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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 17, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 14

The Pacific Press.—The first Californian paper was published twenty years ago. Trubner’s Literary Record, gives the following statistics of the Pacific Press at the present time:

In San Francisco there are twelve dailies, one tri-weekly, and forty-one weeklies. Part of the letters are printed in French, Spanish, and Italian.

In the remainder of that State—twelve dailies, one tri-weekly, and seventy-three weeklies.

In Oregon—three dailies and nineteen weeklies.

In Nevada—four dailies and six weeklies.

In Washington Territory—eight weeklies.

In Idaho—one daily, one tri-weekly, and three weeklies.

In Utah—two dailies, one semi-weekly and two weeklies.

In Colorado—one daily and one weekly.

In Montana—one tri-weekly and one weekly.

In British Columbia—three dailies and five weeklies.

In Pacific ports of Mexico—six weeklies.

In Sandwich Islands—two English and two Hawaiian weeklies, and two monthlies—in all six papers.

The total comprises 214 papers. The advertisements paid for in San Francisco exceed $400,000 per annum.

The weekly circulation of all the city papers exceeds 225,000 copies. The circulation of the three English papers printed in Honolulu (Advertiser, Gazette and Friend) is about 2,200 copies, and that of the three Hawaiian papers printed in Honolulu (Kuokoa, Au Okoa and Auloloa) 7,800—in all 10,000 copies, among a population of 5,000 foreigners and 60,000 Hawaiians.—London Newspaper Press.

Picnics.—It is not easy to detect any necessary connection between rowdyism and religion; but disgraceful scenes at church festivals and picnics are getting sadly common. A Brooklyn congregation started out to enjoy themselves the other day by a sail on the sound, but they took too much whisky along, and so the exercises wound up with a desperate fight, and the police as well as the rioters were dreadfully beaten. The dollars which that picnic brought into the church treasury were dearly purchased at the cost of drunkenness and broken heads, and nights in the cells, and mornings in the police court. All is very well to say that the clergy need money and can get it in no other way. For the glory of God they had better go without it, if it can only be obtained through the gambling shops called “charity fairs,” and the Bacchic orgies called picnics. It is not long since a man was murdered in one of these charity fairs, and many disorders are common at them which never find their way into print.

AN “UNNATURAL CRIME.”—Pope Pius has lately warned English Roman Catholics of the deadly peril in sending their sons to the English universities. The Universe, a Roman Catholic paper in Philadelphia, also protests against sending Catholic children to public schools in that city. It says: “A Catholic father who sends his children to a Protestant school is far, far worse in unnatural crime than the mother who exposes her infants on the path of the wolf. To send them where their faith is certain to be poisoned, is ingratitude to our Saviour, of parallel heinousness to the pride of the fallen angels against the Almighty. Those angels are now devils in hell for their sin. The Catholics who send their children to Protestant schools have inevitably before them eternal companionship with those fiends,” according to this Catholic paper.

THE NEW FASHIONS IN HAIR.—A number of wealthy and fashionable ladies of New York city, who have been in the habit of using hair dyes for the purpose of coloring their hair, have become convinced that the use of many of these compounds is highly detrimental to the health, in many instances causing the most deplorable consequences, such as dimness of sight, intense headache, vertigo, etc. These ladies have decided to wear their hair gray, and we learn that gray hair is fast becoming fashionable, and is held by dealers at double the price asked for other colors. As high as $40, and even $75 have been paid in that city for a very small bunch of gray hair.