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Health Department.

By James White

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 2.

Bible Hygiene.

IN the beginning the Creator designed that appetite should be man's servant, and not his master. It was the plan of God that the appetite should be subordinate to the moral and intellectual. This great fact is seen in the first prohibitory declaration, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it." Gen. 2:16, 17. Webster defines appetite to be "a desire of food or drink." When controlled by the higher powers, the appetite is one of God's blessed gifts. But uncontrolled it becomes a debasing tyrant.

God made man upright, and endowed him with powers of mind far above any of the living creatures of his hand upon the earth. He placed him upon probation that man might form a character for the glory of the Creator, and for his own happiness. The first great moral lesson which the innocent pair of Eden were to learn was self-control. God appeals to man's nobler powers. He graciously gives him all he needs for the delights of taste and the support of his nature. And it was for man's moral good, to say the least, that God prohibited a single tree. Of all the trees of the garden he might freely eat, save one. In this prohibition, the Creator places the appetite under the watchcare and guardianship of the moral and intellectual.

When man came from the hand of his Creator he was declared to be "very good." He was put upon probation that he might develop a perfect character. This achieved, his probation would have ceased, and the race would have continued to enjoy the seal of perfection of character transmitted from their representative. In this state of things, existence would have been for the glory of the Creator, and the highest possible delight of man. But he did not develop a perfect character before God. He basely yielded to the tempter, lost his innocence, and his entire being, soul, body, and spirit, for six thousand years has felt the taint of sin, and the weight of accumulated guilt and ruin resulting from continued transgression of moral and physical law. Sickness, sorrow, pain, and death, are the legitimate fruits of transgression.

And man alone is to be blamed for the moral and physical wretchedness under which the race suffers. There was no need of Eve yielding to the tempter. And Adam is quite as inexcusable, in rashly plunging himself into the same fearful dilemma as that in which he found his unfortunate wife. In Eden they were surrounded with unparalleled variety of plenty, and the perfection of beauty. "And out of the ground caused the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." Gen. 2:9. The surroundings of our parents in Eden were delightful. The Creator had spread out before their joyful eyes a feast of pleasure in the stately trees, the climbing vines, and in the beautiful shrubs and flowers. God is the author of the beautiful.

Eden also abounded with that which was "good for food." God had caused every good fruit tree to grow, affording variety and an inexhaustible supply. He welcomed man to "freely eat" of them all, excepting only one. And then he warned him, face to face, not to partake of the fruit of that one tree on pain of death. Thus surrounded with the beautiful, and with the variety of the most delicious plenty, and thus warned by the benificent Author of his happy existence, man rashly and basely yielded to the tempter, and plunged the race in ruin.

It was that curious, bewitching longing for just one more variety, on the part of the beautiful Eve, that led to the transgression. When she had all that heart could wish, she still wanted one more variety—only one more. She did not need the fruit of this tree; but she was charmed with the idea of just one more variety. The tempter succeeded in making Eve believe that eating was a very important matter, and that she should not at all restrict her appetite. She was flattered with the idea that eating the forbidden fruit would raise her to a higher and happier life. Her reason was dethroned, and her appetite reigned in ruin. The fall was a terrible one. And let it be remembered that uncontrolled appetite occasioned it.

But why complain bitterly of our first parents for their transgression, which brought the terrible weight of moral and physical evils upon the race, while manifesting daily as great moral weakness as they did? If there had been but one fall, murmuring against Adam and Eve would not come from these with so ill a grace. But there has been a succession of falls. And these very persons, with the history of the first transgression and its results, the plan of redemption through Christ, and all the prohibitions of the Old and New Testaments before them, sin against as great a light as the inexperienced representatives of the race did.

But Infinite Wisdom immediately devised the scheme of redemption, which placed man on a second probation by giving him another trial, with the Redeemer to help him in the work of forming a perfect character before his Maker. And if the ways of God are equal with the created intelligences of his love and care whom he has put on probation, then we have as favorable chance to perfect righteous characters before God as had innocent Adam in Eden. For while it may be urged that our condition of moral darkness and feebleness is far below that of Adam, on the other hand it can be plead that, although our moral distance from God is greater, we have the light of experience and of the word of God, and the long arm of our adorable Redeemer to help us, which our first parents did not have. Then let the men of our time cease their murmurings against God for suffering the first transgression and the consequent fall, and their bitter complaints of Adam for his moral weakness, while they are falling daily over the indulgences of morbid appetite for tea, coffee, and stimulating drinks and foods, which are filling up the cup of human woe.

