NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

When Neville Lewis, of Grafton, Australia, cut a snake in two with a spade, the "head half" continued to chase himJt was only when he smashed the head, he states, that the emake finally expired.

A new expression—"child-poor'—has been introduced into the language of l*azi Germany. It is applied to families where there are not more than two children. Such families are considered "reprehensible." Anna Thunova wrote to an inspector of taxes in Prague, asking whether her da. a for a substantial rebate could be dealt with as early as possible. The inspector glanced at the letter and went straight to the police. Shortly afterwards, Anna was arrested for attempted bribery. Her letter was written lightly in pencil—on a banknote. The "safety odds" of the average American while using his for her) own streets and highways either as a motorist or as a pedestrian have been worked out by the National Safety Counjil. The figures are: Injury in motor accidents, 100 to 1 against; fatal injury, 3000 to 1 against; injury (pedestrians only), 400 to 1 against. The period covered by these odds is one year.

On parade in Hamburg are 80,000 sol-diers-—belonging to one man. The soldiers are made of lead, and their owner. Hen - Wilhelm Wolf, made every one himself. He lias spent fourteen years on the task, and used more than 12.0001b of lead. The exhibition tills three storeys of a business building. The centrepiece is a panorama of a battlefield 011* the Western Front, covering an area of 7«5(i square feet.