IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1748.—Dr Johnson died. 1848.—First number of ‘ Otagtf News ’ published. 1890.—Thames Embankment first lighted by electricity. 1915.—New Zealand troops began evacuation of Anznc. 1917.—Prisoners escape from Mon* tihi IslandMunicipalities are far more import* ant tha nare Parliaments.—The Lord Mayor of Norwich. Every Englishman has implanted In him from lu-> early youth that it is hi# manly duty to repay any wrong to himself by an equal, or, if possible, • greater wrong.—Mr Bernard Shaw. Good fortune attend each merry man’# friend, Who doel.li the best lie may; Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs, To drive the cold weather away Wo take some Dewar’s Imperial. There is no real style in furniture that can he labelled “King George V..” according to one authority. The London and North-eastern Railway stationery hill is £I,OOO a day, pencils alone costing £3,500 a year. Houses of tho non-parlour type in England now cost about £360, a reduction of £47 on tho figure for December, 1927. The United States has now five cities with a population of over ],000.000 each; tho population of the country is over 120 millions.
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Evening Star, Issue 20048, 13 December 1928, Page 1
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186IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20048, 13 December 1928, Page 1
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