IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1775.—Charles Lamb born. 1777.—Captain Cook’s third visit New Zealand. 18-10.—Queen Victoria married. 18(39.—Massacre of settlers at Taranaki. I,BB9.—New Constitution for Japan proclaimed. 1899.—Rev. W, Colenso died, Napier. 1918,—Russia out of the war. I believe in Freetrade as I believe in the multiplication table.—Mr Snowden. I do not think the average young | man of twenty-one can tell the average 'young woman of his own age that she is stupider than he.—Sir W. Joynson- ; Hicks. , Slogan 29: ft's mighty tiring to spring clean after a holiday. Let us clean your chimneys and carpets; it will help you. Handy men for' general work. Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 Kin" street. Get (ho bag wash for your accumulated bteac.-y. ’Phone 10-493 It is said that only about one oyster shell in a thousand contains a pearl. Chimpanzees are about four times as strong as a man, weight for weight. The Greenwich Observatory waa founded on August 10, 1675, byCharle* 11. Experience of Scoullar and Chisholm'* Furniture is that it is the cheapest, in th« city Test it for yourselves The railways revenue for four week# ended January 7 was £687,053, and the expenditure £504,007.