IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —July 14. IGl9.—Australia discovered. 1739.—French Revolution began; Bastille stormed. 1874.—Fire at Chicago; sixty acres laid waste. 1877.—First exhibition oi telephone in London. 1892.—Hurricane, at Mauritius; 1,200 lives lost. . 1902. —Sudden tall , and- collapse ol Campanile of St. Mark Venice. 1904.—Stephanos Johannes Paul Kruger, ex-Prcsident ol Transvaal, dh»d 1916. Bethmann-Hollwegg, German Chancellor, dismissed. —July 15. 1685.—Monipouth beheaded. . 1815.—Napoleon wont on board tho Bellerophon after abdicating. 1819.—First steamer voyage (Savannah) between New York and Fiver pool, twenty-six days. 1849.—Re-establishment ol temporal authority of Pope proclaimed at Rome. 1858.—City of Venezuela (South America) destroyed by earthquake; 800 deaths. 1870.—War declared between France and Prussia. 1887.—Dunedin Sailors’ Rest opened. 1918.—Third German, offensive; commencement of the Second. Marne Battle. After all, my long experience _ tells me that. .pub lie life is worth while."— Sir Rusten Chamberlain. : 1 have always regarded it as one of the advantages of being dead that public opinion ceases to operate.—Lord Buckraaster. Over the doors of the Canadian Houses of Parliament appear the words “ The wholesome sea is at her gates, her gates both east and west.” No fewer than 93,000 reserved seals were sold for the final of the English Association football cup, played at Wembley Stadium in April. Accommodation for 3,000 motor cars is planned in an eight-story garage to be built in London. Cars will be taken to the various heights in electric elevators.