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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 194, 18 May 1928, Page 5

So varied are the moves of the several pieces in chess that it is estimated it would take two men 250,000 years—playing night and day at the usual speed -—before every possible way of playing the first four moves on each side would be exhausted. . There are 20,880 electric signs in New York’s "Great White Way,” containing 1,309,018 lamps. Theatres are not the leaders in illumination. 'The restaurants come first. 'Theatres are eighth. Next to restaurants are barber shops and beauly parlours. A new bullet will make easier the task of capturing big game alive. 'The bullet inflicts only a flesh wound, but carries a chemical preparation which brings about temporary unconsciousness.