—The Porte has made contracts with Krupp for $3,500,000 worth of guns.
—Nine presidents and ex-presidents of the United States have died since Lincoln's first election.
—The times are so hard in Japan that the city of Kioto is said to be infested with 30,000 beggars.
—A terrible wind and rain-storm passed over Charleston (A. T.) August 6, damaging mill property to the extent of about $20,000.
—David K. Udall, the leading Mormon bishop of Arizona, was convicted, August 6, of perjury. Perjury and polygamy go well together.
—An agent of the Mormon church proposes to settle 300 fresh European convicts upon land in Delaware and Jackson counties, Ala.
—August 6, Police Judge Rix, of San Francisco, ordered five sloggers to be committed for trial in $1,000 bonds. May the good work go on.
—Storms of great violence swept over the central and northern parts of Spain, August 3, destroying much property and injuring many persons.
—It is said that it will take six months to bring the surplus grain of eastern Oregon and Washington to Portland, at the rate of twelve trains daily.
—The heaviest storm ever known at Nogales, Arizona, occurred August 5. The violent hail and heavy rain filled the streets with running water like a river.
—The British bark Isabel arrived at Port Townsend, Washington Territory, from Yokohama with a cargo of 950 tons of tea, which goes East on the Northern Pacific R. R.
—It now turns out that those parties who won gold medals at the New Orleans Exposition will have to forward eighty dollars each to pay for the medals, or go without them.
—According to the San Francisco Bulletin of August 5, Professor Dennis Buttler, with hands and feet firmly tied, recently swam East River, a distance of a mile, in nineteen minutes.
—A woman who was recently returning to England on a visit, after being out about three days, in consequence of severe seasickness, rushed for the deck and threw herself overboard, and was not seen afterward.
—A plague seems to be prevailing on the Isthmus of Panama. A dispatch to the Chronicle (S. F.) of August 6, says of Colon, a city of about 10,000 inhabitants, "There are sometimes as many as twenty-five deaths a day."
—There seems to be a strong war feeling in Russia; and a Parisian paper states that "an alliance has been concluded between Great Britain and China for mutual action in the event of war between England and Russia."
—Minister Denby was conducted by a police sergeant and a Chronicle reporter through the Chinese quarters in San Francisco. After a visit to the lodging departments, Mr. Denby said, "I never saw such wonderful economy of space."
—The unpleasantness existing between Postmaster-General Vilas and the steamship lines to Australasia may result in much damage to this part of the country on account of the trade in fruit that will be checked should the lines stop running.
—President Cleveland received, August 4, a delegation from the cattle men of Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations; but refused to modify the order already issued, that all cattle be removed from these reservations within forty days.
—The cyclone on the Atlantic Coast, Monday, August 3, appears to have been one of the most destructive on record. Some six or eight lives were lost, some sixty persons were injured, and $500,000 worth of property was destroyed.
—Cholera has commenced its ravages in Marseilles and other French cities; but it seems to be doing its deadliest work in Spain, where the number of deaths August 3, 1,701; August 4, 1,570; August 5, 1,638; August 6, 910, incomplete; August 7, 1,662.
—Dispatches from Kashden, Asiatic Russia, say that a great earthquake has visited that region. It damaged most of the houses in the town of Bisheerzek, and ruined the cities of Suluk and Belvoosk. Fifty-four persons were killed and sixty-four injured.
—A gang of over eighty negroes have been committing fearful outrages in the vicinity of Huntington, Pa. Two families in the country, one keeping a tavern, and the other a saloon, were robbed and most outrageously tortured, one woman being left naked and nearly dead.
Heart Disease.
WHEN an individual is reported to have died of "disease of the heart," we are in the habit of regarding it as an inevitable event—as something which could not have been foreseen or prevented—and it is too much the habit, when persons suddenly fall down dead, to report the "heart" as the cause; this silences all inquiry and investigation, and saves the trouble and inconvenience of a repulsive "post mortem." A truer report would have a tendency to save many lives. It is through a report of "disease of the heart" that many an opium-eater is let off into the grave, which covers at once his folly and crime; the brandy-drinker, too, quietly slides around the corner thus, and is heard of no more; in short, this report of "disease of the heart" is the mantle of charity, which the politic coroner and the sympathetic physician throw around the graves of "genteel people."
