From Many Lands

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 822, 16 November 1929, Page 19

From Many Lands

—— lABLOID READING FOR THE WEEK-END. JAZZ -.in OLA MRUS HATLESS WOMAN

yyHAT WILL EUTERPE SAY? HEAL'IHY APPETITE insects iron digestion the eoating <> the wires. When min puts tie fim hing touches on the Arrival in Turkey and is hailed by fiitonudum ts ;i an inhabitant ordinSOM E THING NEW FIRST AIRPORT HOTEL an airport hotel, the first in the United Stub- an online to the American Air Transport Association—of what is to become a chain of hostelrys at first class landing fields. The rooms and im-hitles a and WOK fT i 1300 A YEAR BLIND MAN WHO BEGS When one blind beggar in Perth, W.A., recently was offered work at the School for the Blind, he replied:—“L will take it on for .£soo—it's worth that much to me to stay on the streets.” This is the statement of Mrs. N\ Wright, secretary of the W.A. Braille Society. A blind Tasmanian, begging iu Perth’s streets, told Mrs. Wright that, he had a home and a dairy farm in Tasmania. A TALL TALE GREEN GOGGLES FOR STEERS At Gotlieb, owner of the J-U cattle range in Okpamoha. worried because his pastures were dry and his cattle j were not fattening. So, he says, he went to Kansas City, and purchased 500 pairs of greenj goggles and fitted them on that number of steers. The steers w ere shipped to market I in prime condition and Gotlieb insists it was because they ate the shriveled I grass which looked green through the ( spectacles. FROM THE LEGION ESCAPEES IN ENGLAND Four deserters from their French •'areign Legion, two Germans, a Uzecho-Slovakian. and a Swiss, who escaped to England! hidden in a cargo of barley, left Liverpool recently for Hamburg. They said that after escaping from a garrison near Tunis, Northern Africa, they had to pass through an Arab camp before reaching the coast. They swam out to a ship at anchor and hid in a cargo of barley for five days until they were driven out by hunger and thirst. ALL MILLIONAIRES ROMANCE OF SHIPMATES Mr. Carl Laeminle. the United States I film producer, who sailed from Southampton in the North German-Lloyd incr Bremen for New York, told a “Daily Mail” reporter of his first trip across the Atlantic 45 years ago. He said: “There were four of us together' all poor German lads. We just managed to scrape together money tu >ay steerage rates. Three of the four •u*e still living and all are millionaires.** CONVICTS’ HOLIDAY ••STAR' PRISONER’S PRIVILEGE Thirty “star,’’ or good conduct convicts, who have hud a holiday at Camp Hill Prison. Parkhurst. Isle of Wight, returned front Cowes to Maidstone recently. for three weeks they sat out iu the evenings enjoying their concerts. Six of the men are musicians, and Play either the violin or concertina. They were all bronzed and healthylooking. and smiled and smoked their pipes or cigarettes as they boarded the Government tug at Cowes eu route for Portsmouth. The privilege of a "change” to what : is known as "the prison hotel" at i ar kliu rst. is extended to good-cou-ilitct men after live years in prison. DOG ON TRIAL DISMISSED, WITH A WARNING An Airedale wagged its tail in Kingston on Thames Police Court while on trial for its life. It was alleged to have chased cats, fought other hogs, and bitten a womhn who intervened when it was lighting her dog. The owner was summoned to show <uuse why it -liould not be destroyed. "1 appear for the dog and say 1 am Perfectly docile and not dangerous.” said Mr. s. I.ittlewood. defending solicitor He said it would be absurd if the Rench had to decide whether one dog fought the other, as it would be making the justices umpires of a dog-tight It was natural tor dogs to have an aversion from cats, and it was difficult to say which dog bit the woman who tried to part the two dogs iu a The Airedale, he said, was so docile 'hut a little -iri aged eight was willing to come into court and pull its tail, ns other children had been in the habit of doing The magistrates dismissed the summons, but -aid the owner must restrain the dog so that it should not h” a nuisan< to the neighbourhood.

