News and Notes

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1907

A DESPATCH from St. Petersburg says: "Russia is getting seriously alarmed about the threatened renewal of hostilities in the far East. Not only is Japan making colossal warlike preparations, but under her influence China is also sharpening her sword."

MORE railroad track has been laid during the year 1906 than in any year since 1888, in all 6,067.40 miles, at an approximate aggregate cost of $250,000,000. The most extensive building has been in the Southwestern states, the least being in the New England states.

A PRESENT of one hundred sausages, a pyramid of salt ornaments and several dozen hard-boiled eggs may seem strange for an emperor, but such is the traditional custom in Germany on New Year's Day. The salt works in the neighborhood of Halle made the present to the kaiser.

THE first official step toward ameliorating the awful conditions in the Congo Free State was taken recently when the government pledged itself to support any steps taken by the British Government along that line. King Leopold's extensive rubber concessions to Americans in the Congo territory are not to stand in the way of reform, it is promised.

PHYSICIANS who prescribe eggs as the chief item of food for consumptives can certainly find no fault with a Chicago girl in a Denver sanitarium who consumed 4,000 eggs during the year 1906, an average of eleven a day. According to other figures given, this is but little above the average number in several similar institutions for consumptives in Denver.

CONDITIONS in Russia are becoming more and more alarming especially among the laboring classes. At Lodz all the factories have been closed indefinitely, and over 100,000 persons are idle as a result of Socialist and militia control. Those who are willing to accept the employers' terms are prevented by the extreme Socialists who threaten to murder all who yield.