At a late scientific congress it was reported that of sixty-six persons who had suddenly died, an immediate and faithful post mortem showed that only two persons had any heart affections whatever, one sudden death only in thirty-three from disease of the heart. Nine out of the sixty-six died of apoplexy, one out of every seven; while forty-six, more than two out of three, died of lung affections, half of them of "congestion of the lungs"—that is, the lungs were as full of blood they could not work, as there was not room for air enough to get in to support life.
It is, then, of considerable practical interest to know some of the common every-day causes of this "congestion of the lungs"—a disease which, the figures above being true, kills three times as many persons, at short warning, as heart disease and apoplexy together. Cold feet, tight shoes, tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting still until chilled through and through, after having been warmed up by labor or a long and hasty walk; going too suddenly from a close, heated room as a lounger, or listener, or speaker, while the body is weakened by continued application, or abstinence, or heated by the effort of a long address—these are the fruitful, the very fruitful causes of sudden death in the form of "congestion of the lungs," but which, being falsely reported as "disease of the heart," and regarded as an inevitable event, throw people off the guard, instead of pointing them plainly to the true causes, all of which are avoidable, and very easily so, as a general rule, when the mind has been intelligently drawn to the subject.—Sel.
Eating When Sick.
By Dio Lewis
It is the custom among a certain class of people, when a member of the family falls sick, to begin at once to ask, "Now, what can you eat?" Every one has heard the old story of the man who always ate eighteen apple dumplings when he was sick. On one occasion, when engaged upon the eighteenth, his little son said, "Pa, give me a piece?" "No, no, my son," replied the father, "go away, pa's sick." When a young man has surfeited, in season and out of season until exhausted nature gives way, and a fever is coming on, the good mother is in trouble. She anxiously inquires, "Now, John, what can you eat? You must eat something! People can't live without food!" Then come toast and tea, etc. The stomach is exhausted, and no more needs stimulating, or food, than a jaded horse needs the whip! What is needed is rest, complete rest. Nine-tenths of the acute diseases might be prevented by a few days' starvation when the first indications appear. I don't mean complete abstinence in every case, but perhaps a piece of coarse bread, with cold water for drink. If such a policy was generally adopted, what ruin would overtake the medical profession!
—Dr. Dio Lewis.
Doing All to God’s Glory
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—The Wesleyans have 6,000 communicants and 20,000 adherents in Ceylon.
—Monsignore Capel places the number of Catholics in this country at 8,000,000.
—General Booth thinks that his Salvation Army will number 20,000,000 in 1900.
—Mohammedan citizens of London are making arrangements to build a mosque in that city.
—The city mission of Berlin circulates no less than 75,000 printed sermons on Sunday morning.
—The smallest salary a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Australia is permitted to receive is $1,500.
—The Austrian Government has decided to reconsider the laws recently made, forbidding Sunday labor in Vienna.
—The Religious Tract Society, of England, has translated and published “Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress” in seventy languages.
—The British and Foreign Bible Society determined last year to issue an edition of the New Testament at two cents a copy. In nine months 950,000 copies were sold.
—A revised version of the Scriptures in French is now in course of publication at Neuchatel. The work is under the direction of a committee presided over by Professor Godet, the eminent commentator.
—In the two States of Vermont and New Hampshire the loss to the Free Will Baptist denomination since 1844 has been 94 churches, 63 ministers, and 6,529 communicants, being one-third of its total strength.
—The New York Tribune states that among the nineteen petitioners for a liquor store opposite St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Sixth Avenue and Fifteenth Street, were several members of the church, the sexton, and two deacons.
—The Christian at Work says that at the funeral of the late Dr. Irenaeus Prime, “the journalistic, medical, legal, mercantile, and religious professions were largely represented.” We did not suppose it was as bad as that. We thought that at least a few of the religious profession might be found among doctors, lawyers, journalists, and merchants.
—A dispatch from London says: “Church and State will be the leading question at the coming election, both the church and the clergy, by their conduct, almost daily helping the Radical cry of ‘Divorce Church and State!’ The newspapers continue to bring charges against the clergy for drunkenness and loose morals on one hand, and bigotry and clerical oppression on the other.”
