—There are 269 life-boats on the coast of the British Isles.
—The new British Parliament was formally opened April 29.
—It is said that 62,000,000 people speak the German language.
—Benson J. Lossing is at work on a cyclopedia of American history.
—There are 26,050 Sisters of Charity in the different parts of the world.
—April 29, the Czar’s 62d birthday, was celebrated by releasing 6,000 prisoners.
—The Russian districts of Volsk and Don are suffering from plague and famine.
—The Salvation Army is now at Newark, N. J., where it has enrolled 70 converts.
—Our Canadian neighbors propose to tunnel the St. Lawrence River at Montreal.
—Over 300 families have been made utterly destitute by the forest fires in New Jersey.
—It is said that Bismarck deeply and sincerely regrets the Liberal triumphs in England.
—There is a rumor that the Roman Catholics are to have four more cardinals in this country.
—The annual interest on the national debt has diminished from $143,000,000 annually to less than $82,000,000.
—A successful Sunday-school which was in operation in Vienna has been stopped by the public-school authorities of Austria.
—A late exchange states that there are now about 1,200 reliable converts to Christianity among the Chinamen on the Pacific coast.
—During the past year, 130 Indians were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the Episcopal Church, and 73 Indian adults were baptized.
—A sod church in Kansas—one with walls of sod, roof covered with sod, and a floor of earth—costs about $10 and a few days’ work.
—Spain is troubled with revolutionary juntas, which threaten to rival the Nihilists of Russia. The government is taking measures to suppress them.
—An anchor has been fished up off the Island of Trinidad, stamped 1497, which is believed to have belonged to Columbus’s third expedition to America.
—At a recent fete held in the Vatican, Pope Leo was extolled in poems in 49 different languages, recited by scholars of the College of the Propaganda.
—Russia has removed her interdict upon the worship of Old Believers; and the churches of that faith may now be reopened, after having been closed for 40 years.
—We learn from the Advance that the authorities of Stamford (probably Stamford, Ct.) have ordered the arrest of any one selling newspapers on the streets Sundays.
—April 24, a tornado passed through Central Illinois, killing seven or eight persons, and seriously injuring many more. An immense amount of property was destroyed.
—In England and Wales, the various branches of the Methodist church provide for the spiritual wants of 3,138,000 people, about one-eighth of the entire population.
—There is a report (an official one, this time) that the King of Burmah is endeavoring to propitiate the “gods,” and secure his restoration to health, by sacrificing virgins.
—Japan is making rapid strides toward civilization. Schools are being multiplied and local elections held, to prepare the people for a representative, Parliamentary government.
—A new law has been passed in Germany, by which only one postal delivery will take place on Sundays in Berlin. A most strenuous opposition is being made by the merchants against this law.
—Later news from the storm that passed over portions of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas, the 18th, gives the loss of life at over 125, and the number of the seriously injured as considerably over 100.
—The city of Rochester, N. Y., has five public libraries, with an aggregate of 75,000 volumes. The union of these libraries in one general building is now urged as a measure of public convenience.
—A colored woman reputed to be 110 years old, the widow of a soldier in the war of 1812, has died recently. She was the oldest pensioner on the rolls, and had been in receipt of a pension over 60 years.
—Mr. Moody has closed the meetings he has been holding in St. Louis, and now goes to Leadville, Col., for a month’s campaign among the miners and speculators of that city. Mr. Sankey accompanies him.
—The Christian Committee at Bagdad telegraphs that a terrible famine is raging throughout Kurdistan and Mesopotamia. Immense numbers of starving Christians are seeking aid at the hands of the committee.
—There is a bill before Congress appropriating $500,000 to commemorate in suitable paintings, upon the walls of the National Capitol, the birth, life, and death of our Saviour. The paintings are to be by the great living artists of our country.
—At a recent religious service held in a theater in Florence, Italy, 3,000 people were present. A portion of the word of God was offered to any one who cared to ask for it at the door, and 1,700 copies were gone long before the crowd had dispersed.
—An artesian well near Buda-Pesth, Hungary, has been completed, which was commenced in 1868. The total depth is 3,200 ft., and the temperature of the water it yields is nearly 165° Fahr., the yield in 24 hours being from 9,500 to 44,000 gallons.
—It is said that 135,000 foreigners landed at the port of New York alone during the first three months of the year. And on all hands it is admitted that the new-comers are, as a class, an improvement on much that Europe has hitherto sent to our shores.
—In Madras, India, there is a weekly paper, published in both English and Tamil, whose object is to disseminate the ideas and philosophy of Bradlaugh, Mrs. Besant, and others of the same school. Its tone toward Christianity is that of outrageous misrepresentation and abuse.
—Dr. Hassel, of England, discovers that one may acquire disease by licking postage stamps which contain red lead in the coloring. He says that sage-green and dull red wall-papers contain arsenic as well as green ones do. The penny stamps of England are very poisonous.
—The Crown Princess of Germany has just become an honorary member of the English Institute of Painters in Water Colors, and has expressed her willingness to show her own work at the exhibitions of the society. And Karl Theodor, Duke of Bavaria, having passed a strict medical examination, has taken the degree of M. D. at a German University, and will thus be the first royal physician. Perhaps these royal personages find more pleasure in the honors they earn than in those they inherit.
