IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18094, 9 October 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. -Kruger issued ultimatum, rendering war with the Boers inevitable. ISI4.- -F.-.li of Antwerp. 1915, (Joiiiiyns occupy Belgrade. .Miners’ wages reduced per week by Arbitration Court. | Eleven bankruptcies (ten in North i Island) gazetted bust week, i A message from Doom received in Daria {states that the ox-Kaiscr is giving his I prospective wife the title of the Queen of [ Prussia..'—Router. ] Eggs “warranted to boil” were adverj Used recently at Ijd each at Kingston. I Grey Friars Monastery, tho first strong- ■ hold of tho Franciscan Order in England, is for sale. The ‘ Marseillaise/ the National Anthem of the French Republic, was written and composed in 1792. There wore 3,470 bankruptcies in England and Wales for the nine months ended September, being 1,017 above those for the corresponding period of last year and 2,438 above those for 1920. Bight under the clock.—High grade tailored Suits from £6 13s, Serge Saits from £8 10s, Costumes from £8 10s: all coats tailored by hand.—G. S. Roberts, ladies' and gents’ tailor, Stock Exchange Buildings.—[Advfc.] Windsor lends the Dominion of Canada for the month of June in the matter of radio-receiving licenses. 468 having been issued by the postmaster of that city. The total number of licenses issued throughout the dominion during the month was 2,030. The fee for receiving licenses is Idol. It has been computed by geographers that if the sea was emptied of its waters, and all tho rivers of the earth were to pour their present floods into the vacant space, allowing nothing for evaporation, 40.000 years would be required to bring the water of the ocean up to its present level. _ According to the Russian Soviet delegation at Peking, the Hehe-Sinclair Oil Company, an American corporation, has been granted prospecting and developing rights over tho northern half of Saghalion for live years. ■Ohnnism (396); When in town you’ll easily find the Oban’s situation. The small house in the Octagon with the big reputation. The house for country orders.—^Aifvt.] The British Government has already spent £80,000,000 on unemployment benefit, and has made provision for another £60,000,000. At least. £40,000,000 for relief works had been found by the State, and boards of guardians must have spent at least another £50,000,000 in relieving distress. Camp 0-wa-kon-7.ee, in tho depths of Quitico Forest Reserve, is the summer home the University of Chicago and the University of Kenelworth, Ohio. Recently there wore some 200 students in the camp, which consists of ten buildings and several tents and bungalows, all electrically lighted. The locality of the camp offers the best site in Canada for Nature study. Why is it that the intellectual sphere scorns to require long hair in men and short hair in women? Because they drink (Dewar’s Imperial.—[-Advt.] Forty-five decrees for the dissolution of marriages have been granted in tho Supreme Court in Auckland since the opening of the present civil sessions. The London County Council tramways on August Bank Holiday carried 2.019.000 passengers.