IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 3842.—Sydney incorporated. IB6o.—First naval engagement with ironclads; Italians defeated by Austrians at Lissa. 1871 —Purchase of commissions in British Army abolished. 18S8.—Mr Gladstone defeated at General Election, and resigned Premiership. 1890.—Death of Sir Richard Wallace. art collector. 1903.—Pope Leo XHI. died; aged ninety-three years. 1913—Barry bent Pearce for sculling championship on Thames.

A New York message states that fire at Culver City destroyed a cinema studio. The loss is estimated at 200,000d01. A London cable states that Sir Austen Chamberlain announced in Parliament that negotiations were in progress with the German Government for the abolition of visas for British travellers to Germany. An announcement that Best Sugar is now sold at 3d II); Flour, 2ll> for 4Jd; and everything equally low is made by Cash and Carry I think that the British Medical Association is the most tyrannical trade union we have.—Mr Mncquisten, M.P. The British people have kept faithfully every promise made to the Boer'S at Vereeniging.—General Smuts. It takes five bushels of grain—the yield of a quarter of an acre—to make one sack of flour. The height of a correctly-proporti med human figure is six times the length of the right foot Grandism (196): Old London Dock Jamaica Rum is the finest quality, in bottles, halves, and flasks, at the Grand Hotel Bottle Store...

An elephant will work well up to eighty years of age; its best years, however, are between twelve and fortyfive.

More meat is being eaten in Great Britain, the consumption last year ■working out at 1,000 tons a week more than in 1925