The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

--Abram s. Hewitt. the we]l-known
New York reformer, was professor ct
mathematics at Columbia college fifty
years ago.
The death is announced in his
eighty-sixth year of the zoologist Sven
Ludwig Loven. professor at the Uni
versity of Stockholm. He was born in
1909. and conducted the first scientific
expedition to Spitzbergen in 1887.
The duke of Sutherland's two SONS,
the marquis of Stafford, who is seven,
and Lord Alistair Cover, who is five,
attend the village public school at Col
spie with the children of his tenants
and workmen.
Bristol, which has been united
with Gloucester since 1886. is to be-
come a separate bishopric again soon,
as the mSney needed to re-establish
the see has been all subscribed. The
see was one of six established by Henry
Will in 1912 out Of the property of the
dissolved monast cries.
Free smokes are the inducements
extended to attract big congregations
to one of the churches in the White
chapel district, London. Here is the
advertisement: ''If you want a smoke
free, come next Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock to Christ Church hall A
cup of tea if you like. Tobacco grs-
It's"
The first free school in the United
States was among the Puritans and
the Pilgrims, among the Dutch in New
Amsterdam and the English in Vir-
ginia- There is a school in New York
city now that was founded in 1853 by
Adam Roelautsen. 1t is the oldest
school in this country. and was free
when it was founded.
The Free Church of Scotland at
its last assembly resolved to grant
ordination in certain circumstances to
men as evangelists for work in places
where their settlement was not neces-
sarily to be permanent The action
was earnestly opposed as un-Presby-
terrain, but was finally adopted. and 1t
is soon to be carried into effect in the
highlands
Rev. II. W. Brown, of Chicago. Is
conducting religious services among
the fifteen Thousand men employed on
the Chicago drainage canal Thou
sands of tracts and testaments have
been distributed by Mr.. Browns as
sistants, and many conversions are re-
ported. With the exception of work
done by Mr.. Browne, the men are with
out religious instruction, and crime is
very prevalent.
The Evangelical Mission church"
in Belgium, in the beginning of 1898.
had deficit of 27,0G0 francs, which in
April, 1894. had grown to s., 200 francs.
Suddenly, in June, this year. it was
announced the deficit had been re-
duced to e,s33 francs. Friends abroad
and IN Belgium itself had come to the
rescue. In one meeting, composed
mostly of Belgian workingmen, the
sum of 1000 francs was secured. The
church now numbers s,s52 members.
Wellesley colleges new dean Is
Prof. Margaret E. Stratton, who pre-
viously held the position of head of
the department of English language
and rhetoric. Other new instructors
are Miss Sarah III. Hardy, Phi. D.. Chi
cago university; Miss Mary e. Wool
ley, NJ. A.. who viii teach Hebrew
and old testament history; Misses
Eleanor B. Eaton, Eleanor Tebbets,
Helene Schaeys, Helene ]. Roth and
Emma Fl. Parker. The freshman class
numbers considerably over two hun
dred students. A new scholarship, the
Ada L. Howard, is announced, which
is named IN honor Of Welleslev's first
president, who is to have the privilege,
during her lifetime, of naming the
heneficiarv