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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. <br><br> China has one Protestant missionary to a million people. <br><br> St. Louis has 550,000 people, but only 20,000 Protestant church members. <br><br> More than $1,500,000 is said to be invested in mission buildings in New York city. <br><br> The number of Chinese which arrived in the Sandwich Islands, during the past year, were 3,812. <br><br> The first glass factory in the United States of which we have definite knowledge, was built in 1780. <br><br> The first compass was used in France in 1150, though the Chinese are said to have employed the loadstone earlier. <br><br> The New York Broadway Tabernacle needs only seven more members to make 1,000. Dr. Taylor received 67 during 1879. <br><br> A requiem mass for the repose of the soul of Pius IX, was celebrated Sunday morning, Feb. 8, in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. <br><br> The population of the globe is estimated at $1,300,000,000. Nearly every man thinks he ought to be the 1, whereas he is only an 0. <br><br> Everything is working like clockwork with the laboring classes. That is to say, the hands are busy getting up strikes. - Boston Bulletin. <br><br> The value of the oranges shipped from Columbus, Ga., during the season just closed was $17,201.40. Columbus is the shipping port for a considerable portion of Florida. <br><br> There are 3,674 Congregational churches in the United States, whose benevolent contributions last year were $1,093,691.43, and whose home expenditures were $2,594,228.81. <br><br> The number of men that were killed by accident in the St. Gothard Tunnel, from the commencement of the undertaking to the end of February 8th, amounted to 120; 400 were wounded. <br><br> The interest on the public debt due April 1 amounts to $7,389,620, it being the quarterly interest on $738,962,000 four per cent bonds. Of the interest due, $5,124,173 is on registered bonds. <br><br> The first sovereign who adopted the phrase, "In the year of our Lord," was Charles III, Emperor of Germany, 879. It is now the accepted mode of designating the year in all Christian countries. <br><br> Sandwich Islands Christians contribute $21,000 annually for missionary purposes outside their territories. Some churches average more than $4 per member. One church sustains more than five foreign missionaries. <br><br> A church in Madison, Conn., has been in existence 173 years, and has had but six pastors during that period. No minister has ever been dismissed, all having continued there till their death. The church edifice has been built three times. <br><br> A package of fine tobacco sent by a young lady of Asheville, N. C., to Richmond, to be sold, brought %5.25 per pound when it was learned that the fair shipper intended to devote the proceeds to the relief of the Episcopal church at Asheville. <br><br> The wife of Adjt.-Gen. Ross, of Indiana, has received from the ladies in the Treasury Department at Washington a small cross made of $20,000 in greenbacks that were ground in the [unreadable line] form. It is stamped with a quaint inscription. <br><br> There is a famine in Brazil which outrivals the distress in Ireland. The northern provinces is the scene of the trouble. It is said no famine of such magnitude has been known in modern times. Half a million of souls have already died of starvation and the number will be doubled if succor does not soon reach them. It is appalling to contemplate all the woe and misery such a condition involves. |