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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 24, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 56, No. 1

Notes of News.

—The King of Greece has been cordially received in London.

—Dentists assert that they annually use half a ton of pure gold in filling teeth.

—The whole number of Sunday-school scholars in the world is estimated at 12,000,000.

—There is now a direct line of steamers between New York City and Palermo, Italy.

—Congress has passed the Ute bill, providing for the removal of these Indians from their present reservation to Southern Colorado.

—In the last 25 years the number of houses in Jerusalem has more than doubled. Bethlehem and Nazareth have the appearance of newly built towns.

—Philadelphia has discovered that she has five fraudulent medical colleges, which have sold 3,000 false diplomas. Some of the Faculty have been arrested.

—In a dispatch to Earl Granville, Minister Layard says that Turkish opinion is weary of European interference and reforms, and longs for a government by Mussulman laws and ideas.

—The present prospect is that crops will be excellent this year, though they are injured in localities. In New Jersey and on Long Island the army worm is causing great destruction.

—On the 14th, two boilers in a Milwaukee distillery exploded, killing one man and fatally injuring another. The building took fire, and was partially destroyed, the loss amounting to $25,000.

—The Swiss republic is making progress in the movement for the separation of church and state. After some time not yet determined, the government will grant no more subsidies for religious purposes.

—According to a statement made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, the entire expense to the government of the war of the rebellion up to June 30, 1879, was $6,796,792,509.

—The Methodists are to hold an Ecumenical Conference. It is to meet in London in 1881, and is to be composed of 400 members, one-half of whom will represent the United States and Canada and their foreign work.

—There is great excitement over the discovery of wholesale forgeries by the president of the First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt. It is thought that the forgeries will amount to not less than $250,000.

—On the 30th of May, the American schooner Ethel A. Merritt, engaged in the fruit trade, was fired upon by a Spanish man-of-war. She was only six miles from the coast of Cuba, and had shown her colors when the firing took place.

—The official statistics show that France is enjoying great business prosperity. During the first five months of the year the imports exceeded those of 1879 for the same period by more than 100,000,000 francs, and the exports by 40,000,000.

—Ireland has five newspapers whose editors read English, German, and French, and these languages are understood by the educated classes generally. It is said that no other country reads so many books in proportion to its population.

—There are oleomargarine factories in several of the leading cities of the United States, and their product is sold by a majority of the wholesale grocers and butter-dealers on its merits, for precisely what it is.

—A Robert Raikes monument is to be set up this year near the Cleopatra Needle in London, to celebrate the founding of Sunday-schools a hundred years ago. It is to be nine feet high, of bronze, and to surmount a pedestal eleven feet in height.

—In the House of Commons, Henry Richard, Liberal, has moved an address praying the Queen to direct communications to be made by the Foreign Secretary with other powers, with a view to a mutual and simultaneous reduction of European armaments.

—A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., dated June 18, gives an account of a terrible accident at the Yellow Jacket mine. A car-load of tools fell from near the surface to the bottom, where eight men were at work. Four of them were killed and the others more or less injured.

—The first week in August there is to be held in Brussels, Belgium, an International Temperance Congress, under the patronage of King Leopold. The Congress will discuss such questions as total abstinence, the adulteration of liquors, the relation of strong drink to crime, etc.

—There are 7,000,000 soldiers in Europe, who are non-producers, and expensive consumers; 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 army horses, all eating, and not working; emperors, kings, princes, and titled persons of all kinds, who are supported in the greatest luxury out of the public revenues; and “the farmer pays for all.”

—The revision of the Bible, which is now nearly completed, will cost not far from $120,000; and yet the revisers are only paid their hotel and traveling expenses—no salary. The university presses of Oxford have become responsible for the expenses, and will sell the first edition at a high price to indemnify themselves.

—France has selected July 14 as its national holiday. This is the anniversary of the capture and destruction of the Bastile in 1789. Louis XVI. had filled this and other prisons with political offenders; and the people, aroused against his tyranny, destroyed this building, which they considered the symbol of despotism, thus signalizing their determination to enjoy a constitutional government.

—The conference of the powers to take into consideration measures to promote the execution of the provisions of the Berlin treaty, held its opening session at the German capital, June 16. The conference held little more than an opening session, as it almost immediately agreed to adjourn until engineers shall have elaborated new boundary lines of the Greek frontier, their report to be preliminary to further action.

—In many English towns the market-places and show-grounds are usually crowded on festival and market days. In these crowds are many who will not attend a gospel service, even in a tent or a barn; and evangelists have utilized these gatherings by sending to the market-places the Gospel Bible Carriage, a small omnibus, carrying several evangelists and singers, with their stock of Bibles, Testaments, and religious books and tracts.

—An exchange states that a man by the name of Lamb, a native of Canada, after experimenting 15 years, has invented a water repellant, which, applied to any kind of dress-goods, causes the water to run off as it does from a duck’s back, without affecting the colors or the ventilation. He was in part stimulated by the offer of the Goodyear Rubber Company of $100,000 for a water-repellant substance that would not affect the appearance of fabrics. He has at last succeeded, and a company has been formed. At a recent exhibition, its merits were tested on silks and velvets of delicate shades, also on flowers, feathers, gloves, etc., and the water rolled off, leaving them as bright and beautiful as ever. Ink, lemon juice, and claret were poured on some of them, but a dash of water left them as good as ever.