Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1957

Fuel's Paradise. In Eureka, Calif., the daily Humboldt Standard printed an ad: "WANTED TO RENT—Small, furnished apartment . . . Heated or share with lady."

The Tiger. In Taipei, Formosa, after Bus Driver Lien Maying bit a hole in a passenger's hand when he tried to board her bus with an armload of vegetables, the judge ordered her to pay $6 damages, observed: "It was not ladylike."

What of the Night? In London, the judge threw out Albert English's claim for $5,742 in back pay after English testified that although he had been paid...

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