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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 26 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES. JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. A woman of Jefferson, Ohio, told the police that she killed her two young sous because her husband “didn't like boy babies, and paid no attention to them.” At Jaipur, India, & Moslem mullah has just died at the age of 102. He had performed his religious duties without a break for 83 years, and had called the Faithful to prayer from the muezzin no fewer than 150,225 times. State employee* in Bulgaria have not yet had their salaries paid for the month of May. A further £175,000 is required and the Government hopes to raise thia sum very soon. In this State employee* wish the Government every success. “I wanted to see how it would feel to have a train run over my hands—so I placed them on the rails,” declared Andrew Johnson, aged 44, to the Chicago Hospital authorities when he was admitted with both hands mangled. Johnson had already lost both feet in an accident. Mr. T. Smith, an Ogmore Vale, Glam.* painter, was working on the roof of a local house when a tin of paint began rolling down the slates. In an effort to catch it. Smith lost his balance, slithered down the slates and tumbled to the ground. Tic was not hurt, and was on his feet in time to catch the falling tin of paint.