, 1876-01-15
S R S.

The Protestant Missions of India, Burmah,
and Ceylon, were carried on in 1872 by 35
societies in addition to local agencies, and
employed COG foreign missionaries. The %
mission presses Of India issued 10 the ten years
1862 to r., $40 new works in 80 languages,
and circulated about q million school books
and 10 million Christian books aud tracts,
There were IS training Colleges for native
ministers and teachers with 1918 students.
The missionary schools contained las, 600
scholars. The results Of this active enterprise,
sustained since 170G, are only small-78,500
communicates and 31S 1868 converts, old and
young, out Of a total population of up wards Of
240 millions. With Roman Catholic and the
earlier native Christians the number of declar-
ed Christians in India is much more respecta-
BILE, and to these must be added the European
contingent civil and military. Mr.. Sberring,
Of the London Missionary Society, has just
published an interesting and unpretending
little book on this subject.
Mr. John Forrest, who t|raversed the Aus
tralian interior last year, from the r. Muir
Gibson in West Australia to the South Austria
liam telegraph line aud down to Adelaide,
considers all theories as to the interior of Aus
tralia are finally set at rest, and that compare.
lively little is left to be done TO make its capa,
bilities known. The only portion of interest
that needs clearing up, and it has several fine
rivers, is the small N. w. region between Roe
buck Bay and the Victoria river. The great
western interior, nearly half Of he continent,
is little removed from barren, uninhabitable
and useless, as it certainly is dull and dry
waste. He passed through a spinifex desert
GOO miles in extent. The 1000 miles journey
occupied 6 months. The party was thrice al
tackled Ivy natives, once by a hundred, aud was
each time obliged TO fire On them, in self
defence. The natives can exist in The desert
where oivilised people must perish, as hey do
not wash, nor cook with water, and keep no
stock-animaIs. He thinks tho whole Of tho
available country will soon be occupied and
stocked.
CocoNuTs.- propos Of planting Cooonuts
(and largely at the Bahamas III is strange
to learn how few are to be found there, since
those that are planted succeed perfectly |, now
strongly urged on public attention, by the
Nassau Guardian, Times and others, lho
Royal Standard of Turks Island says-Nuts
from Jamaica, Cuba or ST. Domingo are iu,
teriOr to the nut procurable from The Mosquito
Shore. 1.-The many traders who touch at the
Turks on their way southwark for c@oconuts
invariably say that whilst they can be obtained
IN Jamaica for from SIS to IS per mile, they
command a price in St. Bias of SIS to 80,
with q proportional advantage in the United
States owing to the large quantity of meat in
the nut, and to the latter keeping q longer
time in good condition" (They therefore
recommend the San Bias nuts, for planting).
The other day, when an old fellow got in
the way of SON labourers at the levee Tor
river dyke at New Orleans, one Of them
called out" Come, trot out of this, old bald
head" The old chap looked up, scowled, and
Femarked-"Why, man, l own more acres
Of ground in this State than you've got hairs
on your head. " " Can't help it, if you own the
whole State and half of Alabama, was the
brusque reply, When I'm roIIin' bar'Is,
eYerything's got TO stand back, or bust"
"Oh, for a thousand tongues !" as the little
Street Arab said, when he orawled into a
m0lasses-barrel
Why is a lady at q ball like an arrow
Because she can't go off without a beau,
and is in a culver till she gets one.