Beggars
At Cardiff, South Wales, constables discovered that professional beggars were renting sad-looking babies for 50¢ a week.
Spinster
At Villers-sur-Marne, France, Leonie Lebsche, deceased spinster, left $6,000, the income of which is to be given to young married women who promise to raise French families.
Parents
At Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, Senora Leoncio Chavarria presented herself as Mexico's most prolific mother. In 40 years she has borne by one husband 37 children—23 boys, 14 girls. There were 18 pairs of twins.
Whipper
In Emerald, Australia, Joseph Smith, drover, flicked the head off a poisonous adder...