STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 2, 3 January 1934, Page 12

STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS.

(Sent In by Enid Kearney, 339, Ruapehu Road, Ohakune Junction.) Do you like stale bread? If not it would not do for you to live in Southern Sweden, where they bake batches of bread only three or four times a year. The Swedish housewife does not use wheaten flour, as we do, but flour made of rye. The "loaves" are quite thin and circular, with a hole in the middle, and are baked crisp, rather like oaten biscuits. When the huge batch of bread is ready it is threaded on long poles, which are hung up to the kitchen ceiling and the day's supply taken from them each day.

The great earthquake of Jamaica, West Indies, on January 14, 1907, caused enormous damage. Most of this was done in 35 seconds, when the earth opened in huge cracks. During this earthquake one of the most remarkable escapes ever known took place. An inhabitant was walking along the street when the first shock occurred. The earth opened and he fell in the crack and was buried by falling rubbish. Another shock occurred immediately and flung him out of the hole in which he was buried and hurled him into the harbour, where he was picked up, unharmed, by a small boat.