The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-31


Pierre van lieneden. whose death
occurred lately at Louvinn. was n pro-
fessor In the Louvian university for =
period of over fifty years
The late j. Q. Wilmerding, Of San
Francisco. left 100000 TO found a
school of Industrial arts i'm connection
with the University of California.
Chicago has GO churches of all de-
nominations. OF these the Methodists
have iO5 churches and missions, the
Roman Catholics i0l. the Congrega-
tionalists 81, the Baptists ~, the Luz
therans "a, the Presbyterians so, the
Episcopalians ~
AT the annual meeting of the
trustees of the Western Reserve uni
versity, at Cleveland, o., gifts to the
amount of 100000 were received, In
Guiding one from Samuel Mather of
t257, 900 for the equipment and erec-
tion of n physical laboratory.
Franklin ii. Giddings. A. NJ, who
has for six years been professor Of POI
liti ,al science at Bryn Mawr college,
has been elected professor of sociology
and placed at the head of a newly
ment of sociology in Columbia univer.
sity, New York city.
Mrs. Mary Louise Traffran Whit.
ney, who is pastor OF the Unitarian
church in West Somerville, Mass, first
undertook ministerial service in order
to relieve her husband, Rev. Herbert
Whitney, who found IL difficult to I'LL
two Sunday engagements, and induced
her to take one of them, which she did
with such success that she soon de-
cided to accept small charge of her
own.
-Archdeacon Farrar has been for
some time engaged on book to be
called THE Life of Christ in Art"
The object OF the book will not be to
write a chapter in the history of art,
or to enter into technical criticism on
the works of the great masters, but to
illustrate the manner i'm which art re.
fleets and expresses the ever-changing
phases OF Christian opinion on religious
subjects.
The Presbyterian church OF Vale,
is in condition of healthy progress.
Its churches have increased Ivy IL dur
ing the past year, numbering now
l,2S2. 1t has 1880, Gas communicates 0n-
crease .. 2S3). 992. 62S adherents increase
4.443), with 1872, 900 Sunday scholars and
teachers. II has roo ordained minis,
tiers, and $50 lay preachers. In 204
churches only English is used in the
services. -Presbyterian Journal.
The Presbyterian board of educa-
tion has issued a new circular to the
churches. The number of candidates
under it's care has increased from 900
in 1887 to more than 900 in 1894. In
view of the great expansion OF the for
eign work and the great demands at
home, they expect this number to be-
come still larger. Notwithstanding
800 year for each student in college
and seminary. from which II was COM
peeled to recede while in debt. The
financial year closing on the 18th of
April. $4,000 are required in order to
close the accounts properly.-N Y. In.
dependent.
Prof. Peck, the New York state
botanist, urges emphatically, in view
of the number of deaths that have oc-
Cured from eating toadstools that the
children of the state be taught to rec
ognize the edible mushrooms. Accord.
ing to Prof. Peck, there are three hun.
dred and fifty species of mushrooms
growing in that state, and only seven.
ty-five of these are edible. Prof. Peck's
idea is to secure an appropriation from
the legislature with which To send IL.
Illustrated maps To all the schools in the
state. He says that IL the appropria.
ton will not permit of having com.
plete charts and books on mushrooms
furnished to the schools of the state,
at least chart OF the poisonous species
could be circulated.
The American Foreign Missions
board reports that the missionary work
for the year shows that there are con.
nected with the twenty missions sus
tanned by it 80 stations, Lies out sta
tions, 1898 places for stated preaching,
with an average attendance of 10000
hearers. There are 557 missionaries
including physicians and women; 2,7Ss
native laborers, Az churches, with Al,
500 members; II theological seminaries
and station classes, 65 colleges and high
schools, 90 boarding schools for girls
1,0l9 common schools, with total oil
~, 5S5 persons under instruction. Three
thousand five hundred and seventy
members were added to the mission
churches during the year; and the
whole amount of native contributions
SO far as reported, was sl12,507.