The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
There are 500. 900 Presbyterians i,

There are 500. 900 Presbyterians liz
Australia.
DR.. Schele De We're is still in active
service as professor of modern Ian
guages in the university of Virginia.
He is seventy-fOur years of age and
has held the present place for fifty
years.
Gen. F. \. Shoup. who was chief OF
artillery of the confederate army at
shiloh. and afterwards served at Gen.
Hoods chief of staff. is now a member
of the faculty of the University OF the
South. at Suwanee, Tenn.
"A movement has been begun topre-
sent a well-bound copy of the Bible in
japanese to each one of the 10000 ma
tive physicians in Japan. 1t is proposed
that these Bibles shall be given by the
medical men Of America and England.
Mis- Mary Garrett. of Baltimore.
mas founded a European fellowship
scholarship of a value of five hundred
oollars a year and five graduate schol-
arshlps worth two hundred dollars a
year at Bryn Mawr college. Pennsvl-
vania.
DR.. Karl Blind inform, the stu
dents OF Oxford that their annual Gus
tom of bringing in a boar's head to
their Christmas banquet is a survival
of the sacrificial banquet the old Vik-
ings used to hold in honor of Freye.
the Morse sun god.
Jean lnglelow spends her winters
in the south of France, where she has
a cottage overlooking the Mediter-
ranean. Her London house is in Ken
sington. and stands with its crown of
ivy in the midst of a spacious garden
half hidden among trees.
Rev. Joshua V. Hines, aged ninety
wears. and said to DE the oldest Episco-
pal clergyman in the United States. as
sisted the Battle Creek Mich church
the other day in its celebration of its
fftieth anniversary. lie is still in ex,
cellent health. and his voice is firm and
resonant.
Rev. Mr.. Murdoch. Il Methodist
minister of Rome. ia. has been lie
prived of his passionate by his bi>hor
because he is the editor of a paper
His newspaper Is said to be reputabl,
and honest. and only the bishops no
ton that newspapers and ministerial
duties don't mix crused Murdoch'S dis
mi>Sal from his church.
There was an income in the Educa
tiOnal society of the Methodist churcl
of fauaIa 6uriur -ba Inst y-.ar nf ,vA,
Sl9.OO0. There are eleven educational
institutions under its direction. The
aggregate attendance of students a
the several colleges is about 900. O.
these POO are students Of theology pre-
pairing for the ministry.
1T is said that DIR. MOxom. of Spring
field. has two hearers who come ever
Sunday from Boston. a distance of about
one hundred miles. to listen to the ser
mon. DIR. Noxom evidently has an at
tractive power of unusual range. anC
the example of these two hearers might
well be laid to heart by the host nt
people who live under the caves al
churches. but never enter them.
The Churchman speaks of st
Paul's Cathedral. London. as an edifict
in which all classes of people may heal
the greatest of English preachers. The
great cathedral of the English me
tropolis has so many substantial,
claims on the regard of all English
speaking people that it is a pity to put
forth Il claim for it that might con
ceivably be untrue. If the greatest OF
English preachers happened to be q
dissenter. a. might easily be the case
he could not be heard in st. Paul's.
The MOslems believe in the exist
ence of seven great hot hells" bear
ing the names of Sohannam. Latha
Hutamah. Sa'ir. Sakar. Jehim and al
kariah. The first is to be the endles.
abode of the Dahriyah. a sect which
denies the creation: the second fol
Manichees and Arabs: the third fol
Brahmans: the fourth orthe Jews: tn,
fifth for Christians. and the sixth fOl
the Magians. The seventh. the great
great. hot. hot hell" is to be reserveC
COR liars and hypocrites.