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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 2, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 41.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Thursday. November 30, has been set apart by the President as thanksgiving day.

—In one day last week, 4,484 immigrants landed in New York from European ports.

—A wind storm, accompanied by hail and snow, did great damage throughout England, Oct. 24.

—The loss by the burning of the exposition building at Sidney, New South Wales, was $2,500,000.

—It has been found possible to photograph landscapes from the window of a train running at the rate of forty miles an hour.

—There is serious trouble in Afghanistan. The inhabitants in the vicinity of Cabul have revolted and killed their Governor.

—It is stated that the trouble in Soudan, caused by the false prophet, dwarfs Arabi's revolt into insignificance. Already 6,000 Egyptian troops have been massacred by his followers.

—Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned his position as Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, which he has held for twenty-five years, in order to give himself wholly to literary pursuits.

—An exchange thinks that Arabi might easily get clear if he would only enter a plea of "emotional insanity." He might if he were in the United States, but that plea doesn't work well across the water.

—The Bey of Tunis has made a treaty with France by which that power assumes the debt of Tunis, organizes the administration of justice, and takes charge of all public property, giving the Bey a retiring allowance.

—Several quite severe shocks of earthquake have been felt in the East within the last few days. This will serve to remind our eastern friends that California is not the only place where the earth does not rest on an immovable foundation.

—The Krupp factories at Essen do the biggest gun business in the world. They use 429 boilers, 453 steam engines, 82 steam hammers, 1,556 furnaces, produce 300,000 tons of steel, and 26,000 tons of iron yearly, and employ a population of 15,700.

—The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. have just satisfactorily tested a system of electric lighting for passenger coaches. A soft, bright, and steady light was obtained, and the experiment pronounced a success by the railroad officials and electricians who were on the train.

—The expectation is entertained that difficulty between France and China will result from the entrance into Annam of troops of both the French Republic and the Chinese Empire. It is regarded as very nearly impossible to prevent a collision between these rival armies.

—From thirty to fifty new cases of yellow fever are reported every day at Pensacola. Up to Oct. 24 there had been 2,058 cases, and 168 deaths. A mere statement of the facts cannot begin to convey any idea of the amount of suffering in the city and surrounding country.

—It was reported that the Egyptian Government was about to abandon the prosecution of Arabi Pasha, on account of the expressed wish of the authorities at Constantinople, but the British Ambassador has informed the Sultan that he would do well to turn his attention to internal reforms.

—By the recent typhoon in the Phillipine Islands, nearly the whole of Manilla was devastated. Most of the buildings were destroyed, and 60,000 families are said to be homeless. All the government offices and factories were destroyed, and all business was stopped. The loss of life is small.

—In Paris, Kentucky, the principal of a private school for boys and young men was shot on the 24th ult., by a lad of fourteen whom the teacher had slightly corrected the day previous. If that youngster is allowed to keep on he will some day be as great a man as Frank James, and all the "honorable" men will be proud to shake his hand.

—Considerable excitement is existing in France over the discovery of the fact that there is a wide spreading conspiracy of nihilists throughout the country. The members of the conspiracy are mostly young men who distribute revolutionary papers. There is a branch in all the towns and manufacturing villages. These are united into groups, and these in turn are united into federations governed by a central committee. The groups pass before the public as trades unions.

—A proposition has been made to employ a lady assistant to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Sun says, that "where there are 45,000 children nearly all under ten years of age, most of them being girls, and nearly 700 female school-teachers, all of them being young, and many of them being inexperienced, there seem to be duties that only a woman can properly perform. Such an assistant would be beneficial in many ways, and other cities would do well to adopt the plan.