The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Two scholarships at OxtSrd. the
ireland and the first Craven. were won
lately by Mr.. Robertson. who is a we'll
known athlete and one Of the univer-
sity crew.
At the death OF John Wesley there
were 3l2 preachers, 131 circuits and
missions and 20, 900 adherents to Meth
odism. Now there are AZ. sos minis
tiers, 6,494, 800 members and 25,31S,l0i
adherents.
Pope Leo Nil. takes occasion to
express his admiration for Dante and
his approval of and interest in Dante
studies, in a letter of thanks to Mgr.
e.. Poletto, who recently published a
commentary Oh the Divina Commedia.
The Buddhist Magazine of Japan
says: The greatest movement of the
twentieth century will not be a COM
mercial one, not a military one, but the
nations of the west will invade the
east with great armies of Christian
missionaries. backed by the wealth of
C~hristendom.
The Bible Institute ~Colportage as
ISOLATION of Chicago is a strong factor
in helping to stem the food of vicious
literature, by supplying clean and
healthy reading. The books they fur
nish meet the approval of evangelical
Christians of all denominations and
can be obtained at great reduction.
Sir Henry Acland, who has just re-
signed the Regius professorship of med
icine at Oxford, forty years ago attend
ed President Routh, who lived to be a
hundred, in his last illness. Routh had
been in company with DR.. johnson at
Oxford, and had been a frequent asso-
ciate of DR.. Lancelot Andrewes, the in
innate friend of Addison.
Columbia college has friends who
do not forget its interests At the re-
cent meeting of it's board of trustees IN
nouncement was made of gifts amount
ing to owe a million dollars. OF these
gifts, 100000 is for the purpose of
erecting two new buildings on the new
site at Bloomingdale. The names of
the donors are withheld until it is de-
cided what the buildings shall be.
Word comes to this country from
Switzerland hat Pastor H. P. HoIser.
the American representative of the
Seventh Day Adventists in central Eu-
rope and the director Of their publish
ing house in Basic, is 10Y undergoing
a term fOf siXty-one DAYS imprisol-
ment in that city for allowing work to
be done in the Office on Sunday.
The Baptists in Russia still continue
to suffer deep persecution, to which
has now been added the c~onfiscation of
all religious literature. In spite of the
great difficulties under which they
there the work goes on, and they
now report a membership of more than
Il, 000, with 90 ministers, and the bap-
tisms last year were more than 1000.
The American Association of Ed
ucators of Colored Youth propose to
hold their next annual meeting in Lon
don, and have accordingly planned for
excursion to Europe to cover a
days next summer, at an expense of
5000 each, hoping to visit London.
Glasgow, Antwerp, Paris and Rome,
and with the purpose also of .acquain+-
ing the European public with the ed
ucational, moral and material progress
made by the American negroes since
the emancipation. The members of
the association are all cOlored men and
women.
The school of mines of the %univer-
sity of Missouri, situated at Rolla, Mo-,
has inst opened it's new mining and
n~etallurgical laboratory, which will
the beginning of a new career of
for the institution. A hand
some building, costing SIS, 900, has
been erected, containing well-appoint-
I'd laboratories, lecture rooms and
room, with a large mill room
N the rear equipped with the latest
modern appliances for crushing and
concentrating ores, as well as with
and reverberatory furnaces
and other plants necessary for metal
operations.