Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

M. Suares, a Jewish banker, has
given $780, 900 to the French archseo-
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, ABB 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 Sitlxa, Alaska. comes the re-
port of a Christian Endeavor society
in a pastorless church, which takes
| charge of the Sunday evening service
and conducts a weekly prayer meeting
| in an outlying Indian village.
The oldest church in the United
States is the church of San Miguel, at
| Santa Fee, n. M. 1t 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 fifty-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 that there
was a remarkable identity of ideas and
expressions in the compositions writ
ten by his Japanese pupils on single
theme. But it is not necessary to go
to Iapan to discover the like. There
is commonly just such a similarity of
thought and expression in most school
compositions on the same subject. 10
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 woman since Gettingen be-
came a Pyussian university. The en-
peror has hitherto opposed the adn1is-
sion of women to the imperial universe
ties, and il is supposed that the con-
ferring of the degree upon Miss CHS
holm indicates change of policy and
the beginning of further concessions
in regard to the higher education of
women. The new departure has
caused mueh 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
EDther Thiersch was one of the great
est surgeons of his generation, and
during the war with France was sur
geon-in-chief of the Twelfth army
corps. Ludwig was one of the fore
most Psychologists of the century, and
4 pioneer in modern methods of in
vestigationl He had to- sustain vio-
ent attacks from the anti-vivisection-
lists, and for long time one of the
sights of Leipzig was 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.