The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-09-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

With advancing years Robert Coli
yer, the Unitarian preacher, has come
to resemble Henry Ward Beecher In
personal appearance.
The chair of Hebrew and church
history in the German Theological
seminary at Newark, N. j., made va
cant recently by the deposition of DIR.
Hauser, is to DO filed by Rev. II. j.
Weber, Phi. D., pastor of the German
Presbyterian Church of Peace In Phil
adelphia, Pa.
Rev. John b. Mcclellan Is president
of the English Royal Agricultural col
lege, which has just celebrated its
jubilee. The college, which is at Ciren'
cester, was founded to give young En-
glishmen who were likely to become
colonists thorough knowledge OF
practical agriculture. 1t has faculty
OF dozen masters.
Rev. John Jasper, the colored
preacher of Richmond and author Of
the famous "sun do move" theory OF
the solar system, is, apart from his in
tellectual eccentricities, a most es-
Unable and devoted Christian worker.
He receives only six hundred dollars
per year salary and will take no more,
although the Mount Zion Baptist
church has repeatedly offered to in
crease his stipend.s
When Bishop Thorold was buried
at Winchester cathedral recently the
coffin was placed in the grave with the
feet to the west instead of to the east.
A few hours after the funeral had
taken place, and after all the company
had dispersed. the coffin was lifted
from the grave and placed in the usual
eastward position, which has been
adopted with every bishop of Win
chester who is buried in the cathedral.
DIR. Randall Davidson, bishop Of
Rochester, who has been made bishop
of Winchester, in succession to the
late Bishop Thorold, becomes by right
member of the house of lords, with
the bishops of Durham and London.
The other twenty-eight bishops must
wait their turn to take the twenty-one
bishops seats in the house, which are
filled according to seniority of appoint
ment, the seven junior bishops, what
ever their sees may be, not being
peers.
Rev. Stephen Humphreys Gurteen,
M. A. (Cantab.), LII. B., has been APP
pointed by Bishop Perry of Iowa to be
senior canon, non-residentiary, of the
cathedral church of Davenport, Ia,
select preacher in advent and lent, and
lecturer in Anglo-Saxon and early En-
glish literature in Griswold college.
Canon Gurteen was appointed dean of
Davenport cathedral eighteen years
ago, but was unable to accept the APP
pointment at that time owing to the
demands of his work at the cathedral
church in Buffalo, n. v, and his in
terest in the success of the Charity Or
ganization society, of which he is the
founder in the United States. The
newly-appointed canon is the author of
several works, the latest of which is
1.-THE Arthurian Epic
The University of Berlin has the
largest attendance of any similar in
stitution on the globe, namely, s,S43
entitled to lecture privileges The
only possible rival are the faculties"
at Paris, which combined report an at
tendance of 1O,643. OF the regular uni
versities the next to Berlin numerical
ly is Madrid, with 1857 students; Wen
ma, with 4,s56; Naples, with 4,s22;
Moscow, with 1907. The technical
school OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
leads all in attendance, reporting g.
4O5: followed by Munich, with 1899;
Boston, with l,l57; Zurich, with 994;
Riga, with 9s4; Vienna, with $50. The
same leadership must be accorded the
Berlin schools of agriculture, forestry
and mining, the attendance being in
each about $50, while st. Petersburg
comes next with 600 in its mining
school and 270 in the school of forestry.
In it's school of dentistry, hover, Ber'
lin occupies only the fifth place, being
outstripped by Madrid, Vienna, Copen'
h.< nd do