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has been established about three years
and some of the pupils who have used
its advantages have done exceedingly
well after leaving it.
Mis- Fanny Heath, who has lately
made a tour OF observation among the
German and Swiss schools, has sent
to MaeBlillun's Magazine for September
an Interesting account Of the way need
lework is taught in them. instruction
in needlework and knitting was begun
in the elementary or primary schools and
continued in the secondary or grammar
schools. The .needlework in the Swiss
school visited is under the management
of a mistress who teaches nothing else,
and is very thoroughly taught-much
more so than in English schools, tsSg
Complaints are published in New
York against the policy of the Methodist
Episcopal Church with regard to mis-
sionary work among the Indians. 1t Is
shown that Of the $780, 900 annually
appropriated by the Methodist Mission
ary Society only about $4,000, taking
the present year as an example, goes to-
ward missionary work among the Amer
lean indians, and that of this small
amount only the pitiful sum of 800 is
set apart for use among the Indians of
the far West Methodists are the COM
plainants, and these consider the appar-
ent neglect the. more remarkable be-
cause, under the plan adopted during
President Grants Administration, the
Methodist Church controls the nomina-
ton of agents to IA out of 68 agencies,
or more than one-fifth of the whole
number.
81. Foreign Notes.
The British National Lifeboat Insti-
tuition has 800 boats and spends about
100000 annually in rescuing, on an
average, 1000 lives. r.3t..9 p. f.
The latest British emigration re-
turns'show that 81, 019 persons emigrated
in the last quarter-S6, 10 were En-
glish, 6,727 Scotch, and 1912 Irish.
The latest fashionable freak in Eng
land is the giving of concerts by ladies OF
rank in public halls. Lady Folkestone
and the Marchioness of Waterford, both
fine pianists and fine singers, are at the
head of this g BOOM"
The Empress Eugene has become
almost childish with grief, and she car
ries about with her all day small dag
ger-shaped fan bought at some fancy
fair, end of no intrinsic value, which
happened to be her sons last gift to her.
She listens to, all that is said to her,
steadily regarding the fower-painting
on the fan.
The Earl of Seton would be to-day
almost the wealthiest man in England il
his ancestors had not sold, for COM
parative trifle, his harbor rights, held
under an ancient grant, to the town OF
Liverpool; and the Marquis of Donegal
would to-day be thrice as rich as the
richest man in ireland had he not reck-
lessly leased the town of Belfast on per-
petual leases at nominal rents, receiving
in so doing heavy " fines" or payments.
Almost the whole town is nOminally his
property.
An American lady, who has lived
in England, says: ''For the street.
English women dress horribly, but fol-
dinner parties and balls they are lovely
They wear usually white or black, and
their skins and complexions are daz.
cling. But every English woman wher
she gets to be thirtv-fiye or forty has I
rash break out on her nose. believe
it is because they drink so much. They
are always drinking wine and all thai
with their meals. They don't get faded
and worn, looking as we American
women do; but they get ve:y stout, and
their beautiful compilations get to be
really berry. "