Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Yearbook of the Congrega. tional church reports 4,s17 churches,
 with 506, ,S32 members, and SIS, S1O in the
 Sunday
 The Young Peoples Society of
 Christian Endeavor is represented in
 Utah by the 23 organizations, represent ing 750 members, of which II are in
 Salt Lake City, containing $50 mem-
 bers.
 In Africa there are 800 missionaries and 400,O converts. An average of 25, 900 year become converted, and in five years more than 200 martyrs have lost their lives there.
 A dairy school is soon to be opened in connection with the Maine state agricultural college for the purpose of teaching the best methods of handling milk and making butter and cheese.
 From 1880 to 1890 the population of the United States increased twenty-four per cent. During the same decade the membership of the Presbyterian church, north, increased over thirty-four per cent.
 The study of the daily weather maps is to be introduced into the AL bany high school, the pupils to make daily reports therefrom, on which marks will be given. Observer Sims will also lecture thereon.
 The new national library build ing, now in course of erection in Wash ington, will cost $6, 900, ,0OO. There are thirty-three arches on the four sides of the building and it is proposed to orna- ment the keystones of these arches with representative heads of the races of mankind.
 The first Christian Endeavor society in the United States army has been or ganized among the soldiers of Jefferson barracks, near St. Louis, and has proved itself as well adapted to the needs of the soldiers as to young men in other walks of life. Illustrated Christian Weekly.
 More women than men avail them selves of the advantages of the univer- sity extension teaching in Cam bridge, Eng According to the last report 1925 women and 426 men have been awarded certificates the past year. Thirty-nine women and 10 men have taken the vice chancellor's certificate.
 The percentage of individuals above six years of age in the Sandwich islands and able to read and write Hawaiian, English or some European language is as follows in order of merit, viz: Amer jeans, 3.O4; British, 90.6O; Germans, B9. SS; half castes, s3 O5; natives, 70 80; Hawaiian born foreigners. 52 12.
 In Juneau City, Alaska, there are two Presbyterian churches. One is called the Northern Light Presbyterian church, and is under the care of Rev. MT. King, and is meant for the white residents of the mining camp. The other is the Thlingket church, and is for the ingathering of the natives and their instruction.
 At the instance of the minister of education, a Russian ethnographical and archaeological institution will be established in Constantinople, under the management of the Imperial Archaeological Society of Moscow. The required was granted by the government. The object of the in. stitution will be to study and to pro- mote the knowledge of eastern ethnog- raphy and archaeology.
 A unique method of avoiding conta- zion from the handling of books is in use in the public library of Chicago By an arrangement with the board of health every case of contagious disease occurring in the city is reported to the librarian, and if it happens that any books from the library are in the pos session of the afflicted family messen- gers from the library are at once sent for them. The books are then thor oughly fumigated and in case of small Oox deStrOVed