The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
"A Sanslsirt school for Hindoo girls
has been opened in Calcutta.
1t 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 GER
tain classes.
i Prof William S. Tyler, for fifty
years the loved and honored professor
of Greek at Amherst college. Massa
chusetts, often called 1.-The Amherst
Socrates" is to retire from his. position
\ and devote himself to the preparation
| of book.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who argan-
| lied the first kindergarten in San
Francisco in 1880. ha received more
| than $500, O0e to enable her to carry on
the work. There are. now sixty-fve
i tkindergartens in the city, and moro
| than 10000 children have been trained
| in them.
Many Stundists now in Punishment
| in Transcaucasia will petition the car
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.
Seventy young men have gone from
the Evangelists' home, Birmingham, to
preach in England and abroad. Their
work is on nonsectarian lines. and their
labors have been wonderfully success
full Mr. Adell is about build large
hall in the thickly populated part of
Birming CHAM, to gather in the neglected
masses
Fifty years ago there were twenty
four professors in the university of
Cambridge, of whom five only We're 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. NJ VI. Vancleave, pastor of the
Baptist church at wfordsyille Ind.
has the envia ole 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 a pleasure even to the
most bashful swain.
1t was decided by the Hermanns-
burgh missionaries among the Zulus,
after holding a conference, to abolish
the prevailing custom among the ma
tives of exchanging girls and women
for cattle. Strange to say. the Chris
tan 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
tiers for cattle
--NagdSaka, tne eduCaCeO Jap VINO
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 holt
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 aPricul-
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 q week in the
kitchen. and week in taking up and
bringing in vegetables from farm or
garden. They study chemistry. botany.
geology, animal physiology, veterinary
science and carpentry.