Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-10-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


Telephones are to be admitted into
Italian nunncries by n recent decision
of the congregation of bishops, but q
strict censorship will be exercised over
the wires. f
Mime. Mabel Digby has been elect
ed mother-general of the Society OF
Sacred Heart in succession to Nine.
Adelaide de Sartorious, who died last
spring. Mother Digby is daughter
of Lord Digby and a convert
Protestant church bells rang out
for the first time in Vienna Sunday
or two ago, set of bells having been
presented to the church which was
built few years since, after a long
resistance on the part Of the govern
n emit.
"A great religious change is coming
over Milan, according to Signor Giarel.
| Ii. New churches are arising every
where, the cardinal archbishop is the
man of most influence In the city and
Milan promises soon to become the
headquarters of the clericalism.
Hungarian Catholics are getting to
be pretty outspoken. priestrecently
argued in the Pesti Hirlap that cell
bacy in the clergy can be maintained
no longer, asserting that very few OF
the 3,067 parish priests in Hungary
could retain their Office IL the laws re-
garding celibacy were strictly en-
forced.
DIR. Baedecker, the English prison
philanthropist, is about to start, a,
seventy-three, on his third mission tc
the Siberian mines and convict settle.
ments. He has authority from the in
Ispector-gcneral of Russian prisons, and
will visit besides the central peniten
ltiaries at Tomosk, Krasnojarsk, va
kutsk and Viljuisk.
1 One of the little things that puz
gle the Chinaman who wishes to be
come Christian is shown by DR.. Nor
rison, author of IAN Australian il
China" The American Protcstan
mission sells Chinese wall calendars
with Scriptural texts and with Sun
Idays,marked, and in the same places {
calendar of the Seventh Day Advent
lists is sold with Sunday on diffcren
day.
Dr. Eitel, inspector of schools a
Hong Kong, says that the best educa
tional theories of Europe, based a
they are on observations of western
children, are inapplicable to Chimes
| L.. IL, IL,
ments are essentially different. II
Hong Kong Chinese scholars spen'
from four to seven years in studyini
English without learning the Ian
guagc.
A sign of the decentralizinI
, tendency in France is the es
Establishment at Lille of scien
, tiAc institute, comprising labor
atorics for physics, chemistry an
natural science, at cost of 1895, 0O(
The money was contributed by tn
municipal council and the Lille Acade
ME, aided by gifts from private cit
Gems. The town of Lille has guarar
tecd TO it grant of $4,000 year fo
!. twcnty years, to be used to advanc
higher education.
English clergymen's salaries al
: not as high as is commonly believed
:. In Crockford's clerical directory fc
! this year statements of the actuf
:. value of 1896 beneficcs out of 1928
! England are given. OF these 63s al
worth $500 year or less, 2,74S MOI
: 81. 900 or less, 4.2l9 less than $4,000, Z!
: less than $4,000, l73 less than $500
43 only 1000 or less, and 80 more tina
SIS, 600, being above $500, and b,
= one of these above $4,000. The nom
:. nal value in the case of the other 49,
bcnificcs is for nearly $4,000 less tina
81, 500, and for a thousand more lie
than 50, 500. In addition to his incom
. however, the incumbent has the III
. of house, and in the country at lea
i of garden