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Interesting
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1858.
From Stories
AI Parts
Of The World
NOW WE HAVE TROUT PERFORMING! Bargain C
Telegraphic Tabloids
Lyons. Francino Viallet, 31, plunged seven Roers from the window of her boyfriend's apartment after an argument. She lan led unhurt in a sandpile and head-
ed or a nearby Canal,
The concierge of the apart- ment building caught her befaro
Brothers Train Fish For
Circus
Engelhartszell.
she could jump into the water. WHILE most people
-United Press.
Arnside.
A cat was listed last week as
of
the 20th victim of an ou brenk paratyphoid fever. Veterinarians said the cat caught it from its master, ong of 10 persons affected,
Cat and master were report- ed recovering.-United Press.
Milan. Sixty mourners, summoned through an error of Identifica- 1on, marched in the funeral of The the wrong nun yesterday. -nun to whom they were re lated turned out to be alive.-- United Press,
London.
The British Ministry of Pen- sions and National Health formally noted 1 staff that "In determining weather a por son is a child, the prime co stderation is his age."—United Prcs
watched have monkeys, elephants, dogs and even poultry act in few have circuses, probably scen a "trout- circus."
But this is what is offered by two saw-millers, Otto and Karl Luger, the young owners of a local saw-mill in the le Alpine hamlot of Engelhartszell in Upper Austria.
According to come reports, the two brothers are the only people who ever succeeded i
taming trout, known as the shyeat and most suspicious of fish.
It
Only Taming
must bo explained tha; even
the two brothers have succeeded in "taming" the fish only in their natural environ mont, in the foeda of the Rochester. "Resring Creek" river, which Sixteen-year-old Down Foster turns the turbines of their lfiile ruled a "Rag Queen" of the new-mill. Medway Collette of Technology
and Art. She was chosen from The greatest "turn" in the 11 contestants in a beauty concireus is the so-called "Trout test in which the entrants Jump": A stick is held close to paraded in four sacks
Bury St Edmunds. The Central Cinema here showed "Birth Without Fear," » film BA zo-called painless childbirth.
During the film five members of the audience fainted. Four of them 'were men.United Press.
SCHOOLMARMS (British Ones)
ADVISED NOT
the surface of the water and
within one or two seconds. up to twelve trout will jump of the water, fly over the stick and dive under again.
"Carresing the trout is 04- other feature of the circus: The Lugers put their hands into the water and runediately the fish surround them, coming closer unill they stop between their fingers and wait to have their At the same "neek" stroked. time, they fake food, preferably worms, out of the other hard,
"It took us at least two years to tame the trout," Oo Lager said.
TO LOOK LIKE several
SCHOOLMARMS
London.
So Confident
First, they to the Rsh with
сукту WOTITS
morning for months. AL the beginning, the fish took the food only after it had been dropped into the water, Later, however, they dared to swim close to the hand holding the
food and to take 11 from there.
After one year, the trout of RITAIN'S schoolmarms "Roaring Creek" had become so
the brothers to touch them. Association President
"It was extremely difficult to smarten up and stop look teach them the Trout Jump,"
Oito Lugar explained. ing Uke schoolmarms.
I to
to
"While held Iow worms the water the other
The cali lo inject glamour one of us
the
was close to classroom circulated following a moeting held a stick in front of them of the association of assistant In order to reach the food the mistresses in secondary schouls, fish had to jump over the stick." I was directed to all parts of The trout got so used to jump- Britain which, the Association ng that later they sprang over President said she was forced the lick, even when
wes in sight,
to admit suffers from too many leachers anu frumpish, dowdy too few capable of drawing wolf-whistles.
Not Vanity
Miss Madeleine Do Mont, the Association's 50 year old
spinster Freident emphasised
tLat the call
for powder,
stocking
no food
The "trout circus" haa attracted not only many tourists but also selcntists who havo come to study the behaviour of the fish.
