Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-06
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Melvin N. Gray,of St Louiss 1--' lsn aag @ s95.ooo to Drnry college as Rayen sS wo to endow chair ot Rr.'s ,s.D .g,i in memory of his wife.
 Nine years ago there was h0S Woge ; ,rla salyationist in Denmark. ,sa1.s nos as.aare 57 corps there, 179 oiilcets, es,, .SSas son soldiers. and weekly War UlS rculation of 12,OOo. 1.-Two.
 TIC none has accorded an extra, a.asrv jubilee to France, to e1teho u.a 's.s'qs 'Essfer to Christmas. The oeca- ~ gs'. ss the fifteenth centenary of Ihe s,Aism of Clovis, king of the tfahNs Wes Carrie E. Small has been osa,, .'s nrineipal of the Woodward !n- ;tsta for girls to be founded at Quln- massz. and endowed by the beques5 ssao o00 from the late Dr. WoodWara ,, graduate of Wellesley college, sa m is how principal of the high sehoos 'sI plvmouth. Mass, and president o1 ,e Plymouth County Teachers asso- atfon t,..o
 pope Leo, who is past eighty three, tha oldest ruler The grand duke oI ,,xe,nbourg s and the king of Den ,arl<. respectively seventy-siX and seV- ntv-fve years old, stand next to nm this regard. The grand duke Kari laxanaer. who lives in Weimer, IS ,,,rfh in point of age, and Queen Vie oria. with her seventy-four years IS |he fifth oldest monarch.
 The death of Rev. Dr. Adolph ellinelx, at Vienna, depriyes the Jew. sh church of the ablest exponent oI ,aaern Hebrew homileties. He was orn in 1891, and in 1856 became the aaaing Jewish preacher in Vienna, those Hebrew population at that time vas larger than that of any other suropean city. Dr. JellineI was a pro nnnd scholar and an able defender of is faith.
 -In the Epworth league there are earlv 12, 900 chapters, and $50, ,o00mem- ers have been added in a little more han four and half years. The Chris ian Endeavor movement started the ew year with nearly 29,000 societies i'd about million and three=quarters f members. The growth during the asst Six months has been larger than yer before in the history of the move nent. -The Outlook.
 The Catholic directory for 1894, which has just been issued, gives the tatistics of the Catholic church in the United States Every diocese furnishes ts own figures. The Catholic popula- ion in many of the dioeeses is approx mated, and in the absence of exact fig res, the compilers of the directory are lnable to say just how many Gatho- dies there are in the United States. The directory gives the number as .g02, ,083, but Catholic authorities laimed last year that there are at east l ?, 600, 000.-Catholie Mirror.
 Tine last official census of Ireland hows that there are 3, 949, 73S Catholics nd I. 1Ss. .696 Protestants in that island. atholics are most numerous in the ounty of Cork and Protestants most umerous ia the county of Antrim. he Catholics in Cork are to the Prot stants as ten to one. The Protestants redominate in the counties of Armagh, Down. Tyrone, Londonderry and An rim A little over 76 per cent. of the population is Catholic, t2 per cent be- ongs to the Church of Ireland, and g er cent. to the Presbyterians. N. Y ndependent.
 "A fresh propaganda of Buddhism is being undertaken in Paris It is as erted that thirty thousand Parisians owprofess the ancient religion Many veIl-known women describe them elves as electric Buddhists. A little oIume gives a summary of the doc rines of the new creed. 1t has just been printed and large numbers have 'een bought by wealthy neophytes, and will be distributed soon among all lasses. The converts are not expected Q desert the churches of which they ro fnembers. The copies of the book lava been bound in black morocco, Silded to resemble prayer books.
 Among the manuscripts unearthed < Fayoun, ill Egypt, and now under Examination at the British museum, onc has lately been deciphered which possesses a peculiar interest for stu. lents of early Christian history It is certificate issued during the Decian persecution in the third century tc ome faint-hearted Christian that he Jas Fulfilled the requirement. of sacri. icing to the gods. The subject in this 'ase is an old man of seventy-two years. a scar over right eyebrow The doc. ament is made out in regular official orm, duly signed and attested. This sthe only specimen of it's kind that las yet been discovered Living yhurch.