—Martin B. Lewis, a missionary of the Sunday-School Union, writes that on a recent Sunday at the Sisseton Reservation, half of the children at the Sunday-school came without shoes, their feet being sewed up in cloth; yet they were happy. A woman walked four and a half miles when the mercury was ten degrees below zero to make arrangements about organizing a school at her house. She had been five years in a family of eight without hearing a sermon or a prayer, and asserted that she could no longer live as a heathen. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. The will of Mr. Peter Ballentine contains a bequest of $5,000 to Rutgers College. Alida V. R. Constable bequeathed $4,000 to Union Theological Seminary, New York. Miss Mary Blake, of Kingston, N.H., has made a bequest of $10,000 to Tufts College. Mr. A. E. Kent, of San Francisco, a member of the class of ’53, has given $60,000 to Yale College. Mr. Henry Winkley has added $10,000 to his previous gifts to Andover Theological Seminary, making $60,000 in all. Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., has given $75,000 to Vermont University for a library building. The late S. L. Crocker, of Taunton, Mass., bequeathed $5,000 to Brown University to endow a scholarship to be called “Caroline Crocker.” By the will of the late Henry Seybert, the University of Pennsylvania is to receive $120,000 for the endowment of a chair of mental and moral philosophy and the endowment of a ward in the wing for chronic diseases. _The Committee on Education and Labor made a unanimous report last winter to Congress that the people of the Southern States are absolutely unable to provide the means necessary for sustaining sufficient public schools without assistance. The A. M. A. has long recognized this fact. Endowments for its schools and others similar to them, whose object is to raise up Christian teachers, would assure assistance of the most helpful and enduring character._ * * * * * ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS. Berea College, Berea, Ky.—Baccalaureate Sermon, June 17; examination and anniversary exercises, June 14 to 20; Commencement, June 20. Hampton N. and A. Institute. Hampton, Va.—Examinations will be conducted May 21, 22, 23; Trustees’ Meeting, Wednesday, the 23d, and Anniversary, Thursday, the 24th. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.—The annual examinations will be conducted by the State Board of Examiners, June 11, 12, 13; Commencement, June 14. Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.—Baccalaureate Sermon, May 20; examinations, May 21, 22, 23; Commencement exercises, May 24. Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss.—Baccalaureate Sermon, May 27; examinations and Commencement exercises through the week. Straight University, New Orleans, La.—Baccalaureate Sermon, Sunday, May 27; Anniversary of Alumni, May 28; Commencement exercises, May 29.