Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
Religious and Educational.


Buffalo has 70 churches and only 10.
600 church-goers.
Reunion gives the Presbyterians ten
churches in Washington.
There are nearly 1850 students in at.
tendance at the Illinois Industrial Univer-
sity.
Iowa has 1874 families of the Friends
Society, and $40 parts of families, with g..
339 members in ALL
Eight hundred and sixty of the grad
yates of Princeton College have turned
out as clergymen.
indianapolis has twocolored schools
in successful operation. There are about
ninety pupils in each.
Three ministers of Sycamore, Ill,
preached from the same text in that place
on recent Sunday, without previous
understanding.
Harvard College has given II ,533 de.
grees, not including those of this year.
Its Alumni at present are 8,11S-51 more
than Yale.
The statistics of the Baptist Church
in Prussia show fifty.one churches, with
10,O67 communicates, and congregations
numbering in all about %, $50 persons.
There is kind of grim humor in the
address of devout Deacon to his newly
settled pastor, as he gave him the usual
welcome, "The Lord keep lyou humble,
and we will keep you poor"
"A citizen Of Boston, recently on trial
before the Supreme Court in that city for
working on sunday, has been acquitted
on the ground that he was Seventh Day
Baptist, and conscientiously observed Sat.
urday, to keep it holy.
"A queer mode Of punishment lately
adopted by certain Poughkeepse school
teacher, is that of compelling a student to
run around the school house four hundred
times, whole distance five miles. The
offender is cured by being made an invalid
The membership of the ia missions
of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in
Canada numbers 1901, embracing Alb
Indians, 237 Germans and 33 French.
They are supplied by 1856 missionaries,
aided by Is Indian interpreters.
The following days of the week are
those set apart for public worship in the
different nations: Sunday, by the Chris
tians; Monday, by the Grecians; Tues
day, by the Persians; Wednesday, by the
Assyrians; Thursday, by the Turks; and
Saturday, by the Jews.
The New England Female Medical
College has graduated, since its establish.
ment, seventy.four women who have pur.
sued full course and taken degrees
More than two hundred Others have at
tended partial courses, with view to be-
come nurses emily, now most important
calling, and growing constantly more 3d.
The newspaper is emphatically the
poor mans lyceum, his library, and his
best instructor. The newspaper brings
to him a vast treasure OF information,
which he cannot read without being
wiser and better man. II has been aptly
said that newspaper Is as good as a les.
son for the thoughtful. Where newspa.
pers are seen upon the table in the family
circle, there will be found intelligence and
virtue.
Some of the oldest Baptist Churches
in America are in the State Of Pennsyl.
vania, one of them dating back to 1851.
The Philadelphia Baptist Association,
which two years ago celebrated its one
hundred and sixty second anniversary, is,
by nearly half century, the oldest asso
citation OF Baptist Churches on this CONT
nent, and, with the exception OF two in
England, and one in Wales, the oldest In
the world.