Earlier text: The Commentary—Cholera seems to be spreading in Italy. —Cholera of the contagious type is reported in Naigai and Kobe, Japan. —Terrific storms have recently visited France, doing a great deal of damage to property. —Ex-alderman Jaehne, of Broadway Surface Railway notoriety, has been convicted of bribery. —Geronimo and his band are still committing murders in Arizona Territory, and Sonora, Mexico. —The Knights of Labor of Cleveland, Ohio, will petition Congress to impose a tax upon all foreign immigrants. —The employés on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad are preparing to demand an advance of ten per cent. in wages. —May 15 several large shoe factories in Stoneham, Mass., shut down for an indefinite period, owing to a strike of 200 cutters. —A decree has been promulgated in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany, forbidding the holding of public meetings without the permission of the police authorities. —Herr Most, the anarchist, was arrested in New York, May 11. In the house where the arrest was made were found a Winchester rifle, and books upon dynamite bombs and kindred topics. —May 9, a mob made an attack on the Salvation Army meeting near Zurich, Switzerland, and demolished the building in which the meeting was being held. Several persons were injured. —The steamer Acadia, of Baltimore, has been given up for lost. She sailed April 10 from Port Antonio, Jamaica, and has not been seen since. The passage is usually made in eight days. —Many of the people in the north of Ireland are bitterly opposed to Home Rule, and declare that they will oppose by force of arms if necessary, what they regard as a virtual dismembering of the British Empire. —May 14 the employés of one of the St. Louis sugar refineries struck, and in the afternoon assaulted and beat several men who had been employed to take their places. The police were compelled to interfere. —At Alliance, Ohio, May 8, a woman was fatally poisoned by eating rhubarb leaves cooked for greens. Several others in the family were made dangerously ill. A similar case occurred some years since in Pennsylvania. —Recent advices from Athens state that the minister of the interior in the late cabinet, and who favors submission to the wishes of the Powers, has agreed to form a new Ministry. He promised to disarm the Greek army. —As an offset to the resolution of the Trades Unions declaring eight hours a day's labor, the wholesale clothing manufacturers of Chicago have resolved upon a general lockout which will throw 30,000 people out of employment. —The strike of the sugar refiners in Brooklyn has ended. The strikers surrendered unconditionally and have asked for work. What the men struck for practically was the recognition of the right of their union to dictate terms, and they have failed. —An attempt was made May 10 to assassinate President Roca, of the Republic of Buenos Ayres. The attempt was nearly successful, the president being struck a heavy blow on the head and rendered insensible for a time. His assailant escaped. —General Master Workman Powderly of the Knights of Labor, acting under the authority vested in him by the general executive board, has issued a call to the various assemblies of the order for a special session of the general assembly, to be held in Cleveland, O., on Tuesday, May 25. —The New York World of May 14 says: "Anarchist Most's speech in Germania Hall, on April 22, in which he advocated the forming of a Socialistic rifle corps and carrying muskets which were to be had for ten dollars apiece, is already bearing fruit." Three such companies have been formed and meet at stated times to drill. —An accident near Conemaugh Station, Pa., May 11, resulted in the death of three men and obstructed the tracks for twelve hours. The accident was occasioned by the wind blowing a number of empty cars from a side track onto the main tracks where they were run into by a freight train running at the rate of thirty miles per hour. —The California Prohibitionists met in State convention at Sacramento, May 12, and adopted resolutions denouncing the old parties as servile tools of the liquor interest, and demanding National and State prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. A resolution favoring a strict Sunday law was introduced but was not adopted. —The Canadian Government has recently seized two vessels owned in the United States, for alleged violation of the fishing laws. One of the vessels was subsequently released, but the other is still held. It is probable that the whole fishing question, which has always been a bone of contention between this country and Great Britain, will thus be re-opened. —The London Standard of May 1, in a leading editorial, says: "South Australia, yesterday, successfully raised another large loan in London, and now stands beside its rivals, Queensland and New Zealand. These three colonies are the most debt-ridden of all the Australian group. Their public burdens have attained an amount of between £50 