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Interesting News

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1968.

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Words

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The Luxury Judge Decides

Disease Where Woman's Coronary

Where Did The Italian Coins Go To? Thrombosis

ITALY has

make

Swiss

manufacturers had Rome.

bought them up by the cur started loads because they were tho minting

first ideal size and weight to her

Made wire by the experience, postwar silver coin, and base for cloth covered buttons. Itallon treasury withdrew authorities hope it will

and the coine some time later, circulate more smoothly than its steel and bronze predecessors did.

thines

kept

havo the Little coins

atze

The Swiss Bought Them

the starting in 1931 turned out new be money of a smaller would

եր not button manufacturers.

dis The new coins did not appear. They filled the pockets

somewhat improved by machines that special-coin-countimer

installed in some altractive to already

Treasury offices and in a fow bonks. The machines separate count them, arrange them coins of different denominations,

in

replaced dirtyd of cfilzens, were used to pay the piles of 80 or 100, wrap them up

butcher, a bus fare or a tip. But romehow they never come back to the banks,

Strange happening w which Blowly tattered peper notes at the end State mint of the war. The

terrific turned them out. In quantities. On top of each other

they would make a pile twee Hated Counting

as high as the altitude of the Sputnik. Yet they stayed in the citizens' pockets and never came back to the banks.

Disappeared

That caused and still does trouble Cause considerable whenever a Orm asks a bank for a large amount of money in amali demoninations to Day salaries. The bank often just It WOR not matter of doesn't have the change avol-

a hoarding, which would be poor able. business. The new silver coin is worth only half its face value of 500 lire (80 cents), and the earlier small denomination coins were practically worthless.

So Italjan Government authorities wore surprised no end when tho. frst large, very light five and 10 lire nickel colns disappeared mysteriously weeks after they were issued in 1940.

MEMERE IS

ARRESTED FOR

45TH TIME!

Paris.

Weary Paris pollee said last week they've just arrested 74 year old Lucle Bin, known, to all the force as "Memere" (Little Mother) for the 45th time.

The offence: shopfung. The arrest set a new French female record.

Memere, whose previous son- tence--if he'd evor pay any attention to them-bar her from coming to Paris up to and in cluding the year 2800, spends most of her out of gael ma in nearby Saint-Ouest where she was born

Then she gets the hankerint

come

Usually to Paris, wearing four dresses with in- mane:blo pockets under a loose blowing black cont she heads for the biggest shops in town.

Pillow-cases

an

Poilce sald sho had unpati-for selection of willow-

cases under her coat when they

nently and print the mount on the wrapping. One such machine a minute. can make five piles

If and when The machines can be installed in all banks and placed at the disposal of de- positors, Medici hopes more small people will deposit their coins.

Complaints

The to

Yet another fact that appear- ed strango

public's were the It was not long before Gov-perialic complaints that there clament experts found out the were too many coins of a given

around. uswer to the problem-but not denomination

the answer experts found Its solution.

Shopkeepers who got the that too. The complaints come smoll coins by the thousands every time the State Issued from customers hated counting coin of a higher denomination them and arranging them into Citizens found piles for depositing in the practical fo banks, and kept them as change. pockets a small number of large of small Treasury Minister Giuseppeihen a large number Mediel hopes the situation cia coins. So they complained the

WOR

carry in

12

more their

|

TO MAKE BUTTONS!

small coing woro too After a few months the plaints, always subsided.

many.. 30 lire and 100 e denomina- All are in various light com-1.tions,

steels alloys called Acmenital Acciaio monotario. Iliano... Italian monetary steel), except the stil rare 20 Bre: cols which is in a bright yellow bronze alloy (Branigital).

The now allver colo, whose minted on Gmt specimen was December is to be placed in circulation as soon as it is avall able In sumcient quanties,

probably early next year. It was part of a Government drive to increase the public's confd- enco in the Illan Lira, at pre- sent one of Europe's most stable currencies.

Placed on top of each other, they would make a pile of more than 1,888 miles, or double the nitituds of the Sputnik-or 6,500 times the Empire State Bund- Ing, or 350 times Mt Everest, as you choose.

