IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18741, 17 September 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1606. —First authenticated discovery ol' Australian coast. 1871.—Mont Cents tunnel opened.. , i 1873. —Great fire in Chicago. 1883.—Failure of the Exchange Bank,'. Canada. 1894. —Battle of Yalu River. 1908.—Orville Wright’s aeroplane fell at Fort Meyer (U.S.A.); Lieutenant Solfridge killed and Wright badly injured. 1985.—Floods at Tottori, near Kobe, Japan j 5,000 people drowned. To improve the lighting of tram cars an expenditure of £17,000 is recommended by the London County Council. Summonses wore recently taken out against most of tbo 32,000 inhabitants of Sheffield who havo not paid their rates'. _ Damage that will cost £IO,OOO to repair has been done to Peterborough Cathedral by the “ death watch ” beetle. The Spirit Triumphant,—Triumph rightly won is glorious. It brings to mind and body a satisfying joy that gladdens and inspires. Now and again to triumph in life is a fine stimulant; and so is Dewars Imperial...... • A Paris message stales that the body of Count Do Kcrminon was exhumed as Lannion, Brittany. An autopsy revealed two bullets. The shooting was not accidental, but was tho result of crime. A London cable states that at tho in- - quest regarding the Nuneaton motor bus traged” in which seven persons were incinerated, and five others sent to hospital, tho jury condemned tho practice of filling the petrol tank when a bus is loaded wifii * passengers. \ lady rang us up yesterday. “Is that, vou, Mr Knowles?” “Yes.” “Let me say bow pleased I was with tho carpets you c! / mod. Besides, they were relaid splon- , djly. I have finished spring-cleaning in one day Ibis year, thanks to your company ’’—Dunedin Window and Vacuum Cleaning Company, 32 St. Andrew street! ’phone 493... , At Syracuse (New York) Jimmy Murphy,'in an. attempt to overtake Phil Shafer* who was winning a 150-mile automobile race, ran off the track into a picket fence. One of the pickets penetrated bia lung, and Murphy died in hospital.