Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-03
Religious and Educational.

A class in journalism has been organ
lied in the Iowa Wesleyan University al
Mount Pleasant
Twenty years ago there was not Bsp-
list Minister in Sweden; now there are
geo Baptist Churches.
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, has an
employment agency in connection with
the reading room in the chapel.
The revision of the New Testament.
now in progress in England, will occupy
seven years, and that of the Old Testament
twelve years.
1t is said that the attendance in the
public schools has rapidly increased in
Michigan since the enactment Of the com.
pulsory education law.
A student of Cornell is helping to pay
his way through that institution by run
ming a lemonade stand in one of the halls
thereof.
Teachers in the public schools of
Boston are not permitted to infiict cor
poral punishment upon any scholar until
twenty -four hours after the ofiense is COM
mitted.
Mr.. Frederick Lockyer, Of London, is
the author Of this little verse, which con-
tains deal of truth:
'They cat and drink. and scheme and plod,
And go 10 church on sunday;
And many are afraid Of God,
And more Of Mrs. Grundy."
A New York correspondent says
"Some Of the most costly houses OF wor-
ship are going up that have at any time
been built in this region. DR.. Halls
new church will cost over half million.
Mr. Hepworth's tabernacle will cost near
" 100000. Talmadge's new house of
worship, without the land, will cost $780,
600. The Tabernacle Baptist Church are
TO build huge edifice to gather in the
masses of the city. The Hanson Place
Methodist Church are pulling their edifice
down To build great structure, and the
Hanson Place Baptist Church are to erect
an immense peoples church on the site OF
the present cosy house of worship"
The Commissioner of Education, in
summing up the benefactions made by
private individuals for educational pur
poses during the last two years, says the
entire amount Of 1871 was something over
$s,OOO,OOO, and that for 1872 very nearly
$10,OOO,OOO. The amount for 1872 was
divided as follows: For colleges and
universities, $6,2S2, 481 SO; for theological
institutions, 81 800, $685.; Tor Libraries
and normal schools, 81, 020, 600; for su
perior schools for females, $089, 903; fol
agricultural and scientific schools, $4S2,
600; for academies, $500, $40; for medica
schools, $lO,422.13; and for law schools
$4,000.
4 The Hebrew Educational Societ,
! School Of New Orleans has been the seen,
Of q very rare, If not wholly unexampled
performance in arithmetic. The problem
was to multiply Q by 8, and 81 by 81, ant
so on, using each succeeding product a
its own multiplier, until the operation
should be performed nine times. How
stupendous and discouraging the worl
, becomes after few steps are taken in tn
process, any one will find who makes tn
trial. For several years Q handsome pre-
MUM had been offered by the patrons o
, the school just named for the pupil VIII
!, should first succeed in accomplishing thi
feat of multiplication. At last the tasl
was completed, and the prize, splendi
silk dress, won by Miss Sallie e. Sale
mon, sister Of Mrs. A. Dalsheimer, after
patient labor Of three months. The worl