The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-16
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Frederick ]. Bliss, director of the
work Of the Palestine explora ton fund
/ is reported to have discovered the
staircase leading to the Pool of SLOAN
The staircase is 40 feet wide and ex-
tends back from the pool a distance
of 200 feet.
The organ of the Southern Baptist
young peoples organization, The Young
Peoples Leader. has been discontinued
This has been done, it is stated, for the
purpose of encouraging a uniform
system of study among the Baptist
young people of the country.
The synod of New York has taken
steps TO try the Presbytery of New
York for its disregard of the injunction
of the general assembly not to receive
under its care students of Union sem
mary who are pursuing their studies
under Professor Briggs, who is dis
approved as a teacher
A Churchman's Liberation League.
composed of elergymen and laymen,
has been formed in London to promote
the separation of church and state in
England by means of the disestablish-
ments, on the ground that the connec-
ton has become Injurious to the spir-
itual interests of the church and d
hindrance to the progress of true re-
ligion."
st. PauPs church, East Cnester, N
Y. celebrated its two hundred and first
anniversary recently. With one excep-
ton, this is the oldest Protestant Epis-
copal parish in the United States The
corner stone of the present edifice was
laid in 1865, upon the foundation of a
preceding wooden building. which had
been plllaged and burned to the ground
by the Indians.
4 cr1hccripfio,, hoo $40. l.,1,, .....--,
in England. under the patronage of the
Prince Of Wales. which has for it's aim
the restoration of the old church of
Burnham Thorpe, where Nelson was
baptized, and where his mother and
father lie buried IT is the intention
of the committee that has the sub
scription in charge to have the Win
dOws of the church decorated with
scenes recalling the career of the vic
tor of Trafalgar. During his life Mel
son often expressed a desire to be
buried ct Durham Thorpe, and moth
ing but a command of the king pre-
vented the body from reposing- there,
instead of beneath the beautifully
sculptured tomb in St. Paul's cathe-
dral
NJ. Andree. who almost started on
voyage to the north pole in a balloon
last summer. has just published in
Stockholm his report on mis- researches
in Spitzbergen, which were by TO
means unimportant. He viii again at
tempt 10 reach the north pole next
summer in his balloon, and to accom-
plish this he needs Sl4, 600 On arriving
in GOthenburg on his return this fall
he received a check for S21O0, and no
doubt the rest of the sum viii be made
up before next July. for the king of
Sweden and Norway is as great a be-
lever in the scheme as ever, and has
rewarded many of the original sub
scribers to Andrees fund with the
decoration of the Vasa cross.
Hermann Levi, the eminent con-
dEctor of the Royal Opera House i'm
Munich, who has been seriously i'll for
a considerable time has finally re-
signed his post. and the Prince Regent
has made him an honorary
member of the Royal Court orchestra
Levi has been one of the most distin-
guished ana authoritative interpreters
Of Wagner's works. having studied
them under the masters influence and
direction at Munich where he has been
conductor since 1872. He will be sue
needed by Richard Strauss and Pro-
lessor Erdmannsdorfer
George Denman. who has just died.
VAS for many years one of the most
conspicuous and ornamental figures of
The English bench, and remains on
'ecord as the only judge of the supreme
curt of Great Britain who has been
permitted by the crown to decline tie
lcnOr of knighthood.