—The editor of a religious paper in a town a few miles from Oakland is attending meetings in Washington Territory, and writes his editorials from there. In a recent one we find the following: “As our wagon is waiting, we close this, though we are full of the subject, and also of a chicken dinner, abundantly provided by Mrs. —.” Perhaps that pastor thinks that he can properly “feed the flock” by giving them an account of what he has had to eat.
—A London paper says that at a late meeting of the St. Luke’s vestry, the accounts for the expenses in connection with the recent election of vestrymen were presented. These included £26 for refreshments during the day. One member of the vestry moved to reduce this sum by one-half. He protested against the great amount of drinking that went on, and wanted to know why the poor-rates should be burdened with bills for vestrymen’s beer. His fellow-vestrymen treated this impertinent question with silent contempt, and as his amendment found no seconder, the subject dropped.
—The Hebrew Journal says, “It is, after all, not our human conception of God, nor the manner in which we worship him, but the consciousness that there is a God, and that we depend on his guidance and providence, that constitutes the essence of religion; and herein every worshiper of divinity is alike, no matter as to the form of worship. Have not we all one Father? Has not one God created us?” The Independent quotes this with approval, and says that the Journal “is giving us all lessons in charity.” So, then, “charity,” in the modern religious sense, is to admit that Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Mohammedans, and deists are equally correct. How long will it be before the mantle of “charity” is thrown over the devils? We understand that they also have a clear consciousness that there is one God.
Memento of Garfield.
SOME time ago Mrs. Garfield gave Ex-President Hayes a memento of her husband, which is kept with zealous care in Hayes's Fremont house. It is a small brass calendar, with the months, days, and years on little cylinders, to be turned as time goes on. This was always on Garfield's desk, and he used it for years in his Washington library. He took it to the White House, and made it a rule to turn it each morning, thus reminding himself of the right date before beginning the day's work. On the morning of July 3, he turned the cylinder and finished some business before going to his death at the depot. The little calendar was never regulated from that day, and remains now as he left it on that fatal morning, marking "Saturday, July 3, 1881."—Chicago Times.
China’s Remarkable Achievements
The Chinese were the first inventors of printing, the first inventors of gunpowder and the magnetic needle. They were first to hatch eggs of fowl by steam, and to hatch fish eggs artificially; the first to have chain pumps and artesian wells. Their great wall and grand canal were made in the remote ages of the past; their penal code is two thousand years old; and their civil service examinations, which we are just learning to imitate, they have had for the last thousand years. China is ahead on bridges, the largest in the world being her structure at Lagang, over an arm of the China Sea. It is five miles long, built entirely of stone; has three hundred arches seventy feet high, and a roadway seventy feet wide. The parapet is a balustrade, and each of the pillars, which are seventy-five feet apart, support a pedestal on which is placed a lion twenty-one feet long, made of one block of marble. When our barbarian fore-fathers were wondering about the northern coasts of Europe, ignorant of letters or any of the fine arts, the literary Chinaman, dressed in silks and satins, was lounging on his sofa and drinking tea from painted porcelain cups.—Sel.
Jewish Longevity.
By N. Y. Observer
Facts have been collected to prove that the average length of life is greater among Jews than Christians, under similar circumstances. In London it is stated that the death rate of Christians is fourteen per cent., of Jews only ten. It has been shown that in Frankfort the Jews live eleven years longer than the Christians, and that of those who reach the age of seventy years, thirteen are Christians and twenty-seven are Jews. In Prussia, from 1822 to 1840, it has been ascertained that the Jewish population increased by three and a half per cent. more than the Christian, there being one birth in twenty-eight of the Jews to one in twenty-five of the Christians, and one death in forty of the Jews to one in thirty-four of the Christians.—N. Y. Observer.
Children Sold to the Lowest Bidder
The public hiring out of children to the lowest bidder still obtains in the Swiss canton of Berne. A heart-rending case of this kind is reported from Biel, where the public crier, despite the tears and entreaties of the widowed mother, "placed" her four young children of ten, eight, six, and two years for twenty-eight, thirty-one, forty, and seventy francs respectively for the remainder of the year, thus separating the whole family for fear lest the wretched woman become a burden upon the town. And that is done in republican Switzerland!—Sel.
A Money-Lender’s Usurious Interest
A MONEY-LENDER in Bristol recently sued a butcher for £20 due on a promissory note. It transpired that the rate of interest was 130 per cent. As the note was a written contract, the judge could only give judgment for the plaintiff, but he indicated what he thought of the transaction by ordering payment at the rate of sixpence per month. It was calculated that ten years would elapse before the Shylock would be reimbursed the amount he had to pay for court fees.—Sel.
