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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957.
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The World
IT'S AN ANIMAL'S WORLD
This Pig Slurped They Even
Champagne
From Her Trough
London.
Animal-loving Britons, who gave a goat a military funeral and a turtle peaches and cream for life, rejoiced last week over Clarn.
Telegraphic Tabloids
Detroit,
George Farley, 50, examined the damage and decided it was Ami hty expensive deer ho had led.
Farley struck the 100-pound
She's a champagne-swigging plg.
Clara, a brand-new mother of 11 piglets, WAS leted by villagers of the tiny community
of Broadelyst.
An Outing
The celebration
was partly because of her liter but mainly because the plgieta solo in ien weeks lime wili Bnance an out- ing for the villagers.
Farmhand Bert Colla burst into the village inn last week and announced that Clara, who
113
little old
for
that sort
do while travelling on thing, had produced a family.
It'n Willow Itun Expressway,
It was a special family, be- cost $300 for fixing the front
cause Mrs Gladys Abell, Clara's fender United Press.
jawner and landlady of the Tocal, had promised her customers that if old Clara produced plg- lets
she would stand the customers a day's outing with proceeds of their sale.
Chicago,
Policeman Anthony Gralewski, 27, started his Brst day on, the force by showing a store-owner
Nobody ever thought Clora friend his new badge.
But she would come through. He
arrest made his" Arst
did. almont immediately when tho
Mrs Abell felt it so important friend pointed to third man
a birth notice in id the store and said: "Hey, she inserted this guy's trying to hold me the local paper, up."United Press.
* Manchester.
hero A divorce court judge deelded that Mrs Ursula Kelleher certainly was entitled to 0 decree of judicial separation.
evidence to
Happy Event
"Alexandra Inn, Broadelyst," it said. "Happy event to Clara. Lovely family of 11.
Thanks to mid-husband Bert,"
The villagers gathered at the pub to congratulate Clara and Bert and anticipato their pro- mised party,
"Hold it," sald Bert "We must go and drink with Clara herself."
Get Tranquilisers
London,
A British Arm marketed tranquilising pill * Dow -which it claims will stop dogs barking and relleva HEIVEUNACAS, noxiety and
apprehension in strung animals,
highly--
WUI
The tranquilis calm down dogs, cats and other pels, the company said. It being offered
to veterinary surgeons
with the claim that tho drug doca not mako animala sicopy.
The chemical samo for the
is drag
Methyl Piperidyl – Mothyk - Phenothiazine,
A circular distributed by the manufacturers pali tho drug produces “a peaceful. mental slate without hypnosis, the animals re- maining normally respons sive to their’surrounding.” -Volted Press.
Ossie The Tortoise Inherits £100 For
Her Weekly Bath
London.
The richost- tortoise in the world faced life with a solid, tortoiselike calm last week.
EVERYONE
WAS CHASING
ONE ANOTHER
Duluth, Minn. Dick Raiken con tell you to-
day almost what it means | to have a boar by the tail. Raiker owne the Sawbill
Superior National Forest some 100 miles northwest of here, Last week he heard a loud racket coming from his parking lot. and hurried out to in vestigate.
That Three Lodge, which is nestled in the
Martini Lunch
New York.
Harried hanks of hot- weather harangue:
"You know what's the trouble With American business? I'll tell you what's the trouble with American' business. It's the three-martini lunch, that's what's the trouble," said the man at the bar to the bartender.
She produced show thot her physician Ботроп suggested they Hc husband, Dr Dermot Kelleher break open a botile of cham-glass in mid-alt and continued; communicated with her only❘ pugne as a sort of advance by notes during five years of celebration.
"I will venture the opinion silent partnership. -- United
that a great many business de- Press.
cisions in this country are made by brains that are to some degree under the influence of alcool, And that goes for governmental decision, 100, and I mean government at all levola local, state, and national."
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Richard Kossina, 28, had a лен twist when arresling officery seized him for operation of a moonshine still" in his basement here.
