Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Prince Ippolito, nephew of Prince Borghese, has entered the Jesuit order in Rome, and has taken the oath of poverty and humility. He is a young man, only just turned IS, and is mill lionaire. Of course his vast wealth will go to the order.-Philadelphia Times.
 America, through the American board, expended in fifty years $1, 250, 900 to evangelize Hawaii, and has during that time received about $4,000, 900 year in trade. England's missions are said to bring back ten pounds in trade for every pound given to convert the heather. Christian Weekly.
 A speaker at the recent interna- tional congress showed by experiments upon school children, when three or four sums in arithmetic were given in succession, that each sum showed an inferiority to the previous one, both in correctness and as regards the time in which it was completed. This one fac ulty employed was gradually exhaust ed, fresh piece of evidence showing the necessity for diversity of work. In the Roman Catholic church, in the sixth century, it was ordained that no commemoration should be made in the Eucharist for such as committed self-murder. This ecclesiastical law continued till the Reformation, when it was admitted into the statute law of England by the authority of parlia- ment, with the confiscation of land and | goods. Till 1923 the body of the sui eide was directed to be buried in a cross road, and a stake to be driven through | it.
 The American Sunday school union makes the following report of its work during the three years last March. It has in this time established 5,261 new 1 Sunday schools in needy or destitute communities, into which were gathered 22, SS7 teachers, and 1S6, O17 scholars. The results in conversions and the develop ment of churches from these schools is | 14,9SI conversions and the organizing | of 335 churches. This work costs about S9O, ,OOO year, and reaches those who are not provided for by any other agency.
 | Mrs. Ellen M Richards, who is in structor at the Boston Institute of Technology, never misses an oppor- | tunity to get all the houSewifely sci ence she can into the heads of the big ''tech." boys. "They'll need it some time," she says, eagerly, and with one of her bright smi 'S "All girls do not marry, but there are precious few boys who don't And mean to make these boys competent instructors in case they get incompetent wives. They'll know d great deal more about housekeeping than the men of this generation"
 A curious custom of the Creek church was illustrated at the funeral the other day of the young Grand Duchess Paul of Russia. Before the c, fin was closed the metropolitan placed written paper in the right hand of the corpse, which read: "We, by the grace of God, prelate of the holy Russian church, write this to our master and friend St. Peter. the gate keeper of the Lord Almighty. We an- nounce to you that the servant of the Lord, her imperial highness, the Grand Duchess Paul, has finished her life on earth and we order you to admit her into the kingdom of Heaven without delay, for we have absolved all her sins and granted her salvation. You will obey our order on sight of this docu- | ,naDt 1vb;ol Nya mt into ber hand n