The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

DIR. Franz Neumann, who gives
lectures on physics and ~mineralogy il
the University of Konigsberg, is ninety
univeI sity since he was thirty. He was
born e Berlin, and was a soldier in
the German war of liberation.
The late Prof. Hyrtl once at an ex'
animation asked the following ques.
ton: What can you tell me of the
functions of the spleen?" The student,
not wishing to confess his ignorance,
replied hesitatingly: 81 used to know,
but it has unfortunately escaped me"
Unhappy man. said Hyrtl; you are
the only one who ever knew anything
about it, and you have forgotten it."
The receipts of the Congregational
Home Missionary society for the six
months ending September 80 we're $685.
159. an excess over those of the CORE
spending period of last year of s57, COZ.
A fact which encourages the officers of
the society greatly is that theirreceipts
are $50, 126 above the average for the
corresponding period of the past five
years.
Mecca was visited last year by be-
tween 100000 and 300, 900 pilgrims, a
much larger number than usual, as the
principal day of the pilgrimage hap
pened to fall on a Friday; 90, 1000 came
by sea of whom nearly 10, 600 died of
cholera, while of those who went by
land, most of them from British India,
$1,000 persisted. The mortality was ten
per cent. of all the pilgrims.
"A celibate order of laymen, called
the Community of the Brothers of the
Church." has been instituted by Bishop
Potter at the Protestant Episcopal
church of St. ~Chrysostom, New York.
The founder of the order and first
member is Russell Whitcomb, who will
henceforth be known as Brother Hugh.
The main object in view is to look af-
ter the interests of young men and
boys until they become settled down in
business.
The project of an international
university alliance has become a fact
as the result of two preliminary meet
ings held in Lausanne and Geneva.
The latter city has been selected as
the provisional headquarters of the al
lance. In the managing committee
there are representatives of seventeen
universities, both professors and stu
dents being represented. The first OBJ
ject to be obtained is to make arrange
ments for an international university
congress. In Rome n branch commit
faa hoe o1raa1- haan 1-~ans1al 18th
r. Bongln as president and c. Facelli,
as secretary.
The most unique Sunday-school in
the world is on the line of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga & st. Louis rail-
road. President Thomas is an ardent
Sunday-school man, and inaugurated a
system among the telegraph operators
along the line. One of the lightning
manipulators at Nashville acts as
teacher, and uses the regular lesson
leaf. The class is composed of the
operators between Nashville and Chat
tanooga, and the lesson is conducted
as though all were present, except that
the questions and are sent by
telegraph. The comments of the teach
er are sem down the line, and the class
is dismissed, going back to their work
the same as on any other day.
Pope Plus IN, who had more hui
NOR than a good many people suspect
ed, nee said of DIR. Pusey that he re-
garded that learned and pious prelate
as a bell always calling people in the
church, himself remaining outside. 1t
will be interesting to see how far the
advanced party in the English church
can go without getting inside the Ro-
man Catholic fold. Cardinal Vaughan,
in a recent speech, held out the right
hand of fellowship to them, and made
his discussion of the reunion of Chris
tendon the occasion of declaring that
reunion can be accomplished only by
submission to the doctrine and polity
of Rome.