NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD’S PRESS Electrically charged rods are being used to catch fish in England. David K. Baker, of South Yarmouth, Mass., sawed three cords of wood the day before his eighty-fourth birthdaj’. A new ladder shown in Leipzig, Germany, has a knee bracing attachment so the user may have freedom of the hands while at work. Fodder, yeast, glycerine, acetone, dietia and pharmaceutical products are being extracted from wood, according to recent reports of German scientists. Mayor Rolland B. Marvin, of Syracuse, New York, in an economy drive, stopped bids for an expensive automobile for official use. “I can ride in a wheelbarrow,” he is reported to have said. Iron markers bearing a bronze figure oC General Washington on his horse, Blueskin, have been erected in Washington, N.H., said to be the first incorporated, town in America to be named for th* father of his country. On the theory that Georgia itself can produce enough barbers to shave State’s male population, the State Board of Barber Examiners during the first ten months of this year rejected 1411 applications for licenses from outside the State. Only a little more than a hundred miles from Philadelphia, the third largest city in the United States, two hunters were lost in the woods for twenty-two hours. Carrying a deer they had killed, Ray Dehaven and Luther Reese wandered an entire night and almost all day before searching parties found them.

Patrolman Thomas McCormick, of New York City, was surprised when he heard strains of “Sweet Adeline” coming out ol a coal chute. He lifted the cover and sair a merry fellow, who explained that he was stuck. It was pretty dull down -and he was singing to relieve the tedium. It took 40 minutes and the combined efforts of the emergency squad and ate ambulance crew before the chute sinew was released. He said he was John Loh% a longshoreman.