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-THE PASSING SHOW
Mushrooms By
The Yard
PARIS, Oct. 17: Workmen at
La Creusot, In eastern France,
yesterday "felled" two mushrooms
weighing respectively 571b. and
1051b. Both were more than a
yard wide.-Reuters.
On The Run
Taking adventage of the quiet
traffic of Sunday, a huge mech
anical power unit' was stretched
across William-street sending out
its huge- grapplers to lift a post
at the corner of Wellington-street.
On that post there was the legend:
"Walk Around Corner."
Any new arrival reading it
might possibly have concluded
that Perth inhabitants are always
on the run. Possibly the legend
above the Public Works building
at the west end of St. George's
terrace, "Take It Easy--Speed
Kills," may have corrected his
ideas:
The truth is that the notice
"Walk Around Corner" was put
up over 50 years ago as a direc
tion to. the Jehn "cabbies" and
others who drove at the furious
pace of 15 miles an hour, not to
risk their lives.
Wives By Number
ROME, Oct. 17: Love letters
addressed to "wives No. 1, 2, 4
and 5" were found in the pocket
of a quadruple. bigamist, 29-year
old Giacomo Caleca, when police
siezed him in the home of "wife
No; 3" in Bari yesterday.
The police had been looking for
him. for. a week.. He escaped
from the hospital of a prison
where he was serving an 18-year
sentence for bigamy and attempted
murder.-Reuters.
Black Market In
Bibles
LONDON, Oct. 17: Native
"spivs" in Africa have been writ
ing to people in Britain appealing
for Bibles and then selling them
at black market prices says the
"Daily Mail." Mr. IE . Munro,
manager of the National Bible
Society of Scotland, said yester
day: "The black market has grown
through a lack of Bibles. Natives
are willing to pay high prices."
The profiteers are mostly Afri
cans" who learnt English at mis
sionary schools.
Peasant's Discovery
NAPLES, Oct. 17: An Italian
peasant digging a well in the rock
strewn Lin valley, near Frosinone,
yesterday uncovered a giant ele
phant'skull believed to be between
50,000 and 60,000 years old. The
animal's huge tusks were still
intact.
The skull of another prehistoric
elephant was discovered in the
same area in 1926. Experts be
lieve it may be an ancient ele
phant graveyard--the secret place
to which dying elephants are said
to. go instinctively.-Reuters.
Birth In Airliner
LONDON, Oct. 17: Mrs. -Dar-.
inks Parker, of New York, early
today gave birth to a baby boy in
an American Overseas Airlines
plane over the Atlantic. Radio
messages from the airliner which
was flying from New.. York to
Fr nkfurt, told of the birth when
thB plane was 400 miles from
Shannon (Eire).
Dr. Fred Henschell, who was
aboard the plane, and the stew
ardess, Mary Jane Hinckley, as
sisted at the birth. The last radio
message from the plane said:
"Mother and baby doing well."
Reuters.
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