NEWS CURIOSITIES.
JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. A monument representing a wounded horse standing on its hind legs has been unveiled in Budapest. It- is a memorial to Hungarian horses killed in the Great War and stands in the courtyard of the Francis Joseph Barracks. The egg-laying record for South Africa is claimed by the Eastern Province. At the Port Elizabeth Agricultural Show it was announced that the society's annual egg-laying competition had been won by Mr. A. Hugo, of Humansdorp. His team of five hens had laid 1372 eggs over two ounces and 135 eggs under two ounces in the 365 days of the test. A girl of twelve, who has been kept in a wooden cage by her parents for nine years, has just been released by the police from a suburb in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her parents had been told when she was three that her paralysis was due to "possession by the devil" and that she should be shut up. This they had done literally, and for nine years she had been imprisoned in a cage in a corner of the kitchen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)
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