The Redwood gazette., 1891-10-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

| William Winter, tire poet, has been
elected president of the board of trus-
tees of the Staten Island Academy and
Latin school. The board is composed
of twenty-one of Staten Islands most
influential citizens.
The reports Of school and college
commandments show a growing dispo-
sition on the part of young men and
women to consider and discuss current
events and practical questions, includ-
ing woman suffrage.
1T is proposed to honor the memory
OF the late Joseph Leidy, the natural
ist, by establishing a chair of anatomy
at the university of Pennsylvania,
where he taught for many years A
fund of $4,000 for Leidy memorial
museum may also be raised.
MIR. George w. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, who one year ago gave
the Methodist Episcopal church at
Wayne, Pa, the corner lot on which
the handsome edifice has since been
erected, has just made the church a
present of a lot S0x241 feet, adjoining
the church property, as site for par
sonage.
The Cleveland College for Women,
in recent report, shows total enroll
ment of 1872 students for the three years
of its existence. A permanent site has
been secured, and Clark hall and Mather
cottage will be erected. The gifts of
! Mrs. James F. Clark and Mrs. Samuel
Mather not only cover this expense, but
also aggregate 100000 as the nucleus
of an endowment fund.-
The first dental college in the
United States was established in 1910 at
baltimore, and even as late as 1864
, there were but others in the country,
in Philadelphia and 1 in Cincinnati.
There are now about 26 of these schools
in the United States, and in several of
the states a collegiate course is COM
pulsory to one intending to practice
dentistry as a profession.
THE Clergy List" puts down the
poorest living in the church of En-
gland as that at Wainfeet, Lincoln
shire, where at st. Thomas church the
parson apparently receives the mag
hificent stipend of one shilling and one
penny, three farthings and small
fraction per week for ministering to
some three hundred persons. The liv-
ing of Molesworth is put down at one
and eleven pence per week, and an
other in Breconshire is worth eight
pounds per annum.-Christian Union.
The Huguenots in France mum Der
some 100000, and are gathered into
about $50 churches, though 10000 or
more are scattered and destitute of pas
tors and places of worship. They sus-
tain three Bible societies, three book
and tract societies, many young mems
Christian associations, two theological
seminaries, two schools for evangelists
four societies for carrying on evange1-
istic work and host of crlporteurs
The annual contributions for home
missions amounts to 100000, and for
foreign missions $4,000
The annual statistics of the Presby-
terian church, by DR.. William Henry
Roberts, the stated clerk, show
growth in the number of churches and
communicates and presbyteries, and
decrease in the amount of contribu-
tions. There are 7,O7O churches,
bIo"CA " l'o LII CIlc year, Inc tOGal
number of communicates is SOC, 796, as
against 775,9O3 for 1890; the number Of
pres byteries is ZIG, an advance of on
1890; there are 1928 ministers, as
against 6,155 last year, an increase of
only 65; the contributions show fall
ing off, being $14, 4,O62 356, instead of
R14, ,36s, 13l.
I'm the library of the Moravian
school for boys at Nazareth, Pa, which
was founded in 1741, and whose ses-
sions since were interrupted only for
brief period by the revolution, is Sc
ries of quaint old volumes containing
the compositions graduating colloquies
md essays, together with sketches in
pencil made by scholars whose hands
became dust half century ago. The
main building of the school on the
academic green is the stone Pomeranian
''castle" erected by Count Zinzendorf in
what was then the wilderness of Penn
sylvania, and which attracted many Gu
rious visitors in the last century.