The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist Episcopal chuTch
has 3,795 members in Japan.
Of the 835 instructors in the uni
~ersity of Berlin no less than ifty-two
are of Jewish extraction.
The prescribed coursesof medical
instruction in the Mexican National
university is seven years.
The religious census of New Zea-
land whose population is $685. re-
turns English Episcopalians at 253, 33l,
Presbyterians at IA, at, Roman Catho-
lies at 7,47s, and Baptists at IA, s25.
The new school of music at the
university of Michigan has given an
additional impetus 10 the glee and banjo
clu bs which this year bid fair to outdo
any that have preceded them. The
cIWos never have been east, but is prob
abbe that this year they will go as far
west as Omaha.
-'.ln expressing his commentator for
much that is peculiar to the Salvation
Army, Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur, of New
York, says: Some of our rich and
self-cl smplacent churches need Gospel
dynamite to awake them from their
confo1 table sleep and TO drive them
cut to care for lost souls"
The great organ in old Mormon
church at Salt Lake City has 2,704
pipes, each thirty-two feet long and
large enough to admit the body of a
man of ordinary size. It was built in
the early days. when all freight was
handled from Missouri river points
Ecross the plains with OK teams
The tlnrty-one weekly papers aud
firemonthlies published by the Saliva
ton Army had total circulation of
Is, 0co. Coo copies during the past year,
and we,se published in thirty-seven LAM
Euages. Twenty-nine million people
attended the indoor meetings of the
organization in this country during the
past twelve months
AS proof of the msnner in which
the civilization of the west Is Selling
hold on Jappn and all that is japanese
1T is stated that In private mission
school in the town of Kioto there are
900 japanese women. Ten years ago
tho fathers OF these girls looked upon
themselves, or, at best, as upper SER
wants. Now they strain every nerve to
give them liberal education.
I'm France the government paws the
pastors. not only of the Catholic but OF
the Protestant denominations. This
rule obtains also in the colonies, so
that Mohammedan mosques are main
tained by the state. 1t costs millions
Df francs There is a strong disposi-
ton to abolish the arrangement and
have free church in free state; but
Napoleons concordat with the pope
stands in the way.
There is ono ward in New York
city with a population Of 10000 and
having but seven churches, or one
church 10 10, zoe people. Another ward
has ~, 900 people and but four churches
1t may be news to most people in the
west that the majority Of the wealthy
nabobs of the metropolis, who paw
princely salaries to preachers to admin
lister TO their own refined spiritual
wants, have their places of business
within a stones throw of these places
Of spiritual darkness.
AT the nine Prussiau universities,
together with the academy of Munster
and the lyceum of Braunsberg, there
are 534 ordinary or full professors. Is ,
honorary professors, lS7 extraordinary
ar assistant professors with salary and
s2 without salary. In addition there
are 3S4 privatdocents and rs language
and technical teachers. The full pro-
fessors draw salaries amounting 70 D
s55, 100 marks lone mark - cents), the
extraordinary Az. TAO marks The mini
mum for the former is 800 marks; the
average, 5,534 marks. The highest
salary is paid 10 a member Of the la W
faculty in Gottingen, namely 1900
marks