Debts of the World

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 15, 1875

Debts of the World.

THE London Economist has published an interesting account of the national debts of the various leading countries. The present amount of the national debt of the United States, exclusive of the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad companies, which amount to $64,622,512, besides unpaid interest, is rather less than at the date to which the calculation refers.

	Debt.	Interest.
France,	£900,000,000	£33,000,000.
England,	780,000,000	26,700,000.
United States,	440,000,000	20,600,000.
Italy,	390,000,000	15,350,000.
Austria,	250,000,000	15,000,000.
Spain,	375,000,000	11,000,000.
Russia,	340,000,000	13,450,000.
Turkey,	135,000,000	9,800,000.
Germany,	200,000,000	9,000,000.
Egypt,	75,000,000	7,500,000.
India,	130,000,000	5,900,000.
Mexico,	63,500,000	4,000,000.
Brazil,	82,000,000	3,100,000.
Australasia,	46,000,000	2,700,000.
Peru,	37,000,000	2,600,000.
Holland,	80,000,000	2,250,000.
Portugal,	69,000,000	2,150,000.
Belgium,	36,000,000	1,750,000.
Hungary,	32,000,000	1,500,000.
Canada,	30,000,000	1,500,000.
Totals,	£4,490,500,000	£188,250,000.

Tobacco Calamity.

A POWDER explosion took place in San Francisco, April 8, by which five persons were instantly killed, many others wounded, of whom four have since died, and property to nearly the value of $300,000 was burned. The Coroner's jury found that it was caused by fire from the tobacco-pipe of a man who was preparing cartridges! They censured the man who stored the destructive material in a locality so thickly settled, and recommended the passage of an ordinance to prevent such imprudence in storing. The man who sacrificed all these lives and so much property to the filthy and degrading habit of smoking was not found, or at least not identified if found, but the jury might have done as much as to condemn the practice of smoking in powder houses, if nowhere else.

J. H. W.