NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

A remarkable exhibition, cleverly . signed to drive home to Germans nw | important lessons about themselves a , their future, was opened in Berlm by t i Minister ot the Interior, Dr. Frick. Un the general title of "The Wonder ; Life" have been collected all kinds , facts, figures and exhibits re ' a^in g . the physical development of the mdivia and the nation as Nazi doctors a J sociologists would like to see it. Japanese girls who want to sell will in future have to pass a rigorous animation and answer 31 technical q tions. Such is the new regulation or Morinaga Ivabushiki Ivaisha, one f Jf.pan's leading confectionery manu hirers. The girls will be required «« only to have a complete knowledge ot process of manufacture of the sweets, the ingredients used in the various go 1 and of all the products of the cornpa }> they will need, in addition, to P os rt "pleasing personality, intelligence,'6® , appearance, initiative, and good heal "How would you like to take a the Arctic this summer, hunt tor P bears and see-how the Eskimoes ii • ; Such is the question being put to hunu of Soviet schoolboys. They are told J if they do their lessons well and » \ j the correct principles of Marx and W j they will be given holidays in the to ■, of Arctic exploration trips. Otto ® c r „ t ! t. the famous Soviet explorer, is co-opc' | ing in the work. The* trips will last ao - | twenty days. In this time the sehoolo > n will explore Arctic waters in icebreaK ' K hunt polar bears and seals, and exp| the little known islands of the extr p North. The famous mosaics of St. fl Cathedral at Venice, with scenes ot * Apocalypse, completed at the end ot 10th century by the brothers Zuccato, _ % to be seen once more. They had been , cealed for 2S years by scaffolding r ° „ § the golden dome. This has now v removed. Repair work was begun in ' but was delayed by the Great War, w j sand bags and wooden scaffolding * . g put in to protect the valuable worlKS | art, dating in some cases from the - || centurv. from danger of enemy air att . ' if; One bomb did fall a few feet fromg main entrance to St. Mark s, hut to M nately did not explode.