IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1805.—London docks opened. 1883.—Governor Sir W. F. Jervofl arrived in New Zealand, 1887.—Death of Captain William Gardiner, inventor of the Gardiner gun. 1893. —Funeral of the Duke of Clarence at Windsor. 1896. —Prince Henry of Battenburg died. 1900.—John Ruskin died. 1902.—Wireless message exchange* between King Edward and President Roosevelt. 1918.—German warships Goehen and Breslau emerged from Dardanelles f Breslau sunk and Goehen damaged. A post-mortem examination on a baby at East Ham, London, showed that sho had two hearts. Only one had functioned. . , Londoners are among the healthiest people in England, the general death rate of the metropolis having fallen to 11.7 per 1,000, In Germany a moving picture depicting a train wreck was prohibited because of its possible influence on the sale of railway tickets. Has not material progress been turned under our very eyes from a; great blessing into a terrible curse, which it needs almost superhuman heroism to break?—Viscount Cecil. It is said that physics buds off a new, science every ten years.—Lord Rutherford.
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Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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171IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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