The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1886. 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. BROTHER E. R. Jones reports good meetings and a good interest at Woodland, Cal. A MINISTER traveling in California, writing to a religious paper in the East, says of the Chinese, "They refuse to be naturalized." This is news. We were aware that they had been refused the privilege of naturalization, but never before heard that they refused to be naturalized. THE New York Evening Post says that the opera season at the Academy of Music closed with an opera which is a mere endeavor to "deify vice and raise it above virtue." And yet people will talk of the ennobling influence of the opera. Souls that can be ennobled by such performances must have reached an unheard-of depth of depravity. THE London Truth, which cannot be accused of being "Puritanical," has the following to say about horse racing: "Let us hear no more cant about 'the noble sport;' for it is evident that the English turf is now a vile welter of knaves and fools, and the Prince of Wales has been very ill advised in plunging into such a pandemonium." Can anything better be said of the American "turf"?