The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-03-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

= The name most whispered as the
stron eest Candidate tot pope to sue
ceed Leo XIII. is f1onsign0re Dom inico
Jacobini. the papal nuncio in Lisbon.
IA wheelbarrow which was pre-
sented to the Salvation Army in an
English town is used to take the col
lection in, and the novelty secures quite
large contributions
The mayor of Toronto claims that
in the recent vote on Sunday street
cars the ma iority of 200 against them
would have been 5000 but for person
atoms OF the dead and absent and de-
layed citizens on the polling list.
Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne,
who died recently at Wilberforce. o.,
was the oldest bishop the Methodist
church has ever had, either in age or
in length of service. He was born in
Charles st on, y. c., February "a, 1911.
The nevv bishop OF Massachusetts,,
In. Lawrence, resides on Common
wealth avenue, Boston, and just around
the corner is the former home of his
predecessor, the late Bishop Brooks,
which is occupied by DR.. Donald, the
new rector of Trinity.
The average numbe Of students
In the rcading-rooln of the British
museum is 651 each day. The attend
ance in the library and sculpture gal
lery has been less this year than usual,
but the number of visitors to the mu-
scum, shows an increase of $4,000 over
last year,
The library Of Syraciise university
is receiving valuable additions every
month. So far during this college
year lilo volumes and 1,679 pamphlets
have been added. Among these is in
cluded the small scientific library of
the late DR.. j. g. Brown. for many
years professor of chemistry and phys.
les in the university.
The annual award of the prizes
given by the Engineering News of
New York city, for the best theses sub
nitted by students graduating from
any engineering school in America has
just been announced. The first prize
college, II. T.. Abbott and Edwin J.
Morrison, for a thesis on Cement Test
ing" The second prize was taken by
+. W. CLAY. Of Richmond. Ky. Cornell
man.
Elton college has just cele bra ted.
with much re iocing, the four hundred
and tifty-second anniversary Of It's
fouudH ton It owes its origin to King
! Henry VI. who provided from his own
| purse the funds for the erection of the
buildings, endowed the school, fra med
{, charter for it, and. in order that it
should not lack scholars. caused thir-
tE-f-e OF the Winchester boys to he
, buildings, which were erected in 1+tO.
are still in Il wonderful sta e of preser-
vation
The late Bishop Brooks, whose "Ser-
mons Preached in En- glish Churches is
one of the best-known volumes, is to
have Il memorial in st. Margaret's,
Westminster. the official church of the
house of commons. The memorial will
very likely take the form of a window.
! worthy to rank beside the Raleigh and
Milton windows, both. Of which have
been erected by Americans. Close to-
F! the side of the abbey is st. Margaret's
! church, Il little Westminster in itself,
SO illustrious arc the dead who lie
buried within the church's venerable
walls. The rector of ST. Nargaret's is
| Archdeacon Farrar, who was one of the
| learned bishops most intimate friends.
The Presbyterian church in Paris
| has emerged victorious from a pro-
! tracted legal conflict with the city au-
| thorities. The French law gives Chris
| tian sects q grant from the state in
proportion to their mum berS, and, in
view of the high cost of living in the
| capital, an extra sum is allowed to min
| listers of religion residing in Paris for
! their lodging expenses. The project
| of the Seine refused to honor the dra #
| of the Presbyterian consistory, on the
| ground that their balance sheet did
not prove its necessity. The church
| never contemplated by the law, and
the city has been compelled to pay the
| sum of 10. 900 francs year. together
| with arrears.