The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-10

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


-Alva Gage has presented to the
Unitarian church OF Charleston, S c.,
handsome brick parish house, costing
over 81 1000.
Within the last two years there
have been nine deaths in the Harvard
class of "A. and now only thirty out of
the original membership of sixty-two
survive. The last member of the class
to die was Edward S. Hoar, a brother
of Senator Hoar.
Miss Sara A. Burstall. graduate
Of Girton college. England. is now in
this country inspecting the public
school systems of different cities She
is one of the five travelling scholars"
appointed by the Gilchrist trustees of
England TO inspect American schools
Prof j. NJ. Baldwin. of the uni
versity of Toronto, has become Stuart
professor in psychology in Princeton
university. He is to have a suite of
rooms in North college for a laboratory
for experimental psychology, and a
liberal appropriation is to be made for
its equipment in time to begin work
next September.
"A reaction is setting in in Japan.
Certain Japanese statesmen who were
knowd TO be IN sympathy with Chris
tianity have been returned to power,
which clearly indicates change in the
anti-foreign sentiment which of late
prevailed in that empire, and almost
completely paralyzed the missionary
work of all denominations among the
Japanese.
While DR.. Gunsaulus is to serve as
president of the new Armour institute
in Chicago. a large share of the admin
istrative duties must necessarily fall on
the vice-president, and the trustees in
appointing to this position William O.
Pratt have made an excellent selection
An Amherst graduate of the class of
~ he has been successful! high-school
teacher and for the last few years has
been the executive head at the Pratt
institute in Brooklyn, MS experience
there being valuable preparation for
work along kindred lines in Chicago.
The Methodist ministers in New
York are not overpaid BY actual com
putatiOn the average salary appor-
toned last year throughout the Wyo-
ming conference was S657. The aver
age deficiency on the salaries of 200
preachers was sos The highest def
cheney was S144 on a salary of 5000. and
the lowest was IS on salary of 1925.
The average salary by districts is as
follows: Binghamton, S705: Chenango,
sos; Honesdale, 1914: Oneonto, S59S;
Owego. 1859. Last year a preacher had
deficiency of sos on salary of $500,
the lowest amount on which it is sup
posed man can support a family.
1t is interesting to notice the prog
ress of Christianity in the number of
its adherents through the centuries.
The English historian. Sharon Turner,
says that at the end of the first century
<here were 10000 Christians. BY the
md Of this C5econd century there were
1900, 600. This number was increased
in the next hundred years to 10000
Then the figures advanced as follows:
500 A. D.. 10, 600. 900; 600 A. D.. $780,
600; 700 A. D., 10000. 900; 500 A. D.. d.
DOC, 900; 900, A. D.. 80, 0OO. 600; 1000 A.
D.. 40, coo, 80o:, 1904 d., 80, O00 900: 1900
A. D., 20, 000,o 900; 1900 A D., so 600 600;
400 a. d., e. 400, 900; 1900 A. D. ST, 0Oo.-
GOO; 1900 4. o., 100. 600. 900: 1900 A. D..
125. 900, 600: 1900 n. D., 1876, 00o, 600; 1898,
250, GOO, 000.
Last year an important change was
made in the school laws of New Jersey.
by which the census of school children
was taken out of the hands of trustees
of the various districts and boards of
education in cities and given into the
charge of state officer, who appointed
his own agents in the various districts
and cities To do the work. The census
is taken every year in May. 1t was
taken for the first time last year under
the new law, and the result was that
in many cases it was found. il i al
legged that thou sands of fictitious
names had been put on the roll In
Jersey City. ii i said. there was a re-
duction of GOO names, and in Hobo
ken 5000. There was also a large num-
Ger Of fictitious names in Essex county,
and indeed in most Of the counties.