And is it not reasonable to suppose that in the second probation the great test would come just where God tested our parents in Eden, and that the indulgences of the appetites and passions would be the greatest moral evil in this world during the period of human probation? But we are not left to mere supposition in forming an opinion upon this subject. The Sacred Record shows in the clearest manner possible that God has tested his people since the fall just where he tested man before the fall, and that among the most flagrant sins of fallen man, resulting in the greatest amount of human woe, has been the indulgence of unrestricted appetite.

Gluttony and drunkenness were the prevailing sins of Sodom. It is said of the people of Lot's time, "They did eat, they drank." Appetite ruled them, or their eating and drinking would not have been mentioned as sins. For their sins they were visited with fire and brimstone. It is also said of the people in the time of Noah, "They did eat, they drank." Gluttony and drunkenness which led to other crimes; and to wash the world from moral pollution God poured around it a flood of waters.

For the first twenty-five hundred years after the fall, Sacred History is exceedingly brief. For example, the life and wonderful translation of holy Enoch is contained in a few lines. While the almost numberless good deeds and careful acts of obedience in the long life of this wonderful man would furnish to some modern writers material for several voluminous religious novels, the whole matter is summed up in these few words, "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years; and Enoch walked with God; and he was not: for God took him." We cannot reasonably expect that very much could be said upon any one subject when the history of twenty-five hundred years, embracing many of the greatest events in this world's history, is crowded into the first fifty short chapters of the Bible.

But when God is about to establish the tribes of Israel in a good land of promise, and they to be to him "a peculiar treasure above all people, a holy nation," it is then that the sacred historian speaks more fully, and the fact appears that God tests his people since the fall just where he tested man before the transgression in Eden. The sons of Jacob went down into Egypt, where they sojourned in a strange land four hundred years. There they were humbled by the most oppressive slavery, from which they were delivered by the special hand of Providence in the most triumphant manner. The entire providential experience of the Israelites, both in their servitude and in their miraculous deliverance, was designed to lead them to revere, and trustingly, obey, the God of the Hebrews.

The history of their departure from Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea before them, and the destruction of their pursuers, is one of thrilling interest to all Bible Christians. These manifestations were designed to remove their infidelity, draw the hosts of Israel very nigh to God, and deeply impress them with the fact that the Divine Hand was leading them, and thus prepare them to stand the test which God was about to bring to bear upon them in the gift of the manna.

J. W.

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

ACCIDENTS AND STORMS.

The past six months seem to have been a period of unusual severity of storms, floods, cyclones, and severe cold in the East. In almost every paper we have read of the terrible effects of the cold upon the Atlantic coast, resulting in the imprisonment of whole fleets in the ice. A number of fishing vessels were carried to sea by the floating ice in which they were caught, resulting in loss of life to many, and terrible suffering to the survivers. One vessel was found surrounded by ice, deserted by part of its crew, the remainder—fifteen—frozen to death.

A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, from Sardis, Miss., March 27, says:

"It is becoming a question whether the rain will cease long enough for the farmers to get in their spring crops. I have heard a good deal about your wet winter, and particularly in Oregon, but I feel quite certain that more rain has fallen in this State since the first of December than has ever fallen in Oregon or California in any two winters, and still it rains—nay, pours. Besides all this, we had, a week ago, one of the heaviest thunder and wind storms of the season, which culminated in this place, where, at the little town of Rienzi, six or eight persons were killed outright, many more wounded and property destroyed to the value, as reported, of $200,000."

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 9.—The storm of last evening prostrated the telegraph wires in all directions. A number of houses were blown down and five persons killed and several others wounded. About the same hour the storm struck Texarkana, unroofing the public school buildings and injuring several persons.

OMAHA, April 7.—A terrible whirlwind, traveling in a northeast direction, passed through the town of Schuyler, Neb., at five this afternoon, completely demolishing the bridge on the Platte River, valued at $20,000, and blowing several houses from their foundations. No loss of life as yet reported.

The following account of the cyclone in Georgia we clip from the San Francisco Call:-

AUGUSTA, Ga., March, 24.—The recent cyclone which passed over this region was the most awful ever heard of in the United States. It crossed the Chattahoochee River from Lee County, Alabama, and entered Harris County, Georgia. From thence it passed through nine counties. It crossed the Savannah River 15 miles above Augusta, entered Edgefield County, South Carolina, passed through six counties of that State, and finally ran into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina.

