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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, 'OUTUBER 11, 1958: ·

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FORFIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

THIS YEAR'S STANDARD BRITISH SCHOOL LEAVING EXAMINATION

An Anthology Of Near-Misses

Some Howlers Perpetrated By School Children

London.

"HUCKLEBERRY FINN is the son of the village drunkard and has no known mother. As such, he is what every boy dreams of being."

How A Woman

"A volt is a place where people are buried.”

"Marriage in its way is.a gambot."

These were outstanding gema

Should Salute! perpetrated by schoolboys

Hertford.

Mrg Winnie Brooke, Deputy Mayor of Hertford, and,

shall Just keep nod. ding my hond" despite a counell ruting how lady mayor should knowledge a soldier's policeman's mallite.

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The council had decided in a three-paga manual of saluting that "a man should ralso his hat two inchos. But a lady mayor should rales her right forearm that the hand is level, with the right ⚫houlder, fingars and thumb extended and close together, palm facing in. wards."U,P.I.

Reasons For The

Collisions...

My Car Was In A Mean Mood!

Bedford.

and

girls around the age of 15, in the standard 1958 High School Leaving Examination. The Manchester Guardian cited a long tin of them in what it titled "An Anthology of Near- Misses.

'Gambol'

The word "gambol" caused a lot of trouble. Ît produced these "howlers":

"Gambling is derived from the word gambol, that is jump up and down; in gambling you tend either to win or lose, i.c., up or down."

"Every the one crosses the road it is gambol,"

"Camboiling is not immoral if done in moderation," Some technicalities of modern science caused complications, foo, such as the boy who said a Gelger counter was used

THE BESPECTACLED EEL!

London.

NGLER WIŻ Pártón is

A reported to have hooked

an eel wearing a pair of horn-rininted spectacles. But he is reluctant to talk about It because he thinks no one will belleve filin.

sorry for it. I prised off the specs and threw the eel Buck.”

However; Wiit, of Scun- "I felt so

thorpe Lincolnshire, ex- plained: "The bridge of the spectacles must have lodged behind its head when I was young and the eel had grown into them.

Wilf is sald to have caught htis eel in the River, Odse China at. Huntingdon. Mall Special.

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20th Century Pinocchio.

Was Very, Very Naughty

Turin.

FEW people in the Via Mercanti district of Turin knew that Carletto existed--that is until the day he ran away from home.

Carletto, or Little Charles, was a robot. But to two old age petaloners He was a kind of Pinotchin son.

basement cellet of ink apartment; a fer. And before she could into a workshop and in five shout for help she said Carletto a moved off out of the pathway had constructed months squarish-looking metal Pinoc-across the pavement and in a chlo. They baptised it Carletto very straight line ncross the and proudly showed it to their street to disappear. wives.

A few years ago. Angelo Falleghini, 75, and Antonio Rossi 12, both of whom lived th the summe apartment building at HE TALKS No. 39, Via, Mercanti, got lo talking about how the days

Carictio moved his arms, and tedious now passed slow "to that they were relired, The two and moved its head when he mal out cosmetic rays," afbers men agreed that they were like: "Hullo" "how are you to "talked saying recorded things lonely and, bored because they "The distinguished French had no children of their own. day" and "I am very well thank And During, the conversation.

sold:

scientists were led by ♫ man named VOLTERE. This gentle-

wensure after VOLT."

you."

mut did so much work for them Angelo Falleghini, who used 10 At first the two old men kept that they named o standard work is h radio technician; said Carletto in the collar for their him, called he kid once remembered reading owti amusement, But one day a book entled Pinocchio which they put him on a little cart and intended to take him around the gave him an idea,

streets of Turin, Lot's muckt

Drake

A xiri wrote an the |feaer-ntom plant Zeta:

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WOMAN KILLED

BY ANT

THE

BITE

London

TÌHE bite of a tiny garden ant killed 42-year-old Mrs Daisy Huggins.

Her death, three days later, was a eliance in million.

This was the way it happen- ed, as described. ät on inquest at Norwich:

Mta Huggins, who lived ot Kenninghall, Norfolk, was pu in some bilbo in fier ganten when she felt a sting in ankle.

her

She probably rubbed they bite with her fando. And the earth

on her hands contained, dr lekunta guen which fellied her,

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Said the.cONONET, Ms, Oilver Prior "This very unfortunate case is in coample of the dieces- sity to take precautions, particu- larly in this part of the country, whore cos of bikes zoom be higher in anywhere else in Ho advised atiti. England"

Verdict: omis Misadverture.

inoculation,

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to

said:

Any animal Fortunately, however, Angelo At London University's. School ran into Carletto on his way of Tropical Diseases and Teoples beck with ihe new valve. Medicine, an entomologist said: Angelo stopped him, and took "There is no general danger him home. There, Carletto was from his done, Any (mimal con put back in full working order. pick up the telus germ 'anti old men have toured the streets

For the past few days the two cry it,"

A spokcanzm of the Royal

Society Horticultura! But they als with their robot,

Is tho kind of thing not having

much very

that happens once in a hundred success with him.

yeare. It is not a thing for n "People hardly ever stop to donor to make any special look at a robot nowadays," said action to avoid

Falleghini.. Even Mrs Huggins was the are not over curious Angelo.

second person to children about him. I suppose it's the modern times with satebiles and from tetanus in

within three months.

are

rackets..P.I. pirtocchi," said Argeto, "a robot,"

The idea that all this power So the two old. men got to នភព... ៦. obtained by adding work. They transformed the

something to the molecules, of

FIGHTY-FOUR-YEAR- water instead of splitting some

plained

ex- seems much nicer,"

a disastrous nories |

of collisions by saying her world was

automoblic

Was

the "Drake first discovered

round because ho set out from Portsmouth and temperd-many years later arrived inc montal and was having at the same place." megn spoll.

