The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

9Ct1OOI AMI SoOU
There are 100. s64 pupils in the "
l5o Methodist Sunday-schoolso of Michi-
gan.
The fifteen Methodist churches OF
Detroit, with 1886 members, paid into
their church treasures Last year 1884,.
,5s, an average of s2s.6s per man,
woman and child; over $50 per family.
1t is suggested in Queensland that
agriculture should form one of the
branches of study in the schools. for
that under a system of daily teaching
children will acquire love for and
practical knowledge of agriculture
which will best 1T them for the world
According to the Presbyterian
Journal, In Mongolia the missionary
is often asked to perform impossible
and ridiculous cures One man asks to
be made fat. another to be made clever,
another wished to be cured of hunger,
while almost everybody would like to
have his skin made white, like the for
eigner."
DIR. Dorpfeld, the principal of the
German institute at Athens, is continu-
ing his excavations on the southwest
side of the Acropolis. his object being
among other things to discover the
source of the celebrated ancient foun-
tain of Killirrhoe or Enneakrounos.
He has just found an important an
Gent inscription connected with the
Temple of Bacchus, near the Areopa-
gus. DIR. Dorpfeld believes that he has
really discovered the position of En-
neakrounos, and expects soon to ind
the relics of certain other ancient tenn
pies near that spot
The university of Idaho, at Mos
cow, is just closing its first semester.
with an enrolment of two hundred
and twenty-five-a gain of ninety over
the total attendance last year. The
faculty numbers twelve. and will be
enlarged the coming year in response
to the increasing numbers and re-
1uirements of the students. A mill
.ary officer has been detailed by tho
war department, and instruction in
military tactics will be begun before
The close of the year. Generous APP
preparations have been made for the
library and laboratories. the equip
nents in the latter being as fine as
that in many eastern colleges.
Cardinal Monaco Lavaletta, the
head of the Sacred college, who has re-
Gently been considered a possible sue
:essor to Leo Kill, has been for few
weeks in worse health than usual He
could not attend the cardinals meet
ing. and at the last reception by the
pope, Lavaletta could hardly hold in
his hands the paper from which he
read to Leo XIII. the address present
ed by the Sacred college. He is very
DID, and on his death he will he re-
placed as dean of the college by Cardi-
nal Oreglia, who is already Gamer
lengo" cham berlain of the holy church,
ind known as having little friendship
for the present pope.
The original plaster cast of Rev.
Samuel j. May, of Syr acuse, the found
.r of the famous May collection of
works on the history of slavery, now in
the Cornell library, has recently been
presented to the university by Paulina
Saxton Pope, of Chicago, friend of
the artist, Isabella Graham Clifford. A
copy in marble was presented to the
Syracuse public library twenty years
ago by Mr.. Mays church. and second
copy in marble was sent to the Centen-
nial exhibition, where it received one
IF the four prizes awarded to Amer
lean sculptors. Prof. Crane has pre-
sented to Cornell library his collection
IF works on romance philology, con-
listing of nearly two hundred volumes.
Toronto. where the B. Y. P. Z. is
70 hold its annual meeting, is an at
sraetive city, but visitors will find some
remarkable contrasts from those of the
United States. 1t is described as
unique among American cities in sew
eral particulars. In the number of its
great Protestant congregations only
the largest American cities rival it. 1t
contains large number of church edi-
ices with seating capacity of from
$500 to 1000, and overlooking congre-
cations are no novelty. The quiet of
village reigns on the Lords day.
There are no Sunday street-cars, and
10 Sunday newspapers. All saloons
and bars are closed on Saturday night
1T seven o'clock, and do not reopen till
ix o'clock Monday morning. The law
requiring this is strictly enforced"
A Rings Own Story.
Picking up from the sidewalk the