NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS.

Harvesting in his fields at Tacoma, Washington, Mr. T. Sesaki pulled up a carrot. When it came out of the earth a gold chain was found to he attached to it -and at the end a £0 gold nugget. To the fact that lie was a bachelor and studied yoga philosophy. Mahant Shri Maharaj ascribed the fact that he lived to the age of 130. He has just died in Bliavnagar State, India, forecast his death to his friends. ° Barber shops for do-= are the latest innovation 111 Shan n ..iai. Two such establishments have made their appearance in the city, and both are doing flourishing business in the sweltering heat. The price for a hair cut, which takes an average of 20 minutes, ranges from about 1/0 to 2/G. Going to hospital complaining of severe pains, David Plant, aged Go, a labourer, of Short Street, Walsall, could not suggest any cause to the doctors. Yet an operation revealed that he had swallowed a whole orange. The i:ian died. "This is one of the most extraordinary cases in my experience," Fiid the Walsall coroner, recording a verdict of death from acute intestinal obstruction. A police constable saw Frederick Hayward, aged 45, a motor mechanic, of Bell Barn Boad, Birmingham, bending over one of the electric headlights of his lorry trying to light it with a match. At Birmingham, Hayward, who w&s stated to have a bad record and a previous conviction for being drunk in chargc of a motir vehicle, was sentenced to a montn's hard labour for driving the lorry while drunk.