The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., SIXTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1888. We send no papers from this office without pay in advance unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read. THE new universal language "volapük," seems to be growing in the favor of the learned. The University of Munich has voted to permit Dr. J. E. Meiss to lecture upon it in the university. Volapük has been studied by over 100,000 persons in Europe, and eleven journals are devoted to it. Whether it will ever become in fact the "world language," remains to be seen.