IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18533, 16 January 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1599.—Edmund Spenser died. 1794.—Edward Gibbon, historian, died. 1796.—First theatre opened in Sydney, 1809.—Battle of Corunna j Sir John Moore killed. 1872.—N0w Zealand Shipping CompMiy established. 1384.—Tennyson raised to peerage. 1809. —Professor David’s party reached South Magnetic Polo. It has been suggested that a oharitoM® concert should be organised in London tot Wagner’s widow. The sun, it is estimated, can p oa supplying heat at the present law lor 1,000,'000,000 years. While jam is an excellent breakfast dish, marmalade is much hotter because of its laxative properties, America has 110 million people and 550 million hens. Britain has 48 million people and 22 million hens. The Queensland Commissioner of Railways announces that In future railway employees will be forbidden to receive tips on penalty of dismissal There aro few women, not well sunned and ripened, and perhaps toughened, who can stand apart from a man and say the true thing with a kind of genial cruelty. Still there are some—and they take Dewar’s Imperial A fire in Holden’s motor-body building works at Montague (Victoria) caused damage which is estimated at £25,000. Notwithstanding the strike, a full supply of bread was delivered at Sydney yesterday. Students and amateurs can develop vprising dexterity on the Moore and Mv "e Piano, with its silky bah need kee boa:-'.. F. Howell Company, accredited ag'-cis.,., Brisbane reports that the positi m of t/ie Pruth (which went ashore on January 5) is unchanged. The spring tide on Jonna-y 23 is being awaited to attempt to tow tenoff. Oban km (783) : Our whisky i* (fifterm-t d'stlnctive. It's good; ynn’ii like t.’.o Si'.-', rare mellow flavor of it. Not a liea.-hch ■ :u a bottle, 13k ’os, 7s, 6k, is 6d, and 2>.~ Obr.ai Hotel Bulk During the steamer Ling Nam’s voyage from South America to Wellington, a child was born at sea. Its mother was a Chinese, and it was christened Ling Nam, which in Chinese means “God Speed.” The child thrived well, and is now enjoying the best of health.