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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 7.

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-Frederick A. Tritle has been appointed Governor of Arizona.
-When the troubles are settled in Ireland, notice will be promptly given.
-New York capitalists are planning to erect a first-class American hotel in the city of Mexico.
-At Helena, Ark., the river is above the high-water mark of 1867, and the levees are fast breaking.
-General rains in California during the last week. The winter previous to this rain has been discouragingly dry.
-Gen. Grant has "gone back" on Eads' ship railroad enterprise, which, it is to be hoped, will kill the gigantic begging scheme.
-Governor St. John, of Kansas, has appointed Mrs. Cora M. Downs, of Wyandotte, one of the Regents of the State University.
-The First Methodist Church at Racine, Wis., was burned on Sunday, February 4. The church cost $38,000 and the organ $3,000.
-Decisive measures are being adopted at Cornell College to put a stop to hazing. All right-minded people hope for the success of the effort.
-The Choctaw nation, in Indian Territory, have a law against excessive cruelty to animals, and the penalty for its violation is fifty lashes.
-At St. Johns, N. B., the weight of snow crushed the roof of the car-sheds of the Inter-Colonial Railway. Nine cars were demolished. Loss $50,000.
-The order of the Czar that only wood shall be burned in the palace is said to be owing to the fact that the nihilists have smuggled dynamite in with coal.
-A large and important meeting of lawyers was held in Chicago, Saturday, January 21, to see what measures can be taken to prevent jury-packing and bribery.
-Land title suits have been filed in Oakland, within one week's time, against more than 10,000 defendants. One man has sued 6,220 property holders for possession in Temescal.
-A collision between a freight and an emigrant train near Dos Palmos, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, February 6, resulted in the destruction of thirty cars and two engines. No lives were lost.
-By an explosion in a colliery in Rhondda, Wales, Feb. 10, houses were shaken two miles off. Two thousand workmen are thrown out of employment. The number of lives lost is not yet ascertained.
-A note has been passing round that a compound of sulphate of zinc and digitalis is as "unfailing as fate" as a cure for small-pox. "Which the same" is a great humbug, to be avoided as all bugs should be.
-Three hundred Jewish refugees from Russia recently sailed from London, to the United States. Thousands of Jews are expected to flee from Russia, and calls are made for all their co-religionists to aid them with means.
-The murder of a man in a fight in a newspaper office in Washington is now supposed to be connected with the "star route cases." Those magnificent swindlers will never be brought to justice if any additional crimes will prevent.
-A Spark from a locomotive on the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad, on the 12th inst., set fire to little pools of oil in the lowland near Olean, N. Y., which communicated with tanks containing over 100,000 barrels of oil, and in a few minutes the whole was in flames.
-A terrific storm has prevailed along the coast at the mouth of Columbia River. At the latest intelligence the telegraph lines had been prostrate three days. The warehouse at Ilwaco was blown down, and the road between Ilwaco and the North Beach was blocked with fallen timber. The waves rolled over Tillamook Rock Light-house, 150 feet above the ocean level, until the lee side presented the appearance of a cataract. At Astoria the damage was confined to show-windows, etc.
-A piano teacher in Philadelphia has for years studied the anatomy of the hand with a view to discover why it is so much more difficult to raise the third finger of the hand above the keys of the piano than the other fingers. He thinks if he cuts a cord attached to that finger, which is wanting in the others, the difficulty will be removed, and has induced a pupil to submit to the operation, which will shortly be performed.—Alta. If we were the pupil, we would respectfully suggest to the music teacher that he first try his experiment on his own hand.
-The fastidious salad-maker who insists on having genuine imported olive oil will be horrified to learn that a large portion of that delectable article is manufactured from cotton-seed oil, exported to Europe from the Southern States. He will, however, be able to sympathize with the lover of genuine imported French wines when he finds that a large portion of them are made of glucose, potatoes, rotten apples, dried prunes, dates, figs, raisins, currants, red beets, and worst of all the flowers of the bassia tree, which, when properly dried, form in connection with water and sugar an excellent base for the manufacture of artificial wine. During November and December 250,000 bales of bassia blossoms were imported into France and converted into French wine, much of which swill is drunk by knowing Americans under the impression that it is the pure juice of the grape.—Chronicle.