_The demand for a new building at the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, of which mention was made in our December_ MISSIONARY, _is very urgent. Last year the number of students turned away for lack of room was greater than the number admitted. Twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the amount already pledged for the purpose, are needed at once._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. THE INDIANS. —W. H. McKinney, a Choctaw from the Indian Territory, graduated this year from Roanoke College, receiving the degree of B.A. —Thirty Nez Perces women, widows of the men who fled from Idaho in 1876, have been permitted to leave the Indian Territory and return to their old homes. —The Department at Washington has entered into an agreement with the managers of the Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia, whereby that institution is to undertake the education of fifty Indian girls. —Bishop Whipple, when on a recent visit to the Indian department of the missionary diocese, administered the communion to 247 Chippewa Indians. There are eight churches in the Chippewa mission. One just building will cost $10,000. —Three hundred acres of land have been purchased, south of Lawrence, Kansas, for the site of an Indian Industrial School, located by the last session of Congress. Suitable buildings will be erected for the accommodation of 500 pupils. Ten thousand dollars have been raised for the object by private subscription, and it will probably be completed by November 1. —Information is published in Nebraska to the effect that the tradition that Indians will not work is untrue. On the line of the Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad they hang around the section houses and insist on being hired whenever any extra work is to be done, and every regular gang has both Winnebagoes and Omahas in it. They make efficient laborers, often giving better satisfaction than foreigners in the employ of the company. THE CHINESE. —The revival power is being manifested to a greater extent in Japan than elsewhere. —A union for Christian work among the Chinese of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been formed, with Andrew A. Smith, Secretary of the Park Commission, at its head. A reading-room and headquarters will be established at 991 and 993 Fulton street. —There are now more than 300 Chinese Christians on the Hawaiian Islands, and stated religious services for them are maintained at four different points. One of these Celestials, a member and a deacon of the Church in Honolulu, has built a school-house in his native village in China, and now supports a Christian teacher there, thus showing the importance of evangelistic work among the Chinese of these Islands.