The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, APRIL 9, 1885. “WARS and rumors of wars” are still the order of the day in China, Egypt, Afghanistan, Manitoba, and Central America. RAINS, very much needed, have recently visited California. Vegetation has a large growth for the time of year. And the telegraph brings news of heavy snow-storms in many parts of the East in the early days of April. In Canada railroad trains were delayed. ALL who wish information in regard to silk culture will address Mrs. Theodore Hittell, 808 Turk Street, San Francisco, Cal. Here is work in which women and children can engage. Better than wine producing. California is well adapted to silk culture, and there is no reason why it should not be largely followed. FOUR persons were baptized at Alameda beach on Sunday, March 29. They are members of the San Francisco church. Some who see the advertisements of bathing houses and shooting parks on Alameda beach get the idea that it is an unpleasant place for a baptism on Sunday. But it is not so. There are places on the beach, easy of access, away from the public resorts, quiet and every way pleasant for such a service. The beach is clean sand, and the water always smooth. It is the only place in this country, to our knowledge, where all these advantages are combined.