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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 2.

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In the fourteenth century a copy of the English translation of the New Testament, which could be obtained only in manuscript, was worth fifty pounds ($242.) In 1866 a printed copy can be obtained in England for two pence (four cents.)
Twelve hundred balls are announced for the winter in New York.
There is a street in New York city where the tenants of every house on both sides of the street have applied for licences to sell liquor.
The lower house of the Georgia Legislature has just passed a bill prohibiting railroad trains and steamboats from running on the first day of the week.
THE official ceremony of laying the last brick in the lake tunnel at Chicago was performed on Thursday morning, Dec. 6, by Mayor Rice in presence of the board of aldermen and invited guests, numbering about 70, after which there was a banquet at the crib.