The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The town of Girard, Kas., has three
ladies OH it's board Of education, and
one of them, Mrs. Alice Haldeman, Is
president.
AT Suva, in the Fiji islands the
cornerstone of Roman Catholic ca
thedral has just been laid. 1t is to be
built of stone and dedicated to ST. Paul
The educational course at St. John,
N. b., will include the following sub
jects: Practical electricity, French,
singing, mechanical drawing and book
keeping. There is also a Chautauqua
circle.
Foreign commercial travellers in
Russia besides paying tax, must
henceforth be provided with properly
attested papers of Identification; their
passports must state the limit of time
pire, and must distinctly tell the reli-
gious profession of the traveller.
The students at Rutgers college
have agreed to cooperate with the
faculty in the scheme for self.govern-
ment proposed by President Scott A
standing committee, composed of per-
sons chosen from the faculty and the
students, is to investigate all breaches
of discipline and recommend action
thereon to the faculty.
The Baroness Langenau, of Vien-
ma, has been much prosecuted by cer-
| tain Lutherans because she is Meth
odist She recently spoke at meeting
of the West London mission, which is
conducted by Methodists, and pre-
sented it with necklace worth ten
thousand dollars, to be sold for the
benefit of the mission.
The university of Chicago an
nounces in its department of compara-
tive religion special opportunities for
those intending to be missionaries.
For the winter quarter of the present
year it offers three months course
in Hindi under the direction Of Rev.
Fulton J. Coffin, who was engaged in
practical mission work among the peo-
pie of India for several years. This
course is an addition to those on the
religions of non-Christian peoples.
AT Athens the Greek government
has recently declared the whole region
lying between the Theseiou and the
monument of Lysicrates archaeological
ground, thereby compelling the pro-
prietors to sell at prices to be fixed by
commission of sworn experts. 1t is
believed that the American and Ger
man schools and the Archaeological So
ciety of Athens can easily raise the
funds needed to buy it up. The latter
society, in it's excavations at Epidau-
ros has brought to light the stadium,
which is apparently intact On sink
ing trenches across the area to depth
of five yards or more, the rows of mar
Bile chairs, each with its inscription,
which ran completely around the stadi-
um, were found in their proper places.
1t will be the first Greek stadium yet
known in its original state.
An appeal for help has recently
been made by the Bodleian library at
Oxford, which is the largest university
library in the world, and is surpassed
by only five national libraries, the
Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris, the
British museum, the Imperial library
at st. Petersburg, and the royal
libraries at Munich and Berlin. 1t re-
ceives for all purposes $45,0 600 year.
and needs money to support its staff;
to prepare its catalogue, which is now
years behind the times; to heat the
portrait gallery; to repair the build
ing. the finest public edifice Of the time
of James l., and to provide shelves for
books in the Ashmolcan museum,
which has just been put at its disposal.
The Bodleian containing over 5000
volumes, the separate titles in the
catalogue amounting to 1900, 900; the
new accessions of books and pamphlets
are nearly 10000 year; it has the sec-
ond largest numismatic collection in
the British empire. Books and coins
are declared by the librarian to be in a
state of chaos owing to the lack OF
funds; the library needs at least s75, 600
to be kept efficient, ard he calls on the
public for assistance, as Oxford, owing
to the agricultural depression, is too
poor to support its own library.