IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17366, 31 May 1920, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1847.—Thomas Chalmers, D.D., died. 1819. —Walt Whitman born. 1913.—HALS. New Zealand arrived at Otago Heads. There are 20.064 Rugby players in the Dominion. Otago Union number 2,420. A Christchurch pieman was on Friday last convicted of selling unwholesome meat —maggoty pies. Roller skates wer' patented in 1823 by a London man. British Government departments during last year used x ja P er costing over £5.500,000. Red-haired people, it is stated, are less liable to become bald than those with hair of any other color. Many land sales havo taken place in the Whakatane (Auckland) district during the past six weeks, the sales in the aggregate amounting to something over half a million sterling. A single bakery in London bakes over 30.000.000 21b loaves of bread a vear. Before the war there were 500 potato flour factories in operation in Germany. The present estimate is that there are now over 2,000 there. English Derby run at Epsom on Wednesday next. Oar earth in its revolution, round the sun goes something like 18 miles every second of time. ’’l never swear,” remarked a man charged at Willesden with being drunk and using bad language. “If the policeman says I did he must have heard the whisky talking. It wasn’t me.” A celluloid comb was responsible for the_ death in hospital of Mrs Ellen Rhoda Smith, Lee. (Eng.). Mrs Smith wore the comb in her hair, and by some means it caught fire. The old lady was terribly burned about the head. Tbo claret smooth, red as the lips we press in spariding fancy while we drain the bowl is not in it with Dewars Imperial.—[Advt.] During a communion service at Poolquay Parish Church, Welshpool, a tragic incident occurred. Mrs Finney, wife of a coal merchant, was proceeding to the altar to receive the Sacrament when she fell dead. Mrs Finney had hurried to church, and death was due to heart failure. At Adelaide last week Francis Hugo, an English theatrical artist, recovered £290 damages from the Rickards’ Svndicate for breach of contract. the Dentists’ Conference, hold in recently, it was estimated that 250,000 people in the Dominion have not a natural tooth in their heads. The Southland Education Board are unable to get relieving teachers for a number of schools in their district.