Henderson Daily Dispatch

Weather Stories Win In Wacky Events Contest Of Week; Others Are Close

New York, Jan. 22.--(AP)--It got so cold in Norway (54 below) that the farmers had to put overcoats on their cows....and the mercury even went to zero in Satan's Kingdom (Conn).

In short, the weather ran away with the wacky doings trophy last week for the second week in a row. (A third time, and it gets permanent possession and the rest of us can move to the south seas).

The temperature dropped 79 degrees in 36 hours in Latvia, and it was so cold in New York that the city put two police officers on skates!

The wind in Buffalo picked up a motorcycle and tossed it across a street, and it was so cold there that a hobo, offered a suspended sentence, took a look outdoors—and asked to be sent to jail....and a hobo in Memphis was reduced to bumming a dime from a blind beggar!

The Putnam Valley, N. Y., public health society had to cancel its meeting—because too many members were laid up with colds... .and when the temperature hit three below in Springfield, Mo., all public events were cancelled except a lecture on Siberia!

The lone guy who seemed to be able to take it was the Sioux City, Ia., man who, with the thermometer at 20 below, walked six blocks in his bare feet to the hospital to visit his sick wife.

But it never seems to get cold enough to cramp the cavalcade of cockeyed occurrences—

A Philadelphia congressman was presented with a diamond ring, and before he could finish his speech of thanks the ring was stolen .. Into a Richmond, Va., court came a case entitled "The United States v. 896 Cases of Herring Roe"—and the herring roe won!

Science and invention:....A Paris theater instituted wooden dummies to fill up the empty seats....A four-year-old Memphis boy was equipped with false baby teeth....And, to get himself out of bed in the mornings, a Brown university student installed an automatic phonograph record of his own voice urging himself to get up!

A Millburn, N. J., patrol car officer inadvertently broadcast a rendezvous with his sweetie over the whole police radio system ... Five Wichita, Kan., engineers were fined for speeding--in their trains.

English dept. .. The Pullman porters union officially expunged the title of red cap as "undignified"..

The Atlanta weather man changed the designation "partly cloudy" to "partly clear", "lest people get the idea it might rain" (as if it mightn't!)

A Danish vessel's cargo of beans swelled to three times their normal size--and sank the ship....A burglar broke into an Andrews, Ind., home and stole a bag of money-and three days later broke in again and put it back!

And finally, the unluckiest man of the week: Archie Milligan, of Newark, N. J., who discovered that somebody had written officials in his name complaining that he wasn't taxed enough.