The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

AT the last census Nevada had only
four thousand nine hundred and thirty.
one girls Of school age.
The Finnish parliament has passed
q law prohibiting all railroad traffic and
mail delivery on Sunday.
Prof. Goodell, of Yale, has accepted
the professorship Of Greek in the Amer
lean school at Athens, which was re-
Gently offered him.
1t is reported that national col
lege of music is to be established, with
the best-known musicians of the coun-
try as it's trustees.
Rev. Mr.. Job, of North Middleboro,
Mass, has fitted up in the steeple of
his church a play-room, in which babies
are taken care of by volunteer nurses
while the mothers attend divine serv-
ice.
An interesting department of mis-
sion work in Japan is the railway mis-
sion, organized to evangelize men con-
nected with the railway service in that
country, there being thirty-four thou
sand employed in different ways.
The Religious Tract society of Lon
don at it's recent annual meeting re-
ported total receipts of $90S,0O0. There
had been 5s3 new publications sent out
during the year. The society now pub
fishes in 2O9 languages, dialects and
characters.
Mrs. Julia j. Irving, for four years
professor of Greek at Wellesley, is to
be acting president for one year, the
trustees having failed to find anyone
that meets their ideal for permanent
president. She is a graduate of Cornell
and has been student at Leipsic.
G. w. Prothero, who has been
elected to the professorship of modern
history at Edinburgh, is well-known
Cambridge tutor and fellow of Kings
college, London. He has written some
learned works on medieval English
history and biography of Simon de
Montfort.
The statement is made that the
Presbyterian churches of this country
received to membership during last
year on an average of eight members
each. The average in the synod of
China was twelve; in the synod of In
dia, fourteen, and in the missions on
the Corisco coast, Africa, twentythree.
The number of students who have
matriculated in the twenty-one univer-
stiles of Germany for the summer term
is 27,s0O. This shows a decrease of $50
as compared with last year. Half of
the students were connected with the
Prussian university. Nearly 5000 of
the 27,s0O are to study theology, over
5000 to study medicine, 7,716 philoso-
ply and science, and 7.415 law.
There is movement in Chicago to
have Sunday services in the various
theaters, especially lectures with
on the life of Christ, and
prominent persons are considering
topics along this line. A special list of
slides is to be prepared by the St. An
drew Brotherhood. The object of this
is to gather the large number of people
who on Sunday will not go to church,
but are ready to enter theater.
The will of the late Mrs. Emily
Fitch, of New Haven, leaves an estate
of $3.50, 900. These public requests are
made: Connecticut general hospital for
the establishment of children's ward,
including a new and separate building,
$50, 900; to Yale theological school, $780,
600; to the Hampton normal institute,
Hampton, Va, $1,000; to the New Ha-
ven orphan asylum, $1,000; to the Con-
necticut training school for nurses,
81 200, and to the Home Missionary Sc
ciety of Center church, $1,000.