IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 21099, 11 May 1932, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1778.—William Pitt, Earl of Chat* ham, died. 1812.—Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, assassinated in lobby of House of Commons. Temperance Society formed in New Zealand. 1868.—8i1l passed in Home Parliament that executions should be abolished in ipublic. 1871.—Final Treaty of Peace between France and Germany signed. 1900. General Duller reoccnpicd Glencoe, and Dundee evacuated by British in October, 1899. 1921.—Germany submits to Allies’terms. Riotous scene in Wellington. Hoodlums wreck 1,60 shop fronts. End of Parliament’s session. Main session not till September op October. The Poppy Day collection in London last November amounted to £96,775. A butcher was fined 30s recently in Scotland for not using a humane killer. America absorbs nearly 45 per cent, of the total world output of wireless apparatus. Women have, on the average, larger' feet than their mothers and grandmothers. Size 2i, which was fairly common thirty years ago, is not stocked in Britain now, the average size to-day being fives. Still in use after eighty-two years* service on the River Indus, the steam launch Jhelum was built in 1850 by a London firm. During all these years not a screw of her engine has been replaced.