CHIPS AND SLICES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 248, 30 March 1880, Page 2

CHIPS AND SLICES.

Less than 23 p'r cent of America’s exports to and imports from foreign countries were carried during the last fiscal year by rsssels belonging to American owners, and this, too, in a total value of 1,200,000,000d015, At Kief, a number of Jewish merchants have collected a sum of money to be devoted exclusively for the benefit of the poor Jewish ' boys attending the gymnasium, so as to enable them to pursue their studies with the same advantages as pupils of other nations. Foot and mouth disease may be said to have been almost entirely stamped out in Great Britain. Only two outbreaks had been reported by- the local authorities, and in both instances there was a doubt as to its being true foot and mouth desease Dr Crow has calculated the time during which the sun lias been at work upon the earth’s surface, slowly transforming its physical features, at not less than 100,000,000 years The Bishop of Adelaide has received a memorial complaining of ritualistic practices in various ah arches in South Australia, and asking him to use his influence in advising the clergy to avoid the continuance of such practices. Mr Vanderbilt has recently sold 250,000 shares of the stock of the New York Central Eailroad. It is the largest sale ever made by one individual—in fact, no other person in the country ever held so large an interest in railroads There are at least 100,000 Chinamen in California On an average they each earn 252 dollars per year, and they are mostly boarded at their employers’ cost. Their savings amount to at least 150 dollars per annum or for the mass, 15,000,000 dollars yearly The Duke of Edinburgh has given £BO,OOO for Norris Castle,;lsle of Wight, as a marine residence The death is announced, in his 90fch year, of Colonel Francis Lo Blanc, one of tne few remaining officers of ’the Walcheren, Peninsular, and Waterloo campaigns Father Hyacinth e lias still a strong hold on the people of Paris Recently he delivered a lecture on Paganism, which drew an audience of fifteen thousand persons