MISCELLANY: Sincere

“TIME brings all things”

In Tokyo, Kenzo Adachi, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs, received a letter from Kiyoshi Nojima, in which the writer had enclosed the tip of his little finger as a token of sincerity.

Otto

In Detroit, police sent Otto Fichl to the office of Franco Kejna, to have his teeth examined, then, arrested Franco Kejna for practising dentistry without a license. In his years of service with the Detroit police department, Otto Fichl has been charmed, massaged, initiated, ordered to take ”treatments,” scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying “I vunder vat is der trouble.” Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker’s badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying “Dr.” Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto Fichl became worried, visited a reputable dentist.

Ceremony

In Los Angeles, the Rev. Sheldon Shephard of the First Universalist Church, donned a diving helmet, married Katie Wilson, 25, and J. F. Gutrick, 26, at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Quick

In Columbus, Ind., Herschel Golden secured a divorce from Mrs. Golden, having accused her of misconduct with one Tunis Quick, 80.

Bricks

In Charlotte, N. C., Joe Randle moved into a three-room house built of 10,000 bricks which it had taken him 18 months to collect from alleys, gutters, vacant lots.

127th

In Lowell, Mass., for the 127th time, police found James McGrade drunk, and arrested him.

Help In Holland, Ohio, a telephone operator complied with a request to send help to a subscriber whose dog had become entangled in a clothes wringer.

Joke In Manhattan, C. V. Lacmas amused himself by holding a round table-top in front of his poodle, whom he had trained to jump through paper hoops.

Mischief In Grantwood, N. J., Mrs. Carlo Ramondo went to court to get her son Carlo Ramondo Jr., eleven, who had been arrested while up to some mischief. On her return with her mischievous son, Mrs. Ramondo encountered an ambulance carrying her daughter Angelina Ramondo. seven, who had just been shot by her brother Joseph Ramondo, ten.

Nest In Burlington, Vt., an English sparrow built its nest in the mane of Tommy Woolworth, horse.

Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub.

Too Much

In Manhattan, a dapper, well-dressed little man with a big suitcase rushed into Grand Central Station shouting: ”I’m going away from New York. It’s too much!”

Button

In Vienna, Fritz Mimmler was collared by a policeman as he tried to throw himself out of a window. He explained that after he had five times tried to insert it in his shirt, his collar button had fallen on the floor and rolled out of sight.

Cowboy

In Stony Point, N. Y., State Trooper Arthur Kley gave chase to Evelyn McMillan who, when arrested for speeding, asserted that she had mistaken his uniform for the regalia of a cowboy, had feared an assault.

Efficiency

In Glasgow, Scotland, on the advice of efficiency experts, a street-railroad employed the services of a professional pipe-lighter to prevent its employes from wasting time filling and lighting their pipes.

Pansy

In Springfield, Mo., Pansy Coates, 20, admitted trying to pay for some mail-order purchases with $20 bills painted by her in watercolors.

Corpse

In Mexico City, a stupid policeman found Fidel Zamudio in the street, suffering from catalepsy. Supposing him to be dead, the policeman carried Fidel Zamudio to the Juarez Clinic where careless medical students prepared to dissect him. When one of them stuck a knife into the washed, shaved, naked body of Fidel Zamudio, he sat up, protested vigorously.

Husband

In Berlin, to while away the time when her husband was on a business trip, Mrs. E. P. Schlagel attended a cinema. There she saw, in a newsreel of the crowd at a British football game, a picture of her husband enjoying himself with a strange woman. Mrs. E. P. Schlagel took the newsreel to court, was granted a divorce.

Numa Jr.

In Santa Paula, Calif., hunters killed a lazy lion, Numa Jr., who was on his way back to a lion farm from which he had escaped.