IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17528, 7 December 1920, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1815.—Marshal Ney executed. 1917.—United States declared war against Austria,

Plebiscite in Greece favors ex-Kiuz Constantine's recall. Telephones for the convenience of train passengers installed on the interstate express. • Visitors to the British Museum last year numbered. 691,650. The first bicycle driven by pedals was built in Paris in 1866. The cloth of the turban ranges from 20ft to 40ft in length. . Liquorice is believed to be the oldest confection in the world. In proportion to its size a- bee is 30 times as strong as a horse. The estimated shortage of houses in England and Wales is 800.000. The choir at one church in Xew York costs £7,000 a year in salaries. The second trial of the Auckland totalisator employees, Wm, Tobin and Samuel Ward, on a charge of stealing £9 at Avondale in October, and of fraudulently omitting to account for totalisator monevs, resulted in the acquittal of the accused after but short consideration by the jury. Paper bootlaces, made "in Germany, are now arriving in Great Britain. According to the British Ministrv of Transport figures, everyone in the United Kingdom takes 108 tramcar .rides in a vear, while since 1913-14 the total number of passengers carried by the tramwavs has risen from 3,426,473,192 to 4,557,640*073 in 1918-19. The perfume industry causes about 5,000 tons of blossoms to be collected on the French Alps during a single summer. Of jasmine alone it is estimated that 5,000.000.000 separate blossoms are gathered in a season, and of all sorts of flowers there must be 50.000,000,000. Bridge Eiver at Lillooet. in British Columbia, is to have the third biggest power station' in the world. The water falls 1,400 ft, and will develop 400.C00 horse-power. There will be a tunnel through a mountain a mile and a-haif lons, and the total cost will be £6,000,000. Nearly 2,000 French" women would like to marry Marshal Foch. This is one of the results of a campaign instituted by a Paris fashion magazine, which has published the answers from more than 5.000 women in response to the question : " What great man would you marry if you could?" Specially printed telegraph forms containing Christmas and Xew Year greetings are to be issued by the Telegraph Department at a uniform charge of 9d. Similar telegrams were available last year at a charge of 6d. Just the thing for the crib—one-gallon jars Speight's ale. Must be ordered before 5 p.m. daily. Oban Hotel.—[Advt.]