IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19006, 30 July 1925, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVHRSABIKS. ](sS9.—Relief of Londonderry, ]7GS. —Captain Cook sailed on H« first voyage. 1771.—Thomas Cray, poet, died. 1849.—Florins first issued. 1898. —Prince Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor,” aged eighty-three, died. ] POO.— Duke of Edinburgh died 1900. —General Prins’oo and 5,000 Boers .surrendered to General Hunter. 190]. —Bill passed adding “of all tha British dominions beyond the seas ”• > to King’s title. j 1 ] am not without hope that science ( and industry will eventually restore prosperity to the British coal industry.—Mr Frank Hodges. The work of English savants is at this moment going to Breslau, to Home —God knows where— to escape from the British working man and to get printed.— Professor J. S. Plulii* more.

Natives of Papua are, in most cases, very superstitious, and go in tear or the witch doctors.

Every street in Paris _ has been visited'on foot by an American army officer and his daughter, aged seventeen. In 1013 Britain exported yearly 3(1,000,000 tons of coal; this dropped to 25,000,000 tons last year. About 100 tribes of Indians are supposed to have become extinct since Columbus discovered America. A London message states that tho Judicial Committee of the Privy Council lias dismissed the Now- Zealand appeal case Peddle v. MTJonald.