Significant Items by F. A. Buzzell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1872

Significant Items.

By F. A. Buzzell

COMPILED FOR REVIEW BY F. A. BUZZELL.

A Chinese Joss temple is about to be erected in New York city.

The money spent in banquets and balls for the entertainment of the Grand Duke Alexis in this country is estimated at $2,000,000.

A brand new Chinese temple, recently dedicated in San Francisco, has two boss Josses at the door, and seventy-five bosses of smaller proportions inside.

The commissioners of public instruction in Davenport, Iowa, have stricken the Bible from the list of public school books.

A new attachment is now being made at Colt’s armory in Hartford, Ct., for the Gatling gun. It is known as the “drum feeder,” by which four hundred shots are discharged per minute.—Boston Journal.

The number of emigrants arriving at this port since Jan. 1 is 92,841, against 65,998, during the same period in 1871.

A terrible epidemic of some kind has appeared in the western towns in Brazil. Eight thousand out of a population of 13,000, have died.—N. Y. Tribune.

Mayor Gaston of Boston has vetoed the order passed by the City Council for opening the Public Library on Sundays. The Mayor, advised by the City Solicitor, thinks the carrying out of the order would conflict with State enactments.—N. Y. Tribune.

Attempts are being made to obtain the use of the Coliseum at the close of the world’s Jubilee, for a series of world’s prayer meetings.—Worcester Co., (Mass.) Gazette.

“To be armed is the principal part of Germany’s existence; France increases her army every day; Austria without her innumerable regiments would fall to pieces; that great peace-maker, the Pope, compels Italy to ruin itself in big guns and swollen battalions; the hosts of Russia cannot be counted; the Sultan boasts that he can put 700,000 men into the field.