The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are 100, S64 pupils in the l..
$50 Methodist Sunday-schools of Michi'
gan.
The fifteen Methodist churches Of
Detroit, with 1866 members, paid into
their church treasures last year 1854.
05s 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 q system of daily teaching
children will acquire love for and a
practical knowledge of agriculture
which will best fit 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
cient inscription connected with the
Temple of Bacchus, near the Areopa-
gus. Dr. Dorpfeld believes that he has
really discovered the position of En-
neakrounos, and expects soon to find
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-
quirements of the students. A mill
tary 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.
ments 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 possible sue.
cessor to Leo MIL, 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
old, and on his death he will he re-
placed as dean of the college by Cardi'
nal Oreglia, who is already Gamer
lengo" chamberlain of the holy church
and known as having little friendship
for the present pope.
The original plaster cast of Rev.
Samuel j. May, of Syr acuse, the found
err of the famous May collection Of
works on the history of slavery, now in
the Cornell library, has recently beer
presented to the university by Paulina
Saxton Pope, of Chicago, friend oil
the artist, Isabella Graham Clifford. A
copy in marble was presented to the
Syracuse public library twenty year.
ago by Mr. Mays church, and second
copy in marble was sent to the Centen
NAL exhibition, where it received one
of the four prizes awarded to Amer
lean sculptors. Prof. Crane has pre-
sented to Cornell library his collection
of works on romance philology, con
sisting Of nearly two hundred volumes
Toronto, where the B. Y. P. U. is
to hold its annual meeting, is an at
tractive 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. Ii
contains large number of church edi
fees with seating capacity of from
1,500 to 1000, and overlooking congre
cations are no novelty. The quiet o.
a village reigns on the Lords day
There are no Sunday street-cars, ant
no Sunday newspapers All saloons
and bars are closed on Saturday night
at seven o'clock, and do not reopen till
six o'clock Monday morning. The law
requiring this is strictly enforced"