Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Eighteen of the London theaterA
are occupied for divine service on Sun
day evenings.
in 1850 the public-school establish
ment of New York state cost less than
o., OO0, 900. Last year it cost SIS, 900, 900.
The Woman's Medical college of
Chicago has become department of the
Northwestern university, of Evanston,
Ill.
The revised German Bible has been |
completed. For nearly thirty years |
| critics and scholars have been at work |
| on it.
The teachers and school superin- |
| tendents of the United States receive |
$50, ZOO, 900 annually. This amount in |
creases 50, 100000 each year, or 80 per |
| cent.
DIR. ]. NJ. Worrall has been inaugu- |
rated as professor of ecclesiastical his
| tory and church government in the
Presby terian Theological seminary in
Danville, Ky.
| Bishop Thoburn's report on mission
| work in India, at the Methodist confer
ence in Omaha, shows $4,000 members
| have been added to the church in the
| past four years.
| Mr.. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, has
purchased for $50, 900 building in the
Monumental City which he has pre-
sented to the Maryland academy of
sciences as its home.
Cotton is now grown in Turlxestan
and the Russian provinces of central
Asia, the quantity produced being 3D.
100000 pounds, or say $4,000 bales, in
1888, and SO, $50, 900 pounds in 1889.
| According to the state superintend
ent's last report, the average cost per
pupil in the New Jersey school has been
Sc. IS, calculated on the school census,
and s12.14 if calculated on the number
outlined on the number enrolled.
The Protestant Christians of Japan
: number over 80, 900, organized over 200
churches; with about 1873 ordained
Japanese ministers. and nearly 500 Japa-
nese evangelists and workers, and with
nearly 400 men training in theological
schools. Christian Weekly.
The most famous religious relic,
says a church paper, is the ''Iron Crown"
which was worshiped in the middle
ages. The tradition is that it was made
: from the nails which were driven
l through the hands of Jesus at the time
l of the crucifxion. This celebrated relic
is now in Naples among the state jew
els.
The statistics of the Presbyterian
missions in Siam and Laos, as recently
reported, are as fellows: Ordained mis-
sionaries, IA; medical missionaries, 4;
single lady missionaries, 9; native
I preachers, teachers, ETC., "a; number of
1 churches, 10; communicates, I, lib; num-
= Der added last year, 239; boys in board
: ing-schools, 2os; girls in boarding
4 schools, 146; day-school pupils, 800.
v For the foreign mission work of the
! year ending April 80, 1892, the last gen
, eral assembly of the United Presby-
= terrain church appropriated $4,000.
L The total receipts of the board during
the year have been s114, 6so.s9. Appro-
u priations and receipts were very nearly
e matched. The Woman's board con-
d tributed to foreign missions lasts.
g The total number of members in the
r United Presbyterian church, 1891, was
V Toe, 1856; in 1892, 1O9,619.
The Salvation Army report for 1891
is as follows: In the service of the In
ternational Headquarters staff, Lilo
y officers are returned; in the British Isles
s. there are 1857 corps; France and Swift
zerland, AS; Belgium, Al; Holland, 1856
d Germany, IS; Denmark, 199; Sweden
vt sos; Norway, 231, Canada and New.
= foundland, 1,O44; United States, 1898
l. Argentine Republic, 81; South Africa
n 1876; India and Ceylon, sic; Australia,
;. 1888; New Zealand 26s; Finland, "a
" Italy, 81. Total for 1891, 1o,s93 corps
y showing an increase of 1,015 corps.
J" Not Poetess.
[e She stepped up to the editors desl
,e demurely and said:
,t do you want any writing done?'
>, The weary editor looked at her ant
said.
~ you write poetry, suppose?'
o1 Yes, have written little poetry
y have also written several short stories
a. a novel and play"
II beg your pardon" said the editor
catching his breath, but is there any
~ thing you haven't written?"
Or 81 don't believe there isl she SAT-
1e confidently, yet shyly. "You see I'm