The Anecdote Bin

WE NOW take you to England, which seems to have a goodly share of the common problem. In North London, a magistrate lectured a defendant charged with being drunk and biting an officer's nose. "The practice," he concluded, "of munching police officers--or anybody else, for that matter--is to be discouraged." . . .Farmers in Gloucestershire find the local cider good and so inexpensive (at 15 cents a pint) that they drink up to a gallon-and-a-half a day. But the stuff is so hard that the National Council on Alcoholism has opened a county branch to help the 5,000 known addicts, the Insider's Newsletter reports. . . . And another news source reveals that a Haddington man who lost his license for drunken driving bought a horse and was promptly fined for drunken horseback riding under a law of 1898.