and £60 per head. Everything they possess is in some degree mortgaged. Hardly a steamer leaves New Zealand without carrying away men who have failed to discover any means of earning their bread."303 —Advices from Corea say that Mr. Denny, the newly appointed adviser to the Corean Government, has arrived at Seoul from Tientsin. His salary is said to be 1,000 taels per month, a certain portion of which is believed to be provided by the Chinese Government. Great distress still prevails among the poor Corean people, and even within Seoul itself over 500 are said to have died for want of food. —May 14 cyclones visited parts of Ohio, Kansas, and Michigan. At Forest, Ohio, "the air was filled with balls of fire, which exploded with a loud, snapping sound. There are known to be five persons killed and a number injured." "A great number of people are without homes, and the sight along the track of the storm is terrible. Some farms are made almost worthless." The loss is estimated at $400,000. Reports from Carey, Ohio, state that five persons were killed and thirteen wounded at that place. At Topeka, Kan., a large number of buildings were destroyed and eighteen or twenty persons injured. The damage in Michigan, so far as reported, is confined to farm property, and no one was seriously injured. —May 11 an exceedingly violent storm swept over portions of Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana, doing immense damage to property and destroying more than a score of lives. At Kansas City, Mo., several buildings were blown down, among them one of the city school buildings, and twelve or fourteen pupils were killed and others injured. An overall factory and the court-house were also wrecked and a number of persons killed. A similar storm visited that city four years ago. On the night of May 12 a still more destructive storm swept over Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, doing untold damage to property and destroying many lives. At Xenia, Ohio, over thirty persons were drowned by the rushing waters, and fully $100,000 worth of property was swept away. The damage to property is heavy and general throughout the storm-swept territory, and some loss of life is reported from several places. A heavy storm at Madrid, Spain, caused the death of twenty-eight persons in the city and suburbs, and damaged property to the amount of over a million and a quarter of dollars. England too has been visited with exceedingly heavy rains and considerable property has been damaged. —The income of Trinity Church corporation last year was $550,000. —Thirty-two wholesale firms in San Francisco have agreed to adopt the Saturday half-holiday. —The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions last year started 195 new churches, and 380 Sunday-schools. —Mr. J. F. Morton, a London merchant, offers to defray the whole expense of sending four missionaries to southwestern China, by the new opening through Burmah, and to support them there for three years. —The Bishop of Western Michigan has set forth a special form of prayer to be used in each church in the diocese during the present interruption of travel and trade caused by the unhappy feeling existing among the wage workers. —The Christian at Work, in a note on the opposition of the Harvard students to attendance at the chapel exercises in the morning, says: "It is not a good excuse for the Cambridge boy that he is not on speaking terms with his Maker, and prefers not to be present when his name is pronounced." —The New York Observer says: "The bill now before the Legislature of this State, making Saturday afternoon a legal holiday, has every prospect of becoming a law. At the suggestion of a number of bank notaries, several amendments have been made to this bill, which will practically make Saturday, so far as regards the presentation of commercial paper, an entire holiday." —The following is from the "Irenaeus Letters" in the Observer: "It is intolerable that God should be mocked with such praise as is offered to him in some of our churches. Not to say anything of it as a matter of taste, to gratify the ear of man, and exalt the affections of the worshiper, there is another light in which it should be viewed, and a light in which it is very seldom viewed by our churches. I refer to the great truth that God deserves better praise than he gets in those temples where little or no attention is paid to the culture of sacred music. If that consideration were imprinted on the hearts of Christians, they would from principle spend time and money in qualifying themselves and others to sustain this part of public worship with spirit and understanding." —While Bismarck is "going to Canossa," and Emperor William sending a golden cross to the pope in appreciation of his services as umpire between Spain and Germany in the affair of the Caroline Islands, France is making steady progress in the direction of church disestablishment. The committee on public business has reported to the Assembly a proposition for the abrogation of the relation existing between Church and State. The measure is based on the broad ground of liberty of conscience as an inalienable right, which it is claimed does not exist under the concords, though the State supports all sects impartially, except the Free Church, a small body which declines all aid, on principle. In the present disposition of the French people, the measure is likely to pass.