Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1939

Cat

In Evanston, Ill., President Robert Donohoe of the Young Business Men’s Club advertised for a “large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats.” Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: “It’s for the jail.” A cat named Sergeant Tom got the job.

Foretold

In Newark, N. J., Sidney A. Fortel, 36, linen-supply dealer who makes a specialty Mr. Sidney A. Fortel wishes to announce that on the seventeenth or eighteenth of June a Son will be born to Mrs. Sidney A. Fortel

at the Beth Israel Hospital Lyons Avenue, Newark New Jersey

Your are cordially invited to attent the Brith (Circumcision) to he held at the

Beth Israel Hospital Chapel

Sunday afternoon, the Twenty-Fifth of June nineteen hundred and thirty-nine at two o’clock

of predicting the sex of unborn children, sent an announcement to his friends (see cut).

Golden Rule In Bethlehem, Pa., police arrested a motorist on charges of failing to yield the right of way. His name: Golden Rule.

Eggs

In Disney, Okla., when dynamite blasting on the Grand River dam site prevented his eggs from hatching, Justice of the Peace C. S. Bivens equipped his hens’ nests with bed springs.

Seniors

In Manhattan, seniors at New York University’s Washington Square College voted that they would hold out for $25 a week before taking their first jobs, announced that in five years they expect an annual salary of $5,000.*

Picket

In Washington, Alicia Butler, 17, vexed because Elvin Hanback, 18, did not speak to her for a week after a spat, picketed his home wearing a sign, “Elvin is Unfair to Alicia,” Result: peaceful settlement.

*Statisticians estimate that the average man now in college will be lucky to earn as much as $3,000 five years after graduation.