A second cyclone, precisely at the same time, seemed to have formed this side of Milledgeville, crossed the Ogeechee River, 15 miles below the village of Mayfield, and ran due east into the Atlantic.

As I was along the northern line of these cyclones I will more particularly describe that. The two were exactly alike in size, shape, color and devastation. The cloud was, in color, inky black, half a mile high, half a mile wide, was cylindrical in shape, and traveled very much like a revolving barrel coming end foremost. It was illuminated with phosphorescent light, and momentarily would glitter as if one million of matches had been ignited by it. It was accompanied by a continuous roaring sound, as of cannon in the decisive moments of a pitched battle. It traveled from west to a little north of due east; going as straight as a crane or a cannon ball would fly. It passed over the entire State of Georgia in exactly three hours, traveling at the rate of fifty-three miles per hour.

The whole number of killed in Georgia will not fall below 300, and the wounded reach 1,500.

Through Carolina the devastation and death were equally as great. The southern cyclone crossed the Savannah at Fury's Ferry, sunk the boat, tore the plantation of Mr. Fore-man, tore it to pieces, and killed and wounded a great many on it. From thence forward to the ocean the accounts are as terrible and as appalling.

—A terrific explosion of giant powder occurred in San Francisco on the afternoon of April 8, resulting in the demolition of several buildings, the immediate death of eight, and the wounding of twelve persons. The S. F. Chronicle describes it as "One of the most appalling catastrophies ever known in San Francisco." Loss of property between $125,000 to $200,000.

—Nearly every paper has accounts of strikes in different parts of the country. In the coal mining district of Pennsylvania the condition is bad. Several regiments of troop were called out to quell disturbances.

LONDON, April 7.—The Welsh miners' strike continues, and the men are still determined to hold out, though in many districts their means has been exhausted and hundreds of families are dependent on the public for support. The iron masters in South Wales and Monmouthshire threaten to continue the strike until 1876 rather than submit.

EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA.

OMAHA, April 9.—The rush of emigration to Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and the Pacific Coast this Spring is enormous, and continues without abatement. Two and sometimes three emigrant trains are dispatched daily. Thirty-five thousand emigrants were carried from here during the first seven days of this month. Eight hundred emigrants are here to-day, and will leave by a special train to-night. During the month of March California alone received over 10,000 of these new settlers. Freight is also accumulating here so fast that the Union Pacific road find it almost impossible to keep it clear. The earnings at this time show an increase of sixty-five per cent. over last Spring.

SACRAMENTO, April 9.—By yesterday's Eastern emigrant train there arrived sixteen cars loaded with emigrants. All but sixty went to San Francisco, though not one appeared to have any idea of city life or any occupation fitted for it.

—During the month of March the passenger arrivals at San Francisco numbered about 8,600, of whom over 6,000 came by overland railroad, the remainder by sea. The departures in the same period were less than 2,600 showing a gain of about 6,000. For the first quarter of the present year the arrivals by sea and rail aggregate 17,700, and the departures 6,200, the gain to our population being 11,500.

Obituary Notices.

By John Norton Loughborough

DIED, at St. Helena, Cal., April 8, of old age, sister Louisa Thompson, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. Sister Thompson made a profession of religion when nineteen years of age, and united with the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member until about twenty months since, when she embraced the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, and united with the church in St. Helena of which she was a beloved, active, and worthy member to the day of her death.

In the case of sister Thompson we have a striking instance of the faculties of mind in full exercise to an advanced age. While her body was failing under the weakness of age, her mind was vigorous, and, till within two days of her death, she read her Bible and other books mostly without glasses. She thus eagerly read the whole of the Signs of April 1.

"She sleeps in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep."

At the funeral, remarks were made by the writer to a large concourse of people. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Third Class Mail Matter

By Editor

The following to postmasters will be instructive also to the general public:—

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6, 1875.

To THE POSTMASTER AT——, Sir: You are hereby instructed that under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1875, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes," the postage to be hereafter charged on all mailable matter of the third class referred to in section 133 of the act entitled, "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department," approved June 8, 1872, shall be at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, instead of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, as heretofore provided by law.

(Signed) J. W. Marshall.

The 133rd section reads as follows:—

That mailable matter of the third class shall embrace all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient news papers, magazines, hand-bills, posters, unsealed circulars, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples of merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces in weight, sample-cards, photographic paper, letter envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental paper, phothgraphic representatitives of different kinds of types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and other matter which may be declared mailable by law, and all other articles not above the weight prescribed by law, which are not from their form and nature, liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise injure the contents of the mail bag or the person of any one engaged in the postal service. All liquid poisons, glass, explosive materials, and obscene books shall be excluded from the mails.

