THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1989
News Snack Bar
Peanut rolling, the craze of the back-street children of the Unit- ed States has come to London. The peanut has to be pached by the nose along a marked track on the pavement and the first across the finishing line is the winner. Noses are protected with adhesive plaster as the going is somewhat rough. These pictures show some young peanut-pusher enthusiasts in a London street. Photo shows
a race in progress with the young entrants nearing the finishing line. It can be seen that each competitor has his own track to keep to during the race.
PRESENTED FROM
COURT
From London police court:
Man at Wood Green: My wife is a mystery. Many times I have caught her in a public-house, but no neighbour has ever actually seen her leave or enter.
Solicitor, at Hampstead: When did you first know your husband had left you?-When I got the Greetings telegram.
The
Defendant, at Willesden: light went red, I stopped, and the constable and I stood looking into each other's eyes.
He
Witness, at Shoreditch: owned a shop, but I understand all the work he ever did in its was to "pop in" once a week and take £ from the till.
AT 98 SHE THREW PARTY
Mrs. Jane Futcher, of Houghton, Hants, celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday with a party. She invit- ed her younger sister, Mrs. Sarah Horder, eighty-three, of Salisbury, her "baby" sister, Mrs. Kate Hobbs, eighty-one, of Portsmouth and her brother, Mr. John Hill, seventy-one, of Staines. Said the hostess: "You are all as old as you feel. I'm feel ing fine."
Mrs. Futcher's tip for keeping the doctor away is a walk a day, what ever the weather.
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DUKE ACTOR AT 88
The Duke of Connaught, who is eighty-eight, is to take part in a film with boys of the Royal Albert
WEST-END STAR AT 12