IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20051, 17 December 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

-ANNIVERSARIES. —“ Milan Decree,” forbidding Continental intercourse with England! issued by Napoleon. 1854.—First Australian Exhibition opened at Melbourne. 18(50.—Bronze coinage authorised instead of copper. lOO:?.—Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk, U.S.A. 1907.—Lord Kelvin died. The mayor (the .Rev. .7. X. Archer) states that the £2,000 given to Christchurch for unemployment relief is definitely a grant anti not a subsidy. Pleasure is like a sprained ankle—you have it all to yourself; but happiness is like measles—you can’t have it without giving it to someone else.— Mr J. F. Roxburgh. We {pedestrians spend nearly the whole of our time jumping out of the way of motors cars.—Mr Bingley. , Seriously injured in an electrical accident, a Toronto workman was -recently fitted with an artificial “skull” to replace a piece of bone 10m long and Gin wide. According to the International Congress of Chefs, an egg is “new laid” for ten to twelve days; it is “fresh” until is twenty-one days old; then it becomes a “ cooking egg.’’ Paris is seeking purer air; the prefect of police has issued a decree forbidding industrial, commercial, or administrative buildings from polluting the. atmosphere with smoke, soot, or gases. i A London' cable states that the Duchess of York received _ from Sir Granville Ryrie a 101 b Christmas cake made from Australian ingredients.