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN
CHRIST AND SATAN FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM TO THE END OF TIME.
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE,
Author of "The Life of Christ," "Sketches from the Life of Paul," "Bible Sanctification," and other popular works.
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This volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting history that has ever been written of the great conflict between Christianity and the powers of darkness, as illustrated in the lives of Christian martyrs and reformers on one hand, and wicked men and persecuting powers on the other. Beginning with our Lord's great prophecy given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, in which he outlines the history of the whole dispensation, it sketches the fulfillment. It pictures the siege and overthrow of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the Temple. It calls our attention to the bitter persecutions of the Christians in the first centuries, and notes the rise and growth of the Papacy. It gives a clear conception of the character and influence of the Waldenses, who, through centuries of persecution, maintained the purity of their faith, and by their missionary efforts prepared the nations of Europe for the Reformation.
Brief and lifelike sketches are given of the works, the successes, and the persecutions of Wycliffe, Luther, Tyndale, Huss, Jerome, Knox, and other reformers and martyrs.
Considerable space is given to the life, work, and influence of later reformers and great religious leaders, such as George Whitefield, the Wesleys, and William Miller, and this is followed by chapters treating upon The Origin of Evil, The Agency of Evil Spirits, The Snares of Satan, and the Judgment.
The closing chapters give a vivid picture of the warfare of the church, her final redemption, and vividly describe the triumph of the people of God, the destruction of Satan and all his followers, and the renewing of the earth, which ends the awful controversy between the Son of God and the Powers of Darkness.
Earnest Christians of all classes and creeds will find in it encouragement and instruction in the delineation of the struggle maintained by men raised up of God in each successive age to preserve the pure and true religion, and they will see that the world has been led to accept one after another of Satan's devices, until her teachers are corrupted with false doctrines and with infidelity.
The period of history covered by this volume, is one of the deepest interest to all classes of readers.
The style of the author is clear, forcible, and often sublime, and, although simple enough in its statements to be understood and appreciated by a child, its eloquence calls forth the admiration of all.
If any of the readers of the SIGNS do not give the historical articles by A. T. J. a careful reading, they will miss a great deal. Although the articles are entirely independent of one another, they are in reality the first of a series, in which the writer will place the prophetic records side by side with the historical records which show their exact and literal fulfillment.
Every lover of the Bible must be interested in these articles, because they show beyond all controversy the divine origin of that book; and those who are engaged in teaching to the world that the prophecies indicate the speedy return of our Lord, will value these articles above all price, when they have read them.
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"New and Novel."
By Editor
THE following from the Daily Palladium, of Richmond, Indiana, May 21, 1885, tells its own story:—
"The question has been frequently asked of late what is meant by "The Roll?" and so much interest was felt in the explanation that the United Presbyterian church was filled last evening by an eager, anxious audience to witness the denouement. A temporary stage had been erected, and at the signal the audience witnessed the first act—the unrolling of the curtains. This was followed by rolling a procession of wheelbarrows across the stage, and later by a number of the actors taking a roll across the stage. The opening was ludicrous and caused roars of laughter, putting the audience in good humor for enjoying the excellent programme that followed: Piano solo by Professor Weisbrod, quartette singing, clarionette quartette, whistling chorus, imitation of mocking bird, by Abner Dalby. An army camp scene was excellently portrayed, representing camp life and picket duty.
"The entertainment concluded with a very laughable representation of bachelor's hall. Half a dozen bachelors were engaged in domestic duties, sewing on buttons, making bread, mending pants, darning socks, etc., relieving the monotony by a dissertation on married life. While thus engaged, the assessor enters and inquires for Benjamin Barnyard Myrick. Ben being cornered had to give an inventory of his personal property, including money at interest, bank stock, etc. His money standing out was a quarter he had loaned Rev. Mr. Gilchrist, and he was the unfortunate possessor of 5,555 shares of stock in the Richmond National Bank. This allusion to that defunct institution brought down the house. The entertainment was new and novel, and was much appreciated by every one present."
Yes, that is decidedly "new, and novel." But oh, the misery of it! Oh, the shame of it. That the cause of the blessed Christ, and the place of his worship, should be so prostituted!
