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presented her husbands entire theolog-
ical library to the Reformed Episcopal
Church.
DR.. Parker, rather eccentric
preacher of London, has been invited to
preach in MIR. Beecher's church for three
months this summer.
The Archbishop of Canterbury be-
lieves signs are visible which pI essge a
great spiritual revolution in Asia and
Africa.
The New England's Women's Club
has an educational department connect
ed with it, and classes in botany, itera-
ture and ceramics. The botany class is
the most enthusiastic. 1t meets regu-
larly once a week, and its studies are
taking gradually much enlarged field.
Board of Education has found num-
Der of American children growing up
in ignorance within eight miles of New
London. He found two farmers fami-
lies in which the children, ranging from
8 to IA years, could not read.
Twenty fellowships, each yielding
$500 q year, were recently awarded at
Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore,
whose holders are required to live in the
city during the academic session, and
make return for the benefits received
by occasional service as teachers.
Bishop Whipple has called con-
ference for next October, to meet at
Davenport, Iowa, to discuss the subject
of border missionary work. The Bish-
ops of Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri, Niobrara, and Iowa. whose
sees respectively border on the Missou-
ri, will participate.
Mr.. Kuhara is clever and scholarly
Japanese gentleman, who is about to
come to this country for the purpose of
postgraduate study at Johns Hop
kins University. He is a graduate of
the Imperial University at Tokia, and
has translated many English works into
Japanese.
The Dominion Government intends
to make military instruction a part of
the high school course in the different
provinces, and will form 35 companies
of 35 boys each in Ontario, 25 COM
panies in Quebec, and Is in the mari
time provinces. These companies will
be furnished with instructors from the
military college and with Government
arms.
Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst Col
lege lately told his students that brain
work, properly engaged in, was health
ful to body and mind; bat the brain
might easily be overworked. Suicides
follow school examinations in England,
and i'll health accompanies them in our
high schools. Children can not use the
brain more than three hours daily, and
brain work is more hurtful here than in
Europe. Let us educators then dis
pense with much of this intense cram
ming. Worry, speed, greed and ex-
cess in our school work are elements of
disorder in the health of young pupils.
Foreign Notes.
Lord Beaconsfield has requested a
designing friend not to put him in
bronze or marble during his lifetime.
The bellies of the present season in
London are all married ladies, and two
think they themselves are to be pitied,
for the matrons carry all before them
There are indications in London of
progress on the temperance question.
There is less public drunkenness, the
gin palace is not so glaring nuisance
as formerly, and the people have at last
begun to debate the question of total
abstinence, which is no longer dismiss
ed with smile and a Jest.
Prince Hohenlohe, the German En-
bassador in Paris, is said to be very &C.
centric and peculiar in his habits, strong
in his friendship and equally so in his
prejudices. He is a man of great intel
ligence, linguiist and something of a
musician, but very reserved and naughty
in society. 1t is said that his populari-
ty in Paris is not very extraordinary.
The Prince of Wales says of the late
Prince Imperial: ga more charming,
more promising young man has rare
ly existed. If it had been the will of
Providence that he should have been
called to succeed his father as Sovereign
of that great country, our neighbor, L
believe he would have proved an ad-
mirable Sovereign, and that he, like his
father, would have been a true and great
ally of this country"
The Empress Eugene has become
almost childish with grief, and she car
ries about with her all day a small dag
ger.shaped fan, bought at some fancy
fair and of no intrinsic value, which hap
pened to be her sons last gift to her.
She listens to all that is said to her,
steadily regarding the flower painting
on the fan. The immediate concern of
those about her is not for the fate of the
dynasty, but for the health of her mind.
OF the House of Commons at the
Queens accession only eight members
survive, of whom Mr.. Gladstone is one.
Two were members prior to the Reform
bill of 1881. MIR. Mansel Talbot is, we
believe, the senior and the father of the
House. He has sat from the age of %
for Glamorganshire, of which county he
is also Lord Lieutenant, and has seen his
property quadrusle in value through the
extension of colliery and other mineral
enterprises in the principality.
The Empress of Austria likes sol
itary hunting expedition. With her ia
vorite rifle in hand, she goes deep into
the wooded mountains and solitary val
leys which stretch round the Imperial
domain in every direction. Dressed in
the rough costume of the Tyrol, she will
often make excursions of two or three
days. duration, staying at night at some
distant cot, where the only fare, besides
the game she brings with her, is goat
cheese and milk, with black bread.
Guinness, the brewer, lately gave
the most brilliant entertainment of the
London season thus far. Rank, fashion
and wealth were mingled. The feature
of the evening was the floral decora-
tions. Even the cornice of one room was
hung with garlands of summer roses
to the number of 10000. The house is
in Grosvenor Place, and was built by the
Duke of Westminster for his eldest son,
Earl Grosvenor, but passed into the
of Baron Stroussberg. who
figured there for three seasons, and then
drifted into the hands of his creditors.
Haps and Mishaps.
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