NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD’S PRESS. A thirteen-year-old girl spent a week living in trains in the New York undetgrouud. She ran away from home when her parents scolded her. She begged pennies on the trains and bought sweets and chocolates on the stations when she was hungry. An Italian statistical agency has calculated that every minute 200,000 matches arc struck throughout the world. This year is the centenary of the cigarette, which, according to the same agency, was invented in 1833 by aif Egyptian soldier at the Siege of Acre. He lost his pipe and had the idea of smoking his tobacco wrapped in paper. Nowaday* 274,000.000 cigarettes are smoked every day in the world. Divorce cases in America get funnier and funnier. Here are three petitions: (1) Helen Puls said her husband used to praise her blonde hair before marriage. Now he flicked his cigarette ash on it. Her hubby's an iceman. (2) Louisa Quackcnvoss complained, at Los Angeles, that her husband was very cruel to her by staying out late one night. That was the night of the earthquake, and shs thought ho was a casualty. (3) Katherine Ive’e complaint was that Carter treated her like a girl friend. He refused to introduce her by her married name: forced j her to share the expenses of their evenings out; and made her buy him his clothes.