IN A NUTSHELL
.ANNIVERSARIES. 1415.—Battle of Agincourt. 1809.—Jubilee of George Ilf. cclebraled. 1854.—Battle of Balaclava. 1359.—R0yal Charter wrecked, IS72.—Act passed to establish Public Trust Office. 1877.—Lyttelton water supply turned on. 1900.—Transvaal formally proclaimed part of British Empire. 1900.—Death of Sims Reeves, the famous tenor; aged seventy-eight years* 1918.—LudendorfF, German Com-mander-in-Chief, resigns. The population of a wasp’s _ nest rarely exceeds 3,000. The inhabitants of a number of nests examined averaged 2,400. Mrs Anno Stansall, of Mansfield, England, in her ninety-ninth year, still does her own cooking, washing, and housework. Experience of Scoullar and Chisholm Furniture is that it is the cheapest in tha city. Test it for yourselves..,. Madrid has now a .aw making motorists liable to six years’ imprisonment; for knocking down or injuring a pedestrian. At the Paris - law courts there is an old lady of eighty, who has been employed 'for the last fifty years as shorthand writer, and is still active. Observers in Richmond Park, England, counted over 100 species of birds! last year. ..ui
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Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 1
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168IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 1
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