NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 22 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD’S PRESS. A gold watch lost seventeen years ago by G. I*. Scott, of Marshfield, Oregon, was Scratched up recently by chickens in a berry patch. A little more than two acres of land is required to produce food tor the average American, according to estimates of Massachusetts State College authorities. Poland ships more than 10,0001 bof goose feathers to the United States every month. In Ahuachapan, Salvador, powder puffs are being made of duck feathers. Roman gold trinkets recently ‘found on the Island of Gothland, in the Baltic, are said by archaeologists to date from the year 1 A.I). When Roy Moss, of Oroville, California, went duck hunting he didn’t expect the hunt would turn into a gold mining expedition. He killed a teal duck, and while cleaning the bird discovered seven pieces of gold in its craw. Harold Tuchelski, of Pontiac, Mich., attempted to extort 5000 dollars “for an education.” “My girl is in highVschool.” he told the judge. “She talks about things 1 don't understand.” He was sentenced to five years in State prison. Patrolman John Jacobson, of New York City, found a small office safe in the street and called the police emergency* squad. The safe was locked, and there were no indications that burglars had tampered with it. It was removed to the Greenwich Street Police Station with the help of block and tackle. Drilling at the Leslie Petroleum Company’s well in the lower Hoh River, Washington, is not without its difficulties. Fight amiable skunks, says a news dispatch, frolic about on the derrick when actual drilling is not in progress. And drilling doesn’t start until the skunks have finished frolicking. Penn Yan. New York, electricity consumers received a tangible New Year’s wish from the 'municipally-owned power plant. “We wish you a happy and prosperous new year,” a card enclosed with the December bill said. “Your electric light, bill for the month of December is receipted.” The receipted bills totalled 7500 dollars.