IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. —December 20. . 1880.—Bronkhorst Spruit disaster; 250 officers and men of the 94th Regiment overwhelmed by Boers. 1888.—Defeat of Dervishes at Siiakim by-General Grenfell. 1902.—Birth of Prince George. 1915. —Evacuation of Anzac and Suvla Bay completed. > 1920.—-Death of Professor Gilray. —December 21. 1805.—Disraeli born.. 1894.—Violent gale in Britain; great loss of-life and shipping. 1898.—Great fire at Sheffield. ' ■ 1909.—First wireless message acrost Atlantic.
We can see to-day what men hav« made of the world, and few of us are wholly satisfied with it.—Mr Baldwin. The great advantage of newspaper*, is that people road them in trains and that prevents them from talking.— Dean Inge. Science never solves a problem without raising ten more problems.—Mr Bernard Shaw. Police on point duty in, a German city are now supplied with roller skatea in order to move "more speedily. , It is estimated that bees cover a di*> tance of something like 300,000 miles in collecting one iK>und of honey*
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Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 1
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158IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 1
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