News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1873

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The Nations are Coming!

One hundred and eighty-four thousand immigrants have landed in New York this year, from January to August, which indicates that there is scarcely a perceptible lessening of the restless current that sets toward the better land of America. Of this number, about sixty thousand came from Germany, fifty thousand from Ireland, and twenty thousand from England. The balance is contributed by almost every nation on the globe, the largest representations being as follows: Sweden, 7000; Scotland, 6000; Denmark, 5000; Norway, 6000; Italy, 4000; Switzerland, 3000; France, 3000; Holland, 3000; Russia, 2500; Wales, 1700; Austria, 1000.

TERRIFIC GALE ON THE BLACK SEA.—Constantinople, Sept. 16. A violent storm on the Black Sea last week was very destructive to shipping. Seventy vessels were wrecked near the mouth of the Bosphorus and nearly all on board perished. At one point on the coast 265 corpses were washed ashore.

PERNICIOUS INFLUENCES.—The Long Branch correspondent of the Philadelphia Press is aggrieved, and so he or she protests against the influences of watering-place life on children, especially young girls. It is the rule, and not the exception, to see girls from ten to fourteen years of age in full ball costume first on the floor in the evening when the dances begin, and last to leave it, often finishing with a supper of beefsteak, soft crabs, and fried potatoes. Children go unattended to the lunch table, dress lobster, make ham sandwiches, order cups of “black and green tea, well mixed and strong,” saying sharp things to the servants, and in all respects behaving like men and women of society, and somewhat fast at that.

INTERESTING DECISION.—In Indiana, it has been judicially decided that the purchase of a railway ticket is also a purchase of a seat in the car. In this case the purchaser refused to give up his ticket until he was furnished with a seat. His request was not heeded, and it was in evidence that it could not be complied with in consequence of the crowded condition of the car. The passenger was therefore rejected, his baggage being thrown after him, for which injury he has now recovered $2,000.

OLD CLOTHES.—Sneer not at old clothes. They are often made holy by long sacrifices, by careful foldings away, that they may last until the dear ones are provided for. If many an old coat could speak, what tales it would tell of the noble heart beating underneath.

If thou desirest Christ for a perpetual guest, give him all the keys of thine heart; let not one cabinet be locked up from him; give him the range of every room, and the key of every chamber; thus you will constrain him to remain.