Walter Winchell ON ON BROADWAY Copyright 1032 by D Dily l Mirror 1 Inc Things I Never Knew Till N Now w That public publio hangings of pl pickpockets ki In England had to be discontinued because of the increase of at these events e I That bridesmaids are not permitted in Russian Orthodox churches but the groom may have plenty plen plen- ty of ushers That a drug store in Jn n Fort Smith Arkansas is the official address for tor gypsy tribes of America That in n spite of all the kidding government statistics prove that drug stores sell more drugs than any other commodity That President Cleveland was operated on by the famous Surgeon Keen on Jul July i 1 1893 on the yacht Oneida as it passed through Hell Gate N. N Y and th the news didn't leak out for far 24 years I That the first five months of 1932 hung up a national record for tor health The death rate dropping dropping dropping drop drop- ping to 92 02 per cent per 1000 That forty million people in the United States of America are MC without library facilities J That one quarter of the convicts at Sing Sing finished home correspondence courses last year writing being the favorite subject That over persons committed suicide In the United States last Ye year j the the rate rate Jumping from tram froma a normal of per population to The figure was worse however in the panic year of 1907 8 when it touched That in Puerto Rico lUco they now grow sweet lemons lemons lem lem- ons from which you may make lemonade without sugar sUga That on the Island of Ball Bali the so-called so Isle of Paradise only the wicked women must cover their breasts breasts except except for tor certain temple rites when all females must be covered That an interview with the sons of Charlie Chaplin brought out the fact that they do not consider consider consider con con- sider their father funny That in Peru you are fined heavily If they catch you using lighters instead of Peruvian manufactured manufactured matches That in Florida barbers are now professionals like That In certain parts of Scotland they consider consid consId- er the finding of a leaf four clover a no sign of bad luck That In Korea when a man meets meet his wife on the street custom requires him to ignore her and pass paM her by good old Kor Korea I I C c That elephants eat about 23 hours of 24 2 food not hours dope I That a French publicist had written a book contending that France owes us nothing but that we vIe owe France v That Japan which s starts more arguments than any other nation bought more Bibles than any other nation last year That when she finished with her lovers Queen Joana of Prance Franco had them thrown into the Seine to keep them from babbling x And that the Havre de Grace Maryland Jail jaU is usually empty because arresting cops must buy the meals for their prisoners I