The herald., 1893-08-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

DR.. George Pentecost has been admit
ted as minister by the English Pres
byterisn synod.
DR.. w. G. Anderson, OF Yale college
director of the Chautauqua school o
physical culture, says that physica
training is in its infancy Ia America
general interest in the subject having
arisen only in the last six years."
The black, homely old pew occupied
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 its hand
some modern neighbors.
Gen. o. o. Howard preached at As
bury park one Sunday afternoon recent
ly on the subject: "Does God Answer
Prayer3" He said he was passenge r
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 needle-work. photography.
wood-carving, architectural drawing
and library training.
The board of managers of the Domestic
and Foreign Missionary society of the
Protestant Episcopal church have made
their annual appropriations for the work
in this country. amounting to $25S ,435.
OF this sum $57, 800 is for work among
the colored people in the south, and
SAL ,295 for work among the Indians.
There was also appropriated for foreign
missions the sum of s1S7, ,l36, to be de-
voted to the mission school in Greece
and the work in Africa, China, Japan
and Hayti.
Prof. Ganendra Nath Chakravarti of
Allahabad, India, will attend the theo.
sophical convention at the worlds fair
congress of religions. Prof. Chakra-
varti is high caste Brahmin, and ranks
high as q Sanskrit scholar. Prof.
Chakravarti will be one of the few high
caste Brahmins who have ever been in
this country. A high Brahmin cannot
cross the seas away from his country
without sacrificing his rank. Another
prominent theosophist who will be at
the congress is M. Dharmapals, who Is
to represent the southern Buddhist
church.
The university of Pennsylvania is to
have a new laboratory, which will be
erected at the northwest corner OF Thir-
ty-fourth and Spruce streets, Philadel-
phia. 1t is to contain rooms suited to |
of every kind; is to be
heated and ventilated according to the
most approved modern methods; is to
be provided with special apparatus for
off nauseous fumes, and will be
furnished with an amphitheater for lec-
lures. There will also be smaller apart
ments for Quantitative analysis for as
saying-in short. for all branches of
chemical work.-[Illustrated News of
the World.
Disraeli's Curiosities of English Liter
ature made such an impression GA an
Frenchman, some years
sgo, that he wrote to Benjamin Dis
raeli, London" for permission to trans
late it into French for the benefit of his
About fortnight later
be received the following reply: "Dear
Sir Il feel honored at the high esteem
In which you hold the Curiosities of
Literature. personally have not the
slightest objection to your translating
that book into French, but beg to refer
you to its author, my father, whom 1
trust you will some time meet where he
now is. in Heaven. Benjamin Disra-
eli. ."-ArgoDaut.