churches, have in attendance over 58,000 students, while 120 theological seminaries, belonging to Evangelical churches, have 4,000 students. These figures will convey some idea of the extent to which higher education in the United States is under Christian control. Or, to look at them in another way, they convey an idea of what Christian churches and societies are doing for Christian education in that country. -The last rail was laid on December 14 on the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway, thus forming a continuous line from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie. The Canadian Pacific line reached the Saulte last week, and the only break in an uninterrupted line from Minneapolis to the Atlantic seaboard is the international bridge now being built across St. Mary's river, and which was to be completed by January Ist. --It is claimed that there are about 1,300,000 Scandinavians in this country, and they are among the most intelligent of our foreign population. -The Railway Age says that 12,724 miles of new main-line railway were built in the United States in 1887. The largest number of miles ever laid before in one year was 11,568, in 1882. The total mileage is now 151,000. -The building statistics of St. Paul, Minn., for the year show a total of over $11,000,000, being $2,000,000 more than last year, and the largest ever known. -The grandest peak in the United States is said to be Mount Williamson, in Inyo, Cal. It is 15,000 feet high, a large portion of the northern side being nearly perpendicular. Two of the three peaks are inaccessible. -The State of Kansas pays two cents per pound bounty on all sorghum sugar manufactured within its limits. As the Fort Scott Works, with improved vacuum pans, obtains 102 pounds of sugar and twelve gallons of syrup from a ton of cane, and ten to fifteen tons of cane may be grown on an acre, the bounty alone gives the farmer a very fair return for the labor of producing the crop-to say nothing of what he re ceives for any sugar and sorghum seed he may sell or use on the farm. -A late steamer from San Francisco for China took out 200 tons of mining machinery and six skilled miners to aid in the mineral development of that country. -Messrs. Alvan Clark & Sons, the great astronomical instrument makers of Cambridge, Mass., have just received from Europe a monster lens for the Lick Observatory, California, to replace the one which was broken by an accident about two years ago. It cost in the rough about $4,000, and when ground and polished will be the largest and finest lens ever cast. It will take about two years to prepare it. -Pittsburgh from being the sootiest of cities is the cleanest from its substitution of natural gas for bituminous coal. -The assessed value of the property of the South has increased over $800,000,000 in the last seven years, or about $125,000,000 a year. -The Salvation Army recently needed $25,000 for its work, and raised the amount in one week by what is called "A week of self-denial." It didn't have a single ice cream party or sacred concert or supper. Is there not here a practical lesson? -Over 7,000 Finns arrived at Castle Garden, New York, during 1887. They are spoken of as a thrifty class of immigrants. —The rabbit plague has appeared in Florida. The animals are playing havoc with the green peas and cabbages in the southern section of the State. -The new silver vault in the Treasury building at Washington is finished. It will hold 100,000,000 standard dollars. Cummington, Mass., George E. Spalding, P. F. Delancy H. G. Youngblood, DATE. Dec. 21 Greenville Ch. Panton Ch.. Claughy. Mission, Cal. Westport Ch ILLINOIS, $788.48. Chicago, First Ch. in part.. Mrs. J. H. Wrenn. Hamilton, Mrs. M. E. Mc Nova Ch.. Highland Park Ch... Champaign Ch.. C. E. F. Highland Park, for Mex... Highland Park, for Chinese Chicago, E Nelson Blake..... 2 35 Parker, C. W. Patterson. Fargo, Rev. G. W. Huntley.. 5 05 4 20 Ludden Ch.. C. E. F. Hurley Ch.. Sioux Falls, First Ch. 11 60 3 00 15.00 9 85 Goodwin Ch.. Miles City Ch.... UTAH, $12.00. Ogden, Utah Bapt. Ass'n...... 15 50 Colfax Ch.. 200 C. E. F. Dayton Ch. 8 50 3 75 Whatcom Ch....... 5 00 500 00 OREGON, $20.85 COLORADO, $31.50. 270 11 56 4 45 DONATIONS OF CLOTHING, ETC. 3 10 10 23 Worcester, Mass., Young Ladies' Home Mission Society of Pleasant St. Church, barrel and freight to Kansas, $53.52. Providence, R. I., Home Mission Sewing Circle of First Church, 2 barrels, express and cash to Kansas, $222.35: barrel and express to Minnesota, $104.65. Providence, R. I., Union Baptist Sewing Circle, box, express and cash to Kan sas, $83.14. Hartford, Conn., Woman's Home Mission Society, 2 barrels to Kansas, $64. Brooklyn, N. Y., Strong Place Church, 2 barrels to Dakota, $130.24. Brooklyn, N. Y., Rev. William Reid, 10 00 barrel and freight to Iowa, $40. 5 00 New York, N. Y., First Church, barrel and package to Kansas, $75. Cazenovia, N. Y., Ladies' Mission Circle, barrel to Florida Institute, Fla., 12.00 $40. 15 35 East Orange, N. J., Church, barrel and freight to Iowa, $77-75. Trenton, N. J., Missionary Circle of Calvary Church, barrel and freight to Kansas, $26.97. Hightstown, N. J., Woman's Missionary Society, 2 barrels and freight to Kansas, $121.74; barrel and freight to Jackson College, Miss., $31.43. Dayton, O., Ladies' Home Missionary Society of First Church, box to Minne sota; box to Colorado; box to Kansas; box to Atlanta Seminary, Ga. Total valuation, $580. Greenville, O., Mission Circle, worsted 5 50 quilt to Wisconsin, $5. Chicago, Ill., First Church, box to Ne $177.75.RCEbraska, $150 162 co Milwaukee, Wis., First Church, barrel to Dakota. |