Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist Episcopal church
 has s, ,795 members in Japan. !, Of the 335 instructors in the uni
 versity of Berlin no less than fifty-two
 are of Jewish extraction.
 | The prescribed courseoof medical
 instruction in the Mexican National
 university is seven years.
 The religious census of New Zea-
 land, whose population is 626, ,65s, re-
 turns English Episcopalians at 253, 1881,
 Presbytsrians at Al ATT, Roman Catho-
 lies at ST, ATS, and Baptists at 14, ,S25.
 The new school of music at the
 university of Michigan has given an
 additional impetus to the glee and banjo
 clubs which this year bid fair to outdo
 any that have preceded them. The
 clubs never have been east, but is prob
 able that this year they will go as far
 west as Omaha.
 In expressing his commendation for
 much that is peculiar to the Salvation
 Army, Rev. Dr. R. S. McArthur, of New
 York, says: ''Some of our rich and
 self-complacent churches need Gospel
 dynamite to awake them from their comfortable sleep and to drive them
 out to care for lost souls"
 The great organ in old Mormon church at Salt Lake City has 2,7O4
 pipes, each thirtv-two feet long and
 large enough to admit the body of
 man of ordinary size. It was built in
 the early days, when all freight was
 handled from Missouri river points
 across the plains with OK teams.
 The thirty-one weekly papers and five monthlies published by the Salva-
 tion Army had a total circulation of 45, 1000, 900 copies during the past year, and were published in thirty-seven lam guages. Twenty-nine million people attended the indoor meetings of the organization in this country during the
 past twelve months
 As proof of the manner in which the civilization of the west is seizing hold on Japan and all that is Japanese it is stated that in private mission school in the town of Kioto there are 100 Japanese women. Ten years ago the fathers of these girls looked upon themselves, or, at best, as upper ser wants. Now they strain every nerve to give them liberal education. In France the government pays the pastors, not only of the Catholic but of the Protestant denominations. This rule obtains also in the colonies, so that MOhammedan mosques are maiu- taincd by the state. It costs millions of francs. There is a strong disposi- | tion to abolish the arrangement and
 have free church in q free state; but INapOleon's concOrdat with the pope | stands in the way.
 There is one ward in New York city with a population of 7O,0O0 and having but seven churches, or one
 church to 10000 people. Another ward has 47, 900 people and but four churches. \ It may be news to most people in the ! west that the ma jority of the wealthy nabobs of the metropolis, who pay princely salaries to preachers to admin ister to their own refined spiritual wants, have their places of business within stone's throw of these places of spiritual darkness. !
 At the nine Prussian universities, together with the academy of Munster and the lyceum of Braunsberg, there are 534 ordinary or full professors, 23 honorary professors, 1S7 extraordinary or assistant professors with salary and
 D2 without salary. In addition there | are SS4 privatdocents and 73 language \ and technical teachers. The full pro- | fessors draw salaries amounting to D. | 955, 120 marks (one mark 24 cents), the extraordinary 457, TAO marks The mini- | mum for the former is 300 marks; the | average, 5,534 marks. The highest
 salary is paid to q member of the law
 faculty in Gottingen, namely l2,G00 | ,.1-