—The Mennonites have introduced into Kansas a new cereal from Southern Russia, which is unaffected by drought, worms, grasshoppers, and other enemies of grain. It is said to be very fruitful, yielding 60 bushels to the acre, and for nutritive qualities to compare favorably with Indian corn, wheat, and rye; while its stalk furnishes not only fodder, but also fuel. If the statements concerning this wonderful cereal are confirmed, it will not be necessary for the government to supply the artesian wells that have been called for for irrigating the arid plains of the great West.
—April 25, a severe storm visited Macon, Miss. Two currents of air, bearing clouds charged with electricity, met over the northern part of this place. Besides the lightning, balls of fire, some of them as large as a man’s hand, were seen whirling across the clouds. The storms met near the railroad station, and that part of the town was soon in ruins. More than 20 were killed, many were wounded, and the loss of property was very great. Two bodies were found 100 yards from the house; and bolt goods were carried eight miles, and lodged in tree tops.
Letter from Constantinople.
By Dr. J. G. Bliss
The outlook in the Turkish empire at the present time, both politically and socially, is anything but assuring. As to what may be in the near future, statesmen, diplomatists, and philanthropists are alike in doubt,—alike unable to divine. “Ever-increasing chaos” is the verdict of all who carefully study the condition of the country, and observe the events that are transpiring in it. If I mistake not, it is a political axiom that no government whose plans do not compass the good of its people, can long sustain itself. Whoever looks at the bitter misery in every part of this land, and traces it to its legitimate cause; whoever examines the laws which are enacted, regulating customs, commerce, and currency; whoever carefully scans the conduct of the ever-changing ministries, the provincial governors, and even the petty officials, cannot fail to be convinced that the good of the people, as such, seldom enters as a factor into the determinations of this Moslem government. “Whom the gods will destroy they first make mad,” and madness rules the hour in Turkey. It matters little who is elevated to office, be the position high or low, all sooner or later join in the infatuated rush to ruin.
Evidently the darkest hour of night here in Turkey has not yet passed. Many a man’s heart fails him for fear, in view of what may be.
The recent order of the government reducing the value of some four millions of pounds of the old metallic currency to one half, is but one of the measures that is carrying dismay and death to thousands of families all through the provinces. By this single merciless order, the present ministry has destroyed two millions of pounds of property in the hands, not of the rich autocrats of Stamboul, but of the middle and lower classes scattered from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. What will be the outcome of the distress and commotion which must follow the carrying out of this order, none can tell. Volcanic forces are evidently gathering. The telegraph already tells of riots and insubordination in many cities and towns of the interior, resulting from efforts on the part of the local authorities to carry out this decision of the Central Government. Many a Moslem, whose patience and patriotism have been strained to the utmost by the oppressions endured by the people, is watching with eager attention the proceedings of the Nihilists in Russia, ready to do a work in Turkey as deadly as the fiercest hatred of the government can inspire.
Foolhardy schemes will no doubt spring to the front in this time of unrest and foreboding. Such schemes may fail, and doubtless will. However this may be, no human power can avert the doom of the Ottoman State. This is becoming more and more evident to all. Since, therefore, it must be conceded that the Ottoman rule, as such, cannot long endure, the question of its dynasties, ministries, and powers of government becomes a minor and secondary question, and the sooner the European powers accept this in its full meaning, the better.—Dr. J. G. Bliss, in Christian Intelligencer.
THE CANCER IN SOCIETY.
By Howard Crosby, D. D.
THERE is no danger to our State more threatening than the disregard of law by public officials. It destroys the very foundation of society by disheartening its virtuous and emboldening its vicious elements. It is not the wail of a pessimist that declares this evil in the ascendant in the United States, but it is the calm judgment of one who is optimistically inclined, and who has watched the conduct of magistrates and of the community toward breaches of the law for many years. I speak of magistrates and the community together, because there is a correlation between them that must not be overlooked in the study of the problem how to mend our public affairs. Magistrates could never defy the laws they are set to maintain, were not the community their virtual helpers in the matter; nor, on the other hand, would the community become so hardened to the defiance of law, were not magistrates so ready to furnish examples to the criminal classes. The chief cause of the evil is undoubtedly to be found in the demands of partisan politics. The party is placed before the State. —Howard Crosby, D. D., in Stoddart's Review.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13.
WREN.—Died at Kirksville, Mo., April 15, 1880, our little Josie, aged 2 years and 5 months, after nearly three weeks of sickness from lung fever. H. AND N. E. WREN.
BRITT.—Fell asleep Feb. 24, 1880, in Harpswell, Maine, our beloved sister, Martha Britt, aged 71 years. She was an exemplary Christian, and for twelve years kept the Sabbath alone. Funeral discourse by Eld. Herrick. E. M. FLANDERS.
WHITLOCK.—Died of erysipelas, in Hutchinson, Minn., April 4, 1880, Ella May, aged 1 year, 3 months, and 16 days, only daughter of Theodore and Mary Whitelock. They sorrow not as those who have no hope. Funeral discourse from Rev. 21:4. JOHN FULTON.
