The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Some "a the Brooklyn churches ART
hanging up landscape chrOmOs and photo
,rsphs on the walls.
The Louisville coloned school now mas
eg2 pupils. and bids fair soon To be one OF
ihe largest In the city.
Rev. IA. Leavitt. a graduate in the last
eia-s AZ AndOvcr. has sailed from san Fran
d..,o for his mission field in Osaka. Japan.
mi. city i. one of the five great imperial
towns Of Japan. island OF Niphon.
Rev. DIR. Robert Lowell. brother of
lanes Russell Lowell. and the author OF
M. novel The New Priest of Conception
Raw has accepted the proiesSorship Of
Latin and Literature in Union College.
Richard +. Grener. cOlored gradu-
sre IL Harvard IN 1870. and since professor
In Howard University in Washington. has
accepted the proiessorship OF Moral and
Mental Philosophy in the State University
II south Carolina.
Mai. X. W. Og,leH. an old citizen OF
Bowling Green. ky.. died recently. leaving
! fortune Of one hundred and iifly thou
.and dollars. all except forty thousand OF
which goes 10 establish free school in that
civ.
The Rev. +. ID. Kinney. Of Darien.
Connecticut. has done his share i'm the way
I'll pulpit talk. having during his ministry
preached more than eight thousand five
hundred sermons. He j. described a a
nious. simple. faithful pastor. successful,
and beloved by hi, people.
Perhaps II j. not generally known that
2 noble Institution. designed a home for
children Of deceased ministers. j. located
x Clinton. North Carolina. II i under
control OF Pre~bytcrians. but offers it, BEN
ef.iion> Ia all. Ii was erected 10 the
memory oflhedistingIishedoli divine. Thorn
wen. and j. called the Thornwell Orphan
are.
AT recent meeting Of the school
committee OF Chelsea. Massachusetts,. it
was suggested that there be- in schools a
DELAY 81 twenty-tour hours before a teach
er inflicted punishment Tor any ofisnse-
until passion had cooled. After much de-
tate. however. il was decided To pass and
i~Suean order II the teachers not 20 inflict
punishment upon their pupils till they
shall have consulted with the >lb-commit-
tec Of their respective schools.
--Pr-sbyterias, are sometimes called
billie. The epithef.'' observes q ~
ligious eNchangc. d" arose in this way. The
distinct dress of the scotch Presbyterian
clergy Was blue gown AMI a broad blue
bonnet. The Epi-copalian clergy. on the
other hand. either wore no distinctive dress
Ia public services. or else wore black
gown. From this arose the contrasting
epiihei- Of Black Prelacy and True
Blue Prc,bytcriani,m.' So SAYS Dean
stanley. ia b. lectures on the history 81
the Church ~ Scotland"
Mr.. Philbrick. the Boston Superinten-
dent ~ Schools. bears testimony 10 the
excellence Of the educational institutions
~ Vienna. Some at the higher schools
Tor extent and magnificcnce were not sur
passed. nor for thproughnes-. One school
that h. saw extended entirely around the
square. and even H. main hall was A. large
and supcrhly finished a. one Of our
chuche>. The great superiority that he
found was the mode ~ teaching by practi-
cllillustraiions.a and by the teacher working
with Nj class. the text books being -ubor-
dinate and Rotations being ~ discount.
The thoroughne-- If special preparation
"a the part of teachers. and the extent Of
The apparatus provided and actually used.
vas one reason Of the superiority OF Vienna
AoOls. this system running down even
INTO the lowest schools.