IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES

1850.—New Zealand Company 4i** solved.

1657. —General Havelock defeated Nana Sahib at Futtchoipe. 1872.—Birth of Captain Amundsen, Arctic explorer. ISS9.—international Workers’ Conference opened at Paris. 1803.—Santiago (Cuba! surrendered to the United States army. 1909.—Shah of Persia dethroned. 1913.—Ex-Tsar of Russia murdered at Ekaterinburg.

1 may have to put up on the door of the minster: “Men, take your hats olf; women, put your skirts on.”—The Archdeacon of Nottingham. The latest issue of the ‘ Gazette ’ contained the notification of twenty bankruptcies, of which eighteen were in tiie North Island. .

The curious dress of the Beefeaters at the Tower of Loudon is said to bo due to the desire of Henry VTH. that they should look as stout as he himself did.

Golf is now a compulsory subject in fho_ American Naval Academy at Annapolis. Midshipmen must take a course of ten lessons and pass a test in proficiency. The normal temperature of human beings, horses, and tigers is about the same. That of chickens is llltlog Fahrenheit, and that of glow worms only 74.