Do Animals Reason?

By James White

O. W. Fiske, in "Our Dumb Animals," says:—

"For many years I have made the horse a subject of thought and study. At times I have been made to believe that horses have reasoning powers, and can understand and apply them in various ways. For the last two years I have driven my mare nearly every day over the same road. About a mile from my house are two roads, one leading to the church, the other leading to the depot. Now, six days in the week I drive to the cars, and on Sunday to the church. At the point where these roads separate I give my mare her head, leaving her free to make her choice, and on week days she will go straight to the depot, and on Sundays she goes of her own free will to the church; I never knew her to fail me yet. It puzzled me for a long time to learn how she should know any difference of days, and I have come to the conclusion that she reasons from facts—facts connected with every-day life. On week days I start from my stable in a two-wheeled carriage; on Sundays I start my horse in a carryall, thus making an entire change both in time, place, and carriage; and from these facts she must be guided in her choice of roads. Many think this is instinct; if so, where does reason begin."

The knowledge of days seems to be one of the severest tests of reasoning powers in dumb animals, and yet this is frequently manifested. Years ago the "dog churn" was often to be seen at farm houses where numbers of cows were kept, and it was customary with some to have regular churning days. I was acquainted at a place where it was found necessary to make frequent changes in the order, for otherwise, if a certain order was for some time observed, the dog could not be found on the morning of churning day! he did not like the occupation.

I have often thought that many parents took less pains to teach their children to "remember the Sabbath day," than this man took to teach his dog, for in many religious families the children seem hardly to recognize the difference of days; they do not seem to well understand when the Sabbath comes. We attribute this to the lack of interest on the part of parents in the training of the children; for if they did their duty with such results, we should be compelled to consider the dog more intelligent than the children.

J. H. W.

Tent in California.

By John Norton Loughborough

Eld. Canright expects to start out next week to pitch the tent in a new place: the place not yet decided upon. He will be assisted as he may need by Eld. Waggoner after he gets the work fully opened.

No further arrangement for tent work has yet been made.

Note. During the period of my wife's last illness and death, I have received many letters which are as yet unanswered. I hope none will regard it as neglect. I will attend to them as fast as I can get time to do so.

J. N. Loughborough.

A Good Outlay.

By James H. Waggoner

SISTER O'NEIL of Washington Territory, who has been teaching school this past winter, in sending some money to the office writes:--

"I am sorry to send so little money. I thought I would send a little more, but with us money is very scarce, and I am going to spend a portion of what I intended to send for the Signs in procuring the Instructor for the children I have been teaching this winter."

There is always a bond of union between the faithful teacher and the pupils, and knowing that people, and especially the young, ofter prize a paper or book according to their estimate of the donor, we think teachers would do well to introduce the Instructor among their scholars. Such means are often blessed by God to great good. J. H. W.

To California.

By James White

A correspondent of a San Francisco paper, writing from Sacramento, April 12, says: "Twenty-three cars, containing 725 immigrants, arrived from the East at three o'clock to-day, and the majority were transferred to the steamer Julia, which had waited for them. This evening a special train of thirty-five cars, having on board over one thousand people, will leave Ogden and arrive here Wednesday, running through on special time."

The cold winter will doubtless cause an unusual emigration to California this season. Many will learn, perhaps to their regret, that they cannot come to California in April in time for "Spring work," according to eastern ideas. There is room for all who may come, but discretion should be exercised in moving to this State, as everything has to be learned anew in coming to this climate.

J. H. W.

Just Anger a Christian Virtue.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Gail Hamilton in the Christian Union makes the following sensible remarks concerning anger:—

“Let anger, then, resume its place as an original and dignified function of the human organization, and be no more looked upon as the outburst of a rebellious outlaw, or an invincible alien. While we are not to be petty and touchy, easily provoked, self-centred, solicitous of our own dignity, imagining evil, quick to fly into a passion, strict to mark iniquity against ourselves, implacable, and revengeful; while we are to be generous and large minded, to ascribe good intent where evil intent is not demonstrable, and not to take offense unless offense is meant, we are equally under bonds not to level the barriers between courtesy and discourtesy, between justice and injustice, between right and wrong. We owe it to the wrong-doer to throw all the weight of our disapprobation against his wrong-doing. If the wrong be done not to ourselves but to others, and if in addition it be a wrong done to the weak and the helpless, it is difficult to learn from the Bible, or from our own hearts, what expression of indignation would be excessive. So far from the truth is it that an outburst of wrath must be unchristian, the sudden explosion of surprised but depraved nature, it may rather be that non-explosiveness is but an apathy of the conscience, a dullness of sympathetic perception, an outgrowth of selfishness, a defect of the moral organization.

