IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES.

lOGlk—Battle of Hastings (Norman conquest of England). 1788.—Steam first used to propel vessels, fry Symington. 1806. — Battle of Jena, followed by, Napoleon’s entry into Berlin,. 1871. —Milton pottery works established. 1899.—General Sir Rcdvcrs Bullor loft England to assume command of troops in South Africa. 1906.—Peace Treaty between Japan and Russia signed by .Mikado and Caar, Caulfield Cup to-morrow. ‘Women farmers in the 'United States i number over 260.000. Guernsey has enjoyed Home Rule for several hundred year;:. It is forty-seven .wars to-day sincothe lighthouse was erected at dam am. A pood tailor is MacLeod MaoGillivrav, Rattray street (opposite D.l.C.).—[Advt.] Owing to the dry weather ihe. water for the gold .mining companies at Round Hill is very short, and ns a eon sequence half-time is being worked. Some of the bakers’ employees in Auckland are said to be earning from £9 to £lO per week, owing to nightwork overtime. Kissing broods microbes nod oven, moro clangorous things. Dewars J.miKsriid kills microbes.—[Advt. J Twenty-eight “wives” have boeq, married by n, mini recently run down by the Berlin police. He wont through the ceremony fourteen times in sis months, in each ease, disappearing, shortly afterwards with the dowry to obtained. Mr Contractor, when > in Wellington visit tho new House of Parliament, and eco tho doors and joinery supplied by Hogg and Co,, Lid., door and joinery specialists, I .O, Box 349, Dunedin.—[Advt.] In Western Cauad this year many cartloads of arsenic have boon shipped out to the farmers by Provincial Governments to help to fight the grasshopper menace. The promptness with which ibis was done is said to havo saved tbo situation. Why get, your hands dirty and bother with cases or Dus when you can get your oar filled with jSlioll motor spirit in two minutes from Todd Bros.’s, Ltd., bowser P Guaranteed notliing but shell now used. —• [Advl.j The final figures of the Amorieim census show the population of tho United States to bo 105,710,620, and tho total population of tho outlying ixissossions to bo 12,148,738. Thoro an? thus no fewer than 117,859,350 poophf living under the Stars and Stripes.

A woman will ld-s another woman with 3,<? little provocation ns elm will roast lief or take a Dewar’s Imperial Whisky.—[Advtyj in 1920—a year during which thoro way an abnormal demand for cycles and motor cycles for homo consumption in Britain—the total value of the export trade of cycles, motor cycles, tyres, specialties, and accessories thereof amounted to not far short of ten millions sterling. Expcrinioo of Peculiar find Chisholm's Furniture is Hint it is the cheapest in the city. Twt it for yourselves.'—[Advl.]

The sum of £lB5 was realised by the annua) sale of work at fit. Mary’s, Mornington.