IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19760, 10 January 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1045.—Archbishop Land beheaded. 184(1,—English penny postage inaug* united. 1803.—First underground railway in England. 1808.—Last convict ship arrived in Australia. 190 U.—First thi'ough train f«aa Cairo arrived at Khartum. 1920.—Official termination of wag with Germany. Damage amounting to aboat £30,000,(XX) annually is done to grain and other food products in Britain by mice. it is estimated that in Europe and America alone an average of 100,000 persons commit suicide every year. Slogan 28; More production and prosperity will follow. After your holidays, Jiow about your chimneys, carpets being cleaned? —Ring 10-493, Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 King street (late St. Andrew street), and remember tbo nseful bag wash. Robert Knowles, manager Domestic fires are claimed to be re- i sponsible for depositing 3,000,000 tons of solid matter on the soil of Britain every year. Among America’s queer trades is that of smeller of, hams, professor of languages to parrots, and investor of names for newly-designed articles. The trouble with a man who never mshe* a mistake is that he doesn’t know it when ( he makes it. -Make no mistake about DewaFs Imperial, but get it Girls of twelve years are old enough to be married under the British lany; hut there have been no such marriages in that country for twelve years.