The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOI AND CHURCH.
j. II. Mustard is principal Of the
high school at Minneapolis. A. P. Wagg
holds a similar position at Auburn, Me.
Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor-
ers gave SIS, 900 last year for missions
and benevolence through their socie-
ties.
Miss Davenport Hill has been elect.
ed to the London school board by a
good majority over her competitor, the
duke Of Newcastle.
Sylvester jackson, whose widow
has left 500, 600 to Tufts college for a
building for women, was formerly a
soap manufacturer in Providence, and
died about four years ago.
Load Rosebery, the English pre-
mier, is a great student of the Bible.
In a speech which he made a short
time ago he quoted the Bible seven
times, Shakespeare twice and Aristotle
once.
Delegates from a church society
~'ecently sent to Northumberland re-
fused to deliver addresses illustrated
with lantern slides on the ground that
Paul and Barnabas never carried
magic lanterns about with them"
France has three bishops who are
not ashamed to take exercise. The
Archbishop of Sens and the bishop of
Chalons keep up their fencing, while
the bishop of Mede, besides being d
good fencer, rides horseback and drives.
Miss A. NJ. Sorabji sister of Miss
Cornelia Sorabji, b. A, of the Bombay
university has succeeded in passing
with honors the first bachelor of sci
ence examination at Bombay. She is
the first woman in India to gain such
a distinction.
Edinburgh university has 1919
students this year, 40 of them women;
the faculty OF arts has 767, that of sci
ence, 155; divinity, 6s; law, asa, and
medicine, 1894. The annual value of
the fellowships and scholarships grant
ed by the university is O,OOO.
Gen. Booth has commissioned Helen
G.. Schofeld a lieutenant in the Saliva
ton Army, and has assigned her to
work in the hardest post in San Fran
cisco, among the lowest of the fallen
women She is a daughter of Rev. L.
NJ. Sc%hofield, who is a minister of the
Presbyterian church.
The late Col. w. F. Reynolds, of
Detroit, Mich, left his estate, various
" estimated from $50, 900 to 500, 900, to
be held in trust by the Presbyterian
church erection board for his wife dur
ing her lifetime, paving her an annual
income of not less than 81. 900, and at
her death it reverts to the church.
During the ten years from 1883 to
1898 the colleges of Oxford nave lost on
an average $500, 600 a year of income
through the prevailing agricultural
depression-3O per cent. of their total
income. This has been made up in
part by increased receipts from other
sources, so that the total decrease is
about ) per cent. The elimination.
however, has affected individual col
leges in different ways. ONE Having
lost as much as a quarter of their
revenues.
The Methodist ministers of Cleve-
land are very much in earnest on the
question of dancing in the public
schools. Their request that it be dis
continued has not been complied with,
the reason given being hat the prac-
tice had been continued for such a long
time that it has become rooted in the
system. Now the ministers say they
will again demand that it be discontin-
ued. and. if this demand is not complied
with. they will appeal to the courts for
a decision.
Dean Vahl's statistics of foreign
missionaries for 1892 has been issued.
The income of all Christian missionary
societies was 60, 695. Iss, of wh~h 1,41I.-
2iO was contributed in this country.
The number of male foreign missiona-
ries was 5 ,5O2. and of unmarried female
missionaries, 2.771. With the wives of
married missionaries, there may be
about Il. 900 from Europe and America
in the field. The number of communi-
cants was above a million. Under all
headings there is a marked advance on
the previous year.-The Missionary Re
view.