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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 4, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 23

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Notes of News.

—Indiana has a school fund of $9,000,000.

—Vesuvius threatens another great eruption.

—Typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent in Montreal.

—General Grant is again at his old home in Galena, Ill.

—It costs $30,000 a year to keep St. Peter’s, at Rome, in repair.

—Nov. 1, the returns showed 90,000 deaths from cholera in Japan.

—Religious liberty has been granted to the Baptists of Russia.

—It takes $58,000,000 a year to support the state church in England.

—Utah’s annual yield of lead, silver, and gold is estimated at $5,000,000.

—The library of the British Museum contains over 1,000,000 volumes.

—Walter Hastings, lately deceased, bequeathed $500,000 to Harvard College.

—The Chilians have recently gained a decisive victory over the Peruvians.

—The Spanish Countess Montijo, mother of the ex-Empress Eugenie, is dead.

—The Scriptures, either the whole or a part, have been translated into 250 languages.

—The wheat crop of this country for the present year is estimated at 425,000,000 bushels.

—The Mormons are erecting a new temple at Salt Lake City, which is to cost $5,000,000.

—Amherst College, Mass., has just received one donation of $55,000 and another of $50,000.

—Edinburgh has opened its first temperance coffee-house for the accommodation of workingmen.

—It is estimated that there are 12,000 mission schools in the world, containing at least 400,000 pupils.

—In Italy, church property to the value of $109,000,000 was sold at auction from Oct. 26, 1877, to Sept. 30, 1879.

—An equestrian statue of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, executed by the sculptor J. Q. A. Ward, was recently unveiled in Washington.

—Ex-Gov. H. P. Baldwin has been appointed United States Senator from Michigan, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Chandler.

—Another lake horror is recorded. The steamer Waubuno has been wrecked in Georgian Bay, and this time it is believed that 30 persons perished.

—The north-western provinces of India are suffering from a severe epidemic of malarious fever. The death-rate is increased to an enormous extent.

—A liquor-seller in Massachusetts, who has been fined $200 in the Middlesex District Court, is the first one to suffer under the civil damage act.

—A young lady, a pupil in St. Mary’s academy, Windsor, Ontario, was fatally poisoned by a dose of laudanum accidentally administered by one of the nuns.

—A proposition to make General Grant Captain General of the U. S. army, with a salary of $25,000 or $50,000, will probably come before Congress at its next session.

—The new Baptist church in St. Louis, which was dedicated Nov. 6, cost $200,000, and is said to be the finest church building owned by the Baptist denomination.

—To conciliate Germany, Russia has offered some long-refused commercial facilities, releasing German traders from expensive exactions by the Russian local authorities.

—Boston gives women the privilege of voting on matters pertaining to schools, but only about one thousand have registered preparatory to exercising this right at the coming election.

—Those who complain of the present prices of books need to remember that in 1720 a copy of the Latin Bible was valued at $150, and wages were so low that it took a laborer 15 years to earn one.

—The level of nearly all the lakes in the far West has been rising for several years past. Salt Lake has risen 12 feet in 25 years; Pyramid Lake, 9 feet in 4 years; and Winnemucca Lake, 22 feet in 4 years.

—The reading room of the British Museum contains three miles of book-cases eight feet high. The dome whence the electric light irradiates the vast room is, next to that of the Pantheon at Rome, the largest extant.

—The Wesleyan Methodists, at their General Conference recently held at Pittsford, Mich., refused to receive the delegate from the Episcopal Methodist church, as he was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

—The “petty American republic of Paraguay,” according to the Catholic Mirror, has of late become actually rebellious in its attacks upon the authorities of the church, not sparing even His Holiness himself.

—The Bank of England was incorporated in 1649. The buildings cover five acres of ground, and 900 clerks are employed. There are no windows on the street, light being admitted through open courts.

—The little village of Vitznau, on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, at which tourists take the cars for the ascent of Mount Righi, is threatened with destruction from the falling of a mass of rock overhanging it.

—Nov. 25, £136,000 of bullion was withdrawn from the Bank of England, £90,000 of which was for shipment to the United States. Still later, £450,000 was drawn in a single day, little less than half of which was for shipment to this country.

—The latest location of the Garden of Eden is that given by Rev. P. G. Robert, of St. Louis, at the Minnetonka Lake Sunday-school Assembly, who with learned reasons advocated the idea that it now lies at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

—During the present recess of Congress, various experiments with electric lights have been made, with the view of lighting up the halls and grounds of the capitol from the dome of the building. It is expected that all arrangements will be completed in time for the coming session.

—Bishop Potter, of New York, who has recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of his episcopate, has, in that time, ordained 418 persons to the deaconate, and 342 to the priesthood. He has consecrated 108 churches, and confirmed 72,000 persons.

—The almost incredible fact is stated that R. A. Packer, President of the Pennsylvania and New York railroad, while recently in Nebraska, conversed for two hours with his wife and brother in Pennsylvania, 2,000 miles distant, by means of a telephone, through which every whisper was audible!

—Malarial and typhus fevers prevail in Jerusalem, owing to the overcrowding of the poor in small dwellings, the total neglect of sanitary precautions, and the scarcity of pure water. The Pools of Solomon would furnish abundant supplies, but Moslem fanaticism will not permit foreigners to build an aqueduct.

—The shore end of the new ocean telegraph cable connecting France with the United States has been successfully laid at North Eastham on the coast of Cape Cod, and on the instant a congratulatory message was sent to the officers of the company in France. Starting from Brest, in the northwestern corner of France, the cable is laid to the island of St. Pierre, one of the three small islands south of Newfoundland which are owned by France, and thence to our coast.

—It is significant of the new policy that obtains at the Vatican, that, whatever may have been the private advice to the Belgian bishops, all language at variance with the diplomatic correspondence with Belgium is publicly disavowed. The Inter-Ocean thinks this indicates that the church recognizes the necessity of conforming to the spirit of modern progress. Yes; the church “recognizes the necessity.” “They shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end,” said the prophet.