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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17612, 15 November 1922, Page 13

What is believed to be a world re- {j cord was set up some time ago at a \ congress of South German smokers, $ held at Frankfort. A special trophy, I consist iug of a silver eagle on a red I and white ribbon, was offered to the < smoker who took the longest time to \ turn a Mexican cigar into grey-white 5 ash without letting it onee go out. The i competition began at 11 o'clock, and ■ very noarly 200 poople contested for \ the'award.* By 1:2 o'clock only twenty i competitors wero in the running—the ' rest had regretfully finished their \ "weeds" or had laid them at rest in ; ! the ash tray for too long. The rivals ij dropped out rapidly, and by one jj o 'clock only one smoker was left—Herr | Uenz, a Sachsenhausen business man, jj who actually puffed away in peace un- j, til he perforce had to throw his dim- f inutive cigar stump away, 2 hours | 4b' minutes and 17 seconds after he *. had set light to it. jj Eleven fish frown in a block of ic« j! for six months camo to lifo in, Taooma, j! in the United States, in September last, | u> swim in an aquarium in a local cafo. 8 Thoy were Chindagaks, from .Nishigak, j Alaska. Feeding in shallow water, they jj are often caught by thousands in early jj freezes and kept dormant in tho ice all i winter. It is stated that it was from, jj tho bed of a coast stream those speci? A mens were taken. The block of ico was •i; kept in a refrigerator room of a ware- jj house at Nisisijjak and sent to Tacoma ? with a shipment of fresh iced salmon. | In Alaska tho Cbiad:'.gak3 aro known as j jj •caudle fish, possessing so much oil that j H strings ore pulled through them for a f. wick and the bodies burned for illiimi-1 jj nation. j <j