IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

j ANNIVERSARIES, j ]712. Frederick the Great born. ; ISSE—-Fir.st election of members to i New Zealand House of RepresentaI fives. I JB7l.—Count Bismarck made Chan* leellor of German Empire. | JBBo.—(Closure applied for the first ! time in House of Commons, j 1801.—Appointment of Ministry uni der Hon. John Balianec. | 1000.-—Boer War; Spion Kop abaaj doned by British forces after all-day ; fijrliti up;. i . I " 1001—Edward VIL. proclaimed | King. I 1915. —Battle of Hogger Bank. | The quantity of oil obtained from ; an average whale is 2.000 gallons, i Over 50,001) pigs arc required every | week by the markets to fill Britain’s i demand for pork. Slogan 28: More production and prosperity will follow. After your holidays, how about your chimneys, carpets being cleaned?—Ring 10493, Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 King street (late St. Andrew street), and remember the useful bag wash. Robert Knowles, manager At Hull, where the recent summer war, one of the wettest on record, a tradesman was offering straw iiats at (id each. Tell me not that woman lives But to jilt and laugh at man! Nought in life such rapture gives— Rapture such as woman can— Except it be Dewar's Imperial.... There are some matters in re.atirn to which it seems necessary to he a " staunch Conservative”—is, fo» exan.q'ie, the Ten Commandments, the Northern Circuit, the ilulcs of Concord, and the settled coiivijiiou that one cannot usefully attempt co :»<ld -Jib ol hitter to 4 o’clock.—Lord Hewart. A sturdy son of Old Erin had been having a dispute with his wife He bad taken refuge under the bod. As she stood on guard with a stick in her hand be called lustily from his retreat; “Ye can lam me and Ye can bate me, but ye cannot break a» nsanij spirit. IT! not come out." J