Flatly designed the now coin

A But the coins are so light that shows a woman's face from

entine

would hugo pilo Renaissance painting, symbolis- the ing italy, surrounded by the weigh little over 1,000 tons, cities an claborato design und two re-are small that coats of arms of all main Italian And two denominations - one

hard which would bo

for ever the red tape-loving Ilalian to The State has officially decided countericiters to imitate.

the coin shows ignore them in payments from side of other

regularly symbol of and to cliizens and three sallships, a

adjust the figure to the nearest human courage.

five lire-United Press,

on

top of Ila issue comen 1,850,000,000 ploces of the smaller denominations ranging from one to 10 Lire and 330,000,000 of the

SNOOKS BERATES A LAMP

A

London.

Do you own a cart Have you got a tele vision set? Is your mid- afternoon snack quietly frosting in a gleaming refrigerator?

If you own all these things, the chances are you're a roky candidato

tho **uxury disease”—coronary thrombosis.

This is the preliminary con- chusion of a

Waistline Should Be

London.

A judge ruled where a woman's waistline

should be last week. Judge. Geoffrey Howard, two lowyers, a talior and the tailor's dissatisfied customer biðkilled in London county court over the issuo in which" the taller sought to collect £40: for a dress and jockat. be made.

The

"EXTIN of

that Mayfair",

the Ernesting customer, bout Middleton-Trimum,

refused pay because Ernest built her "waletlion in the wrong, place.

Mrs

Dallor,

charged British physician, Dr John Clyde, Investigating the relationship belwran disease,

diet and "Iumiy Uving.*

the

radio

Thore le ako o "pretty good relatiomhip" between the heart

Increase diacoso

and number of motor cars.

Less Exercise

the

Put On Weight

While the judge watched closely,

Wrung In TDO Family Doctor" Ciple reports thero is only one "exact paralle!” for London: the upward swing of coronary

The tallor mid it won't so, Army

deaths between 1028 and 1956 Ho argued that. Mr Middleton- sergeant, British

of number Snooks, roally television licences. William

and Trimm had put on weight since be made the drew but April went up the pole on his way home from a MUZE

he measured, his complaining 'customer and party.

the

The

had trouble

Agures hat stretched from 30- 30-40 to 40-30%-40%1⁄2 since negotiating a level crossing in

he last worked on them. his jeep and smashed into post in West Castle Word.

Nometrise, mid But ho kept right on going

Middleton-Tokum. until he smashed the jeep Into

out her own tape measure a street lamp pole.

showed sho messured the same as she did when she ordered. tio dress. After Mrs Middleton-Trimm

Into the changed

troublesome dress in an ante-room Vudgo Howard got down from hla bench to have a close look.

He stood around while expert

discussed ways

and witnesses means of letting the dress out without inwering the neckline.

Then he climbed up the pole and berated the lamp. When

Clydo adds, #fare coronary thrombosis in associated with the better-of countries, the better-oft dinsecs in this country:

-By ERNEST SAKER police arrived be was accusing now, and in general the im-

GHOSTS STAMPEDE POLICEMEN

Benha, First-Lieutenant Sinout Hanna Barsoum, police officer at Benho, in Lawer, Egypt, was ad vised to visit a medium after reporting to his police station own that

"ghosts" hod raided his flat,

He described the raid

like this:

"It must have

been

3 .m.," he told his station, "when I was Awakened by, a loud knocking at my door, followed by the sound of furniture being mored about in my Ont. Suddenly, I saw one of the chairs rising and floating 'about, some six feet above the floor.....

"I switched on my bed.

side lamp and every thing returned to

14,000 Right

eaught her this time in a lur Answers, But

Right Bank deportment store.

Memero's official police re- cords run back Just short of half a contury to when she was 25 and so inexperienced that she forgot to remove the sales tags from a couple of under- skirts she'd taken without pay- ing for.

No Prizes

- Holuinki.

An advertising campaign that the courts ruled illegal left a tobacco firm to do wondering what DS D ruletake." When police picked her up this time she asked them to

She laughs at it now "grave professional

with 14,000 right

answers. Helsinki district court dre

Marching Chairs

В

normal. Then, while I Was lighting cigarette I saw the four chairs in the room

the gilding

across floor in le....

"I threw my cigarette away in terror and it landed on one of the marching chairs, which immediately floated to the celling, and having reached it crashed back to the floor,

""There must be demons in this house!' I cried out in fear, and at once one of the chairs flew in my face and hit me. So I went away and spent the night with my neighbour."

