The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


given 500, 900 to the French archeo-
logical school at Cairo.
"A Christian Endeavor society has
been formed in connection with the
blind asylum in Glasgow, Scotland.
The past year has been a prosper
Gus one in the baptist churches in this
country. There has been a gain OF
40, 433 members, while the increase IN
the number OF ordained ministers is
nearly 1000.
There is a fourishing society of
Christian Endeavor on the island OF
Takaofo in the South Sea, which has
ffty-six members, the entire pOpula-
ton of the island being only two hun
dred and sixty-four.
From Sitka, Alaska, comes the re-
port of a Christian Endeavor society
in a p~astorless church, which takes
charge of the Sunday evening service
and conddcts a weekly prayer meeting
in an outlying Indian village.
The oldest church in the United
States is the church of San Miguel, at
Santa Fe, y. NJ. IT was erected seven
~ty-seven years before the landing OF
the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, TWEEN
ty years before the founding of st.
Augustine, Fla, and f~ifty-three years
after the landing of Columbus.
1t is announced that it is a ques-
ton whether the university of Jena
can be maintained. 1t is the highest
educational institution of the little
state of Thuringia, and the statement
has recently been officially published
from the capital city, Weimar, that the
! house of representatives does not know
whence to secure funds for the con-
tinually-increasing needs of the school.
In theology and philosophy Jena has
been the exponent of liberal and even
radical thought for many years.
-Lofcadio Hearn relates hat there
was a remarkable identity of ideas and
expressions in the compositions writ.
ten by his Japanese pupils on n single
| theme. But it is not necessary to &C
to Japan to discover the like. There
is commonly just such a similarity OF
thought and expression in most school
compositions on the same subject. 1t
seems merely that immature minds in
Japan, as in American, note the obvi-
Gus, with the difference, perhaps, that
the training of the Japanese child in
tensifes his conventionalities of
thought and expression.
An Englishwoman, Miss Grace
Chisholm, has taken the degree of doc
tor of philosophy at the university of
Gottingen, with the express permits
sion of the Prussian minister of educa-
ton. This is the first degree ever
taken by a woman since Gettingen be-
came a Prussian university. The en-
peror has hitherto opposed the admis-
sion of women to the imperial universe
ties, and it is supposed that the con-
ferring of the degree upon Miss CHS
holm indicates a change of policy and
the beginning of further concessions
in regard to the higher education OF
women. The new departure has
caused much stir in the German acade-
mic world.
Leipzig university has just lost its
two best known medical professors in
Friedrich Thiersch and Karl Ludwig,
who died within two days of each
other. Thiersch was one of the great
est surgeons of his generation, and
during the war with France was sur
p~eon-in-chief of the Twelfth army
corps. Ludwig was one of the fore
most Psychologists of the century, and
a pioneer in modern methods of in
vestigation. He had to sustain vio'
lent attacks from the anti-vivisection-
lists, and for a long time one of the
sights of Leipzig was a little dog he
owned in whose breast was set a glass
plate allowing the beatings of the
heart to be seen. Ludwig's daughter
married DR.. Bowditch, of the Harvard
medical school.