The Forrest City times., 1893-10-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


 A Sanskirt school for Hindoo girls has been opened in Calcutta.
 Ut is now just 100 years since Prot estant missionary work was begun in India.
 A new theological seminary has been established by the synod of Ken lucky of the Presbyterian church south at Louisville, Ky.
 There are 4s5 missionaries on the staff of the London city mission. French, Germans, Spaniards and other foreigners are employed to reach cer- tain classes.
 Prof. William s. Tyler, for fifty years the loved and honored professor of Greek at Amherst college. Massa- chusetts, often called ''the Amherst Socrates, " is to retire from his position and devote himself to the preparation of book.
 Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who argan- ized the first kindergarten in San Francisco in 1880, has received more than $500, 900 to enable her to carry on the work. There are now sixty-five kindergartens in the city, and more than 10, 900 children have been trained in them.
 Many Stundists now in banishment in Transcaucasia will petition the czar to change their place of exile to Siberia, were agricultural land is plentiful and where they may have some chance of making living. Now they are entirely dependent upon the charity of their friends
 Fifty years ago there were twenty four professors in the university of Cambridge, of whom five only were lay men. There are now forty professors, of whom, excluding the professors of divinity, only three are in holy orders; while at Oxford, of the forty-eight pro- fessors, excluding the professors of divinity, again only three are clergy men.-Nineteenth Century.
 Rev. M. M. Vancleave, pastor of the Baptist church at Charlottesville. Ind. has the enviable ministerial record of having married seven hundred and six ty couples. This venerable clergyman has preached the Gospel for nearly eighty years, and the good, old-fash- toned ceremony with which he ties the nuptial knot neatly and with dispatch makes the ordeal pleasure even to the most bashful swain.
 Ut was decided by the Hermanns- burgh missionaries among the Zulus, after holding conference, to abolish the prevailing custom among the na- tives of exchanging girls and women for cattle. Strange to say, the Chris tian converts refuse to submit to this innovation, and have demanded of the missionaries that they prove to them from the Scriptures that it would be unlawful for them to sell their daugh- ters for cattle.
 -Nagasaka, the educated Jap who fell in love with the Salvation army at Adelphi theater. San Francisco, is now on his way to London to lay the claims of Japan before Gen. Booth. Since his conversion Nagasaka has been busy translating the army literature into his own language, and some two hundred army songs, besides the generals holi- ness readings, pamphlets, explanatory of the Salvation army, are now to be found in the hieroglyphics of Nagasa- ka's vernacular.
 At the French'government agricul- tural colleges students may enter at fourteen years of age, after strict ex- animation in general knowledge. They pay nearly ninety dollars per annum for tuition, board and lodging, and the course lasting three years. There are free scholarships. There are good class rooms, laboratories, also natural history collections. Each day five hours are given to practical work and five to lectures and class work. Each boy in turn spends week in the kitchen, and a week in taking up and bringing in vegetables from farm or garden. They study chemistry, botany, geology, animal physiology, veterinary science and carpentry.
 The Vanishing of Spirits.