The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

DR.. George Pentecost has been adj
mitted as a minister by the English
Presbyterian synod.
DIR. W. G. Anderson, of Yale col
lege, director of the Chautauqua school
of physical culture, says that physical
training is in it's infancy in America, y
general interest in the subject having
arisen only in the last six years"
The black, homely old pew occu-
pied by President Lincoln in the New
York Avenue church at Washington
has lately been restored to its place in
the seventh row on the right-hand side
of the pulpit. 1t looks strange enough
among it's handsome modern neigh bors.
Gen. o. o. Howard preached at As
bury Park one Sunday afternoon re-
Gently on the subject: ''Does God An
swer Prayer" He said he was a pas
senger on the steamer Spree when it
broke its shaft and that the vessel was
saved through the prayers of himself
and other passengers.
The Pratt institute of Brooklyn
teaches twenty-five different branches
to women, among which are dressmak
ing, millinery, cooking, laundry work,
sewing, typewriting, bookkeeping, nor
NAL training in art education, design
ing. art needlework, photography,
Woodworking, architectural drawing
and library training.
The board of managers of the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Protestant Episcopal
church have made their annual appro-
pria tons for work in this country,
amounting to 1858, 435. Of this sum
S57, 500 is for work among the colored
people in the south. and s41,295 for
wo, !; among the Indians. There was
also appropriated for foreign missions
the sum of s1s7,136 to be devoted to
the mission school in Greece and the
work in Africa, China, Japan and Haiti.
Prof Ganendra Nath Chakravarti,
Of Alfalfa bad, India, will attend the
tbeosophical convention at the Worlds
fair congress of religions. Prof. Cha
kravarti is high caste Brahmin, and
ranks high as a Sanskrit scholar. Prof.
Chakravarti will be one of the few
high caste Brahmins who have ever
been in this country. A high Brah-
min can not cross the seas away from
his country without sacrificing his
rank Another prominent theosophist
who will be at the congress is NJ Dhar-
mapala, who is to represent the south
ern Buddhist church.
The university of Pennsylvania is
to have new laboratory, which will
be erected at the northwest corner of
Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets, Phil
adelphia. 1t is to contain rooms suited
to experiments of every kind; is to be
heated and ventilated according to the
most approved modern methods; is to
be provided with special apparatus
for carrying off nauseous fumes, and
will be furnished with an amphi-
theater for lectures. There will be al
SO smaller apartments for cumulative
analysis, for assaying-in short, for all
branches of chemical work.-Illustrat
ed News of the World.
-Disraelis ssCuriosities of English
Litera ture'' made such an impression
On an enthusiastic Frenchman. some
years ago, that he wrote to benjamin
Disraeli, London" for permission to
translate it into French for the benefit
of his countrymen. About fortnight
later he received the following reply:
DEAR SIR feel honored at the high
esteem in which you hold the Curiosi-
ties of Literature personally have
not the SLIGHTEST objection to vO1,r
translating that book into French, but
beg to refer you to its auther, my IA
Their. whom | trust you will some time
meet where he now is, in Heaven. BEN
yAHIy