NEWS CURIOSITIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 122, 25 May 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS-

Herbert Jelinski, a 24-year-old jjgj man who drove a tractor for,;£*™g ran over and killed himself with htoO» machine. He was leaning forrf ttlfflj to make an adjustment to the rag while the tractor was moving, be lfl. lost his balance and fell under the wheel*. The question whether wine is good fo < health is to be discussed at national conference of doctors, « nicn be held at Lausanne during AngtoU tieular attention will.be give" to sum subjects as the vitamin content oi « and the uee of wine in convalesce in cases of mental and nervous disease". Every policeman in the city of Tain".*" Shantung, is equipped with a pan ° scissors, used to out off the qu ««: « pedestrians who still cling to the jm hair habit of their ancestors. It is USgl the law of Shantung to grow a <l» ei ; and if a policeman sees a "olatordgj culprit is stopped and his long braW snipped then and there. A theatre has been opened at H»»)g| in which every seat, including cloaki°°» and programme charges, costs a P enn is called the "Hamburg Stage." In onw to make this possible the manager, acton stage hands, programme sellers and w> office girls have collaborated in P?'n»g and arranging the scenery and making v costumes. Many unemployed actore are being given work at the theatre. • A bell has been chosen as the eywl for the Olympic Games, which take pi«£ next year in Berlin. H weigheeis i" and is almost six feet high, and its n peal will announce the opening or i eleventh Olympic Games on W| 1030, in the Berlin Stadium. The be" « copy of the great bell in the BerHJ Cathedral. The announcement 01 result of each contest at (he gar.ies \w» preceded by a stroke from the. hell- x " ; inscription reads: "1 call to the youtji | the world."