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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 December 1879, Page 4

The practice of advertising in Saturday's newspapers the subjects of Sunday's sermons has become almost general in America. In the principal paper in Philadelphia as many as from forty to sixty such advertisements from Methodist churches alone are sometimes to be counted, the cost of which averages about a hundred dollars a week. A little boy was examined at the Auckland Police C urt as to the nature of an oath. With some difficulty his Worship got the following answer : -If I tell a lie, I shall be struck dead like Ananias ; was taaght that in the Sunday school." His Worship remarked that if Buch were the ineri table result of lying, there would he no surplus population, for few persons would be living now. It has come out through a lawsuit between the managers that "Pinafore " at first failed to draw in Lonpon, the receipts averaging for weeks only 200 dollars a night, while the expenses were 350 dollars. But die contract stipulated that it should be perform at least one hundred times consecutively, and before that period had expired the profit was 2,500 dollars a week. The chief centre of the German tobacco pipe manufactory is Buhla, in Thuringia. In that town and the neighbouring villages the annual production for the past few years has averaged 540,000 genuine meerschaum bowls or heads, and 5.400,000 artificial or imitation meerschaum bowls. The number of polished, lacquered, and variously mounted wooden pipe- heads annually producod was 4,800,000 Of the common porcelain bowls, the favorite pipes of the German peasantry, there were manufactured every year 9,600,000, and of fine clay or lava bowls 2,700,000.