Surprisa
lipstick and straight
These scientists noted
with Erams wasn't just dle vanity,
that the surprise
fish only she "sometimes wonder,"
when the Luger gold, "Whether I would not do "performed"
brothers were their "partnera." better to spend a little moro
If the hands of a strange porsen time preparing MYSELF for tried to touch them, they were lessons
even at the cast
of afraid and shot away, spending a little less time
The scientists regard this ag evidence preparing the lesions,
that fish, liko dogi recommended and horses, Mire Do Mont
are able to dit- different between powder, lipstick, a Hitlo rouge Unguish
that they arb
in
on occasion but no mascara people, and
for the schoolmarme who look ospable of getting used to obey. Uke schoolmarmTES. Uniteding the orders of a "master."- Press,
China Mall Special,
Literary Wits Make Fun Of Death
By JAMES C. O'NEILL
San Francisco.
A NEW collector's item in the Ilterary
world shows that death can be made a laughing matter.
Nat Schmulowitz, a San Francisco lawyer, has brought out a private edition of completely authentic epitaphs, and as macabre a collection of graveyard wit and tombstone humour it would be hard to find.
The collection, limited to 250 coples, preserves the dying art of saying bitter, blunt and biting com- ments about those who have had their last say.
Some of the epitaphs are self-written and express either rue or relief:
Hern Hos and my three daughters K'd by drinking Cheltenham Water:
If we had stuck to Epsom Salta,
We'd not be lying in these here vaniis, Hers les my wife, poor Molly, let her lie, She finds repost at last, and so do L
Here I lo, and no wonder I am dead,
For the wheri of a wagon went over my head.
Some combine the thoughts of the living and the dead:
As I am now, so you must be,
Therefore, prepare to follow me.
(Then added Jater:)
To follow you, I'm not content,
Itow do I know which way you wentt
Some of the richest are those written by others about those who have no chance to retort:
Entombed within this vault a ́lawyer los Who, fame ansureth was just and wist, An ablo advocate and honest too; That's wondecus strange, indeed, If I be true.
Trend softly mortals o'er the bones
Of this world's wonder, Captain Jones, Who told his glorious deeds to many Yet never was believed by any. Posterly let this suffice
He swore all's true, yet here be lles,
Here lies the body of Jonatlian near
Whose mouth is stretched. o'er this wonder, Tread softly, stranger, o'er this wonder, For if he yawns you're gone, by thunder! And Schmulowitz offers this exemplo of brevity as the soul of wit:
On the twenty-second of June Jonathan Fiddls went out of ture,
--United Press.
THE MAN WITH
A PANE
IN HIS TUMMY
London.
The man in the grey double-breasted raincoat tore
the brown paper off the parcel he was carry ing under his arm, snapped bits off the pane of glass inside, and began to nibble at the pieces.
He was, at the time, wander- ing aimlessly through the lanes of
and wardrobes, setteca, standard lamps in a furniture shop in Frierigate, Darlington.
Only the assistant manager, Mr George Sheldon, seemed to nolice the man, and no one will have difficulty in belleving that he watched this customer fascinated.
Only a minute or two befaro the man, 'now champing on the glass like a child nibbling toffee, had asked the way out to the street.
Change
Mr Sheldon had told him, and the man, fortifying himself no doubt against the cold out- side, began to break oft chunks of a really indigestible size. Thera was nothing Sheldon could do except quiolly to warn other customers to keep clear of the jagged win dow pane the man was carry
Mr
Unusual Claims On Insurance Company
By MIKE POSNER
Hartford, Conn. you think you had luck In 1967,
I tough
listen to the woes of these people to whom the Tra
Company velers Insurance
pald off unusual claims.
For example, a man quietly enjoying a dinner in a Los Angeles restaurant when a light fixture fell on his head.
Consider the home owner in- Miami Beach, who took advan- tage of a warm day to water le lawn. A 19-pound coconut plunged from п 42-foot and bounced of his head,
Rolled Out
tree
In San Diego, one young man'a troubles started when he look a peaceful nop. He rolled from a double-decker bed right out a window onto the ground.
Lako City. A man in Salt beard his wifo fall in their hotel bathroom. He hopped out of bed to aid her and broke a log.
Some people had tough breaks by just walking. A Chicago when woman broke her noso she stopped to pat her pet cat and tripped over it.
In Denver a woman caught her her toe in the hem of negligee, and fell with a crash.
