IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1883.—Captain Webb drowned in an attempt to swim Niagara Rapids. 1908.—Sultan restored Constitution to Turkey. A dream seldom lasts more than live seconds. The giraffe’s tongue is about 18in long. Ilelmslcy, in Yorkshire, is the largest parish in England. The number of stars visible to the naked eye is 5,000. Britain’s first woman stockbroker is a ladv who lives in Exeter. Y'our watch worrying you? Let Williamsons, tho watch doctors (next The Bristol), cure it. Their charges aro reasonable always

Tho Toy Traders’ Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, London, includes a wireless receiving crystal sot costing Is. It is not stated whether the Government will license (bis.

The Auckland Winter Exhibition proved so successful that it. was extended by three days. The takings for the first fhref day's totalled £1,882 15s, an increase of £332 on the figures of last year, Tiie French Ministerial Council sitting at Rambouillet authorised reductions in the sentences on about 4,690 soldiers and sailors whe wore convicted of offences during and since the war. The ’amliinir season has commenced early in thfr Malania la district. One settler has over forty lambs on a, farm at Wabaroa born in June.

It is rjuiio a. picture to sec the many young mothers coming to our warehouse to liny a .Pram or Push Chair for the new arrival, 'file feeling of satisfaction they have, when they sec the beautiful articles we have to offer, and the cheap price at which we soli them makes it worth being in this line of business. Just fancy a beautiful Sea grass Pram, with seagrass hood, nickelplated handles, and luxuriously upholstered, for 117 s 6d.—Riach and M'Lcannn, Anzac square Chicago reports state that private observers estimate that■ the Canadian wheat crop which is being harvested is the best for years. It will probably reach a total of between 400,000,000 and 440,000,000 bushels.

Twenty-eight thousand gymnasts, from all parts of Europe, who are participating in a great gymnastic festival in Paris, all filed before the Unknown Warrior’s grave in the Arc de Triomphe, and gave a display in the Champs' de Mars. Obanism (640); If you want the world’s best, Prunier Champagne (1848) Brandy, 255, ring Oban Hotel (920); also Hennessy’s sxx, Bisqnit do Bouchc (guaranteed twenty years), Mcukow (long neck) 18s “ Bad roads, bad driving, and overloading " are given as the reasons for dray-horses in London having a working life of only about six months. Most of the cheaper wraps sold as “marabou” arc really made from the feathers of the turkey. The genuine article would cost a huge sum. Motor vessels are. increasing in number rapidly. Great Britain is producing nearly as many of these craft as the whole of the rest of the world.