NEWS IN BRIEF

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1935, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

OVERSEAS PARAGRAPH ITEMS A 1000-mile journey on the Frencn State railways costs 34s second-class, and only 23s third class .

A Tom Thumb has been lound living in a remote hamlet of Ceylon, lie 1. 19 years old, but only 32 inches tall.

India claims to have found the oldest living man. He is Baa Cul Khan aged IGB- has two sons, one aged 99 and the other 110.

There is only one motor car' to every 37 of the population in Britain; in tli P United States of America there is car to every five persons.

On* the teleprinter, an instrument like a typewriter, it is claimed that it is possible to train an operator in sin months to send eighty telegrams a a hour.

Men receiving any iorm oi public iclief in Germany are now foi bidden to bet. If they clo, the relief payment may he made to their wives, of stopped.

The chances of being hit by a falling meteorite are so slight that it is calculated in a State the size of New South Wales, only one person would be struck in 14,000 years.

Britain 7s now supplying the world’s fastest fighting aeroplanes to Belgium.. Turkey, Finland, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Peru, Brazil and many other countries.

Apples weighing 81b each have been grown by Air Ichitaro Alatsuda, of Nagano, Japan. Although sour, they have a good flavour. Their size is the result of many experiments.

Hundreds of engaged couples jail over England arranged to lie married just before the Royal wedding, so that they could make a honeymoon visit to London to s ee the great procession.

The tooth of an animal believed to 111 aVo lived 20,000 yea r s ago. has been discovered in the Ivwangsi province of China. Bones of prehistoric animals, stone axes, iand utensils used thousands of years ago have .also been found.

A postcard h lls taken more than 20 years to. travel from Portsmouth to iSlough, Buckinghamshire, where it has just been delivered, with an apology stating that it was discovered in a disused letter-box.

Banks in the United States are now using b!a c k blotting paper on their counters.in their efforts to foil forgers, who have made ia regular practice of copying customers’ signatures from the ordinary white and other iight-coloui'ed blotting paper.