IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18729, 3 September 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1650. Rattle of Dunbar. 1651. Battle of Worcester. 1658 —Oliver Cromwell died. 1835.—Lord Halsbury, ex-Lord Chancellor, born. 1853.—First steamer arrived at Wellington from Sydney. 1863. Dunedin first lighted gas1878,—River steamboat Princess Alice sank in the Thames; 700 drowned. 1884.—Appointment of Stout Ministry. 1914.—Lemberg occupied by Russians j Austrians routed with enormous loss. 1914.—French Government removed to Bordeaux. 1916.—Zeppelin brought down by avia* tor near London.

The two United States flying machines have arrived at Icetickle (Labrador), two miles north of Indian Harbor, from Ivigtut (Greenland). Murder is illegitimate as a recreation and contemptible as a trade.—Mr Robert Lyud. 'More homes are wrecked by advertisements of summer sales than by anything else in the world.—Lady Manchester’s extra laundry bill as a result of smoke is £250,000 a year. Household rubbish weighing 5,000 tong is cleared away every day in London. There are six million people in the United States who cannot speak English. A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 times in the course of its existence . I pity bashful men who feel the pain of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain; and bear the marks upon a blushing face of needless shame and self-imposed disgrace. Dewar’s Imperial cures bashfultraffic from the United States into Canada has trebled within the last three years. , It costs £4OO a month to clear the Royal parks of London of litter thrown down by careless visitors.