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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 9, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 18.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—Thirty-eight inches of snow fell during the winter at Augusta, Me.

—A weekly paper in Illinois prints in each issue a chapter of the Bible.

—There were 100 deaths in San Francisco last week, 60 of which were of males.

—The Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess of Denmark have gone to Paris.

—There are 72 postmistresses and about 30,000 postmasters in the United States.

—Of 369 members of Congress only 193 are natives of the States which they represent.

—Notice has been given of a reduction in wages in all the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, of from 5 to 15 per cent.

—The British Government is making arrangements for laying a special cable from Greece to the Sea of Marmora.

—The largest park in the world is Epping Forrest in Essex county, England. It is estimated to contain 12,000 acres.

—The members of the San Francisco Police force have been notified that from this time henceforth they will not be permitted to smoke pipes, cigars, or cigarettes while on duty.

—The Matapan paper mills, at Hyde Park, Mass., the oldest in New England, have shut down, owing to dull times and lack of orders, for the first time for a hundred years.

—There is on deposit in the savings banks of San Francisco now the large sum of $61,000,000. During the last twenty years the savings banks of that city have disbursed to the depositors the sum of $41,000,000 in interest.

—Tobacco-smoking is on the increase. In 1848 the quantity of tobacco used in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was less than fourteen ounces a head of population; in 1876 it was one pound seven and one-half ounces a head.

—It is stated that California leads all the States of the Union in the matter of newspapers in proportion to her population; for while she has but 850,000 of the European race, she ranks fourth, New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois beating her in the publication of daily papers, her number being 43, or four more than Ohio, with 3,000,000 of people, 14 more than Massachusetts, where every one is supposed to read, 14 more than Indiana, 17 more than Missouri, 20 more than Iowa, as many as Wisconsin, Virginia and Georgia combined, and eight times more than either Minnesota, Delaware or Oregon.