IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 181 G.-—Ether first used as an anasfc thetic. ’ 1874.—Brig Active left Sydney wHft the Rev. S. Marsden and other missionaries, IS93.—First occasion on which X«ir ! Zealand women exercised franchise. 1899.—Battle of Modder River. 1917.—Germany agreed to armistice on Russian front. A Paris cablegram states that heavy floods arc reported from Algeria. The town of Nostagrem is inundated, and forty people have been drowned. As compared with the British, the French are not fond of literature.-*-Mr Arnold Bennett. Slogan 25; Start the new year with II clean office. Warehouses, factories,' office* cleaned with our large vacuum machine during holidays. Book orders now I’Phona 10-493), Dunedin Window Cleaning Co,, 30 King street. Householders, remember th# bag wash.—Robert Knowles, manager People do not realise how hard a time a girl of to-day has.—Miss Stewart i Parnell. A motor-driven “seasick chau*,? which reproduces the . roll and pitch ■a ship, is used in Prance to test applicants for naval and merchant marine posts. Grandism (305): Take no chances; you are sure of the best in Wines, Spirits, and Ales by placing your order at the Grand Hotel The Death’s Hoad moth, common in England until about thirty years ago, bub now very rare, emits squeaks almost as loud as those of a mouse. Fifteen bankruptcies were notified in • last week’s issue of the 1 Gazette.’ Eleven of the number wer« in tha ' North Island. \ I