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Among things omitted from a policeman's handbook are: Instructions for appeasing a terrified Negro who is sprinting down the street with his clothes on fire. Lacking this data, Officer Rhodes of Manhattan did the next best thing: tackled 23-year-old Negro Edward Burnett, extinguished the flames with his own uniform overcoat. Negro Burnett, taken to the Harlem Hospital in a critical condition, said that he had been sleeping quietly on a doorstep until another Negro poured a pail of kerosene on him and lit him.
Burglar
At matinee time Louis Romano walked along a residence street in Brooklyn. Casually, he put his hand in his overcoat pocket, pulled out a large pebble, flung it through a front door window of the nearest house. No irate head appeared, so Mr. Romano (of deductive temperament) forced the front door and calmly ransacked the house of its valuables. Thereafter, he always used the pebble test before burgling. Last week, however, the police captured him.
Doer
Married the father, divorced him; married the older son, divorced him; married the younger son. That is what Olga Renovsky, 18, of Harbin, Manchuria, did to the Urosov family between last spring and last week.
Mush-eaters
In Sycamore, Ill., Mrs. Helena Dolder, newly appointed sheriff, had plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush served to the prisoners at the jail. Thirty-three scowling criminals began to curse Mrs. Dolder, describing her mush also in uncomplimentary terms. Mrs. Dolder turned on a hose and squirted water over the 33 criminals until they cried for mercy. The next night she again provided plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush. This the prisoners ate with relish.
*Much loved American Roman Catholic prelate, onetime Archbishop of Baltimore. He died on March 24, 1921.
*It is an eminently readable guide book to astrology. Evangeline Adams has also written The Bowl of Heaven, largely autobiographical. Both are published by Dodd, Mead & Co.
*Il Duce is said to consult his private astrologer before making an important decision.