The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are ten fruit schools" in
France where pupils are instructed
practically how to cultivate and hus-
0and fruits.
Women OF Ohio are preparing TO
make the most of the school ballot in
bringing about many reforms in the
school boards and schools.
Mrs. Hearst, widow of the Califor.
mia senator, has given Sl75,00O to erect
a girls school in connection with the
Protestant cathedral in Washington.
Bishop Balsley, the oldest theolo-
gian in Denmark, died last month,
aged ninety. OF his textbook on theol-
ogy very MANY editions have been sold.
The American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society closed the financial
year with a debt of Sos, 799, an adj
sance on hat of the previous year of
s7,343.
Rev. DR.. Newman Hall, the emil
nent dissenting preacher of England,
though seventy-fve years Of age, often
walks a dozen miles Sunday to and from
his church.
Prof. Briggs says he has not be-
come an E~piscopalian, nor has he any
intention of doing so. His ecclesias-
teal status is unchanged. He is a sus-
pended Presbyterian minister.
Mr.. E. P. Dwight, of Philadelphia,
has given = valuable property of 465
acres, near Downingtown, Pa, to the
Philadelphia Young Mems Christian
| aSSnniafiNn 70 ha nSnl nc t1n Sifo Of On
educational institute.
For each convert made in the for
eign field during the last year it has
cost the American board (Congrega-
t~ional), $500; the Baptist union, $50;
the NJ. Z. church, S235; the Protestant
Episcopal church, 81, S34; and the Pres
byterian board, S27S.
When the board of education of
Ansonia, Conn, invited ~clergymen of
all denominations t. unite in the choice
of a suitable opening prayer for the
public schools the unanimous choice of
every sect, Protestant and Catholic,
was the Lords Prayer as found in Mat
thew.
Gen. Booth has issued an order
which forbids the members of the Sal
walton Army belonging to secret socie-
ties. Gen. Booths intention is to pre-
ven the soldiers from being attracted
away from the meetings by the regular
sessions and numerous entertainments
held by secret societies.
Church union is progressing in
Great Britain. The Free Church con-
gress just held in Birmingham brought
forward the fact hat the various
gelical churches represented have
formed councils for federation in over
one hundred and fifty British centers
of population. Rev. Hugh Price Hughes
was made president of the congress for
the ensuing year.
"A French statistician has recently
published comparative data on the uni
versity attendance in Europe. Accord
ing to his calculations. Germany has
one university student for every 1880
inhabitants; England, one for every
1,512: Austria, one for every 1,722;
Hungary, one for every 1909: France,
one for every 1853; Italy, one for every
1,756. Germany has an university for
every 2,471, 600 inhabitants; England,
one for every 4,143, 600: Spain, one for
every 1,756, 900: France, one for every
2,556, 900; Italy, one for every 1,436, 900.
The greatest disproportion in this re-
spect is accordingly found in Italy, and
for this reason quite a number of
Italian universities, such as Urbino,
Macerata, Modena and others, have
almost as many professors as students.