The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-15
Religious and Educational.


has been formed in California for the
purpose of lending money to poor and
deserving students.
Dartmouth College has dropped mil
itary drill, and the arms and equipments
furnished by the State have been re-
turned. The library of the college now
has Al, 900 volumes.
Last year 5000 copies of the Bible
were distributed in Russia. In 1872, 95,-
600 copies were circulated, the total
number from 1868 to 1878 being 100000.
It is estimated that over $4,000, 900 of
Russians have yet no Bibles.
The Congregationalists of England
have just raised fund of half million
of dollars for retired pastors, and are
still engaged in raising fund for the
widows of deceased ministers, which al
ready amounts to over $50, 900.
The Boston Journal says to teachers:
Make haste slowly. There should be
no undue stimulus, no crowding of intel
lects, no burdensOme assignments of les
sons to compel arduous study out of
school hours. Let our teachers take
lesson in their pet study, philology, and
remember that education means draw
ing out and not a examining in"
"A writer in the american Educational
Monthly advocates sturdily the reading
of newspapers in school classes, with
examination of pupils as to their under
standing of the text. He notes that in
his school the reading of editorials some
times required an inquiry into the ma
ture of governmental administration and
phases Of party history foreign to the
usual order of thought in school life; and
he concludes that pupils should be taught
the kind of knowledge that would enable
them to read understandingly leading
editorials of the best newspapers.
The New Jersey State Teachers As
ISOLATION, at its recent annual meeting,
voted by very large majority in favor
of a repeal of the State law which pro-
hibits corporal punishment in schools.
It was explained that this vote was not
intended as an approval of corporal
punishment, but as an expression Of the
teachers opinion that it might in extreme
cases be necessary; and that, in any
event, the existence of such a law was
an unjust imputation upon the great
body of them, as if they were SO addicted
to the practice of fogging that nothing
but the strong arm of the law could re-
strain them. Several speakers who ad-
vocated the repeal expressed themselves
strongly against corporal punishment.
Foreign Gossip.
"A curious religious frenzy has broken
out among the Christian Laplanders.
When their communion service begins,
women spring up in different parts of
the church, jump, shout and clap their
hands, most of the congregation being
drawn into the excitement.
I'm England poor curate, unable to
live on his salary, supported himself by
repairing watches. This was reported to
the Bishop as disgrace to the cloth.
"This must be put stop to-" said the
Bishop, Indignantly, and he stopped it
by giving the curate place worth $4,000
a year.
-Strasbourg Cathedral is now beaten.
1t no longer has the highest spire in Eu-
rope. The new Church of St. Nicholas,
Hamburg, has just been finished, and the
great cross was placed on the summit
the week before last. The total height
is 472 feet. This is six feet higher than
Strasbourg.
The recent legislation in Northern
India for the suppression of female in
fanticide appears to have been decidedly
successful. The Calcutta correspondent
of the London Times states of the effect
in less than two years: "The result of