A New York policeman has been arrested in the act of removing a safe from a large drapery store. It is said that upon being seen by another policeman he offered to run and fetch a burglar.
Mme. Delysia has been bitten by a dog in New York. The owner's defence, that the animal had never tasted famous dancer before, is not likely to be accepted.
Like a soothing balm just before the old year dies comes the intimation from Mr. Lovat Fraser that there is a bright side to things.
With reference to the opening of the pantomime season it is reported that a couple of new jokes have been found nesting in a Glasgow theatre.
Psychologists are inclined to attribute the recent night stampede of sheep in the Midlands, when thousands of them jumped their hurdles, to the influence of a large number of people concentrating on a well-known remedy for sleeplessness.