IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17691, 18 June 1921, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. . —June 18.— 1812.—War declared between Britain and United States. 1815, —Battle of Waterloo. —June 19. 1834.—0. 11. Spurgeon born. 1867. —Emperor Maxmilian of Mexico shot at Quck-!r t ro. 1857.—Tay bridge opened for passenger ('■aloe. 1891.—First section of Manchester Ship Canal opened. Tiro Shag Point. Railway was opened on •June 17, 1879—forty-two years yesterday. For the lir.st, time since 1911 a census is about to he taken in France. The census whiTi should have been taken in 1016 had Uj be omiiied owing to the war. According to a British parliamentary paper £632.187 of the £1,351,071 adranted by the British Government to Greece from 1815 to 1871 is still outstanding. Mean Ran Story.—(6) The man who cultivated a. wart on the back of Ins neck to save Ihe cost of a collar stud. Oban Hotel for pre-war draft whisky.—(Advt.J At the end of 1920 the number of Moronic lodges on the register of the United Grand Lodge of Engl air 1 was 3,612, as compared with 3.442 at ~iO end of 1919. A live, hundredweight wheel at the Efficiency Exhibition in London was so beautifully balanced mi hall hearings that a touch was sufficient to set it revolving for three hours. Adenoids removed by safe ami simple rcnr'dy, costing only 2s 6d to try; stamped eiivdopo for particulars. I’.O. Box 495. r.uivt.] According to one French statistician, at fifty years old the average man has slept 6,000 days, worked 6,500, walked 800, amused himself 4.000, spent 1,500 eating, and 500 Id Wo advise lovers of the beautiful to visit Sconllnr and Chi;holm's magnificent show of carpets; enormous reductions. — [Advt.]_ Marshals Foche, Joffre, and Retain will read into gramophone records the orders issued by them during the war, which have become historical and world-famous. .According to the census taken on February 1, Denmark's population is now 5.268,807. which is 547,537 more than in 1916. The total figure includes 184,135 from North Schleswig. Many Indians of North America are fitting motors to their canoes, and they now move rapidly up and down the rivers, where for centuries the tribesmen have invariably had to paddle their canoes. After a number of tests it has been decided that six-wheeled omnibuses, which seat forty-eight instead of thirty-eight passengers, 'may be run in Paris on certain wide thoroughfares, where their great length will not hinder traffic.