IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 21073, 9 April 1932, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

■ANNIVERSARIES. —April 9. 1626.—Erancis Bacon died. 1838.—National Gallery opened. 1855.—Bombardment of Sebastopol began. 1882.—Death of Gabriel Dante Rosetti, poet and painter. 1865.—General Lee surrendered at Appomato. -April 10.^ 1814.—Battle of Toulouse; last Battie of Peninsula War; Wellington defeated Soult. 1848.—Great uprising of Chartists. 1882.—New Zealand Exhibition opened at Christchurch. 1909.—Swinburne died. 1916.—Anzacs left Alexandria for France. Roger Bacon, an English monk and scientist, invented gunpowder in 1292,Some say that a similar explosive substance was used by the Hindus in 333 B.C. Mrs Anastasia O’Keefe, of New York, in suing for a separation from her husband, said he was worth £300,000, bub' had bought her only one coat in twenty, two years. She said he had a seven-pas-senger motor car, but never allowed her to ride in it. A syndicate of Norwegian business men is planning to buy the old Cunard liner Carmania (20,000 tons), at Oslo,and convert her into something between a boarding house and a block of fiats, giving accommodation to about 2,000 people at reasonable rents during the present housing shortage. The price mentioned for the liner is £28,000. A cork leg kept Alex. Stark, mate of the schooner Edith and Elinor, afloat for two hours when his ship was rammed and sunk off Halifax, in Nova Scotia. Stark said that ho would have irone down with the ship if the leg had not buoyed him up until rescue boats could find him. Six men lost their hvet in the disaster.