The Forrest City times., 1894-06-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


 --One of the largest Sanskirt classes fin America is that in Boston university. It began the year with twelve mem- bers, and is closing with eleven.
 It is claimed that a college gradu- ate's chance of obtaining fair degree of eminence are as 250 to as compared with the men who have not been to col lege.
 Gertrude Mitchell, of Liverpool, eighteen.years of age, has achieved the first place in all England and Wales in the examinations of the queens scholarship. Her triumph was gained over 4,750 competitors.
 A report of NJ. LaskowslSi, professor at the university of Geneva, on women medical students, is highly encourag- ing. During the past seventeen years 175 women have been admitted to the faculty. Fifty were Poles, of whom only four are known to have completed their studies.
 Prof. Thomas Day Seymour. of Yale college, who is graduate of Western Reserve of the class of 1870, and was professor of Greek in his alma mater for ten years is to deliver the memorial address upon ex-President Cutler of Western Reserve at the forthcoming commencement.
 --One of the Unitarian churches in Boston is lighted by ceiling of sub- dued glass. When this was put in Mir. Arthur Gilman is said to have remarked that it was the first time he had ever heard of trying to raise Christians under glass, adding that he now knew what was meant by ''early Christians.
 Tt is stated that the Salvation Army is considering the project of securing large body of land in Mexico, upon which to settle some of the denizens of the slums of New York and other cities who are willing to reform. and thus carry out in this country the plan of Gen. Booth in London. Statesman.
 The prevailing religion of Siam and Laos is Buddhism. The Presbyterians, north, have in the Laos country 10 or dained, 5 medical, 6 lady missionaries, and ordained native, s churches and 1,600 communicants; and in the Siam mission : ordained, medical, lady missionaries, and 1 native evangelist, : churches and 330 communicants. Among the results of Christianity in Japan there is none more striking in it's influence than the orphan asylum at Okayama. There is romance in it. It's founder was Juji Ishii, now thirty years of age, an ex-policeman, and now a practicing physician The asylum was started with a little girl who was rescued from being buried alive in her dead mothers coffin.
 A bill has been introduced into con- gress by Gen. Black, of Illinois, based on suggestions form Gen. Lew Wallace and Librarian Spofford, providing for college of twenty-five persons ''distin- guished in literature, science, art and invention" modelled somewhat after the Institute of France, called 'sthe Forty Immortals." A committee of the senate and house will name tle first five members of the college. and these five are to elect twenty other persons. The body will be continuous one, and is to be provided with meeting room in the new congressional library build ing, with proper service, and have the use of all the publications of the li- brary. The college is to make reports from time to time to congress upon language and literature. Great Brit ain, Germany and other countries have similar national bodies.