—There are Indian girls in the Indian Territory University who are studying German, French, Latin, and Greek, geology, moral philosophy, political economy and other branches of the College course.
—The Indian Mission of the Methodists in the Indian Territory is organized into a conference with four presiding elder’s districts and twenty-nine pastoral charges. There are 112 local preachers, 1,100 white members, 30 colored members, 5,107 Indian members, 58 Sunday Schools with 1,602 scholars.
—The Presbyterians have arranged to establish next September a boarding school among the Creek Indians where they have never been reached by Christian influences.
—The capacity of Indian children for learning English is shown by the fact that at Carlisle quite a number who came in August without knowing the language were able to converse in it the next May.
—It is said that the Indians of Alaska do not belong to the same race as the North American Indians, but they are probably an offshoot from Japanese Coreans. The missionaries who have been laboring among them say that in many respects their conceptions of moral law are better than those of civilized nations.
THE CHINESE.
—There are Chinese Baptist churches in Guiana, South America.
—The English Presbyterian Synod Missionary Society, having its field of labor principally in China, reported for last year an income of $425,000.
—The Trinity Baptist Church of New York has twelve Chinamen among its members. At the baptism of J. Sing recently, some twenty other Chinamen were present. One of these converts, Kun Sing, is about to go as a missionary to his countrymen in Canton, China.