IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

A.XNIVEIiSAIIIIiS. ISOtV Slavery abolished in United Slates. 1892.—Death of Sir Richard Owen, naturalist. 1904. —Japanese capture Ki-Kwan-Shan forts at Pori. Arthur. 1007.-Death of To Whiti.

Hi" Ben tukos t'jirty-eiglit seconds to strike i2 o'clock. (.'rent Britain owns hall' the oceangoing ships of the work!. J There are nearly thirty million motor cars in the world, mm for each sixtyfour of the population. .Japan possesses fifty-one active volcanoes, mure than any other country in the world. Fifteen bankruptcies were .notified Jn the latest issue of tho ‘Gazette.’ Ten of the number were in the North Island. There is a fallacy in the assumption that tho more a man roads tho more neaily he approaches to the truth.—Mr H. A. L. Fisher. Oh! where and Oh! where is your Highland laddio gone? Oh! where and Oh! where is your Highland laddio gone? He's gone-to have a Dewar's Imperial.... Why should four million acres of Highland., territory bo delivered to American millionaires to exhibit their fat white knees in and to debauch the population with their dollars?—Mr Cunninghame Graham.