IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1854. —Florence Nightingale,. witK British nurses, landed at Scutari. IB6o.—Paderewski born. 1860.—Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States. _ . 1867.—First Parliament of Dominion of Canada met. 1869. —Blackfriars Bridge opened. 1876.—Opening of Oamaru and Moaraki Railway. 1892. —Tennyson died. [9O3.—F. S. Cody crossed the Channel in a collapsible kite-boat. 1907. Death of Sir James Hector. 1908. Main Trunk line opened. ’ 1917. —Battle of Passchendaele. ' 1918. German delegates leave t« heir terms from Marshal Foch. More than 2,600 swimming certificates have been awarded to London school children in one year. Every year China uses 4,000 tons or lilies as food. The flowers are made into a nourishing soup. Of the women of the Irish rroa State between the ages of thirty and thirty-five, over 40 per cent, are unmarried. The silver in a sixpence of the current coinage is worth only one penny* according to a Treasury_ statement.: Other British coins contain a proportionate quantity of silver. Britain has paid out altogether £845,000,000 in war pensions up to March 31, 1929; but the actual year's expenditure showed a decrease of £0,059,247 on the previous year*
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Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 1
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188IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 1
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