IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20128, 19 March 1929, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANMVKHSA I! IKS. Kviß. -IMief ul Lucknow In' Sir (_\iiin Campbell. 1 sajij-I' lim, gold (mind in Tasin;i lit;,. IS!)6. --Hrmnier mi no 1 1 Lor ; ix 1 v-ho on im’ii ontoinlir><i. Co\entry )•■ saving JL'4UU a year by aulomalic road signals. Nearly otHt brands ul’ tobacco arn now grown in llm British Fmpirn. In (jlasgow passengers may travel twenty-throe miles mi tin; Irani,; for Birmingham people have nearly t.!<i,UtK),()(.)U in their Municipal Hank. In l()M, during the Civil AVar,. the English Parliament sat on Christinas Day. The cost of collecting house reluso 111rmih(Hit .Hritain is .said to amount to i’IU,OUU,O(>() a year. I always class throe things together - -church bells, Scottish bagpipes, and cats at. night—l do not know which is worst.—The Bev C. A. Page. ’Twac on a summer's afternoon. A wee before the sun gaecJ down, Mv lassie in a loan' new gown l ame o'er I lie hills to Cowrie, Wi’ a hot Me o' Dewar's Imperial... Let I)-- not readily or lightly impugn the. good laith ol one another, Mir that is to destroy the very foundation of all hope of better tiling;.— Lord Irwin. Of 477 foreigners refused permission to land in England during the lii-t three months of ]f)k'B sixty-six item Ocrman, sixty-two Scandinavian, lortytwo Polish, thirty-six French, ami eleven Jlussian. The deepest well in the world drilled for oil is at Olinda, California. It attained a depth of 8,046(1. Tho deepest producing well is at Posecrans, California. 7,of)] ft deep.