Miscellany: Sandglasses

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"TIME brings all things"

In Chicago, to remind himself & others not to overdo on long-distance telephone calls, Vice President John J. Anton of First National Bank bought and installed three-minute sandglasses.

Negro

In Manhattan last year, William Marshall, Negro, was stabbed through the heart. Last week he died of alcoholism. An autopsy showed an inch of knife blade in his heart, covered with scar tissue.

Hot

In Chicago, overheated Karl Marvin tried to cool himself with ice. The trickle down his neck was uncomfortable. He tried it with dry ice (solid CO2), froze both his ears.

Finger

In Washington, D. C., one Joe McHale, 7, stuck his finger in a knothole, could not withdraw it. His playmates uprooted the post, took Joe. finger, post to Joe's mother. Police and firemen whittled the post away.

Triangle

Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire.

Windmills

In London last week, K. S. Wood, connoisseur of windmills, revealed that there are over 2,000 in England, only 1,700 in the Netherlands. Lincolnshire leads all other English counties with 170 windmills. Norfolk is runner up with 100.

Alcoholism

In Peekskill, N. Y., Joseph Baccili, 4, and his sister Frances, 9, were taken to the hospital suffering from acute alcoholism.

Tax Collector

In Timisoara, Rumania, a tax collector told bankrupt Merchant Stoianovici to ''go hang himself if he couldn't pay his taxes. Merchant Stoianovici complied.

Loiterer

In Manhattan, one Stanley Podloudy, loiterer, forced Stanley Pietraszkiewitz, janitor, downstairs, tried to shove his head into a stove, broil him. Vexed, Stanley Pietraszkiewitz bit off Stanley Podloudy's left ear.

Nerts!

In Evanston, Ill., one Thomas Getman, 17, was fined $10 for inscribing on his license application: "Nerts to all policeman!"