IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18022, 17 July 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIYERS ABIES,

1537.—Lady Gloronus burned! as a witch! on Castle Hill, Edinburgh. 1861.—First sod of Lyttelton tunnel cut.

1862.—Telegraphic communication between Christchurch and’ Lyttelton; first line to be opened in New Zealand.

Dyeing and raining are Britain's oldest industries.

A Pittsburg girl, Jessie Ann Vichesi-ain, eleven years of age, preaches every Friday night, at a, mission hall.

Life without faith would ho as barren as a garden without flowers. Have faith in Dewar’s Imperial.—[Advt.

Eighteen bankruptcies, of which twelve are in the North Island, notified in the latest ‘ Gazette.’

The steamer Makambo, which has arrived at Sydney from Lord Howe Island, reports that a ship’s rib 15ft in length was recently washed ashore there. It is suggested that it possibly belonged to the Manure w». Mr Architect, see Hogg and Co., Ltd., doom before completing your plans. They are reliable.—[Advt.]

The statue of Charles Waterloo, in the ground* of Westminster City School, is said 1 to bo the only one in London which depicts an umbrella, Obaniam (524). —For the ■whisky that makes you frisky, but doesn’t drive you daft, try the whisky that's dinlcum whisky—in a word, Oban draught.—[Advt.] The material destruction even of the Great War can bo marls good by a very few years of the community's regular’ savings (says Professor J. M. Keynes).

As we live we grow. High-grade tailored suits from £6 10s to £9 10s. Every coat guaranteed tailored by hand, cut, and fitted by G. S. Roberts, Stock Exchange Buildings.’ (Water street entrance). Late night Friday. -[Advt.]

A census of a schoolroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota, showed that among ninety-one scholars present there were thirty-one different nationalities.