NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS,

A woman of Jefferson, Oliio, told th police that she killed her two young so because her husband "didn't like b i babies, and jjaid 110 attention to them. At Jaipur, India, a Moslem mullah has just died at the age of 102. He had I' e ' formed his religious duties without a or for 85 years, and had called, the 1' to prayer from the muezzin no lewer tii 150,225 times. State employees in Bulgaria have not yet had their salaries paid for the moni of May. A further £175,000 is required ana the Government hopes to raise this su very soon. In this State employees visa the Government every success. "I wanted to see how it would feel have a train run over my hands-£o_' placed them on the rails, dec ar?a Andrew Johnson, aged 44, to the Clucag Hospital authorities when he was admits with both hands mangled. Johnson already lost both feet in an accident. Mr. T. Smith, an Ogmore Vale, GtatoU painter, was working on the root o local house when a tin of paint beg rolling down the slates. In an effort w catch it, Smith lost his balance, down the slates and timbled to tn ground. He was not hurt, and was on ms feet in time to catch the falling paint.