The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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Twenty years ago Professionalism
was practically dead in France. Now
there are SS7 preachers in the Reformed
church. 90 Lutheran, 81 Methodist and
90 Baptist.
The Massachusetts Sunday Protec-
tive league has issued al appeal to
members of bicycling, boating and ath-
letic clubs to avoid all meets and
games on the Lords Day.
M. Jean Fleury, the father Of
Henry Greville," the novelist, died re-
Gently. He was professor of French in
the University of st. Petersburg, and
author of a book on Rabelais.
AT Moscow a new conservatory of
music is now being erected by order of
the car. The building will cost $780,
900, and will accommodate about 1000
pupils. Statues of n. Rubinstein, a
former director, and of Tschaikowsky,
who long taught there, will be placed
in the square around the new building.
Sixty years ago the incumbent of a
church in Hull used to be called Vicar
Bromby. just after the passage of the
first reform bill, in 1882, he preached n
sermon in which he uttered this whole
some ocratic passage: in these days
we hear a great deal about reform.
Let me give you a piece of advice: The
best reform is to make one person bet
ter. need not say who hat person
should be-"
Pennsylvania is contributing its
share of distinguished educators to New
England. Prof. Ballet, who won his
distinction as a teacher first in Penn
sylvania normal schools and afterward
as superintendent of the city schools of
Reading, removed to Springfield, Mass,
to take charge of the public schools of
that city. The nominating committee
of the Boston school board has recently
invited Supt. Ballet to become a can
didate for the position of superintend-
ent of the Boston schools, but he de-
clined to become a candidate against
the present incumbent.
New rules have lately been issued
for the Paris conservatoire of music,
according to which professors must re-
tire at the age of seventy, and must
give at least three lessons a month.
Glasses are to be limited to ten pupils,
except those of harmony, piano and Or
gan. which may have twelve. Pupils
in singing must complete their purse
in four years, those in harmony and
piano in five. The minimum age for
admission is fixed at IS for men and II
for women; the maximum age for sing
ar~ ,e De Gov r,.nn a-l % Co., -o,,o- Co.
harmony %, and for piano IS.
The oldest active professor in Ger
many is said to be Privy Councillor
Stickel, professor of oriental languages
at Jena, who recently celebrated the
nineteenth anniversary of his birth.
Prof. Stickel answered Prince Bis.
marck's question as to his age in the
following manner Il have seen Ma
poleon the First: Germany in its condi-
ton of deepest disgrace. 1 have known
Goethe. and in him seen Germany at
the pinnacle of its literary develop
ment; and now / see in your highness
him who brought our Fatherland to the
pinnacle of political development"
Roman Catholics in London will
soon have a cathedral of an architec-
ture unique in that city. 1t will be a
basilica, built on the model of Constan-
tines original church of st. Peter at
Rome, $50 feet long by 10 wide and 100
high, and will hold 10, 900 people. At
tached to it is to be a monastery for
thirty monks and forty-five lay breth-
rem, to which the Benedictines who
for centuries served Westminster ABB
hey, are to be invited. The land was
bought by Cardinal Manning nearly
thirty years ago for e55,OOO, and is
now worth $500. 900. The buildings
will cost ESQ, 600, toward which one
contributor has already given eco, OOO.