CURIOUS PHENOMENON.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2301, 18 August 1881, Page 3

CURIOUS PHENOMENON.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sin, —While you are engaged iu the more i-nportant affairs of the nation, I am prying into smell matters, ss you will see by the curious phenomenon which is now brought under your notice. The phenomenon con* cists of the fact that, whatever may be the price of float or bread, the penny bnn remains unaltered 'u size. In Melbourne, about a quarter of a contury ago, when bread was sixpence per lb., the penny bun weighed two ounces ; which, reckoning four currants and the eighth of an ounce of sugar to each bun, would leave very little over the price of bread for extra manipulation. Many timet since, with bread at various prices, I have always found the penny bun to be about two ounces in weight. Yesterday I again weighed some penny buns, and still found them to be two ounces, some a little more and some even less. At the present time the best bread is sold at a penny-farthing per lb. Buns are about the same materials as bread, with perhaps an ounce of sugar aud thirtytwo currants additional in the pound, but are sold at eight pence. Thus we have, one pound of bread, a penny farthing ; one pound of buns, eight pence. The same rule which regulates buns appears to apply to scones. If anything, they appear to be rather smaller than when flour was doub'e the price. The only solution which I can arrive at to account for this curious state of th'ngj ss, that buns and scones are made according to the law of the Medea and Persians, “which altereth not.” Yours, &c,, PAUL PEY.