A polished plato glass door was so clear that a Now Yock woman didn't know !! was there until she started to walk through it.
Two Wrists
A Philadelphia student made
a bomb which worked so well
it shattered the basement of his home and sent him
pital.
to a hos-
A Halifax woman slipped ou an key sidewalk and broke D wrist.. En route to a hospital her car stammed into another car. She broke the other wrist, A rubber company executive in upstate New York was al templing to impress
an with
in-
Examiner Kurance
his health. The executivo hopped up and down on one leg with so much enthusiasm he broke n
had
heel.
In Des Moines, a man
some amlucky luck. He leaned too far back in his swivel chair and suffered a bacie injury that
cure.
couldn't two hospitals While his wite was driving him home from the second hospital another She gave him 18s. 94. change. the car smashed into
husband and The man considered the mine vehicle. Both florins, the sixpenny and three-wife were tossed out but hubby vanished said his back pains penny pleces in his hand.
give him and he felt likn E new m411 They seemed to the idea he was wecking, for again.-United Press, he throw away the cake, put the change in his month, and swallowed
The girl behind the counter practically passed out.
Danger
Meanwhile the man walked out of the shop and into the street.
Andrew, 3,
Runs Away
To School
London. Andrew Russell is only three--but already he is the schoolmaster's de-
Ho must have felt that his Jow
diet of cupro-nickel ooinago was much more to his taste than glass, for be broke the rest of the window pane over his head walked briskly of. Mr Shaldon, who had been a | ciation,
spoctator of this act of reaun- for the Walled 999
fled the Chewing thoughtfully on his
man. He had disappeared into left and went ginss the man
he afternoon shopping e.owds in months he
parente Priesterate,
DWDY,
into a baker's shop next door
He bought a cake and handed the girl behind the counter £1 note.
TONY-THE PONY-JUST WON'T
London.
#TWEX can't keep 14-year-old
All he wan's to do in work. For eight years the sturdy pony
But the grooms cannot keep bìm
from the
Five Lace he has got out of
Manor Hall Farm during the night and trotted down to the pf-head onge roady to start black and shly sa the oval work with thỏ:3 mm, shift. he has hauted Mong the pit- And when, be wee let out for a bottom-layed 'n) work.
leg-stro.ch last week, he did agulu. 110 galloped off 10- Four wolks aro be got a foot
warda
Buri the lowering Infection at Woodley Colliery.
shall-wheels, bláand by head. Darton, near Harnsley, and was penstened off to the Cool ) · groom Albert Turner. Board's bome-of-rest pony Tour was stubborn. Eha), no tyhl Albert. Turner. Ho capizred Darasa milo,&way......
♫
police.
They
could
not
\NEVER TOO
LATE
Piacetica.
light and a mother's dilemma. Ho
actually
WANTS to go to school.' Three times in the last few
drivan has
by
frantic
Jostling
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Police, friends, and neigh- bours have joined in the search. Each time he's been found in a school, jostling with youngsters in their playground, or wander- ing through the classroomaf work-happy Tony, Arazred Lille Marisa Leoquio of the "It's no good just locking the him into a stable. Then he small town of Nibbiano win door while I'm working in the tied him up and bolted, the | rechive a real bridge.
Kitchen," wald his mother, 23.
door.
daluyed Christmas present.
year-old Mrs Jennifer Russell. Sud Albert who has booked the girl sized for a bridge to and stretch to resch
In a letter to Sonia Claus He'll drag a chair to the door the lock after pit poules før 50 years:-----
span the Chioma stream and bolt,70
"Ile juri inalale on going back that she would not have
Ds a
to
In the front room of their to work and I can't stop walk overal dairá miles 10 home Hinda Biroot, Elton, him. I've put him in five, dis-zchool.
Thury, Lancashire, And ew was ferent fenced-in felda. But he Local officials who rebelved playing schools in front of TV - sƐwaya'gria ouli Just don't the letter gave Burian har huppity reciting nursery rhymça knew how he does it. Ite'n' Christmas present. Work on with he announcer, besser than Houdini në gelling the bridge bogan lagt wook. Local schools won't. ont of tight corners.””
United Press.
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