IN A NUTSHELL.

Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL.

AXXIYERSARLES. 1869.—Arrival Duke of Edinbargb. at Wellington. 1886. —S.s. Taiaroa •wrecked, off Kaikouras. 1913.—H.M.5. New Zealand arrived in Wellington Harbor. Four degrees of frost at Clyde on Friday night. Inore was another display of the Aurora Australis in Dunedin last night. Canterbury growers are asking the Board of Trade to fix the price of potatoes for the ensuing year. Envelopes first came into use in 1839. Tiie greatest depth of the ocean is 27.930 ft. Colds are due to any one of ail or seven different microbes. Ashburton County Council havo accepted the tender of Mr J. Knewstubb, Fort Chalmers, for dismantling 300 ft of Digby's bridge. Xo gold has been coined in England since October.. 1917. London's theatres, music halls, and kinemus number 568. Venus, the Goddess of Beauty, had a 26in waist. A Hindu bride is anointed from head to foot with grease and saffron. : Ordinary colds total 50,000,000 case 3'> ■annually in the United Kingdom. The Mongolian antelope can run at a ' speed of at 'least 60 miles an hour. During the reign of Peter the Great leather money was circulated in Russia. Clutha County Council passed a resolution entering a strong protest against the proposal of the Otago Harbor Board to levy a rate on-the country districts. , Eight thousand six hundred and twenty- ! two bocks were published in the United Kingdom during 1919—an increase of 906 over the preceding year. Thirty thousand starving cats are rescued from London streets every year. They are painlessly killed., their skins being used for muffs and gloves, Turkish is said to be the softest and most musical language of modern time*, being even, better adapted for musical notation and recitation than Italian. ) It was a summer evening, old Kagpar'« - work was dono, and before his cottage door 1 was sitting in the sun, drinking Dewar'g Imperial.—[Advt.]