The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

1
aries last year.
| Last year New York paid for its
school bill s., 00G, 900, and TO- its drink
bill $50, 000, 900.
| The anti-cigarette movement IN
| the schools of New York, include a
| pledge not to use tobacco in this form
| previous to twenty-one years of age.
The Presbyterian board of foreign
missions reports for the month OF No
vember $3.50, as against SAG. AS TO,
the preceding year, and for seven
months $3.50, 0s9, against s2o6, 424.
Contributions to all benevolen,
purposes by Protestant Christians OF
the United States amount to about
$s5, 900, 900 annually. Only one-seven'
teenth of this is given to foreign mis-
sions.
Teachers in Baden, and other part
| of Germany. hundred years ago, were
| so poorly paid that they used to &c
about singing in front of the houses in
the evening, to earn few extra pen.
MES
| A meeting Of the citizens of Dor
! chester petitioned the legislature ia
appropriate memorial in honor of the
| establishment of the first public school
| in the world, which opened its doors
May so, 1859.
| The cry of Mussulman was heard
on Union Square, New York city, re-
Gently, calling the faithful to prayer.
| A meeting followed, and there will be
services every Sunday morning both
| for Mohammedans and others who may
be interested.
Edward Hartmen, the philosopher.
makes the suggestion that instead OF
building monuments to great men, it
| would be a more sensible thing, and do
| more toward perpetuatlng their infiu-
| ence, to use the money for buying cop
les of their best books and distributing
| them to the schools.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Y Dung Mems Christian
association is to be celebrated in Lon
don June 6, next. The central inter
national committee have arranged for
the worlds conference to be held in
London in connection with this anniver-
sary, commencing June 1. 1 will be a
jubilee conference, and preparations
are already being made for a large
gathering.
Baptism by immersion was pr
formed in a peculiar manner p fe,
days ago in Buffalo township, :gcs.-;
ington county, Pa. Thomas Tols1d
was too i'll to leave his roor, and was
DESTROYS of baptism. Il 5a-ge box was
made and filled With water, ana
into this Mr.. Toland. suspended n a
sheet, was loweroG. The rite ~'as S>~
formed by 2e1. N. Justice, cizy.Ly
man Of TIE Christian e:urch.
1t is proposed t. rae s,le ,::.n Is
s4,0o5 "a order &c purcha5e 81 eaE7,.:;-
for Pere hyacinthe. j. > t9cenf~ yea=,
Stree the e:Oquep. pr~1r;Ger o. Eo:.e
Dane Sa7ea: e,s iaf.:cnti2I r,siUion,
ar; s:zce :hep as eE:low:cc n2s ne.1.,s
So seec yarcn G.minisheJ Tie .rch-
a:.Dop o; YORK, tbo r:s::op Of Sails
by, zee ;osshop OF Icc:es1er and
::>1ay otne, digr:ta.ica cordially sup
5Ss:: s;;= proposal. --i.o1&on Illustrated
e.svs.
-TE.ose who are inclined to believe
that football Sc, .ously interferes with
:.ie college standing of the players will
be interested to know that Ward, of
tie Princetons, who made the touch
5owv in the Thanksgiving day game
with Yale, is a first group man, which
means that he is among the first half
dozen men in his class. King stands
nearly as high, while Lea is considered
one of the brightest men in his class.
Ballet, the oldest man on the team, is
of the electrical school, None of the
team is dangerously low in his grades.
This goes to prove that football and
study are not necessarily antagonistic.
New statistics of Protestant
churches in France have recently been
gathered. From these we CLEAN that
there are Protestant houses of worship
I'm Isl localities in the Frenc h republic.
There are SS7 Reformed pastors in
charge of congregations, and IL Re-
formed chaplains in the army. The
Lutheran clergy number only 90, the
Free Evangelical church has 81 and
the other Protestant denominat tons
have -. Then there are Bill socie-
ties. 10 Protestant societies for home
missions, & for foreign missions, "a or
phans' homes, AZ refugee houses, 60
hospitals and lis periodicals-alli in the
interest of the Protestant church of
Erance.-N. y. Independent.