NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. fe 1 A complete letter has been found in the stomach of a codfish by a at Seheveningen. The letter was in Norwegian and was legible, although the address was missing. Postal authorities are now tiying to discover the person to whom it was addressed in Norway. A man in a Johannesburg hotel poured white powder into his brandy. He d ral "j it, and then read a newspaper for "U minutes. As he went out, he casually remarked that he had taken poison because he was tired of life. He died iu the street a few miuutes later. Does "thirteen" matter? A youth was drowned when he fell overboard from * lie sailing ship Viking, on her way from Copenhagen to Adelaide to load wheat. The accident happened on the 13th day ot the month, when they were 13 days out from Copenhagen, doing 13 land miles an hour, and was recorded on the 13th pag of the log. Stephanas Molife. last of the amo "f Zulu impi which took part in the massacre of the Boers at Blood River nearly 1W years ago. has died. He was kirlnapp < and made a slave when a child, " escaped and joined the Zulu warriors, n died well off, after living for y e ® rß s rounded by his children —some of them o years old —and his tenants. Emilie, a Parisian, fought for his coun try during the war. Emilie lias a. io • Emilie is a civil servant. But, at the S of 40, he cannot get married, because registrar at the time of his birth JJP' e n his name "Emilie" instead of • When he went to the Mayor's office his fiancee for the publication of the'ba > the clerk refused h's application. j ie sible to marry Emilie to a woman, said. "The law forbids it." Despite , complaints to everyone at the Law CO —from judges to the hall porter £ , » will have to wait some six months 15 (1 the "i" can be knocked out ot his B , and lie can get married.