Perchance to Dream ... In Houston, Merrick Gillory, suing for divorce, charged that he couldn't sleep at night because his wife slept with a butcher knife under her pillow.

Foggbound. In Westboro, Mass., David Goodall, after plowing the snow off Edwin Fogg's driveway and asking more for the job than Fogg was willing to pay, was arrested for trespassing when he angrily dumped the snow back on to the driveway.

Forewarned. In Washington, D.C., a taxpayer who wrote a federal agency to inquire about a pending case added a postscript: "I haven't made up my mind on this issue, but when I do I will be very bitter."

Laboratory Test. In the Wasatch mountains near Alta, Utah, the U.S. Forest Service's avalanche research station had to be abandoned when an avalanche buried the instrument tower under snow and debris.

Joiner. In Laramie, Wyo., a college student waiting in court to pay a parking fine sat near a group of three men, obediently stood up with them and raised his right hand at Judge Frank Collican's order, was thus sworn in as a new policeman.

Crystal Ball. In Philadelphia, after calling on a fortune teller named Madame Carr who told him that he was about to sign an important paper, Plainclothesman John Jones walked straight to police headquarters, signed an affidavit for her arrest.

Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody."

The Quiet Man. In Cambridge, Mass., Arthur Rice, at a hearing on a separate support suit by Mrs. Rice, was ,asked by the judge why he had lived in the same house with his wife and six children for ten years without speaking to them, answered simply: "They don't speak to me."

Tightwad. In Sacramento, cops who questioned Donald Garrett for refusing to pay for the drink he had ordered at a tavern, found $2,500 in his pocket, listened to his explanation: "I'm not in the habit of spending much money on myself."

Willing to Travel. In El Paso, Mayor Fred Hervey pondered a letter from a London divorcee who, in order to get to the U.S., was offering her services as a "nanny, cook, housekeeper, farm manager, secretary or general factotum," and would even accept a husband "as a last resort."

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