PRESS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 102, 2 May 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

PRESS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM U.S.A. PRESS,

(By IRA WOLFERT.)

New Yorkers, who have suspected a gasoline-taste in their bootleg, are probably right after all, because the Excelsior Brewery, of Brooklyn, is in difficulties through its pipe lines connecting with a garage. Thousands of tons of steel are available for the asking in New. York City but there are no takers. There is a spur of the elevated system that needs carting away, but Borough President Samuel Levy is vainly seeking a bidder who would buy up with profit the condemned structure and make use of it in some other form. "See a pin and pick it up; all the day you'll have good luck." This pin could not be seen, but because it was picked up, Miss Laura McGregor, 18, of Glasgow, Scotland, is alive to-day. While at her physic class in school she swallowed a pin that lodged in her throat. Her professor, using a magnet, withdrew the pin and saved her from being strangled to death. A year has gone by and tlie world's longest honeymoon has still several months to go before it ends. Prince Takamatsu, of Japan, married Princess Kikuko Tokugawa in 1929, and before settling down in Nippon decided to tour the globe with his wife. The couple have already visited Asia and. Europe and other parts, and recently landed on American shores. After their visit they will sail from the west coast for Tokyo. "Mrs. Maggie Magneto," mongrel mascot of the Newark, N.J., airport, gave birth recently to six puppies—four Magnetinos and two Magnetiuas. Maggie has such a high reputation for good mascoting that over a hundred, pilots made a rush for the puppies. The airmen say that the pups must inherit the powers of Maggie, and they want them for their, 'planes. One of the biggest air battles of the century is presaged by the competition. Four boys, none over 17 years of age, have been killed while straying from the straight and narrow path in Brooklyn, New York, during the last few weeks. Joseph Leviesky, 16, was the fourth victim. He was shot and killed when, with three companions, he was caught in the act of robbing a store. Two youths, also. 16 years old, and another 17, fell victims to police bullets in moments of crime previously. ——— / Discontented Yugoslavs are twisting the moustache adorning the visage of their kingly lord, Alexander. While the authorities are trying to apprehend the defamers. the country is being flooded with defaced coins. Imaginative miscreants arc taking to art and improving the figure of His Majesty on the coins by adding horns to the noble brow and giving a down-turn to his respectable moustaches. His lip ornament, as redecorated, represents the Sovereign too much like an ordinary cabbie. "Les Majeste," cry the Yugoslav authorities, and woe betide the reviling designers. Seven residents of Staten Island are mighty glad that babies cry. Three-year-old Howard Barton, jun., not yet a lireman or life-saver by profession, awoke Papa Barton in the wee smsi' hours, and in his own cute manner bawled attention to impending danger. Barton, sen., rubbed his eyes and sniffed something in the air. It was an odour of gas. He roused his wife and shouted to the other tenants in the building. John Perosi and his wife and child, on the top floor, responded in good haste, but Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fitzsimmons, of the second floor, slept on. Barton called an emergency squad, and with the help of the policemen rescued the unconscious couple. Tiny Barton gets an extra bottle of milk for his good deed. Deadly cobras make good bed mates, safe travelling companions, unalarminp t° peaceful slumber. Dr. Raymond £•„-%« mars found it so. He is curator of .toe New York Zoological Park, and haying to escort the serpent from allowed the animated rope to «na»« berth on the train. No gites, no coiling or N.A.NA. and "Auoklwd Sm- '