Miscellany: Exchange

In Cawnpore, India, a fanatic Hindu carpenter prostrated himself at the feet of the Goddess of the Kali Temple, cut off his tongue, offered it in exchange for wisdom.

Falls

In Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman's head, killed him.

Grounds

In Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Ed Newport, married six weeks, sued for a divorce on the grounds that her husband had so far refused...

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