NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. A mushroom bigger than a man's head, weighing over 31b, and with a diameter of f2in,°lias been found near Dillenburg, Prussia. This is the biggest specimen of its. kind ever discovered in Germany. A little native boy, who applied for a job at the office of a newspaper in Queenstown, Cape. Province, was found, to possess a remarkable jaw. He had three rows of teeth in front, on his lower jaw, and two rows above. The unusual formation did not appear to worry him in any way. For nine years "Wingie," a crippled canarv, has acted as waiter to the young birds in the aviary of Mr. George Bennett, of South Kensington, a Sydney suburb. He could not fly, so a ladder was built up to the nests. "Wingie" climbed it many times every day, carrying food in his beak for other birds' children.

Herr Holz, a traveller for stockings for a firm in Cologne, collects old hose. He has a large and varied collection now, his most valued item being a pair of stockings worn on ceremonial occasions by an Armenian philosopher in 1100 B.C. He also possesses a replica pair of green stockings which once covered the calves of Henry VIII.