NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

Gold and silver coins to the valu# of about £12,000 were discovered near Kocane (Yugoslavia) in an earthen vessel by Customs officials who were searching for. smuggled tobacco. It is supposed that the coins were buried during the Balkan War of 1912.

Two girls arrived in Adelaide after travelling 10,000 miles to join their future husbands. They are Winca Cetinich, ageu .18, and Pama Sepas'ovitch, aged 22, from Yugoslavia. The bridegrooms arc two brothers at Broken liul (New South Wales) —Ivan and Peter Biok. Ivan, who is engaged to Winca, is 19, -while Peter is 20. Their engagements took place whoa the girls were about twelve.

Stories of Tuck—good and bad—make fascinating reading. None of us knows what the gods have- in store. None of us knows what will be drawn to-mprrow iu the Lottery of Life. Take Vance Butler. The gods had smiled 011 him. His garage business at Salisbury, Maryland, ivasdomi, so well that Butler bought an abaudonc graveyard to extend his premises. Wortmen preparing the ground uncovered vault in which Butler found a rusty W® pot containing old gold coins or several thousand pounds.

A fall brought happiness to George Mo rison, a Queensland bushman. llir ,- (ive years ago. when only a lad, 01, was kicked in the face by a horse. B>is j muscles were paralysed, and all tue tor's efforts to free them were m ' George couUl not chew. For 3a years took his ioucl in liquid form, lor m . his jaws were set in a rigid . i.; s he fell from a tree and landed fu" 0 face. The shock succeeded where docto had failed. George laughed for the time since IS9B, and went home to enj . his first solid meal since the horse k

ICow and again people, weary of a . drum existence, spent between labour sleep, seek whatever kick is conn g . i them. Such a one was Peter Sk°P ■< West Harrison Street, Chicago, who from the bank his savings of i->w j set out in search of adventure . romance. He wanted to hit those «i ( spots which had been denied J"» l t jj years. But Peter was not destined to purple patches. His simple, trusting . was tlic first and final handicap., i oor s ventures began and ended when tne of the bank closed behind him. V strangers who followed him out s him to help them to get h« Kurope. Thev promised him ~ i.( aided them. Alas, for the promise- IJ= surrendered his £300 to the sir d They wished him a fond goou-bjo.