Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-31
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Academy of Inscriptions and
Bellies Lettres has voted 5000 francs to
NJ. Couve of the French school al
Athens for his explorations at Tegea,
in Arcadia.
The late Chief Justice John w,
Slaytou of Texas, educated himself
while serving an apprenticeship in a
blacksmith shop in his native state Of
Kentdcky, pursuing at night course
of private study and reading. Saving
enough money to enter the law depart
ment of the University of Louisville,
he was graduated with honors lie
moved to Texas in 1856. The state pa
pers say that his death Isl great LOSE
to the judiciary
The projects in the several French
departments have issued orders to the
various schools, dating from the LIST of
January, enforcing that all drinking
water supplied to the pupils shall be
boiled, and that the cleansing of the
floors, desks, etc, of the school-rooms
Is to no longer bc done with dry dust
ers and broorns but with moist cloths,
to prevent the spread of dust. Once a
week a thorough cleansing is to be car
ried out with an antiseptic.
According to the recent statistics
there are now in Japan 643 Christian
missionaries, 377 churches (of which rs
are self-supporting) and 37,400 church
members, of whom 1886 were added
during the last year. There are also
1909 pupils in the Christian schools,
and $1,000 Sunday-school scholars.
There are ESQ native ministers, 267 the.
illogical students and 665 unordained
preachers and helpers. The sum con-
tributed by the native japanese Chris
tians is given as 81, 400 yen, or $4,000.
"A woman's college has just re
ceived a unique gift, in the shape of a
large collection of photographs of ba-
bies of university women. The object
of the collection is to prove, by the
well-fed and well-cared- for look of the
youthful subjects, that the higher edu-
cation does not necessarily unfit wom-
en- for their chief and most important
duty as mothers, and that the cultiva-
ton of the feminine brain is not detri-
mental to the rearing of sound and
healthy children. The idea of such
testimony is a novel one, but, If the
collection represents fair percentage,
it's conclusive argument. baltimore
American.
T, R,.ifosy, oy-c
deposited on Sunday in the collection
plates. The large and unwieldy coins
occupy much space but are not valua.
BILE according to their weight. 1t is
not the poor alone who deposit cop
pers. notice has been posted on the
doors of fashionable West End Eps
copal church informing intending wor
shippers that that those who can not
afford three-penny piece are welcome
TO worship here free of charge" The
notice, it is said, was posted for the
benefit of the rich who apparently are
ignorant of the fact that giving to the
treasury of the Lord is means OF
grace.-Interior.
According to the Engineers Ga
zette, the oldest mathematical book in
the world, which dates some 1000 years
back, and was written in Egypt, con
tains rule for squaring the circle
The rule given is to shorten the diam
eter by ninth, and on the line so OBJ
tanned to construct a square, and this
though far from being exact, is neal
enough for most practical purposes
Mathematician have long been con
WINGED that the solution was impossi
BILE; but it is only few years since
they were able to demonstrate this. A
German professor named Landmanr
which was accepted by the scientific
world as sa tisfactory.