NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20653, 29 June 1935, Page 12

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD S PRI,S. A “Bible reading marathon” is being held at the Temple at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Day and night members of the congregation are relieving one another in reading light through the Scriptures. A bill appropriating £2OOO to prevent “'epidemics of babies'"' lias been approved by the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The money is actually to be spent on combating rabies. A printer’s error in the bill caused the mistake. Robbed of her kittens, Pretty, a cat in the household of a New Jersey City butcher, was inconsolable till the butcher bought a white rat to amuse his children. When Pretty saw the rat she at once jumped into its box and gave it a thorough washing, purring ecstatically aii the time. Now they live happily together. Professor Pedro Candioti swam 201 miles in 87 hours and 19 minutes in the Parana River, and he feels he’d like to try a gentle swim across the Channel some afternoon. J’lie professor is 43. and teaches chemistry aud anatomy in the commercial college at Santa Fe —when he At the convention of beauty culture practitioners at New York a woman was put on show—half young and beautiful and half old. A middle-aged hospital nurse, she had one side of her face ‘‘lifted’’ and the other not: one half of her hair waved and curled, while the other hung limply down: one side of her body elegantly clothed, while oil the other she wore an old cotton dress. been dead for several weeks i«< being heard at Banravi, Rumania. Pretty Veturia Stancioiu was famed for her voice. Six weeks ago she died, and was buried in the local cemetery. Next morning, when her father went to his barn, he was amazed to hear her singing as usual, and every day since he lias gone there to listen. Neighbours have heard her, too. Travellers on the C’zecho-Slovakia Government railways can now communicate with the train attendants through any of 17 languages. This is done by means of a series of numbered questions and answers. The traveller points to the question in his own language. The attendant consults the same numbered question in Czech, and points to the answer, again read by the traveller in his own tongue. Furthermore, train attendants are now to have special courses in l English, French, and German.