Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-02

At the last census Nevada had only four thousand nine hundred and thirty one girls of school age.
 The Finnish parliament has passed law prohibiting all railroad trafficand mail delivery on Sunday.
 Prof. Goode1, of Yale, has accepted the professorship of Greek in the Amer ican school at Athens, which was re gently offered him.
 It is reported that national col lege of music is to be established, with the best-l1nown musicians of the eoun. try as it's trustees.
 Rev MT. Job, of North Middleboro, Mass. has fitted up in the steeple of his church play-room, in which babies are taken care of by volunteer nurses while the mothers attend divine sery- 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 its recent annual meeting re- ported total receipts of $90s, 900. There had been 5s3 new publications sent out during the year. The society now pub fishes in 2O9 languages, dialects and characters,
 Mrs. Julia ]. 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 a permanent president. She is graduate of Cornell and has been student at Leipsic
 C. w. Prothero, who has been elected to the professorship of modern history at Edinburgh, is a well-lnown Cambridge tutor and fellow of Kings college, London. He has written some 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 ap 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, twenty-three.
 The number of students who have matriculated in the twenty-one univer- sities of Germany for the summer term is 27, 500. This shows a decrease of l50 as compared with last year. Half of the students were connected with the Prussian university. Nearly 5000 of the 27. 800 are to study theology, over 5000 to study medicine, 7,716 philoso- phy and science, and 7.415 law
 There is movement in Chicago to have Sunday services in the various theaters, especially lectures with stereopticon 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 a church, but are ready to enter theater.
 The will of the late Mrs Emily Fitch, of New Haven, leaves an estate of S250, ,O0o. These public bequests are made Connecticut general hospital for the establishment of a childrens ward. including a new and separate building, $50, 900: to Yale theological school, S30,- poo; to the Hampton normal institute, Hampton, Va, 5000; to the New Ha ven orphan asylum, S5, 900; to the Con neeticut training school for nurses, s1, 900, and to the Home Missionary so- ciety of Center church, $2,000.