IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

I A \ NIV ERS A R IKS. i 171'):!,—Kir .Tosluia Reynolds died. JSlU.—.Mauritius captured by England. 1821.—John Keats, poet, died. J 836.-—First ship with emigrants for South Australia left England. 1801.-—Order of the Star of India instituted. 1863.—Captains Speke and Grant 1 announced discovery of Nilo in Lake I Victoria Nyauza. i 1877. Lilywhitc’s All-England Kiev*# ! visited Christchurch. I I!)oo.—Reinforcements for Conj’e I Paardeburg beaten off. j 1917.—British forced passage of | Tigris. It is a very serious thing for s country when its people think happiness consists not in those hours which are devoted to work but in those devoted to amusement. — Canon C. 8. Woodward. I’ve sought- the brake and bracken through and through, The thorny thicket and the meadow, too; But nowhere could 1 find a trace of you, For you were somewhere drinking Dewar’s Imperial... At Iseoed, in North Wales, a cricket hall, striking a man’s leg, ignited b box of matches in his pocket. Football has established itself among millions of Germans, 473,611 matches having been played last season. With the exception of the Order of the Hath, the Prince of Wales hold* ail the British Orders of Knighthood.