IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. ' 1806.—West India docks opened. 1826,— Last stocks in London removed from St. Clenlent. Danes. 1842.— Welling to a proclaimed, a TO: n ' l*B4s!— Wreck of emigrant ship Cataraqui off King's Island, Bass Strait., 42J lives lost. ~ 1858.—Lake Victoria Nyanza discovered. , - £ 1870 —First serious engagement at Franco-Prussiair War ;■ Prussians defeat French at. W eissenburg. - ] 90J.— Cardinal Sarto , elected Pope (Pius X.). „ _ , 1904.—Death of Sir G. R. Dibbs, repeatedly ■ Premier of New South Wales, 1908.—Count Zeppelin’s airship, destroyed by hurricane after journeying from Lake Constance to Maycnoe., . 19]4. —War declared between Britain and Germany.
Fish which are found at a greater depth of sea than 600 ft are not fit for eating. It takes over 8,000,0001 b ow twine to hind the annual gram harvest ot Canada.
Professor Joly recently estimated the age of the earth to be eighty or ninety million years.
A storekeeper in a London firm has a moustache that measures 20in from point to point. Estimated by scientists to be a million years old, a fossil tree has been unearthed in Bengal.
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Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 1
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178IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 1
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