IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19542, 28 April 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. 1707. Earl of Shaftesbury, pbiliTKthropist, born. ... . 1881. —Tararua. wrecked, Waipapa Point; 130 lives lost. 188?.— Post Office, Wellington, destroyed by fire. . . . 1893. —Standard Bank of Australia suspended payment. ■ 1915.—Allies made further advance on Krithia front. Traracars in most American cities *re heated in the winter months. Eagles, larks, and crows have been known to flv at a height of 6,000 ft. Members of the British Automobile Association now number 314,000. Isord Dewar, of Imperial '.'Whisky fan», says that “life is made up of trials, with an occasional conviction.”....;. ■ In the making of a violin there are approximately seventy pieces of wood. The gum on American postage stamps is stated to be “a real foodstuff.” _ There are no secrets in British foreign policy.—Sir Austen Chamberlain. Grandism (125): Glen Bessie Whisky, the kind a man grow? fricndlr with on firft trial. 13s. Grand Hotel jlottle Store...;

Men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating on© another.—Lord Hugh Cecil. In the city of New York there are nearly 50.000 public telephone calloffice stations. London has not quite 5,000. '

Fresh-water cels travel a distance equal to" a quarter of the earth’s circumference—about 6,000 miles—in their lives. ’