Bullet

At a Hamden, Conn., circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right eye.

Bananas

In Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death.

Trycook

At the Hagerstown, Md.. races, the pencil of one D. H. Beck ran down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook.

Teeth

Near Gainesville, Ga., Blacksmith Hamby Patterson, 70, proudly flashed a set of homemade teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen--a dipper, boiler, or anything--and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth."

Fingers

In White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession.

Noah

In Tiberias, Palestine, a boy born during a cloudburst which killed 35 was christened Noah.

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