imminent, built himself an ark. When the floods subsided, the Government confiscated the ark for nonpayment of taxes.

Ticket

In Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed it.

Heir

In Portland, Ore., John Nelson Ridgley, 106, inherited his late daughter's $60,000 fortune.

Offer

In the London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "-L-70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games."

Topper

Brewster & Co., builders of swank automobile bodies, sued Mrs. Blanche J. Parks, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. newspaper publisher, for $600, balance she owed on a $5,000 body for her Rolls-Royce. Mrs. Parks's reason for not paying up: her escort could not sit in the back seat with his topper on.

Nose

When Oscar Sher crashed into Thomas Barrett's car in New Jersey two years ago, Barrett's nose was cut off. A policeman found it on the hood of Barrett's car, rushed it to the hospital where it was stitched back in place. But in court last fortnight, Barrett told a sad tale: his appliqued nose had sloughed off. He had to have a new one modeled out of cartilage. Jury's award: $35,000.

Names

In Akron, Ohio, WPAster John Ehmig petitioned the Probate Court to change his son's name from Franklin Delano to Lincoln Franklin Ehmig, his daughter's from Eleanor Elizabeth to Jessie Elizabeth Ehmig. Reason: his December 24 WPAy-check did hot arrive before Christmas.

*Scholarship.

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