Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Mrs. Cornilia James, professor OF
English at the Commercial college at
Fiume, enjoys the honor of being the
only woman in the Austrian empire to
hold a professorship in the public
schools for boys.
During the last year Che women
connected with the Methodist Episcopal
church have raised for foreign missions
the sum of $263, 600. 80, an advance of
S49, $50 "A over the contributions of the
year before. Mid Continent.
AT certain church near Ledbury,
England, a sermon is still preached
yearly against the vice of dueling. This
Is done in accordance with the last will
and testament of a fair damsel whose
rival lovers died fighting for her hand.
Toronto, Canada, still means to
honor the Sabbath and protect the
workingmen in the enjoyment of a day
of sacred rest The question of intro
ducing the Sunday street car was lately
submitted to a popular vote and was
decided negatively, by a vote of II. 40
against to 1O,011 for.-Presbyterian OBJ
server.
Salvation Army officials recently
accepted plans for a large temple,
which will be erected in New York
city next spring as a memorial to Mrs.
Gen. Booth. In it national headquar-
ters will be located. The site is not
definitely determined. The estimated
cost of the building complete will be
about $500, 600.
Methodist college presidents to the
number of eighteen were in session re-
Gently at Cleveland. O., and effected an
organization. The burden of the meet
ing was to make sentiment in favor o.
methodizing the educational develop
ment and establishing some sort o.
unit by which the grade of schoo
may be determined.
The watchmakers of Switzerland
at q recent convention in Berne, de
cided to make an exhibit at Chicago o
their finest and costliest watches, bu
not to attempt any competition will
American manufacturers in cheape
grades. They have applied to the Swis
council for financial and other aid t.
enable them to make q creditable ex
hibit
|, Japan is becoming like Western ma
tions. Even its custom of housekeep
ing will be modified when the new
school for foreign and domestic at
fairs" is opened. Japanese girls will err
long be taught practical home-life as i
IL understood among western nations
30 that they may be able to adopt tn
social customs of the west as readily a
Japanese men have done.
The vicar Of st. Botolph is having
his church fitted with seat designe'
to force people to kneel during prayers
His description of the now pews is tina
"for sitting on they are the most con
venient ones which can be desired; 70
half inclining against they are proAuc
tive of torture" He Is immovabl,
against the tendency of people in churcl
70 give up kneeling at prayer and mere
ly been forward slightly.
In spain the agitation for rest OIL
the Lords day Is being championed b,
those high in authority. Ministe
President Canovas del Castillo has In
troduced law into, the cortes to Ia
effect that no person under sixteen b
allowed to do any work on Sunday
that In all state, provincial and mu
nicipal establishments Sunday rest
obligatory; that labor on Sunday is al
lowed only in cases where 1t is abso
lutSly necessary, in which cases specia
permission must be secured; and tina
h all cases employers must grant thei
employees sufficient time to perform
eAaiF religious duties IN. X Independ
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