NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. Clyde Thatcher, of Lima. Ohio, plugged a six-volt automatic electric fan into a nO-volt circuit. A tlyinjj blade struck Thatcher and killed him. A nejrro girl, arrested .if. Montgomery. Aiabamn. escaped IS minutes latex , , takin? oho of (.he court matron's dresses. Two-year-old Jean Lantis. oi HoUwter, California, removed [lie lid of her mothers powder box and inhaled the contents. She died of suffocation. Protecfins \m herd from attacks bv wiM animals is usually part of a shepherdß JOB in the East. Here is a story of how the herd saved the shepherd. Young pan lanjitch. aged 13. was tending his herd near Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, when a bear appeared. " The bear "downed" lanjiteh, but the heid bore down on the intruder an.! killed itMen and nations talk bravely enough about twisting the lion's tail, but >t J' as been lci't. to a native to accomplish the feat. Makgulostshu. the native servant of Mr. Kneelbrecht, helped his master to trail a wounded lion at- Kazungula, on tnc Zambesi. The beast downed Mr. l ; ?E<r brpcht, The servant twisted the h'-'ij- s tail till it- released its hold. Then, no seized his master's sun and shot it. Two Italian brothers had not met for '20 years. Mario Galiotto had lived i< l Germany since the outbreak of the war, but he retained a ure.it affoction for 1)" brother Gino aivi he decided to vial nmi at Vicenza. Giuo met Mario at the station. They began to talk, the one in German and the other in Italian. l! rst they talked fast, then slowly. It «« useless; neither could understand a word that the other said.