IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18336, 25 July 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1834.—Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. 1848.—Right Hon, A. J. Balfour bom. 1874.—Bbndin’s first appearance in colonies (Brisbane). 1885.—Oxford University crew rowed from Dover to Calais in four hours and a -half. 1890. —Western Australia given selfgovernment. 1894.—War between Japanese and Chinese. 1909.-—Blcriot crossed English Channel on monoplane. A single banyan tree has been known to shelter 7,000 men at one time. The film of a soap bubble is the 2,5D0,0001h part of an inch in thickness. The brain is the. most variable in size and quality of all tho parts of the human body. Over 1001 b of sugar for each person was the consumption in America last year. Since 1916 £1,500,000 lias been < htained in London by street collections for charity. 1 ho present age is, I am afraid, a poor age, both intellectually ami spiritually.— Bishop Well don. A Berlin cable states that a Reichsba.nk report shows that the gold reserve is £27,000,000, or little more than half the amount held at the beginning of the year. Sir George Fuller, New South Wales Premier, who has returned to Sydney, J said that ho had had a most successful ! mission to London. Arrangements were well in hand for the conversion of the , loan of £l6 000,000 next year. Who brings sunshine into the life of another has sunshine of his own. Dewar's Imperial is sunshine Savings bank deposits in tho United States at the start of 1923 were 300 million pounds more than on January j, 1922. Mail aeroplanes, flying without pilots and cent rolled bv an electric current, are regarded as or cuts of .die near future by French aviators. The largest office building in the East is fast nearing completion in Toluo. Light stories high, its total floor space is 800,000 square feet. Obanism (641); If you require spirits for the home, ring 920, Oban Hotel. We deliver anywhere in town.—Oban Hotel One of tho delegates at the recent conference of those engaged in the agricultural industry expressed the opinion that in twenty years the value of land in the dominion would depreciate by many millions of pounds sterling unless immediate and drastic steps were taken to eradicate or check the growth of noxious weeds.