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in England. Scotland and Wales
last venr. 80. SOD tg vns spent ON TECH
nical education. nearly a million more
than the vcar befur-
During the past wear the American
Sn-nday-Schooi union has established
L7s5 ew ~undav-Schools and repurts
the conversion " about Ir.00O persons.
Miss Kate Eiel,g has received IN nm
usual honor from the French govern
ment. which WIS conferred upan her
the Academic palm. AMI named her
Officer lie -rinstruction PuhliGne
The Wamnn's Foreign Missionary
sucietv Of the Methodist Episcopal
church has issucd over I.1an. Goa pages
Of missionary literature during the last
veur II has d.IeS organizations, with
I5 as members.
Chinese Christians are conducting
m aeitatiuu against the cruel custom
Of f1ot pudinv N a gathering in the
Central ~ E. church. Shanghai. NUM-
herring Sax hundred persons. u commit
uce WIS appointed fur an active cru
sadie
DR. Franz Nevmann. who gives
lectures On physics amt miner1iogv in
tine university II konigshnrg is ninety
six wears Old. and has lectlred at this
university since lac was thirty He WAS
born near Berlin. amt WIS a soldier in
the German war of liberation.
a statue has Just been erected at
Dessau un the memory of Wilisim
Muller on the one hundnedti ami
ver-arv If his birth. Wilhelm Muller
wls the father Of Max Muller. the
celebrated oxford professor AMI vas,
like his sun. one NJ tine most accom-
plishcsi philuIngists Of his time
Rev. Eric Far-ar. SON % the arch
dcacuu. was a candidate fur election to
tiie school beard Of Coventry England.
where lie has lived but = wear. and
puilesi -go more VOTES tiiun the next
highest candidate and 1.8g ruurr than
the chairman pf the huarzi. Nr Far
rar is as popular i clergyman as has
been sent to Coventry fnr MANY a ysar
The American Bnart Of commits
showers for 1nreign missions has re-
cr-ivest seventeen thousand five hun
drrst dollars through the state depart
mrnt at Washington frum Spain As
indemnity fur the loss of property and
other injury inflicted upan It's work ut
Puuaps. one Of the Caroline islands. by
the Spanish authorities n few wears
agn.
The Irontun MOI Register kicks
because the Methndist church at Tint
place dO-sn't pay its preachers. ftsavs
that the present pastor has received
SiI5n for eight months work. That
the preacher before him was homeless
for some time because he had numunev
tn nav freight charges ON his hOusc-
hold gnudS. and that his family lived
several days on corn hreari and ~lettnce.
Rev DR. Inseph PARKER. of the Citv
Temple. London. necentlv berated The
newspapers for printing his sermons.
ON the ground that he is thereby TN
allie "a use them again or sell them.
His anger has provoked considerable
sarcastic comment One man writes to
Il payer saving that he has been in the
habit Of waiting Dr. ParASers
IA an invalid friend. hut he now sees
that he was wronr. He ought "a have
sent the reverend doctor at least three
s%hiilings first.
II story IS told Of n country clergy
mar v-huee finaners do not apparently
extend to banking operations and ex-
perfeuce. toing toa bank with 4 check.
the clerk handed Il back with a request
that he would intiUrse IL and il should
then he cashssi. After much delibera-
uun tins. reverend gentleman came 10
the conclusion that he eould. without
viulatiun If his conscience. aes-sle tn
the request. ~ ne uouiS the treasured
piece II paper and wrote ac-1ss the
hack Of IL Il heartily in,Iurzc this
check.