Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1931

Sullivan

In Washington, two automobiles collided. Out jumped two drivers. They exchanged names, learned one was named William Sullivan, the other Thomas Sullivan. Up came Policeman Edward Sullivan, took William Sullivan to jail.

Boots

In Mifflinburg, Pa., Jacob Miller bought a pair of red boots, wore them every Sunday for 69 years. For the last four years John Miller, now 93, has worn his red boots every day.

Wine

In Ancona, Italy, firemen rushed to a burning house, found no water with which to extinguish the flames. Ancona’s ingenious firemen attached their hose to a barrel of wine, put out the fire with vino rosso.

Brick

In Newark, N. J., Joseph Keelen and five friends built a fishing boat, christened it Miss Keansbnrg with a champagne wine-brick.

Rest

In Budapest, Johann Schmidt, wealthy merchant, returned from a trip to Vienna, found a young man in his luxurious bed, clad in Herr Schmidt’s luxurious pajamas, reading one of Herr Schmidt’s books of philosophy. Herr Schmidt summoned police, who charged young Ferdinand Kovany with many housebreakings. Housebreaker Kovany’s story: He had lost his good job. had to give up his fine apartment, now lived by casual work. Without rest he could not work. In a hard bed he could not res:. So each night he broke into a big house, slept in a soft bed, remade the bed before he left.

Funeral

In Hammond, Ind., Policeman Ralph Hart saw a funeral passing through the streets on the way from East Chicago to Indiana Harbor. Policeman Hart gazed sympathetically at the mourners following the hearse. The mourners returned cheerful, contented looks. Policeman Hart, puzzled, scratched his head, remembered cheerful, contented looks on the faces of other mourners following other hearses that had passed through Hammondthat day. Then Policeman Hart remembered there was no cemetery in Indiana Harbor. After the funeral he ran, threw open the hearse door, found inside many cases of liquor.

Memory

In Rome, Dr. Vincenzo Mancini retired as professor of physics, was long known by his friends to have a prodigious memory. Recently he took a test, remembered all details of the most complicated timetables, thousands of dates and telephone numbers, the population of every parish in Italy; he knew the bandmaster and the march of every regiment, the name of every mule in the Italian Army.