Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

z--MaSSachuSettS has 569 pubic Il braries, containing 300 volumes or over The total number of volumes is 3,560, 0s5
 It is said that only Mecca in Arabia and Thessa in Thibet are now closed te Christian preachers, but a hundred years ago nearly the whole world out side of Europe and America was shut
 Members of one of the senior socie, ties at Vassar misehievously and with great amusement to all present debated the proposition: Resolved, That the Higher Education Units Man for Mat, rimony
 --The common council of Brooklyn favors the introduction into the public School curriculum of the German sys- tenn of ealisthenics and gymnastics. The board of education will consider the matter.
 Ut is said that the Buddhists of Ja- pan are awaking to the fact that they must have statement of the elements of the Buddhist faith to set over against the definite and compact creed of tha Christian teachers, and are debating what they will put into this statement.
 Nicholas Notovich. Russian. while travelling in Thibet recently, broke his leg, and was taken to monastery While there he make the interesting discovery of Buddhist Life of Christ" The volume. which was writ ten in the Pali language, was read to him by lama, and he wrote the trans- lation of it.
 President Low of Columbia college has given ten thousand dollars as a classical fund, in honor of Prof. Henry Drisler, who has just retired from the Greek department. The income of the fund is to be applied to the purchase of Books and other appliances, such as will increase the interest in the study of the classics.
 Gen. Hubbard, of New York, the representative of Mr. Searles, who gave 3 the new science building to Bowdoin college, has informed the college that money will be given to fit out the new building in all departments with new and modern apparatus. The cost will be between seven thousand dollars and ten thousand dollars.
 Unity church, Cleveland O., is prob ably the only church in the world that has as pastors two women. They are Rev. Marion Murdoch and Rev. Florence Buck. They are highly-educated wom- en, having finished their education at Oxford university. England. They are 8cS-pastors of the church. and have been remarkably successful-Philad Telegraph.
 The only church exhibit found in the Midwinter exposition at San Fran cisco is the one made by the Unitarians. the other denominations being kept away by the open Sunday fair On the walls of this exhibit is to be seen pie ture of Father Junipera Serra, the first priest that planted missions in Galifor- mia. In the true Unitarian exhibit this portr;it belongs.
 The American Bible society during it's last year. ending March 3f. reports as total issues from the Bible house. besides those issued in foreign lands, 1.04O,0a0 volumes. Appropriations were made for the coming year to it's agencies in Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Brazil, La Plata, Corea, China and the Levant: to the Bible so- ciety of France and to the Waldensian committee of evangelization.
 Permission has been granted Mrs, Arthur Davis to pursue graduate courses in mathematics, astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University for the degree of doctor of philosophy Mrs. Davis is thirty years old, and has already been graduated from Columbian university in Washington. She mar ried her classmate, Arthur Powell Davis, nephew of Maj. Powell, Of the geological survey. Before her mar riage she was employed in the Nautical Almanac office.
 According to the British and For eign Bible society there is little chance for circulation of the Bible in Japan. The society says of Japan:e The prog ress of Christianity seems to pause be- fore the absorption of the people in their new political passions" Some visitors to Japan say that the trouble is that the Japanese, eager to receive everything of western civilization. have welcomed the missionaries of all sects of Christianity, and now are greatly puzzled over the rival claims of differ ent denominations.