NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 6.

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— The will of the late P. D. Armour shows that his estate is worth $15,000,000.

— Horse meat is being sold in the New York markets.

— The Swedish army is to be supplied with snow-shoes.

— New York brokers have shipped $1,640,000 in gold bars to France.

— The recent census of Germany shows phenomenal gains in city population.

— Samuel T. Leake, who made a fortune by the invention of a cotton-bale band, is dead.

— In 1899 there was fifty-six times as much liquor exported to Porto Rico as in 1898.

— More lace-makers have sailed from Liverpool, England, for Dowie’s colony at Zion, Wis.

— A resolution was recently introduced in the German Reichstag, the purpose of which is to prohibit child labor.

— Illinois has more distilleries than any other State in the Union. It pays “one fourth of the total internal revenue collected in the United States on the manufacture of liquors.”

— The Russian government has ordered the expulsion of the Jews from Siberia. In case the order is not complied with, the houses of the Jews are to be demolished, and the families will be transported.

— A thirty-story building is to be erected in New York City, “at the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-third streets,” on a lot 118 ft. 6 in. wide on Broadway and 97 ft. 7½ in. deep on Thirty-third Street. The Scientific American says that this will be the highest building in the city.

— The German navy, expensive as it is, costs each inhabitant of the empire less than two and one-half marks a year; while the amount spent by each person for alcohol and tobacco is between fifty and sixty marks, or twenty-four times as much. Germany spends 3,000,000,000 marks each year for beer, wine, whisky, and tobacco.

— Latest reports from Manila indicate that “the Taft Commission finally passed the educational bill in a form forbidding all religious instruction in the Philippine schools, even after school hours. Judge Taft favored religion in the schools; but Commissioners Ide and Moses opposed, holding that it would be an alliance of Church and State.”

— Speaking of the Jews in England, the editor of the Outlook says that “the English-born Jews are rapidly bringing about a crisis in Jewry. England, it seems, alone among the nations, threatens to absorb her Jewish subjects. By toleration, she is in a fair way of accomplishing what eighteen hundred years of oppression and contempt have failed to effect.”

— Commenting upon the custom of appointing certain days in the future as “decision days,” for Sunday-school students, a Baptist exchange says that it is spreading rapidly, and adds the following sensible remarks: “It looks to some of us like a satanic device. The habit of postponing to a future day the duty that God presses upon men for instant action, is a common method of losing the soul. No unsaved person has a right to delay for one moment compliance with the call of God. But the fixing of a date in the future for deciding the question of the acceptance of Christ, is countenancing present disobedience, and is imperiling the soul.”

— J. Louthian, president of the Turkish-American Society, a subject of the sultan of Turkey, was hazed at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Pa., January 24, by six of his classmates. Having already been graduated from the pharmacy department of the college, he had returned to secure a medical degree. “His silken mustache was the crowning glory of the Turk. His fellow-students decided that it should be removed. As the unfortunate Turk left Dr. Shoemaker’s clinic, he was pounced upon, thrown down, and carefully shaved.” It is thought that Turkey may, through her minister, take official notice of the insult. Just at present hazing seems to be a serious epidemic throughout the United States.

— The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned.

— Queen Victoria’s funeral occurred February 2.

— Many Russian Jews are emigrating to Argentina.

— Admiral Cervera is not expected to recover from his illness.

— Much suffering from famine is reported in the Shan-Se province, China.

— Paul Deschanel was recently re-elected president of the French Chamber of Deputies, defeating Henry Brisson.

— It has been ascertained that the total property loss due to the disastrous Galveston cyclone of September 8 aggregates $17,058,275.

— King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, has resumed control of the government, Crown Prince Gustave retiring from the regency.

— After much debate, the nomination of the son of Justice Harlan to be attorney-general of Porto Rico, was recently confirmed by the United States Senate.

— Anti-Semitism is on the increase among the University of Berlin students. “The Jewish students are being rigidly boycotted by their German fellow-students.”

— Michigan will have a $40,000 exhibit at the coming Pan-American Exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y., the bill appropriating that amount having been signed by Governor Bliss.

— King Edward VII, of England, recently sent President McKinley a personal message, expressing gratitude to the American people for the sympathy manifested on the death of his mother, the late Queen Victoria.

