“Commissioner” Tucker, the principal officer of the Salvation Army in India, has received from an anonymous donor a con tribution of £SOOO to the funds of the Army in that country. “General” Booth Proposes to send out another party of fifty Inglisb officers. Of 62,500,000 bushels of groin shipped from New York in 1884, not one bushel was carried by a vessel sailing under the American flag. The bulk of it was taken by British and German vessels, the former numbering 743 and having cargoes equal to 32,000,000 bushels. The Christian World says : —At the open ing of the General Assembly of the Estab lished Church of Scotland, the Lord High Commissioner, after reading' the Queen’s letter, announced the receipt of Her Majesty’s usual gift of £2OOO for the promotion of the Gospel in the Highlands, a portion of the same to be appropriated to the encouragement of young meg to preach in the Gaelic lan guage to the inhabitants of the northern part of the kingdom. The German Government is said to be the proprietor of a truly wonderful balloon. The Augsburg Gazette, in an account of certain experiments recently made with it in the neighbourhood of Metz, declares that it can be ifceered against the wind, and that it can be ■’.topped -and kept in a stationary position when required, and that its speed is at least ■ : our times as'great as that of an express train. The constructor of this marvellous machine ■a, it appears, a German engineer named Welker, who is at present settled in America. I e has sold the invention to the Germ an Go vernment for £60,000 down and a life annuity of considerable amount.
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