VICAR'S CHURCH BAN A woman who was about to enter j'., James s Church, New Brighton, Cheshire, without a hat to see a wed-' "h'ul''. 115 !) 1 *!* 6 ' 1 Ij> the vi<ar . the Rev. 'l'lie Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Hi'. A A. David, commenting on The incident, said: less w omen have been asked to'leave. 1 I evsonally, I should take no exception to hatless women if I were con-' ramblers ”“ y ' “ spetlal service for • 'anon C. K. Raven, of Liverpool • alhedral, said that he would raise no objection to a woman entering the i cathedral without a hat. TORCH-CARRYING l-ISH FINDS IN TROPIC SEAS How science has taken possession of a tropical island and secured many queer prisoners for "third degree” examination, is told in a series of photographs contributed to the "illus--1 ruled London News,” by Dr. William , Beebe, tile well-known marine biologist. Dr. Beebe and his staff of six men and font women scientists selected as their base Nonsuch Island, off the Bermudas. They are invading with net and camera the private haunts of many weird and wonderful aquatic ' creatures. Among them are the silver hatchet | fish—whose batteries of violet light i point downward while its eyes look i for ever upward—and a jet-black 1 whalelet which carries a brilliant : 'orch projecting from its forehead—! this being caught at a depth ot' bOO I fathoms. t COUNTING BRISTLES A STRANGE OCCUPATION There are 20 men at the Great i Western Railway works at Swindon i who spend their days testing all the supplies used by the company. Among tlieir strange occupations j are: Counting bristles in brooms. Separating wool from cotton iu carpets. Finding how many shocks will j shatter a gas mantle. "Then there are shunting poles,” said Mr. S. Adams, the chief. “Each is examined for strength before it goes into service. When its life as a shunt-! ing pole is over it comes back to the | stores and is converted into hammer' handles. "I invented a machine which will subject the inverted gas mantle used to illuminate carriages to 2,000! shocks. Our standard is 1,000 shocks, j but our tests carry the investigations much further.” . CATS AIR SENSE TEST ON GULL’S BACK A cat has experimented in aviation, i but has expressed no desire to take i up the matter seriously. Holiday-makers at Hayburn Wyke, near Scarborough, saw the cat, wearing ginger fur flying kit, spring on the hack of a seagull that was standing on a rock at the edge of the sea. The seagull, anxious to oblige, at once flew off with the cat clinging to its back. The bird had got about ten yards out to sea. when the cat fell off and made a "forced landing” in the water. The cat swam ashore and dashed j wildly to the woods to think a little ‘ further before entering for the next j Schneider race, and the gull flew off rather out of patience with the craze ! for joy-flights. MASTER SWINftLER MAN OF MANY PARTS Described as one of the cleverest | and most unscrupulous forgers and swindlers the police have had to deal with. Rex Campbell Rennie. 47, was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude at the Old Bailey for trying to’ obtain £ 1.250 by means of a forged j agreement. A police officer said that Rennie had been a schoolmaster, and in 1903 obtained possession of a sebool *by representing himself to be a Master of j Arts. ! Dressed in the gown of an Oxford j M.A.. he lectured the pupils and friends on his experiences in the Boer War, although he had never served in that campaign. He had posed as a j colonel, a major and a captain, al-1 though in fact he *ad only been a bom-: hardier in the R.A.F. At one time lie opened a beauty ! parlour, but did little business. i The Recorder, Sir Ernest W lid, K C told Rennie that he was a plausible swindler and a danger to the community. PREMATURE SMILE SETTING FIRE TO POLICEMAN! : The spectacle of a policeman run- j ning down the street with the back of his clothes alight is common enough in flint comedies, but rare in : ' C An*'instance in Liverpool, however, j lei i senuel at the local police court ; w he n William Adamson. 36, of Alton j Road, was charged with damaging a Dolice-sergeant’s uniform. 1 Adamson sat behind the sergeant in a tramcar. He lit a tresh cigarette from one he was smoking -nd pretended to extinguish the end on | 1 *'Heathen left the car smiling broadly, j Other passengers told the policesergeant that the back of his uniform ' Vi The li 'Tergeant hurriedly jumped off ,be tram and ran after Adamson and • arrested him. . , u the police court Adamson said the falling of his cigarette end on .o file sergeant’s uniform was an acciBench took a different view and he was lined 10s and 25.6 d costs. j