School And Church

_ -me weaiui ot Koman Uatholic religious orders in France inereased iu the last thirty-five years froni $8,600, 000 to $142,067,300. - Ln 170 coWeges of this coiintr tliere are ,'!5,000 studants. Of thiá uamber 14,000 are church members 1,400 having joined during the pas collegiate year. - Chicago Journal. - If the proportion 'f ohurch mom Tier to the'population is thö measure ef religión in a community, then is Richmond, Va., one of the most pious cities in the country, more than a thirc of its inhabitants being enrolled as com municants in the fifty-three evangeli cal churches of the city.- N. Y. Times - Airs. Joseph Cooke, of Boston, ad dressing the Women's Board of Mis sions of the Congregational Church recently, spoke of the lack of well-edu cated female missionaries for India anc the East. She found that the vcriüngs of infidels are niuch read in some of the large cities of India, and the mission aries have to exert themselves to coun teract taeir injurious tendencies. - Boston Herald. -The ladies of Palermo, N. Y., com menced last summer to make a quilt to raise money torepair their church. The quilt was composed of twenty wheels Twenty ladies had each a wheel to get subscnptions. Persons paying fifty cents had their names on the hub. Persons paying ten cents had their names on the spokes. The ladies in this way have raised over 8100, and the quilt has been put together with the names of the subscribers on it. - Buffalo Express. - Among the adherents of the Mormon Church in Utah are 50,000 of Scandinavian and Lutherau stock. A special effort is being made to restore them to Christianity. The Prcsbyterians are working through Norwegian vangelista. The _AIethodlsts liave appointed a Norwegian missionary to Salt Lake, wliere he has erected a church ediñce and opened a school. The Swedish Lutherans have sent a minister, who has gathered a congregation, and a Danish Lutheran clergyman will will soon commcnco operatious. - Denver Tribune. - One of the most intereBting and valuable features of the John Hopkins University library is the newspaper bureau. A trained editor and a staft oi assistants read all the representativ dailies, make superior articles upon economie, political, social, educational, legal and historical subjects. These are af terwai tl cli(jjcd; oTrnnod in newspaper budgets, kept in large envelopes or oblong boxes which-are marked with labels. The list of subjects includes evorything of value that finds its way into the columns of the press. Bulletin boards aro covered daily with the best clippings froiu the latest papers, arransed under the