News from Australia.
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THE Australian steamer being one day late, the SIGNS was partly printed when the mail arrived, but we stop the presses to insert this note concerning the work and workers in Australia.
Elder Haskell writes that they are all well and of good courage, and that the prospect is favorable,—fully as good an opening for tent labor as in the United States.
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Healdsburg College.
By William C. Grainger
ON account of the general complaint of hard times, we felt somewhat anxious in regard to the opening of the College, for fear the attendance might not be as good as at the opening of former sessions. Our fears, however, were not realized, for our enrollment is fully equal to that of the first week of last year, the most prosperous session of our school.
Prof. Brownsberger has returned from his Eastern visit very much improved in health. He feels confident that with faithfulness on the part of teachers and students this year can be made one of which we may all justly feel proud.
Prof. J. S. Osborne, who has been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Prof. Ramsey, is also here and fully installed in his new position. He comes well recommended as an educator of excellent attainments, having taught in some of the best schools of Kansas and Michigan. He was at one time professor of mathematics in Battle Creek College.
The classes are fully organized and have settled down to their work with an earnestness that betokens success. We only regret that others who contemplate coming to College this year cannot be here now to start in with the classes that have already been formed. Those who enter at the beginning of a term are usually the ones who are the most successful in their studies. In many respects the first few weeks are the most important part of a school term. Those who can possibly do so should enter at once, and thus avoid the necessity of entering classes that have made considerable advancement. By doing so they will save time and means, as it will insure greater success in their school work.
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Healdsburg, August 7, 1885.
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WE have just received the annual catalogue of this institution, which we are happy to acknowledge as a rival of our Healdsburg College. By the catalogue we learn that there has been an average yearly attendance of one hundred during the four years since the school started. All the ordinary branches are taught, and the total expense for tuition, lodging at the Students' Home, washing, and lights, is the remarkably small sum of $14 per month of four weeks. Thoroughness in all departments is the motto of the school, and the name of Prof. C. C. Ramsey, late of Healdsburg College, at the head of the faculty, is a guaranty that this motto will be faithfully followed. From long acquaintance with the Professor, we can confidently predict a good future for the South Lancaster Academy. The next term opens September 9.
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The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, AUGUST 13, 1885.
Camp-Meetings in 1885.
IOWA, Des Moines, ------------------- Aug. 18-24
KANSAS, Beloit, Mitchell County, -------- " 20-30
MAINE, Portland, ----------------- Aug. 20 to Sept. 1
NEW ENGLAND, Lynn, Mass., ------------ " 27 " " 8
NEVADA, Carson City, ---------------- " 27 to " 7
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Santa Ana, --------------
NEW YORK, Syracuse, ------------------- Sept. 3-15
ILLINOIS, Aurora, ------------------------ " 9-15
MICHIGAN, ------------------------------ " 17-29
CALIFORNIA, Stockton, -------------------- " 18-28
INDIANA, Logansport, --------------- Sept. 24 to Oct. 6
OHIO, Springfield, ---------------------- Oct. 1-13
KENTUCKY, ------------------------------ " 14-20
NEBRASKA (State Meeting), Lincoln, ------- " 14-20
MISSOURI, ------------------------------ " 14-20
COLORADO, ------------------------------ " 21-27
TENNESSEE, ----------------------------- " 21-27
KENTUCKY, ------------------------------ " 14-20
TENNESSEE, ----------------------------- " 21-27
W. C. White Sails for Europe
By Editor
A TELEGRAM from Brother W. C. White, received August 7, stated that he and his party would sail from Boston on the 8th. When this reaches the most of our readers, the party will be in Europe.
Two Hundred Begin Keeping the Sabbath
By Editor
IN looking over the last number of the Review, we find in the "Progress" department, reports of two hundred who have recently begun to keep the Sabbath. That is a pretty good report for one issue. The cause is indeed progressing.
Preparing for the California Camp-Meeting
By Editor
WE hope that our people are beginning to plan for the California camp-meeting in September. Time passes rapidly, and the meeting will be upon us almost before we are aware of it. The first thing to be done, if it has not already been done, is to make up your minds that you will go. Make up your minds so firmly that nothing but sickness can keep you from going. When the decision is once fully made, the preparation will be comparatively easy. No one can afford to stay away.