NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRt ss

Leslie Ronald Jury, of St. Pauls Rand wick, Australia, is an undergrade' in the Faculty of Medicine at bydney L-ni versity. He is fifteen years old.

Finding that straw hate were not scllmZ as well as they might, a hatter in Ai * Georgia, took one from stoc.*, n< frozen into a 3001b block ot ice, a "JLPj n the ice at the entrance to his shop. a few minutes the pavement outside crowded witli spectators. There are three chicks on the farm ojMv. G. L. Shaeklefordat Vryheid, Si) Africa, who have spent part of tlx inside a cobra and . are still a "\ e - pre cobra swallowed three eggs, which .. recovered when the snake was kille . the eggs were hatched out successtu Ducks put an end to all flying operations at the Paterson aerodrome in un > where the U.S. Army tests its new aei°planes for speed. Three thousand migrating north settled on the aerodrom and refused to be driven off. Hying " abandoned owing to the danger 01 1 'planes striking the birds. Old people always give reasons they have attained the age of CO or w years. More than a few centenarians na» attributed long life to shunning tooacc , living 011 vegetables or drinking a gal' o of water every day. Marc P' c l> „ Frenchman, is a refreshing change. 0thinks he has lived to be one hundred and four years old because he has drunk enough wine to float a liner. Until he was 96 M. Picq was a blacksmith. •H-'; reckons he has drunk more than 60,0W quarts of wine. He's still drinking strong and he hopes to saw the bottom off quite a number of bottles yet. They say wine is a mocker. Well, Marc seems to nave the lafct laugh;