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Russians wh6Dare devotfd TO Dick
ems are eagerl looking ferwatd p a
translation OF his letters pfomissd- ByAa
St. Petersburg firm.
refused $500 from ScrfbrcF-
for short article on the church of st.
MARS, and Browning, the Peet, stuck up
81, 900 which laecompanied
the same proposition.
---==Rosa Bonhsur has Just seught-aE
magnificent lion from the Geological
Garden at Marseilles, at the price of
1900 francs, and is painting its portrait
for pext years SALON. iss ID bivods bg,
ISI-The late John T. Delane, for so
many years the "edftor-in-chfef of the
London Times, scarcely aepeuowrote 81
line for the paper--himSeh, but used
other writer's as most men use a pen.
.c-Knelake, the historian, is d lawyer
as Wen assthe heir TO a large property.
He has all his Lie long studied plans of
battle in war, and he rode beside Rag
Ian in the aCrimea. He is very Slow,
conscientious and patient inihis)work.
,Hl--Afiss Lillian Whiting, on the editorial
staff>of the Cincinnati Commercial, stays
at her post until II O'Clock at night.
She issaid TO look The picture of strong,
healthy, fresh, young 70 life, y and has
proven by her, work that q woman can
do we'll on a daily paper. i'''' ''''7'''i ~
iiz7--Mrs. NJ. K!sA. Brackley, a writerof
some note and well known in the Epis-
icopal Chnreh as an earnest advocate of
and identified with the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to- Animals, with,
the Temperance movement and woman's
suffrage, died in New York q few days
ago Mrs. Bfpckley left her remains to
the W6hep 5. Medical, College Of New
York for dissection. '''' 5''''''
|JsAMiss (Bfaddoii Mrs. James Maxi
iweIL the Wifaaf the publisher of that
Hnamer7is a, stout forid woman, Of per-
haps 40 years. Her reddish fair hair is
worn in turls over her iforeheadSi her.
eyes are blue; her, mouth. somewhat
large and, smiling, Altogether, she. is
a woman of comfortable embonpoint,
ind easy goodlnattredi manners, l6ok-
ing mitch more like the ordinary, COM
mOnplace matron of the middle classes
than the imaginative weaver of so many
dark plotsssndi startling gtteraAees. sldGt
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes hit the
nal, on the head the other day when, to
a young man who had applied TO him
for a Position as,amanuensifs i've, replied; i
f'I have no writing to &c which | am
not competent'to do myself With a little
occasional aid from members of my own
family | regret not to be able to give,
you, encouragement as to employment
in Boston, but the truth is there is next
to none of theikind you nhehtiDnj most
of our authors III being as, poor as
rats themselves and no more able to
Keep an anianuerisis than they are able
to set up a coach and siX.''nsu Il sseT
=, -; sehooi and Church. ''lD ''i'''1
\ Mr.. Farnham's, Sunday school in
Shanghai, China, has 119 seholarsi A,,e
THE Sunday-school Association, of
France has decided TO adopt the Inter-
national sehenle of Sundaglsehool les
'sonst'n ii gaiaEi as,JuuH e9ilsg |, 10 ii
37HLVirginia has Go colored schools
.t;uughtaby 415 colored teachers. % The
male teacheui IS SALARY ofaveragesi $3.50
a month, the, females S23, 7oJjys obi +.
,d 1.-The French Assembly has voted
5Q,OQQ,00d francs 42, 100000 more than
asked-fori education, q against 6.00@, :.
900 in, 1870, and 16,00Q;0Q0y in, 1851.
The grant Includes. $4,000 travelling
expenses for explorers .f7js'sl5g D9l'
- IA Mussulman spriestthas been sens
fenced to death for assisting to TRANSLATE
the Bible into the Turkish language
,The British ambassador has demanded
the priests release 1t is believed Ger
many will support the demand, lid yL,
b,-Lane Theological Seminary pres
byterian) at Cincinnati, celebrated its
fittieth anniversary ON the 18th of De-
.cember, When a fins. new building of
blue limestone was dedicated, and the
Rev. Dr. fJaaies BELLS was installed as
iaProfessof.is IsbnU sd blUoH 1nBoiljUq.
u1 Lace prding to statistics, UP to Jply
last the Methodist Episcopal Church had
90 annual conferences, II, lbs itinerant
preachers, and 1886 $50 members alRt
and Since the organize
ti3rf Of the church Al presiding elders
and 634 1861 menibersJhave diedAE sd 81
'H Miss Mary Ripley has charge of the
Boys'' department. of the High School
atBhffalo,| N. Y, where there are over
200 young men, Gwhose cages range as
high as 25iyears,i Few menSwho. have
preceded her in the work have been
able. to do it acceptablyS Her iihfiu-'
eliee is suchIas toInake, mot only law,
abiding, but enthusiastic students .pasl =
:" According to DR.. Dollinger,, the
Mohamnnedan 'religionsis making good
headway3o There have been great num-
'bers of conversions in China-a single
Moslem college al Sierra Leone is about
.tosend puts 1 900. teachers among othee
African tribes rand among, the Malays,
the converts are literally reckoned by
millions. .'Aasliia Z DHb A'l-i ''b'fA
u -I'The English literature prizelef s65yl
offered to, the 9seniors at, Yale, College
sforthe best examination in English lit
erat,lre,I With Special References to poetry
of the Elisabethan era, has been1awai d.,
ed to William Logan, Crosby, of La
Crosse, Wis, and a Second prize has
been awarded to- Theodore Mount Peck.
of Marbledale, CT9nnig1ss sdi 1ot guilds :
IA committee of the Park Street,
Church, Boston, reported lately that it
hadInfad patierRq INVESTIGATION: among
the pmterts pfgthe1reeent revival, mest-
ings of that city, and found 9 marked
falling from gfate .aihbng thoseS who
had bsersinldst esri1estin religious piD-i
t IS SS ysgF I aso;s Tbs Bsy P2Er
,puibit, said that withIfe& exceptions che
converts had ifelapsed1 int a condition
wDrsei than that in which they were
pneyious to their pt6fessed change of