“The only man who may be fairly inferred to have lost his temper is the man who never shows that he has any. If he that is angry with his brother without cause is in danger of the Judgment, what reason have we to suppose that he who is not angry with his brother when there is cause should go scot free? When oppression, fraud, malice are banished from the earth we can afford to be even tempered; but in their present roaring and rampant prosperity, it is Christian that our hearts should roll up mountain ranges of disapproval, and occasionally burst into volcanoes of burning indignation. God is angry with the wicked every day, and makes repentance and reformation the conditions of forgiveness. What right have we to look upon the wicked with tranquility, and take him into our confidence and companionship as if he had never sinned? To be hasty in spirit to be angry is the mark of a petty nature. To be slow to anger is one mark of a large nature. To put a ban upon anger is not the work of the Divine nature.

“The excesses of anger are to be deprecated. The man who loses control of himself in his wrath is never to be admired. That is a weakness which he should conquer. But he who holds himself well in hand, while he hurls his wrath at the evil-doer, who never loves sight of human weakness even while the flame of his indignation leaps forth to consume wickedness—he is not to be apologized for as a halting disciple. He is rather to be rejoiced over as an effective apostle. Blessed are the peace-makers indeed, but blessed also is whoever cometh in the name of the Lord though he come not to send peace, but a sword.”

Soft words and an unmoved spirit are by many considered the chief marks of a saint; while sharp words and manifest anger are thought to be always only from an evil heart. But this is a great mistake. There are times when to be calm and mild is a sin. The severest things said in the Bible fell from the lips of the holiest men when under the especial influence of the Holy Spirit.

D. M. Canright.

Appointments.

By Editor

OAKLAND. Sabbath morning, April 17, Mrs. E. G. White.

Sunday evening, 18, Eld. J. N. Loughborough.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sabbath morning, Eld. J. N. Loughborough.

Sunday evening, Mrs. E. G. White.

PETALUMA. Sabbath and first-day, April 17, 18, Eld. D. M. Canright.

WOODLAND. Thursday evening, April 15, and over Sunday, Eld. J. H. Waggoner.

Quarterly Meetings.

At a meeting of the directors of the T. and M. Society held April 4; at 4 P. M., it was voted that the next State Quarterly Meeting be held with district No. 7, at Oakland, the first Sabbath and first-day in July. And that the Quarterly Meetings of the other eight districts be held simultaneously two weeks previous to the State Quarterly Meeting. The appointments with respective places of the meetings will be given in due time by the President.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. of Cal. T. and M. Society.

Business Department.

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10 .

Received for the Signs.

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MISCELLANEOUS. John Perry 9c, S D Haskins 50c, John Bond 25c, J M Thornburgh 25c, John Woodhouse 50c, E S Cox 10c, Rev J K P Price 10c, Lucy M Showas 25c, Mrs Jane Keller 25c, Floyd Smith 10c, Kate L Blaisdell 10c, E Inman 10c, Elizabeth Culver 10c. Willard Fields 25c, Chas W Boyle 10c, Grace M O'Neil $2.50.

California Publishing Fund.

Mrs S A Douglas $10, George W Andrews $100, Mrs Woodward $20, Bro L—e $50, D M Canright $30, A F Brown $10.

PUBLICATIONS.

By Editor

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For Sale at this Office.

Cruden's Complete Concordance. In this any passage in the Scriptures can readily be found. $1.50 per copy, post. paid.

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The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, by J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1.25.

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Life of Wm. Miller, with likeness. $1.00.

The Nature and Destiny of Man. By U. Smith. 384 pp. $1.00. Paper, 40 cts.

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The Game of Life (illustrated). Satan playing with man for his soul. In board, 50 cts.; in paper, 30 cts.

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The United States in Prophecy. By U. Smith. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 20 cts.

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By Editor

☞ Our Book List.—Any persons on the Pacific Coast wishing any of the publications named in our book list can obtain them by mail or express by writing to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California, enclosing the published price of the same. When sent by mail, books will be post paid; when by express, at the expense of the one ordering the books; but in this case a liberal discount will be made when ten dollars worth or more are paid for with any one order.

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.