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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 237, 13 August 1879, Page 3

Talk about pedestnanism. A calculating correspondent of the Hartford Times estimates that an ounce of honey consumed at luncheon cost the bee that made it 960 miles of travel. The London Grocer confidently anticipates that twenty years from now Sacramento Valley, California, will he able tosupply the whole of thenew continentwith tea and that America will not only not to have to send to China for an ounce, but they will be abh in the course of time to send large consignments to Europe and expresses the opinion -'that within our life time the novelty will not be. American meat,' but in all our grocers' windows •Califomiau tea,' Cd per lb. Among the English-speaking people of the world, Episeopah'ansrank first in number with 14,750.000; Methodists are next, with 14,000.000; and then come Roman Catholics, with 13,500,000; then Presbyterians, with Baptists, with 9,000,000; Congregatlonalists, 7,000,000 ; and Unitarians, with 1,000,000. In the year IGGB, the island on which now stands the City of New York was sold by tho Indians to the Dutch for 10 shirts, 80 pairs of stockings, 10 muskets, iiO bullets, 30 pounds of gunbowder, 30 hatchets. 30 kettles, and 1 copper stew-pan, Both parties congratulated themselves on having made a good bargain. It is currently stated in Rome that grave differences have arisen between the Marquis of Bute and Monsignor Capel; and it is not improbable that the noble Margin's will leave the Koman Catholic Church. The step, it is said, is not likely to surprise the dignitaries of the Papal Church, as serious doubts have been lately expressed concerning the orthodoxy of Lord Bute. It is estimated that the loss in wages occasioned by the Durham strike amounts to £640,000, £240;000 of which was borno by the miners. Each miner has lost £6 in wages in a strike which resulted in paining If per cent, better terms than those offered by the owners at first. One and a quarter is 3d in tho pound, so that they will have to work 9Jyears to recover the £6sacrificedbjthe strike. A young lady gave her skating experience as follows:—"You ought to have seen me," said the vivacious young lady to the new minister. "I'd just got the skates on and made a start, when down I came on my "' 'Maggie!" said her mother, '-What? Oh, it was too funny! One skate went one way, and the other.n t'other way, and I came on my father, "Well, what? They scooted out from under mo aud down I came on my " Margaret!" yelled both the parents." On my little brother's who had me by the hand, and like to have smashed him. Now what's the matter!" The girl's mother emerged from behind the coffee pot, a sigh of relief escaped from the minister, and tue old gentleman adroitly turned the conversation into apolitical channel.