Miscellany: Hounds

Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail. This time the thieves shot the bloodhounds.

Cherries

In The Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: “Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees!”

Huh?

In Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : “I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened, huh?”

Premiere

In Detroit, delighted to see a sign “Big Premiere—Price 5¢” outside a long-closed cinema theatre, 95 patrons bought tickets from a courteous boy in the box office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. “Hey, when does the show start,” shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. “There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect,” he announced. “Please be patient.” So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts ($4.75) had gone.

Brad

In a Chicago restaurant, Gerald Bodine clutched his throat, loudly demanded the manager, swore that something he had eaten was stuck in his gullet. An x-ray revealed a brad lodged below the tonsils. After an operation to remove the brad, Gerald Bodine put in a damage claim. An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins, et al.

Express

In Jackson. Tenn.. a small chunk of ice whisked from a fruit express, cut off Edward Smith’s nose.