" TIME Brings All Things "

In Colusa, California, two men were arrested for using a water wagon, of the street-sprinkling variety, to transport " hooch."

An island of steel and concrete, costing $5,000,000, and large enough for two hotels, a swimming pool, four refreshment gardens and a brewery-- the whole to be situated three miles off the New Jersey Coast--is the plan of W. C. Griesser, rich Pittsburgher. In Manhattan, Harry S. Black, realtor, plans a full-sized house built on the roof of the Hotel Plaza. Bungalows have been built on Manhattan office buildings for several years--this is the first house-in-midair. An unnamed " sea monster" was captured off the coast of Florida. It was "40 feet long, 23 feet in circumference, weighed 15 tons." Its stomach contained a "400-pound octopus, 1,500 pounds of blackfish, 500 of rock coral.''

According to The New Orleans Times Picayune, Bladensburg, Ia., has a postmaster, John N. Van Zandt, 80, who was originally appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1865. (No such post office is officially listed in Iowa.)