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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 25, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 41.

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—Japan census shows a population of 33,000,000.

—There are over 2,400 miles of railroad in California.

—Sweden published during the year 1877, 1,044 new books.

—A Chinese lawyer was recently admitted to the bar in London.

—Cannibalism has become very prevalent in the famine-stricken districts of India.

—Total value of silk manufactured in the United States, last year was $25,593,103.

—Investigation shows that nearly all the public buildings in Washington are as liable to a destructive fire as was the Patent Office. Only one of them has a fire-proof roof.

—It is stated that New England has in her savings banks the enormous amount of $750,000,000.

—The income of Baron Rothschild, who is at the head of the Vienna banking-house, is $80,000 per day.

—It is estimated that the cost of the Paris Exposition of 1878 will be 35,313,000 francs, or about $7,062,600.

—The steamer Knapton Hall, from London, has been sunk at sea by a collision. Twelve lives were lost.

—There are over 3,000 vacant houses in San Francisco, and yet new buildings are going up on nearly every block.

—The empress of Japan has given $5,000 towards the establishment of a school to prepare young woman as teachers.

—It is reported that all the sick at Fernandina are improving, and business is resumed.

—A destructive hurricane recently occurred at Caracao, Cuba, which caused very large loss of both life and property.

—It is stated that Utah surpasses any of the States in the production of lead, having produced about three-fourths of the refined supply last year.

—The whole sum required has been secured for the transportation and erection in New York city of the Egyptian obelisk now standing at Alexandria.

—Forty persons in Camden, Me., were seriously, though not fatally, poisoned recently, by drinking milk that had stood for some time in porcelain-lined jars.

—The cholera is in Japan and the San Francisco journals think that the metropolis of California had better look to her quarantine, or we may have a touch of it on this coast.

—It is reported that Clintonville, New York, is devastated with smallpox. Twenty-six persons having died within the past few days. Travelers are prohibited entering the place. All highways are blocked.

—Within ten years no less than 12,000,000 acres of forest have been cut down or burned over in the United States. Much of the timber is used for fuel, twenty-five cities being on record as consuming from 5,000 to 10,000 acres each.

—In addition to the home production, opium is imported into China to the annual value of over $40,000,000, principally from British India. More than $100,000,000 worth is annually imported into California for the use of the Chinese in this State.

—The library of the University of California numbers now 14,000 volumes, 2,198 of which have been added during the past two years. The donations of books to the main library in the last two years have been 527; to the circulating library, 398.

—The potato crop of England is a complete failure, the tubers having been suddenly attacked with a malignant rot, which in almost a single day converts sound and healthy ones into a mass of putridity. It is with difficulty that enough can be saved for seed.

—The New York Sun says: “The grain crop of the United States this autumn is a vast increase over that of any preceding year in the history of the country. It amounts in the two principal cereals—wheat and corn to 325,000,000 bushels of the former, and 1,280,000,000 bushels of the latter, according to the carefully prepared estimates of Walker, the statistician of the New York Produce Exchange.”