IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17685, 11 June 1921, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —June 11.— John Franklin died. —June 12. — 1819.—Charles Kingsley born, 1872.—Dr Arnold died. 1372. —First railway in Japan opened. The cards containing finger prints at Scotland Yard number 250,000. One herring will produce between 20,000 and 30,000 eggs in a year. Football in various forms baa boast played for nearly 700 years in England. i’Jio “life” of" a silver two-shilling piece in circulation is estimated at about forty-, live and a-haU years. Extract from a letter from, a settler in tbo Nelson district:—“Five years ago I had nlnutcd 75,000 pines. They have made wonderful progress; some of them have* readied a height of 25ft to 501V’ If it lias sufficient food and escapes misfortune, a wild elephant can live .at least 150 years. Onions, which stand well in ordinarywear Err a period of six month® ct are usually ("Slued “fast. 1 ' . ‘ Then' is a shortage of celluloid, .since Japan liar, ref used to export camphor, of which celluloid is made. During a recent month, 154 peblio libraries had been founded in tho various towns and cities of Guatemala. Deduct inns amounting to 700,000,000 lire (£20.000,000 at par) have been made in the Italian Budget by tho Senate. In Siam a certain email fresh-water fish is specially bred for its fighting powers, contests and matches being arranged. Dolls were used to display styles in dress as long ago as 1521, when one was sent to the English Queen of that date. “Tic only property and means ho ever had wore tho counter lunches and free drinks ho took at. somebody ct-c's expense." . Von will never find him at. the Oban Hotel—tho hole! tor country orders.—[Aclvt.J