IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. l.'.'i'l. --Emperor of Austria born. llalaar, novelist, died. W7n.--U:iUlc of Gravolotfc; Ra&aino’s retreat out off by the Prussians.' Jf'lC.—Death of Zelia Trobclli, soprano sinner. IS97.—Sir W. Jervois died. 190.).—Tsar granted constitution to Russia while preserving autocracy. Ulil!l.—Sir Theodore Martin died. 1910. —Arnst defeated Barry for smiling f.hauiidonsliip oi the world on the Zambesi River. Everybody is somebody’s bore.— Miss Edith Sitwell. (Irnmlisni (222); “1 wonder often what tlio vintners buy, one half so precious as flip stuff thev sell.” We hold big stocks of Vintage Wines. —Grand Hotel Bottle Store... t see no prospect of man hecominU rational.- Sir Arthur Keith. Oli I Molly Bawn why leave, me pininf* All lonely waiting here for you? The stars above are brightly shining. Because they've nothing else to do; Sc conic and have a Dewar's Imperial.... Dirt weighing seventy-three tons was washed down on tlio City of London by rain during November last year. Dust and dirt enemies’ slogan; It’s cheaper to have (he chimney swept than have a chimney tire; one costs ss, the other may be 255. King 10495.—Dunediu Window Cleaning Co., iW King street In the course of a year’s “rag*.” nearly .‘I,OOO windows are broken in th* colleges of Oxford by student#.