"I made the stuff," Koscina sald, to mix with gasoline for outboard motor."-United my Press.
Dubuque, Iowa, Leona Herienten of Clinton, Iowa, was treated for mutiple euls after a visit lo a dress shop,
She walked through a plate glass window, thinking it was a cicor. United Press.
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Mobile, Ala. Housebreakers who robbed Nat Berger of some $5,000 in jewellery and bonds found it pays to start at the bottom and work your way up.
They squeezed under Ber- ger's house, smashed their way through a concrete Boor and came up under a built-in sáte. -United Press.
Patrick's Night Out Hits A High Spot
London.
Suddenly there was Casey sprawied on Lichfield Cathedral roof, 70ft, up from the ground. . . . Sure and it was cold and dark up there, and 80-year-old Patrick could not remember
how he got there, or why, or anything at all about it.
So he shouted: "Help" and
kept on shouting.
all
"You could hear him avtr the cathedrai close,” said the verger, Mr William Bee,
who telephoned the polles.
"He was in a most perllous position," sald Canon William Parker, Archdeacon of Stafford "He was sprawled across gable."
LOST HOURS
庭
Patrick Casey's right ankie Waa sprained, 30 fremto carried him into the cathedral through a trap-door in the roof and down the stairs.
Patrick, who lives at Crane- fields, Lichfeld, with his wife and child, said: "I remember
མ་ being in the town at 5.30 pan. are But I cannot -- remember any- thing more until. I found my- selt on the roof at 9.30 p.m."
A police spokesman väld: “It is a mystery, Cary – was not Brunk!
So everyone streamed across the fields to the pigaty where Clara was snorting affectionally around her squeaking bables,
They poured
a sizablo
slug
of champagne into Clara'é
and watched while "Have trough, Clara sturper it up.
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THE MOTHER There he saw his pet cocker spanial, Tucker," busy chasing a small bear cub around the lot. What Tucker apparently didn't realise, Raiken said, was he in turn was being that chased by the cub's 300-pound mother.
Raiker, thinking only of his net's safety, took off ofter the bear with a long-handled rako. The four galloped around
Her future was secure, She had inherited £100, She could go on living in the same style to which sho was accustomed. And the custom for Osslo--a female despite her name- had always been luxury,
Ossic's weathy owner, Mrs Emily Wilson of Doncaster was devoted to her. But she knew that the good things in a tortoise's liteke peaches, strawberrico, and A weekly bath-cost money.
TO ENJOY
She wanted Ostic to go, on enjoying them after she died.
So, in hor £30,000 WBL, Mrs Wilson bequeathed Ossie, with £100 for upkeep, to her mald and companion, Miss Mary Guy---"in tho airin bellef that she will look after my tortoise and maintain the same,"
The Arst thing Miss Guy ald on hearing of her new respon- sibilities was 10 give
BWAY Tiny, her own pet tortoise.
Tiny's home brick shelter
house
the garden of Miss Guy's at Warmsworth, York- hire is now Ossie's.
Miss Guy's alleation, devated for 29 years to Mrs Wilson, is now all Ossic'a.
TWO EGGS
the suspended his martini
But the £100 may have to be parking lot, with all chasers | shared. Ossie, by way of cele- Eaining on the others. Suddenly bration, has laid TWO EGGS. Balken get close enough to
No newcomers, however, will wallop mama bear in the backupset the luxurious life of Ossie with his rake. She turned 00 of Warmsworth. him with a snari, but he leapt Lifting the 5lb., 20-year-old back from her swinging paw tortoise gently and tickling her just in time, Then the chase under
tho chin, Miss Guy promised her: resumed.
"You will always have all the things you are used to, including your bath,"
"Umm-hm," said the bartender. another before lunch?"