History and politics had their pitfalia:

In the local police court, the

"To France the appearance of prosecutor quoted the old lady a new Prime Minister Is not

as saying

If the car feels like it, it goes when Dr Adenauer was elected

extraordinary, so no one noticed

in a viclous way and then gets into this position."

Hormat inter."

REBOUNDED

What Detectives

Have

Malaria To Learn!

The court was fold that Mra The Gold Coast has recently become nationalised and le Marsh drove her car from a parked position, scratched the now known as Chona." side of a car in front ord

But for sheer mixed-up in- collided with two other cars. genuity, spiced with a cash of She rebostnded and hit the third badly fractured French, tis ear three times before the engine

of her auto stalled

then

marsh

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boy gave definition one malaria look the calte:

the "Malaria," Th Court ned Mrs

boy said, French mal, loud, £3 and diequalled her from "from the driving until she has passed aand orla, a zong, hence the noise driving lest.-U. P. I.

a no ulte makes."U.P.I.

NOW RUSSIA WANTS TO BUY STROMA

London.

RUSSIA, it was reported, wants to buy

the isle of Stroma, storm centre of a bonny wee row when an American television programine wanted to give it away as a prize.

Loktan.

They hoped In crcase their meagre pensions with Carletto by showing him to passersby."

With a Hitta dinculty they managed to get the robot up the caller steps for he was actually inller and heavier than either of them,

Finally, Carletto stood ready in the pathway to the street ready for the great, moment, Bab ofter A last minuto test he refused to talk. Apparently he had been folled in the haul up the cellar steps and a valve.or So something had broken, while Antonio went down to the cellar to fetch some tools and Angelo went off to get a new part, Carletto was left in the charge of Mrs Folleghini,"

Now Mrs Falleghini was very Carletto. She

about

TEMBERS of the nearby curious

switches and there at a few buttons and was startled when she saw an arm move and then

bureau, who think they know their onlöns, are bolig lectured by a horticultur so they also know orchids.

They hope that by knowing the difference between

and. Cymbidium Orchid

Cypripedium Parashil they'll b able to recognise £100 worth of rare orchid bulbi stolen froth

a firm that grows orchids.

PATIENT MAN

The thiet is a patent man,” 54-year-old Roger Sander, whe Med

the Dorripiain't and volunteered as lecturer, told detectives. "He may let the plants grow on for a couple of .and. Use them for

Elephants

Never

Forget

But...

London. years hybridisation. Two years isn't ALEPHANTS never for- long time if you're interested get, true; but the lum in orchids."

berlig beasts, are rather Sander såld his missing, bulbs “willy creatures" for all that, were in 14 pots, one for each The Daily Mirror quoted an saying. "I asked them to put variety. He said a layman would a sloted elephant authority unnamed, businessman acting, as their offer in writing.

have dumped them altogether revealed in a book published the agent for the lainnd's owner "Later a man rang my office in a box, "But this man took recently.

and asked me to telephone the them away still operated." acting

for Russlan trade delegation

Richards Carrington, in a book in Sonder puffed reflectively at called simply "Elephants" sald HUESIOTE Embassy and London. I have not done so yet i

to cheroot,, gured proudly at prize the elephant has an exception "we do not went to sell barren; two-mile-long jaland. the Ituasions," the agent was certificates on the walls of hally long memory, just as the "I was dabbergasted at the poted as saying, "but it we do office, and conceded that the popatar theory that elephants

not get a better ofter, we will thief inust be someone at ex never forget maintails. let them have fL"

as saying a telephone caller told

him

the

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was literested in buying the

after the agent was quoted as

cellent judgment.

Judge Prefers Mono-Colour

NAVAL BASE

Widespread

Russian oflents in London

for comment;

mis tik adhéleb....

MAN OF TASTE

But he wold the other "Discriminating. Д mon of widespread belief that elephanta the wisest akid inost Neither was the British Ad- taste who knows his orelitás," are

whleti might bo ke sald.

intelligent of cadmala. id von- Interested because of Stroma's

cbrc.

That's why Sander called in

were not immediately available

ndir#ity:

Wo unte citizens to Branco, location at the mouth of Sajal detectives for orchid recogrillions Chexington shit, the cleptianit

eapital of the territory of Flow, Britain's ance-grent_naval Aure, have travelled the 2700 base, and 11⁄2 miles away from nir-miles to us to coinplain, of tits, Queen Brother's Castle decisions of their focal file, May.

courses.

had a comparatively ampoll broth, no reasoning powers and, a At He said the thief would be montal capacity equivalent. to a in fór á nhưjete if he tried to sell horse. All in all, o quiber sily.

The complaint lodged with the st month a plan to put the the orchids rather than keng oresture,” Carrington said. Ministry of Jution heb de fina vp for zrabs as a prime them around the groenhouse for that the judge it offrand on the American television his personal pleasure. « would not allow anyðrih in court | quiz prostamme "Bld 'n' Buy": wearing boat and trules of had to be abandoned because of different colours. The julia o said the story of, protests, which that they look mára uge fancy Atase trộn the island's thy fountains pons than pooper, wald popnslation

the - British the complaint-Relilär.

pabilo tu funeral-U.P.I.

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