NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. More than 250 varieties of cheeee are made in France. Italy produces 200. Hundreds of artesian wells in London draw water from the chalk basin 300 feet below the surface. Theophilus King, Quincy, Mass., bank president, gives 15,000 dollars to churches, social agencics and other institutions annually on his birthday. He is 87. Mrs. Edith Knowle, of Chicago, testified in her divorce 6uit that she led a "hand-to-mouth existence," while her husband followed a "glass-to-mouth life." A tiny head, exquisitely carved in limestone and no bigger than a walnut, was the gem of the collection shown in London recently iby the Egypt Exploration Society. It is believed to be a likeness of t]ie princess who became the wife of Tutankhamen. More than eight times to the tnoon and back —4,000,000 miles—has been flown by Imperial Airways machines. In terms of actual flights made, the oil would have been enough for, roughly, 200 double journeys to Australia or between seven and eight years' operation of the India air mail. One of the bravest women in the world is surely Miss Mabel Stark, an American girl, who gave up a nursing career to become a breaker-in of tigers for a circus. Miss Stark is one of the few women in the world who has essayed this dangerous yet fascinating work. As a result of her many exciting experiences she claims to have more scars on her body "than a giraffe haß spots!" Mr. W. Moore, of Hele, near Torquay, noticed a brown paper parcel under his hedge. The parcel was wet with rain, and when he kicked it hundreds of £ 1 notes scattered over the ground. At the police station, where Mr. Moore took his find, a count revealed that its value was £470. It is believed that the parcel may have been the hidden proceeds of a robbery in the district. Aberdeen butchers are coping with a haggis boom. A member of a leading nrm of butchers in the city said that his st were working overtime preparing haw,. for tinning and dispatch to all part England. The boom, has been on for weeks, as large quantities °[ _b r oad, have already been dispatched adroan, principally to Canada, Ameiic. COITI/ > and New Zealand. Orders X?a has had from the East, and even China has naa considerable consignments. AUCKLAND PrrnT.Tn 3 a rn •■■■■■ w