On the following after- Doon, he visited his his int,

changed clothes and sat down Once more to relax. pandemonium started. This time the cupboard and the bed joined in the infernal dance about the room, Steadying himself, be carried his bedroom

into ....... *****furniture

all-

other room, "I was greatly startled and surprised when I returned at night.... for the bedroom furni ture was back in the bedroom which I had " Lieutenant vacated, Barsoum continued, Unable to bear the situa

tion any longer, the Lieutenant walked

back to his own station and lodged a complaint with the Benha Polico Deputy Commander, Major Mohaed Itind, who led an investigat- Ing party to the officer's flat.

The door was unlocked and the police party walked la....The in- fernal dance had not yet ended. The police representative had the doors of the cupboard removed to examine them and the doors were placed against tho

the wall But doors low back to the cupboard and banged shut. The police party rushed from the flat in panie.

The Deputy-Commandant advised his subaltern to seek the services of .4 medium. -- China Mail Special.

Chocolate Bars Science To Aid Chocolate Bars

With

Red Ants

Is Latest Craze

Tokyo

Tobermory

Treasure Hunt

K

Edinburgh. THE Duke of Argyll

is planning an in- genious new

way of to find the

put "norist" as her occupation.elded that the Amer-Tupakka The red ant, the little fellow with the formidable trying

An honest, but short carcer na a sidewalk flower seller, still lived in her memory.Ünited Press,

Miners Squeeze Boss Out Of Parking Lot

Nottingham.

Two miners have all but squeezed their boss out of the company parking lot in this mining town,

(Amerlean-Tobacco) Company- o Finnish concern despite ita name-was not guilty of unfair competition in organising a con- test with a car and round-the- world trip as prizes,

Can't Award

bite and a liking for the sweets in the treasure, reputed to be camper's larder, has ended up in bars of in the wreck of the American chocolate and sandwich spreads.

the ants. Bre

a leg

Spanish galleon which lies off Tobermory.

Ho wants to use a specially magnetometer an adapted electronic device for mensuring the earth's magnetic field. It can also tell if there is any

much. ar hidden matal, around, diver or old canngo.

No one here seems to know reply: "I don't know, but the why the Americans want to eat Americans seem to eat them."

After being soat to the col- ants. But-the Company cannot

According to the Alpine Food lecting company, award the prizes.

Company of Tokyo, It has sent dried, inspected and sorted for Amer-Tupakka organised the 3,600 one-pint cans of toasted, size. Any ant with contest last autumn lo promete | fried and salted Ants to the antenna missing is rejected. rales of a new cigaretto, Con-United States in the past threa At the Tokyo factory, the ante testants were asked to tell how months.

aro fried in. Arst grado salad oll many times the word ""Milton" Barg of chocointa containing Great caro la taken not to spotl appeared on a cigarette package.

about 20 reti ants aplece are or shape or colour. The ents being exported under the trade are then salted and canned or name "Chocoarin". One bar of put into chocolate bars. "Chocoarin" sells in the United

Ant Farm States for 50 cents and a tla containing 18 bars is sold for $0 according to a spokesman for

of 121,000 contestants, 14,000 got the right answer.

Other tobacco firms filled charge of "unfair competition" against Amer-Tupakkn

The prizes, they allegod, were

out of all proportion to the the Company. Noel Smith, General Manager contest stakes. All a contestant of the Nottingham Arca of the had to do was and an old pack- East Midlands Coal Board, said age and start counting.

he was delighted when one of didn't

ho Santale,

in a sleek Buick--until tried to squeeze lila own small | chief.

lot.

Ho

Ant

Rush

Magnetometer

Eu

The metal uprots the magnetic feld and any variations are in- stantly picked up by the magnetometer.

Test

are soon to be mada to see if the instrument can be uand wider water. Seawater Asked phout

10) kilo

but the export

its. effectivenes), for unts, the spokesman the scientists will try to overcome Toltye company adi "Lost this by waterprronding. spring we recolved an inquiry the Duke

It is planned to tow the oven need to buy the The Iluna Tourists Company on rod ants for food from

importer. Wo im-magnetometer along the res-bed package himself.

in central, Japan buys the ants American

patented our pro-on a ledge. pallodě by a launch. hia miners drove up to the pit "We don't know what we are for about 100 yen ($1.10) per mediately

tham || As no00, 12 gauges show a gud- in a Rolls-Royce and angiber going to do now," and Martti pound and resells them to the cassing method' and sent

In the maggelle some samples we had preparod. || den chinops the Bam's adveriking | Tokyo processor,

Japanese farmers and their They seem to have been pleased fold a diver will be sent down Ford into the company parking | Good Publicity families living on the Togokushi with our product bocatise we to investigate.

