Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-21
school AND CHURCH.
Chess is taught in all the Austris mn hlin schools

Chess is taught in all the Austrian public schools.
 The gifts to Yale during the last year have amounted to over $2, 900, 900.
 The Boston Young Mems Christian association will establish a department of training Christian workers.
 There are now 627 senior and 92 junior Christian Endeavor societies in the state of New Jersey, a gain of ITO societies in twelve months.
 The czar's personal expenses are S9000, 900 a year, which is $6,200, ,000 more than Russia's annual appropria- tion for common schools.
 C-Staff Capt. Parker and wife sue ceed Maj George French and wife as commanders of the Salvation Army in the south, with headquarters in Balti- .nOre.
 When the schoolhouse of the Gal laghcr district, in Mason Valley, New, was opened after the summer vacation it was found that bees were in posses sion of the desks, and it is claimed that about two hundred pounds of honey were taken from them.
 At Buchtel college, Ohio, two wom- n and two men competed on the law 'SSay, for which two prizes were of cred. The subject was Equitable Remedies: Their Development and Place in Our Jurisprudence" The women won the prizes.
 Capt. w. Gordon McCabe, principal of the university school of Petersburg. Va, has been appointed by the presi- dent-elect of Harvard university one of ten leading Latinists of this country to prescribe a proper course and methods for the study of the Latin.
 A revised version of the Apocrypha, from the same hands that revised the old and New Testaments, will soon come from the university presses of OK ford and Cambridge. This was part If the original plan entered on in 1899 for the revision of the Bible. Rev. Dr. Matthews says that in the Prcshy tcrian churches Tn Holland it is the rule for a man, when he begins to be sleepy in church, to rise and stand till he gets W Uide-awake again. It is not an unusual sight to see dozen or more men standing at the same time.- Nhicago Standard.
 The issues of the two greatest Bible societies of the world-one in England | md the other in Amerlca-up to April | 1, 1892 were 1S3, 3S7, ,4S9 copies, and o1 she lesser societies, 46, ,612,5 511 copies in Ill, 23O, 900, ,O0O copies since the year | lSO4, the year of the organization of the British and Foreign Bible society. The total issues of all the Bible societies o1 ! the world for the last year amounted tc more than 1000, ,0O0.-Christian Union | An Englishman who recently had m audience with the pope describes .hc holy fathers face as quite colorlesl and wrinllled, his eyes dark gray-blue gentle yet penetrating in expression lis hair snowy, his nose aquiline, his mouth unusually large. His thin and l ightly-stoOpcd figure gave an impress sion of frGility and weakness whict was confirmed by his gait. A member If the guard carried an ivory cane, SC that the pope might use it to support | himself if necessary.
 The translation of the New Testa nent into Ganda or Luganda, the Ian yuage of the Uganda territory, has jus been finished, and the complete bool will soon be issued. The Gospel of St Matthew was printed in 1888; in 1890 , second edition was prepared in 1891 ar edition of 2,OOO copies of St. John wa published; the Acts, some of the Epis tles, and the Revelations were subse 4uently added, and now the remaining portions have left the hands of tn
 translator. The Churchman.