—Congregationalist. We have several kinds of live stock in our garden,—the birds that come and go as they please, the bugs and worms that come and stay, in spite of us, and the toads, which we keep, not for their music or their beauty, but for the good they do. Some children hunt toads and kill them. Ours bring them home and settle them for life, and so they go hopping around the garden, till they get near a bug, and then, quick as a flash, out goes a long, sticky tongue, as long as the toad, and that is the last you ever see of that bug. Here is a good word from the Massachusetts Ploughman, for our homely friends:— “While volumes are written in favor of the birds as destroyers of insect life, rarely is a line written in favor of the faithful toad, who will destroy more insects injurious to vegetables in the garden in one day, than a whole flock of birds will in a week. We calmly look on with folded arms, and see the robin or cat-bird select our largest and best strawberries that we intended for exhibition; because we are informed that these birds destroy large quantities of insects; but when we find that a toad has dug under one of our strawberry plants, we instantly declare war, and execute the death-penalty, or at least transport the victim for life, without the slightest investigation to ascertain, for what purpose he has dug under the plant, and without the least suspicion that he is after the enemy, which, if not caught, will destroy the plant. It is true that the toad does not fill the air with charming music, nor do his form and color delight the eyes as do those of the oriole; but he is quite modest and unassuming, never robbing man of the fruits of his labor, but quietly passing by the choicest and most delicious fruits, or only stopping to catch a bug or a fly that is sipping the richest juices of the fruit. If there is one living animal that we should encourage to stay in the garden, it is the toad; because his whole diet is of insects; he is ever on the watch, like a cat, for a victim; and he secures his principal harvest in the night, when the worms are abroad. Is it not reasonable to suppose that the great increase of insects in our gardens is caused by the decrease of toads, more than it is by the decrease of birds? It is a fact that may have escaped the attention of some, that toads in the garden are not as numerous as formerly. The cause of this decrease may be in consequence of our more frequent stirring of the soil with improved implements. When only the hand-hoe was used, the toad had time to get out of the way, but the wheel-hoe moves so rapidly that he is often caught and killed. In portions of Europe, gardeners not only take especial care of toads in the garden, but frequently buy to keep the stock good. Under-ground shelters are made for the toads by covering a small hole with a board or shingle; this practice might be imitated by American gardeners. A garden well stocked with toads would be greatly protected from many of the insects that are now so destructive to many kinds of vegetation.—Sel. According to the Chemist and Druggist the substance which gives to Russia leather its peculiar aromatic and lasting qualities is the oil of white birch bark (oleum betulae). Dissolved in alcohol, it is said to render fabrics proof against water, acid, and insects, and renders them more lasting.—Sel. Seeking God’s Approval
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Or, REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. THE California brewers are now agitated. At a recent meeting of the Brewers' Association— "It was represented that Rev. Dr. Munhall had said that the California brewers used impurities in manufacturing beer. This was held to be a gross slander, and Dr. Munhall was thought to be working in the interest of the Eastern breweries. A committee consisting of Messrs. Hansen, Denicke, and Wreden was appointed to obtain legal advice in the matter, with power to act." Don't laugh; this is a serious matter. Of course Dr. Munhall must be the paid agent of the Eastern breweries, because he doesn't believe in drinking beer at all! Our "industries" must be protected. We have never seen any California beer, and do not know how it is made. Possibly the brewers of this State are models of virtue. At any rate we shall never accuse them of adulterating their beer, for we don't believe it would be an easy matter for them to concoct a drink that would be more abominable and would make more drunkards than the stuff that they call pure beer. It is not necessary to even appear to slander beer; the truth is damaging enough.