IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20056, 22 December 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anmvkusaimks. —December 22. 2SSO. —Dcatli ol Airs Cross (George Eliot), novelist aged UO, . ]gS5. First tram ran through Moisey tunnel. 1902. —Archbishop temple died. December 2-t.— 1801.—Funeral ul I’niicc Consort at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. istil.—First All England eleven cricketers arrived at AJelbaurnc by Gloat Britain. 15J0S. —Dcatli of Lawrence Ouphant, traveller and author. PSPS. —Jessie Headman wrecked at Chat, ham lb hinds. |s;(;().—Lord Huberts sailed tor South Africa. IPU.J, —Electric tramways started running in Dunedin. rjlU.—-Mauritius captured by the English. “The man of the world ” is responsible lor more erroneous opinion than perhaps anyone.—Lord Cecil. Some 2,500 new motor cars arc delivered to owners every week lor the whole country in Britain, about one-lifth of these going to London. An Eton stripling training for the law, A dunce at syntax, but a dab at taw, One happy Christmas laid upon the shelf His cap ami gown and store of learned pelf, With all tho deathless bards of Greece ana Koine, To spend a happy fortnight at his uncle'i home, Where he could get Dewar’s Imperial Announcers ot the .British Broadcasting Company take singing lessons regularly to help them in producing their voices for speaking into the microphone. War pensioners in Britain number about J. ,000,000. Since the armistice tiie Government has spent no less than £787,000,001) on war pensions.