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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 17, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 1.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
A farmer near Eddyville, Iowa, has lost several cattle by mad itch. The animals actually scratched themselves to death.
The German Parliament has passed the law advocated by Bismarck to regulate and control the clergy. This is another victory over the Jesuits.
In addition to her political troubles, unhappy Spain is bothered by strikes among her workingmen, some of them accompanied by riotous demonstrations.
A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed recently in the town of San Ignacio, Mexico. There was quite a shower of quicksilver, fine drops of mercury falling everywhere and covering the plants.
There is an old bachelor in Brownfield, Me., 102 years old on the 31st day of January. He remembers the dark day of 1780. He makes his own bed, and does many other things.