| Show odd claims insurance companies had to pay the strangeness of some accidents for which insurance companies have been mulched mulcted in the past almost dla dis human belief says an article in pearsons weekly london take lovers for instance one man recently received insurance for broken ribs caused by being bugged hugged too endearingly by his flance fiance another young sheik held his sweetheart on his lap until his toot foot went to sleep when he be rose to say goodby good by his leg crumpled up under him and he bumped himself severely ills his insurance company paid tor for the damage take a quiet stroll through your neighborhood and the same puckish spirit of disaster may be conspiring to work you grievous ill g at least that Is what an exeter police man must have thought recently when some cough drops exploded in his pocket and set fire to his big clothes so effectively that the local fire brigade had to be called out in order to extinguish them it was explained later that the tablets contained chlorate of potash which had ignited through being rubbed against tho the lining of his pocket as he walked along on his bent |