—A number of Japanese have prepared a formal paper, asking that in the work of translating the Old Testament the Japanese Christians may be represented by a committee of their own countrymen, selected by themselves.
—The Stockton (Cal.) Herald gives the following account of a Chinese bride: The other afternoon a strange procession of hacks, with gay colors flying, with a scent of burning spices about them, drew up at the shed of the California Steam Navigation Company, where the steamer Mary Garratt was loading. In the first hack was a lone female, with her head in a bundle of bright-colored Chinese silk, which concealed every feature. Behind was another hack, in which several Chinese boys rode, each carrying a burning taper. Then came two more hacks, each filled with Chinese women. All alighted at the wharf, and the hooded woman was assisted out and led on board the steamer, her course being conducted by the boys with the lighted tapers and the women. The woman was so closely veiled as to be practically blindfolded. Then it was ascertained that she was a daughter of “Sonora George,” and was going to Bedouin Island to be married.
BENEFACTIONS.
Mr. Deering has given $50,000 to the Northwestern University of the Methodists at Evanston, Illinois.
Mr. John C. Phillips has given $25,000 for the further endowment of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt has added $100,000 to the endowment fund of Vanderbilt University.
Lafayette College has received from Mr. T. W. McWilliams of New York a contribution of $10,000 toward the endowment of the March Chair of Philology.
Mr. J. H. Cassedy of Thiells, N.Y., has given $5,000 to Talladega College for a model school building, to bear his name.
Miss Susie Bartlett of Oshkosh, Wis. has given $500 to Beloit College for the purchase of scientific books.