NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 22, 26 January 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

Approached by a Singapore moneylender demanding repayment of a loana Chinese carpenter named Leng Check expressed his "willingness to pay, and asked for his promissory note. Imme; diately it was handed to him he is alleged to have torn it in half and swallowed the pieces. He was taken to hospita> and an unsuccessful attempt was made to recover the paper. Leng now faces a charge of destroying a valuable security. South African women are of_ mots generous build than those of Europe. Their hips and busts are larger. Th.s has been revealed by a witness givmg evidence on behalf of a fashion good? firm before the Customs Tariff Commission in Johannesburg. The witness. Mi N. .1. Home, declared that most ot tin frocks imported into Smith Africa ha 1 to be altered before tlicy would lit- Soul'African women. "The figures of '' !,: women here are more or less larger thai' those of the women of Europe," in explained.

A phenomenon which occurs once ni seven years ha.s recently been seen ill *'' bay of San Diego. California. A f ' r ' of sea three miles wide assumed a v:vi i red colour and remained thus for t?:i days. In bygone times the local inhabitants used to attribute the manifestation to satanic forces only to be appeased b> human sacrifices. It is now known tnrsit. is due to milliards of tiny infusoria of a brilliant scarlet hue. These citing live only for ten days or are devoured by the end of that time by larger inserts or fish. lint even science ha.? not }'?* explained their appearance only once m seven years. Marin Karadimitrctf. a oS-year-old B;:'garian. i.s preparing t > go to KngUuid I<* demonstrate his feats of memory. In •' broadcast from the Kadio Sotia stat'O'j he heard a list of JOO words, which »•"' been written secretly, lead by ' lll! announcer— and repeated them _ from beginning to end without one mistaKe. Then he repeated the H't backwards, an'-* afterwards said every oilier word. Mann recently repeated a list of "000 words before Professor Kasaiultieff. of tlio University of Sofia, and was awarded a diploma. He has made preparations tor a tour round the world to ediow what can do.