The Forrest City times., 1894-04-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Out of O.O00 Sioux, over 1000 arc now members of Episcopal, Presby- terian or Congregational churches.
 Pierre van Beneden, whose death occurred lately at Louvian. was pro- lessor in the Louvian university for . period of over fifty years
 -The late J. c. Wilmerding, of San Francisco, left $400,000 to found a school of industrial arts in connection with the University of California.
 Chicago has 626 churches of all de- nominations. Of these the Methodists have los churches and missions, the Roman Catholics 1Ol. the Congrega- tionalists s4, the Baptists 72, the Lu- therans GA, the Presbyterians 56, the Episcopalians A.
 At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Western Reserve uni versity, at Cleveland, O., gifts to the amount of s300,000 were received, in- cluding one from Samuel Mather of s257. .000 for the equipment and erec- tion of physical laboratory.
 Franklin H. Giddings. A. M., who has for six years been professor of po- liti ,al science at Bryn Mawr college, has been elected professor of sociology and placed at the head of newly created and largely-endowed depart 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 it 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 chapter in the history of art, or to enter into technical criticism on the works of the great masters, but to illustrate the manner in which art re- fleets and expresses the ever-changing phases of Christian opinion on religious subjects.
 The Presbyterian church of Wales is in a condition of healthy progress. It's churches have increased by II dur ing the past year, numbering now l,2S2. It has lS9, 64S communicants tin crease g. .2S3). g02, ,62S adherents increase 4.443), with 192, 900 Sunday scholars and teachers. It has 706 ordained minis ters, and 359 lay preachers. In 2O4 churches only English is used in the services. .-Presbyteria Journal.
 The Presbyterian board of educa- tion has issued new circular to the churches. The number of candidates under its care has increased from 696 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 this it has gone back to the old rate of s1OO year for each student in college and seminary. from which it was com-s peled to recede while in debt The financial year closing on the 18th of April, s3s, ,000 are required in order to close the accounts properly. IN. Y. In dependent. l. 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- lustrated maps to all the schools in the state He says that if 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- tained by it 96 stations, 1,12S out sta tions, 1893 places for stated preaching, with an average attendance of 69,000 hearers. There are 557 missionaries. including physicians and women; 2,7sS native laborers. 442 churches, with 41,- 566 members; IT theological seminaries and station classes, 6 colleges and high schools, 63 boarding schools for girls. 1,019 common schools, with total of AS, 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. q.