IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

A XNI VERS ARIES. —December 6. 1857.—Battle of Cawnporc. 1882.—Death of Anthony T rollope* novelist. 1888. Irish Land Purchase Bill, passed. 1889. Jefferson Davis, former President! of South Confederacy of United States, died; aged cighly-two. ISos.—Bill for separation of church and Slate passed French Senate. 1916. —Germans entered Bucharest. 1917. —Armistice on Russian front. 1918. —British troops entered Cologne. —December 7. — 1805.—Battle of Auslerlitz. 1815.—Marshal Noy shot. 1837. —Lord Beaconsfield (then Benjamin Disraeli) made bis maiden .speech in Urn House of Commons. 1880.— Buenos Aires declared capital of Argentine Republic. 1908.—Government purchased Welling. ton-Manawati railway. 1916. —Germans entered blockade of Greek roast declared. 1917. United States declared wfll against Austria. Business is a very tough plant.—Mr Robert P. Skinner. The young men at Oxford live wholesome and pleasant lives, though, perhaps, they show too little wal for the studies of the place.—The Warden of Wadham College. Half a million people arrive in London every morning from north of the Thames, and 300,000 from the south 'of tho’river. The White Star liner Olympic recently crossed the Atlantic for the hundredth time. She has steamed over 850,000 miles. Experiments are being made with aluminium wheels for buses in London. Some have already done 30,000 Qulss .1 seryica. I