IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1587.—Mary Queen of Scots ’beheaded. 1819.—John Rusk in horn. 1858. —Canada Rill passed by House of Lords. 1g,(9 —Roman National Assembly divested Pope of all temporal power. 1851.—First publication of the ‘ Otago Witness.’ . 1865.—Wellington ‘ Evening Post first issued. 1879.—Town of Jcnldene (New South Wales) seized and robbed by Kellv gang. 1905.—H0n. W. Rolle.ston ’led. 1904,—Army Council appointed. A supplementary ‘Gazette’ issued last, night, contains regulations governing refunds in respect to motor spirit taxation..—Press Association. 1 do not believe there is_a singl* living poet who ran live by his poetry, —Mr Humbert Wolfe. The cinema, is a. great, healer of matrimonial disturbances.—Mr J. A. R. Cairns. Slogan 29; It’s mighty firing to spring clean” after a holiday. Let ns clean your chimneys and carpets: it will I’alp you. Handy .men tor ceneral work. Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 King street. Get the bag wash for your accumulated daunt y. ’Phone 10-493 The eyes of a fly are rs rigid as jewels in a watch. The building of St. Paul’s Cathedral occupied thirty-five years. An educated man has a vocabulary of about 10,000 words.