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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 8, 1878

SECULAR NEWS.

—Wisconsin has 20,000,000 acres of land which has never been broken.

—Eleven foreign journals have appeared in Japan, of which ten are English, and one French.

—The number of paupers in England on the 1st of January was 747,811, a decrease of 69,411 from the number in 1875, notwithstanding the "hard times."

—Thirty thousand persons assembled at Gleniffer Braes, near Glasgow, last month to celebrate the 104th, anniversary of a poet called Tannahill, of whom the rest of the world is rather ignorant.

—Asiatic cholera has broken out in Norwich, Conn. Three deaths from it have been reported. The most efficient precautions are being taken against the further spread of the dreaded disease.

—One thousand people witnessed the unveiling of the monument to Stephen A. Douglass at Chicago, July 17. A number of distinguished persons were present. The ceremonies were shortened on account of the heat.

—The amount borrowed by Turkey during the last twenty-five years is estimated at $1,000,000,000. Of this sum about $40,000,000 have been expended in armaments, and the remainder has been virtually wasted.

—The number of flouring mills in the United States is reported as over 25,000, affording employment to 60,000 men, whose annual wages are about $20,000,000, and turning out yearly about 50,000,000 barrels of flour, of which 4,000,000 are exported to foreign countries.

—During the first three months of this year the number of persons killed and injured on railways in Great Britain, in the course of public traffic, as reported to the Board of Trade by the railways, were 232 killed, and 837 injured. In addition, by accidents occurring at stations or on the railway premises, 11 persons were killed and 498 injured.