Miscellany: Mouthful

In Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole.

Information

Few minutes after Policeman S. C. Hopkins of Washington, Ga. jailed a Negro woman for fighting, he was confronted on his beat by the same woman. Said she: “Don’t get mad with me. I didn’t break out of jail. I just come down here to tell you the back door is open.”

Dues

In San Francisco, American Federation of Actors tried to sign up Siamese Twins Daisy & Violet Hilton. Daisy said yes. Violet said no. At last Violet gave in. Puzzled the Federation could not decide whether to charge single dues or double.

Luck

In Des Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out. An honest officer, he played them back in, hit the jack pot. Out came $2.50.

Incompetent

In Buffalo, N. Y., the 20th Century Limited was delayed ten minutes by an incompetent hobo. Reason: Unaccustomed to streamlined trains, he climbed into the couplings behind the engine, became tangled, could not get out.

Appendix

In San Francisco, Mrs. Tessie Chronis called an ambulance, announced she had appendicitis, had been in pain for several days. Rushed to Park Emergency Hospital, she gave birth to a seven-pound daughter.

Comma

In Bismarck. N. Dak., members of the Legislature discovered that, because of a punctuation error, it has been illegal to sleep in a North Dakota hotel for nine years. The law (passed in 1929): “No hotel, restaurant, dining room or kitchen shall be used as a sleeping or dressing room by an employee or other persons.”

Thief

Mrs. Gertrude A. Canniff of Peekskill, N. Y. sued Mrs. Samuel Schiffer of Elberon, N. J. for $1,950, charging that last fall at Peekskill’s horse show a prize stallion belonging to Mrs. Schiffer had reached out of his stall, bitten her hand, swallowed her wristwatch.

Cockroach

In the county jail of Amarillo, Tex., Jailer Dick Vaughn moved two men from solitary confinement cells after discovering they had trained a large cockroach to bring them cigarets from other prisoners.