IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20020, 10 November 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —November 10.— i 183.—Martin Luther born. 17:.S.—Oliver Goldsmith I>orn. 1845.—First child Of white parents born in Dunedin. 1871.—Livingstone found by Stanley. 1880. —Ro.slyn Woollen Mills fjoinmenced manufacture of worsteds; iirst in colony. 1915.—Turkish attack repulsed by New Zealanders. 1918.-—Kaiser fled to Holland. 1923.—Ex-Crown Prince returned to Germany. —November 11.. 1878. Ediso"'s loud-speaking tahphono invented. 1882.--i . • first introduced into House of Commons. 1882.—Austral Plundered, Sydney Harbour. 1887.-—Manchester ship canal begun. ]!)O9.—G. Essex Evans, Queensland poet, died. 3915. Bulgarians invade Serbia. 1017.—His Majesty’s Theatre a.nd Canterbury Hall destroyed by lire. 1918.—Armistice signed between Allies ami Germany. The use of “ damn ’’ Is much better than a, continuous grumble.—Canon N. Cowing. Progress on Hie whole is compatible with long periods of retrogression.— Professoiy PringloPattison. There is now available for fire brigades a device which throws LoOUgnl of water a minute with force enough to crumble brick walls. Early one morning, just, as flic sun wis rising, ■ I heard a inaidon sing in Hie v,alley below • “ Oh, don't deceive meOh! never leave IMB ! • Unless you’re going for tome Dewar’s Imperial.”... : The deposits of soot and ■ grit fn Bradford arc double the largest deposit in _ any other centi'c in the Brithh Air Ministry’s returns. King Anianullah of Afghanistan, lately home from his tour in Europe, has forbidden Government officials to have more than one wife. A Londoner recently discovered a sixpence inside an egg. The firm who supplied the egg says that a similar Jhipg occurred,' twenty years mm. ,