tions to _Wide Awake_, _St. Nicholas_, etc., or
money to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit?

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BENEFACTIONS.

Rutgers College has received $1,000 toward an endowment fund from Mr.
R. H. Ballentine, Newark, N. J.

Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, has given the city of Salem, Mass., $7,500,
the income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in
college.

Illinois College has recently received a gift of $1,000 from Mr. E.
W. Blatchford, of Chicago, who was a member of the class of '65.

Mr. George W. Dixon, of Bethlehem, Pa., has given $20,000 to Linden
Hall Female Seminary, to build a Gothic chapel in memory of his
daughter.

Mr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., has given $10,000 to Olivet
College, Mich.

Joseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has placed in the hands of the trustees
of Hamlin University $25,000 to increase the endowment of that
institution.

Mrs. Robert L. Stuart has given $150,000 to Princeton College to
endow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors
in logic, ethics and psychology.

_Among the wants specified in the report of the Executive Committee
of the A. M. A. for the coming year was $10,000 for a new hall for
the Edward Smith College, at Little Rock, Ark. It is proposed that
the donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion._

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GENERAL NOTES.

AFRICA.

--Among the Belgians no less than six commercial societies have been
constituted to explore the Congo.

--The Livingstone Inland Mission has founded a new station at Ngoma's
Town, one hundred kilometers up the river from Stanley Pool.

--The merchants of Lisbon have constituted a company for the
navigation of the Quanza. They have constructed to this effect in
England a steamer, the Serpa Pinto, which was to be delivered in
September.

--The Scotch Presbyterian Church have decided to furnish a steamer
for the use of the Old Calabar Mission. The young people throughout
the church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the
money by the time the steamer is ready.

--According to a dispatch from Sierra Leone the Queen of Massah, with
the consent of the native chiefs, has authorized the annexation of
the neighboring territory of Sherbro to the English possession, which
will thus extend without interruption from Sierra Leone to Liberia.

[Illustration: TRAVELING IN AFRICA.]

--The fever