The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Out OF pOpulatlOn OF 4o,Voo III VIC
Samoan islands all but 10000 have be-
come protesting Christians
Generous friends of the universities
have given promising impetus to dor
nitory building at both Harvard and
Yale this year.
Impartial writer's say that the gold
contained in the medals, vessels. chains
and other objects preserved in the vat
lean would make more gold coins than
the whole of the present European cir
culation.
The authorities Of the Tennessee
university at Knoxville recently de-
cided to admit women students, and
the omen of the state are now engaged
in raising funds to provide womans
building in connection with that uni
versity.
Arch bishop Alarcon has presented
the national museum at the City of
Mexico with a stone head of an idol
which, until its discovery by some Cath
Ole missionaries a short time ago, was
still being worshipped by the Indians
in the state of Merelos. The head was
on a statue of immense size. covered
with crocodile's hide.
Mrs. Sarah o. Peddie, Of Newark,
\. j.. widow of the late Thomas b.
Peddie, has left 100000 to Peddie in
stitute, at Hightstown, of which Mr..
Peddie was the founder. The Me-
mortal Baptist church, of Newark, re-
ceives $1,000. Mrs. Peddie has also
left about s25, 600 to other charities in
which she was interested.
The newly-appointed German am
bassador to the United States, Baron
| Won Saurma Jeltsch, was for eight
years German consul-general at Alex
| andria, including the period OF Ara bi
| Pasha's ebeliion He then won a high
| reputation for prudence. tact and ener-
| pv. He has since been minister 10 Rou-
| mania, to The Hague and to Wurtem-
! burg.
One of the Catholic papers says that
| Cardinal Gibbons is rather reckless
| about his associations. It reports that
little time since he condescended to
attend a meeting held by the Society
| for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
| iren at the Friends meeting house.
| The cardinal, Jewish rabbi and a
! Methodist minister addressed the meet
ing from the same platform.
DIR. J. Collins Warren, who sue
ceeds DR.. Cheever as professor of sur
| gerry AT Harvard, comes from one of the
! oldest medical families of Boston. His
grandfather, DIR. John Warren, a
| Younger brother of DIR. and Gen. Jo-
seph Warren. of Bunker Hill fame, was
| professor of natomy and surgery at
Harvard from 1888 o1S15, and for near
lv forty wears was the foremost surgeon
of New England.
The reports made at the yearly
meeting of the Friends of England
shows that Quakerism is by no means
in its decadence. There are in England
343 meetings an increase of three over
last year, and IS, 24i members, an in
crease of over 1000 in the last twenty
years The most significant item is the
joining of 2G2 by confinement" Els
pecially noticea BILE is the growth in
| Scotland, where its supporters claim
for it great future as Offering an open
ing for those who recon from the rigid
| doctrines of Calvinism.
The college women of England
have accomplished a notable feat III
the fact that no fewer than ten of them
have passed the severe examination fol
mathematical tripos at Cambridge
Two, Miss Johnson and Miss Stoney
each of Newman. are Nranglers. as
the distiction is technically known. and
the former was very near the head O
the list No such triumph has been at
tanned by women college student.
since Miss Fawcett's unprecenteC
achievement in becoming Senior
Wrangler in 1890, when her enthusias
tic fellow-students lighted bonfire
Illuminated the college grounds ;-nt
sang songs of JOY. Miss Johnson i
/ twenty-one years old, and entered tn
Cam bridge higher local examination
at the age of seventeen.