ting-Bull
cannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go. Bishop
Marty has had him under his care for several months, and his
instructions were being rapidly absorbed by the Chief; but separation
from his wives proved too much, and he will probably return to
heathenism.

THE CHINESE.

--The missionaries in China, to the number of 231, have presented
another petition to the House of Commons against the infamous opium
traffic.

--There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands,
who is said to be a whole Bible society in himself, expending twenty
dollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to
distribute among his countrymen there.

--The largest bell in the world is in Kiota, Japan. It is 24 feet
high and 16 inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended
piece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside,
and its booming can be heard for miles. Nobody knows when or by whom
it was cast, and though its surface is covered with characters, no
scholar has yet been able to translate them.

--The _Foreign Missionary_ says the great secret of success in
teaching the Chinese in America lies in the direct personal influence
of the teacher over the pupil. Generally each pupil is provided with
a teacher, and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct
proportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced. The
first important revelation that dawns upon the Chinaman is that there
are those in this land who are not hoodlums, and that brutality is
not the universal law in America; that Christianity is higher and
purer than the enactments of Congress, and that Christ is the friend
of all men, and has died for Chinamen as well as "Melicans."

[Illustration: CHINESE WOMEN.]

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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PAPERS READ AT THE WOMAN'S MEETING IN BROOKLYN.

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THE INDIAN WOMAN.

BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS.

To describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among
them, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven
with our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and
unlike white women she appeared to us at first. But she is a woman,
even though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on
her back.

How uninteresting, you must think,