FLYING TACKLE
The big boar fitally nabbed Bying the yelping dog with tackle, But Raiken slammed | bis rake down on the bear's take.......”—United mout "so hard," he said, "that
Then the villagers raised "Of course," said the man, their Klassen for a toast to "now you Cloro the plg.-United Press. Press,
THE 'LITTLE BROWN JUG
A huge wine-tanksed in front of a wine-bougs has been installed by an “Ebbelwol”=(apple-wine) inn-keeper in Neu Isenburg near Frankfort in order to altries thirsty customers. The wine-tankard kolds 39,500 glasses of wine.=Kayalone
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DOLL HOUSE GIRL DIES
London. of the smallest women in the world, 22in. Edith Barlow dled among the fat” ladies, and strong men
It broke."
Just as the bear started up at Ralken, Tucker cslaped from beneath her and high- talled it back to the Lodge.
The startled bear gathered up her adventuresome and wandered back into the wilderness, nursing Q tore Sr.out.
cub
Raiken just stood where ho was and trembled, United Prest.
MONKEY BUSINESS IN THE TOMBS
New York.
For the second time in two months, a brazen suspect has walked out of a New York City Goof under another prisoner's ball.
Correction Department of Acials said Anthony Rorado, 10, was being held in City Prison
(The Tomba) under, $10,000 ball on robbery charge when bond, was posted the other day for Anthony Asero, 16, a burglary suspect, A guard entered the detention pen and called out Aanro's nomo, but he did not respond. Whers- upon Rosado stepped forward,
to signed Asaro's name 4500 bail release and was freed.
DISCOVERED
The
POLICE FIND ANASTASIA IN A MARSH
London.
Walthamstow police haya announced: "We have found Anastasia. We have
had ker in prolectiva custody for over a month.” Where Was she found? On Walthamstow marshes, alone, neglected and ob. vibusly in need of care and protection. "Obviously she had been dragged from the Alver Lea by someone, and Just thrown saldo," explain- ad a police officer.
A aulalde sitempt? "Hardly," sald the police- man. "We think someone had looked after her in thair home-thon tired of her and pushed her in the river at dead of night."
How do police клаш
is Anastasia? “When we found har wo turned her over and--there was her nome, in green paint, all aver her back.”
What are the Police plans for her disposal? "We are -hoping someona may claima her," explained one of hor guarde. "Otherwise we may "Bak the local Box Cadeta to take her away. After all the Police Station is hardly the place for 12-foot home. made dinghy,"
JUST ONE BIG
ASSOCIATION
New York.
A short
while later, Asaro, atill imprisoned, asked a guard when the was to be released. discovered the It then wos wrong man had been released.
If you over doubled that Asaro, however, was permitted Anterien: is the world's most-
organised placo, a look: at similar directory should convince you. walked In the Manhattan Telephone sweet | book's long list of associations posted are such as:
to leave the gaól.
Last month, in a ense, one Myron Coben out of the Raymond |Bald ber manager, John White: Gaol under $300 ball
I had to be very fit and far a Bol Cohen, A Inisiat - she rest. Otherwise
ene would have been in the latest incident, the know with the fat lady." tan stapped forward
at Newcastle's Race Week The other day: she, colispord
Edith Barlow, 25 and weighing
17ib, collapsedí
ogain. Doctoni with oxygen känd Prevented himself
equipment failed to pull her
In the
freedom by mirely signing ball release.
A
wrong Association of Adjustablo and Shoulder Strop Manufacturers, -to Association of Average. Adjus for Association Institute, AB sociation
Inter-Personal Association at day round. NEAR NA
Police are still looking for Dynamics. *
Lacedaemonians, "Association of "She" we great littld' trouper.
Myron Cohen,
Plped Buttonbolu MIYs, Asto-, An alarm is also out for ctation for Rewarch, and and her deata bus hit every Rosado, Correction's Come lightenment, Association for one," said Mr White Barlow Lethe thrd of the marioner Anna Kross Protection of the Aftrondacka now people to die hence the ordited an investigation, im and targelkhod for Uptown *fatz bogan,
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Converters--killed Pri
arut was cont to hospital, but she went back to the caravac with doll's house furniture
·where she lived for seven TORTS, The show must
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