St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-03-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The name most whispered rs the
strongest candidate for pope to sue.
ceed Leo XIII. is Monsignore Dominica
Jacobini. the papal nuncio in Lisbon.
"A wheelbarrow which was pre-
sented to the Salvation Army in an
English town is used to take the col
lection in, and the novelty secures quite
large contributions
The mayor of Toronto claims that
in the recent vote ON Sunday street
cars the majority of 1000 against them
would have been 5000 but for '.person-
atoms" of the dead and absent and de-
layed citizens on the polling list.
Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne,
who died recently at Wilberforce. O.,
was the oldest bishop the Methodist
church has ever had, either in age or
in length Of service. He was born in
Charleston, s. c., February "a. 1911.
The new bishop Of Massachusetts,,
DIR. Lawrence. resides on Common
wealth avenue. Boston, and just around
the corner is the former home of his
predecessor, the late Bishop Brooks,
which is occupied by DR.. Donald. the
new rector of Trinity.
The average number of students
in the reading-room of tho British
museum is 6s1 each day. The attend
ance in the library and sculpture gal
lery has been less this year than usual.
but the number of visitors to the mu-
seum shows an increase of 81, 900 over
last year
The library Of Syracuse university
is receiving valuable additions evety
month. So far during this college
year /, l1s volumes and 1879 pamphlets
have been added. Among these IL in
cluded the small scientific library Of
the late DIR. J. G. Brown. for many
years professor of chemistry and phys
les in the university.
The annual award of the prizes
given by the Engineering News Of
New York city. for the best theses sub
mitted by students graduating from
any engineering school In America has
just been announced. The first prize
goes to-two gradutes from Dartmouth
college. II. T.. Abbott and Edwin J.
Morrison. for thesis on Cement Test
ing" The second prize was taken by
r. ". Clay. Of Richmond. KY, s:.Cornell
man.
Elton college has just celebrated.
with much rejoicing. the four hundred
and ffty-second anniversary of its
foundation. 1t owes it's origin to King
Henry W.. who provided from his own
purse the funds for the erection of the
buildings, endowed the school, framed
charter for it. and, Id order that il
should not lack scholars, caused thir-
ty-five of the Winchester boys to be
transferred to Eton. The college
buildings, which were erected in l440.
are still in . wonderful state of preser-
vation.
The late Bishop Brooks, whose ..Ser-
mons Preached in English Churches is
one of the best-known volumes, is to
have memorial in st. Margaret's,
Westminster. the official church of the
house Of commons. The memorial will
very likely take the form of . window.
worthy to rank beside the Raleigh and
Milton windows, both of which have
been erected by Americana Close to
the side of the abbey is st. Msrgsret's
church, a little Westminster In itself,
so iilustrious are the dead who lie
buried within the church's venerable
walls. The rector of st. Margaret's is
Archdeacon Farrar. who was one of the
learned bishops most intimate friends.
The Presbyterian church in Paris
has emerged victorious from a pro-
tracted legal conflict with the city au-
thorities. The French law gives Chris
tian sects a grant from the state in
proportion to their numbers, and, in
view of the high cost of living in the
capital, an extra sum is allowed to min.
listers Of religion residing in Paris for
their lodging expenses. The prefect
of the Seine refused to honor the draft
of the Presbyterian consistory, on the
ground that their balance sheet did
not prove its necessity. The church
ccntended that such a condition was
never contemplated by the law. and
after exhausting every legal process
the city has been compelled to pay the
sum of 10000 francs . year. together
with arrears.