— The Baptists in the United States now number 4,446,833, which shows an increase of 1,017,328 during the last ten years. In the North there are 973,820 Baptists; in the South, 1,608,413; and the colored Baptists number 1,864,600.

— The veterans composing the Grand Army of the Republic are passing away at the rate of 1,000 a month, and many posts are being abandoned. Ten years ago 400,489 men answered the roll call. To-day the roster shows only 276,662 names. Some posts have but seven members left.

— During Victoria’s reign the population of Great Britain increased from 18,000,000 to 41,000,000; there were added to her empire “India, rich portions of Africa, Hongkong, most of Australia, and many islands of the sea,” a grand total for the empire, of 388,000,000 souls, inhabiting 11,355,000 square miles, making Great Britain “the largest empire on the globe in area, and outdone in population by China alone.”

— A French paper of hygiene says that most persons are turning their pockets “into nests of microbes by using handkerchiefs.” The writer suggests that people carry “detachable india-rubber pockets, and disinfect them at intervals, never using the same pocket for clean and soiled handkerchiefs.” The Japanese are ahead of so-called civilized people in the matter of handkerchiefs, as theirs are made of paper, and are thrown away after being used.

— “The capital invested in orange growing in the State of California,” says an exchange, “is estimated at $44,000,000. As the bulk of the oranges comes from seven of the southern counties of the State,—Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura,—some idea may be gained of the vast utility of this work in the United States to Uncle Sam. The number of non-fruit-bearing orange trees of this district is said to be about 1,227,300, and those now yielding fruit, 2,072,400. When all these trees are yielding the luscious California oranges, from this source alone the Californians, it is estimated, will reap a harvest of gold of $10,000,000 a year.”

— The disciples of Mrs. Carrie Nation seem to be multiplying. January 30 Mrs. Mary Sheriff “wrecked four of the leading saloons” of Anthony, Kan. In the evening she and the women who had helped her, celebrated their victory, and were “guarded from the indignation of the saloon keepers by male relatives,” who followed them around “with shotguns.” Her raid began at 6 a. m., and her followers were armed with “hatchets, clubs, broomsticks, stove lifters, and pickaxes.” And again: “At La Salle, Ill., January 24, several ladies, armed with small hatchets, entered the Harrison Hotel bar, and smashed the mirrors and fixtures and destroyed cigars and liquors, the damage amounting to $700. The crusaders wrecked the saloons of William Bunart and D. J. Collins, before being subdued by fifteen policemen, the town’s whole force, and a score of citizens.”

— General MacArthur will return to the United States.

— Morris K. Jesup recently gave $5,000 to Tuskegee Institute (Ala.), for a stock barn.

— President Kruger recently underwent, at Utrecht, a successful operation upon his eyes.

— Thieves stole $100,000 worth of revenue stamps from the safe of the internal revenue office at Peoria, Ill., the 28th ult.

— It is said that Russia will demand $200,000,000 from China “as indemnity for damages done to the Manchurian railway.”

— A resolution extending sympathy to the Filipinos and the Boers in their “heroic struggle for freedom,” was recently passed by the Arkansas House of Representatives.

— In China there has been some friction between the Russian admiral, Alexiev, and the British admiral, Seymour, “on account of the action of the latter in quelling pirates near Blonde Island, which Russia claims as part of her territory.”

— John Sheridan, head of the money-order department of the Havana (Cuba) post office, recently confessed to a theft of $1,300, and was arrested.

— Those 150 Russian students that were recently arrested at Kieff, for engaging in political agitation, have been “expatriated to Port Arthur [China], to do military service.”

— The public schools of Greater New York will cost $17,710,078 during the present year, 1901. The number of pupils is estimated to be 408,112. Thus the average cost for each pupil is $43.39 per annum.

— Several Japanese students have entered Columbia University, being educated at the expense of their government. Upon the completion of their course, they will teach in the Imperial University at Tokio, Japan.

— C. L. Alvord, Jr., the man who some time ago was discovered to have indulged for years in enormous stealings from the First National Bank of New York, was recently sentenced to thirteen years in Sing-Sing prison, N. Y.