Miscellany: Well

In Cartersville, Ga. a two-year-old boy fell into a well. His mother, Mrs. Wesley Scott, 18, hastily knotted together a number of ropes, started to descend by the improvised life line. The rope broke and she fell into the water, seizing the baby as she struck the surface. For three hours she cried for help, until passersby heard, rescued mother and child.

Well

In Mexico, Mo. Mrs. C. Williams’ cat fell into a well. Mrs. Williams tried to rescue the cat, fell into the well. Mr. Williams tried to rescue his wife, fell into the well. Police rescued Mr. and Mrs. Williams. The cat drowned.

Cheek

At a horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema’s cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse’s mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema’s face.

Swallower

In Pittsburgh Morris Dye, 17, swallowed two safety pins, was taken to Homeopathic Hospital. Awaiting treatment, he borrowed a double-edged razor blade from a fellow patient, wrapped it in paper, swallowed it. The blade lodged midway to the stomach, was extracted by an esophagoscope invented by famed Dr. Chevalier Jackson. The safety pins rested comfortably in Morris Dye’s stomach, pending another operation.

Mother

In Laibach, Jugoslavia a circus lioness, trained to an act in which her cub is placed in a perambulator, thought she recognized her offspring among the spectators. She pulled a 7-month-old infant from its buggy, playfully mauled it about until the trainer recovered it. Unhurt save for a few bruises and scratches, the baby was restored to its prostrate mother.

Hen

In Manchester, Iowa a white leghorn hen owned by Emil Wendling Jr. knocks on the kitchen door by flapping her wings against it. walks to an old coat in the corner of the room, lays an egg in it and “knocks” to be let outdoors again. In two months the hen laid 50 eggs by that procedure.