IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1716.—David Garrick born. 1891,—Dervishes defeated and Tokar occupied by British. 1896.—Cuban Revolution began. 1916.—Battle of Verdun began.

The curious notion of the nineteenth century that we are rational creatures deciding deliberately what is host for us, is psychologically lunatic.—The Rev. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy. The longest long-distance telephone cable in the British Empire is now being constructed in Canada. It will ultimately connect Toronto and Buffalo, by way of Hamilton, Grimsby, and Welland. Slogan 30: There is a season for all things, yet it is always seasonable to have cleaning done. For the best Chimney, Carpet, and 'Vacuum Cleaning, ring 10-493. Dunedin Window Celaning Co., 30 King street; Robert Knowles, manager...

Over 2,OCX) lads under the age of twenty-one are sent to prison every year in Britain. Some of the inmates of the prisons have been convicted as often as twenty times before they ire twenty-one years old ' ! "