Mud And Sand and Ilzuna plains along the basa were prompily favoured with an

contral "The court said

mountain order." we couldn't af Japon's

It is hoped that' the now award the prizes to two of the range are neglecting their farms

The company spolcosman anid 14,000 winners. Maybe we will to join in the "ant rush".

will overcome the big that he did not kapw why method

thwarted The collectors, working la know what we can give them in a few wooks."

dependently with a fine mesh people wanted to out the ants. obataolo which has

which treasure: This is the meas of But Santala warn't unhappy. net and a pall of water, bring it may be," he said cause previous attempia to and the

the Japanese rud ants,. and a "It's been good publicity for in, on an average, one

Fare between 8 and 15 millmud and sand which covers the usboth the contest

the balf pounds of ants a day. Hy meters long, contain

Jorge Wrock. mobilbing every member of the amount of tormio acid in Wieir Am ofReful of a London firm Lo Mane,

court care."

But the case served a warm tomily a farmer can make up to bodies. As formic acid pisting in this search says that Farmer's wife Biz Cutoloem.

content 3,000 yen (34,40) a day-to cardiotonio, the asia, may be the new attempt is expected to held on suspicion of slaying hering to other would-be

than three times the usual dally useful as a buurt stimplant."" begin in May, 16-your-old brother, maintained arrangers hero:

-You can't give any a car form wago, that Mabere damnatą“ killed him.

At the height of the Want 'He: "mold' that ́ll ordbra · pori- | the. Erpsstra shpop two years, Police: ld is thaky Mrsand's round-the-world ticket in

The rush”, there were more than 3001 tinue, to now. I at tila umenataro. Many thouawada: of pounds Cufioineau Forged ban brother, just mig alt et coulent.

mic of about $7,000 a moatia, have already - bagi spent audi Marcel Vioele, to eat cattle it prizes must be "in proportion" rarular collectors,

He to the contest stakes,United". Ir asked what tho ants, are the company will have to sare littler has head hirmu di up to "drive avion, ÉPINDO.”

used for the collectors uttally) and fryma Cham Mali Boeciali ''Kagoja. Sírvice. “E choked to dikhathalier Press / Press -

#Miners are earning good. wages," he said. “And I am glad they are saving up to buy care. But it is a job. Anding enough car parks for them." Unlied Press.

and

Lattle has bewy done to find

the lamp pole of hitting him. proved standard of iving here

Police led him away. Snooks in the last 23 years, pleaded guilty to driving under

the influence of alcohol and "But it is, of course, not good. dangerous driving. He war enough just to say "high living fined £60 and banned from standards' because, how can, for year United example a refrigeration or radio or a motor car give you coronary thrombosis?

driving

Press,

for

Dog Shoots Hunter

Tenhola.

"But walt. High living standards Umply physical leitura...."

"It a man doesn't tako much exercise his heart also has less

work to do. There no need therefore, for

Д such Food supply of coronary arterion." "But fisat in not all, A sedentary A dog shot and killed hunter person, one with a refrigerator, Lelf Westerlund here in Finland

and a radio, or molor car last week.

television set, is more likely to Westerlund had just shot 4 be over-weight.

the karo, and was leaning on barrel of his shotgun. One of| the hunting dogs jumped against It and pulled the trigger with a foot.

The Bhot went through Westerlund's head. He was killed instantly-United PICES.

Mrs She got

His Decision

Then the judge pronounced his decision. He ruled for the tailor after saying gallantly:

"Men Middleton-Trimmi may mix in more exalted) vireles

than, I do, but if X' went to a

party and: nw her wearing that dress I should say how exceedingly charming ahe Locked".

"That means the heart has But he ruled: the. dress and more work to do,”

|Jacket wore a little tight and the Clyde says, "however, that waistline wasn't quite In the doctors and researchers still right pince. have a long way to go before Mus Mickleton-Trimm. was they can give us all the answers 7. ordered to pay up, lex the cost --United. Press.

Loz altaalias-United-Press.

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