Miscellany, Aug. 9, 1948

Chacun à Son Goûf. In Spartanburg, S.C., charges against Leon Burno were dismissed when Judge J. Wright Nash ruled that the law did not prohibit eating chickens "raw and alive."

Fore-Legged. In Auburn, Me., Levi Morin stumbled on the railroad tracks, lost a leg under a speeding train, found to his relief that it was the wooden one.

Filed Out. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., Plate Umpire Donahue glared disgustedly at the obscuring clouds of insects swarming around the arc lights, suspended the night game on account of "eel flies."

"Taffy Was a Welshman ..." In Merthyr...

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