ANWAY.—Died at his home in Plainwell, Mich., April 21, 1880, of congestion of the lungs and liver, Bro. Nathan N. Anway, aged 73 years and 1 month. Bro. Anway had observed the Sabbath about twenty-five years, and was regarded by all who knew him as a sincere Christian man. Funeral discourse by Eld. Fletcher (Baptist). C. A. R.
REW.—Died in Garden City, Minn., March 12, 1880, Caroline M., wife of Bro. Enos Rew, aged 63 years. Sister R. was a person of superior mind, and the patient spirit ever manifested during the years of her sickness shows the sustaining value of the Christian’s hope. She was one of the first to embrace present truth in the State of Wisconsin. F. W. MORSE.
DOWNER.—Died at the residence of her daughter, in Augusta, Eau Claire Co., Wis., Feb. 1, 1880, Sister Julia A. Downer, wife of Milo Downer, aged 62 years. She embraced the third angel’s message about ten years ago, and to the close of her life rejoiced greatly in the truth. For several years prior to her death she was a great sufferer, but she bore her afflictions with much patience. She died hoping for eternal life when Jesus comes. I. SANBORN.
BLISS.—Died of locked-jaw, in Locke, Cayuga Co., N. Y., April 5, 1880, Sister Emma W. Bliss, wife of Eld. Geo. W. Bliss, in the 20th year of her age. With her husband, she embraced present truth about one year ago, and soon after united with the S. D. Adventist church in Genoa. She was earnest and successful in the missionary and Sabbath-school work, and we were looking forward with anticipation to the service she might yet render in the cause of the Master. The husband and two little ones have sustained a great loss, but they share the sympathies of an afflicted church and community. Discourse by Eld. A. H. Todd, Baptist minister of Tioga Center, N. Y., where she was taken for interment. Text, Job 18:15, first clause. GEO. D. BALLOU.
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This includes instruction in the following topics: Book-keeping, Business Correspondence, Business Forms, Business Penmanship, Commercial Law, Banking, and Telegraphy. The common branches are also pursued in connection with the topics given above; also, French and German.
There are two sessions daily—afternoon and evening.
The courses in this department are of varying length, and the tuition ranges from $5.00 to $30.00.
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IV. DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY.
This department has a course of three years, which includes, besides the usual common branches, Geology and Greek.
V. DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE.
This department has a course of one year. It is designed for those who desire to obtain accurate and scientific information on all subjects pertaining to the preservation of health, together with a fundamental knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and a practical acquaintance with the nature and ordinary treatment of common diseases.
THE FACULTY
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The majority of the students are young men and women of true moral worth. Their influence over the unstable is highly restrictive and salutary, making it comparatively easy to maintain the most rigid discipline.
EXPENSES.
Probably there is no other College in the United States where a thorough education can be obtained at so small an expense. A system of clubbing, which has become very popular among students, enables them to secure excellent board at $1.10 a week, exclusive of lodging, which costs 50 cents to $1.00 more. The annual expenses of each student, including all but traveling expenses and clothing, need not exceed $113.00. A full descriptive Catalogue will be sent free, upon application.
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This popular health journal enters upon its fifteenth volume with the most flattering prospects for a continuation of the prosperity that has attended its publication in the past. It has for several years enjoyed the LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY HEALTH JOURNAL IN AMERICA, and its publishers are determined, not only to maintain the high position already attained, but to greatly increase its circulation the coming year, and thus enlarge its field of usefulness.
During the year each number will contain a large amount of valuable and interesting matter on the subjects of Health, Temperance, Popular Science, General Literature, and other topics of interest. The practical information in its pages on Sanitary Science, Public and Domestic Hygiene, and topics of kindred nature, gives it a scope and field of usefulness peculiar to itself, and unoccupied by any other journal.
AN ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE
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Specimen copies of the journal will be sent free to any address on application.
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
A RELIGIOUS PROPHETIC JOURNAL.
This is the pioneer sheet of eight pages (the size of the REVIEW page), circulated everywhere by our Tract and Missionary workers, at the low price of one dollar a year to the T. and M. societies only.
The conductors of the SIGNS have laid their plans to make this pioneer sheet for 1880 a power in the land. Live writers are engaged for the work. Elder Smith will give a series of articles under the significant heading, Synopsis of Present Truth. Elder White will occupy several pages of each number with sermons on Redemption through Christ, and other subjects of like importance. And besides her regular articles on Old Testament history, Mrs. White will furnish other matter in her usual forcible style.
There will be a special edition of the SIGNS of twelve pages, for old subscribers, who are generally members of our churches on the Pacific coast. This will contain the eight pages of the pioneer sheet, with four pages of church matters, reports and appointments inserted, making twelve pages, which will contain nearly three hundred square inches more than the old size of eight pages. Price, invariably, $2 00 a year.
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THE YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR.
WEEKLY AND MONTHLY.
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STIMME DER WAHRHEIT.
A GERMAN MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED FAMILY JOURNAL.
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