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Show ODDITIES IN" I THE NEWS By UNITED PRESS BROWNWOOD, Tex. Al Hicks has been named president of the I.' G. D. L. (Interscholastic. Goldfish Gold-fish Defense League) by the 700 students at Howard Payne college. col-lege. Said Hicks: "This wave of fishteria must stop. What has the goldfish done to college students stu-dents to deserve such treament!" NORTHAMPTON, Eng. Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, asserted that the "governments "govern-ments of the United States and Great Britain are like an old spinster, suing their boy friend for breach of promise one day and asking for another promise the next day." BOULDER, Colo. James Williams Wil-liams of Douglas, Wyo., a freshman fresh-man at the University of Colo-do, Colo-do, won a small wager for swallowing swal-lowing a goldfish, but lost the bet on a technicality. Ten minutes later the same fish, alive and apparently ap-parently healthy, was swimming in its bowl once more. JERSEY CITY, N. J. James Jamiresco was making slow progress prog-ress in getting the kitchen ceiling repaired. There had been a hole in the ceiling plaster and the Jamiresco cat had a habit of ascending along picture frames and wall mouldings, mould-ings, jumping into the hole, and bouncing along the lathes. The resultant noise annoyed the family. Jamiresco hired the plasterers. When they had finished, the family fam-ily watched the plaster dry sighing with satisfaction. Within an hour there were furious meows and frantic thumping from above. The cat had been plastered in. Jamiresco called the police and they made another hole in the ceiling to liberate the cat. |