NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS

Breton folklore students have taken a census of saints in Brittany, France, with the result that 6383 holy men and women have been discovered.

Portland, Oregon, park officials traded two bison to Sacramento, California, for two young lionesses, thus balancing the animal budget in each city.

Amelia Earhart Putnam, the famous trans-Atlantic aviatrix, has had a street named for her in Quincy, Massachussetts. Moscow Street was changed to Earhart; Avenue.

As village treasurer of Saranac, Michigan, Miss Sadie Dodge has an easy job. There are no taxes to collect, because the village already has 3000 dollars in reserve; more than enough to pay its bills for the year.

A dog's trust in his master was demonstrated at St. Catharines, Ontario, when Cal, a four-year-old police dog, followed his master, Hal Brooker, parachute jumper, off the wing of a plane flying' at 1800 ft. The dog was equipped with a parachute. Both landed safely.

Eleinor Lucille Matlieson, eight years old, was shipped from Detroit to Chicago by the pound on the new National Air Express Company system. Her father discovered it was cheaper than sending her as a regular passenger. The girl was described' on a waybill attached to her clothing as " one child, fifty pounds."

According to the National Research Council, Washington, there is 28,000,000,000,000,000 dollars' worth of gold in the ocean. This is about 14,000,000,000 dollars' worth for every man, womaji, and child ori earth. The catch is that the best methods so far require expenditure of 50,000 dollars and several years' work to extract 5000 dollars' worth of gold from the sea water.

Mrs. Gladys Noblitz's cat, a Persistent animal with a heart-rending M gotjts mistress out of the Camden, i n gaol, although she had 27 dajs riisturba 30-day sentence for Edmund IWII MwTNoblitz agreed to be lodged in i cell only on condition that she be With everyone 011 the verge of mutiny the warden called the county recorder, and Mrs. Noblitz's sentence was suspended.