Pints & Pints. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Joseph E. Maranghi, charged with drunkenness, told the court that he had celebrated his release from jail on a similar charge by selling a pint of his blood, buying booze with the proceeds. Cause & Effect. In Astoria, N.Y., Walter Stanger, whose two small runaway sons had just been picked up by police for the sixth time, complained: "It's you cops. You give the boys so much ... ice cream and candy . . ."

Line of Duty. In Jacksonville, Judge Edwin L. Jones fined Nightclub Bouncer W. W. Standfield $350, ruled that Standfield had a right to toss a customer out of the joint, but that shooting him in the leg was going too far.

Captured Weapon. In Atlanta, attendants at Grady Memorial Hospital ministered to a woman whose husband had hit her with a rolling pin.

Debit Side. In Houston, Joe Ernest Riley, surrendering to police, explained that he could not go on counterfeiting 50-c- pieces because there was "too much overhead."

Too Kind. In Tokyo, after visitors had jammed Ueno Zoo to celebrate "Be Kind to Animals Day," officials announced that a favorite giraffe had died of overeating.

100 Percenter. In Mandan, N. Dak., the court dropped a charge of impersonating a federal officer when the defendant explained that, to him, FBI after his name meant full-blooded Indian.

Any Questions? In Detroit, John H. Franklin explained to the court how his wife got her black eye: "She was frying chicken. The heat made the chicken muscles quiver and it kicked her."

Power of Suggestion. In New Orleans, after the new Pitt Theater showed a movie called Strike It Rich, the management reported to police that someone had stolen the theater's 750-lb. safe containing $600.

Rejection Slip. In Tulsa, car thieves abandoned G. W. Davis' automobile with a note to the owner: "This will learn you to keep the keys in your pocket . . . [but] please have the low gear repaired for our future use . . ."

Shepherd. In New Plymouth, New Zealand, a priest at St. Joseph's Church advised his congregation to "put your notes in the plate and keep your silver to back Earldale [at 10 to 1] in the last race tomorrow," but when the horse won, the clergyman admitted that at the last moment he had switched his own bet.

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