The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-05

prisoner sentenced to degradation" is
marched into the center Of q square of
soldiers, and all his insignia are success.
sively stripped off him, and his epaulettes
are torn away and trampled under foot BY
. drummer; his buttons are cut off with
scissors, his star if he have one, is pulled
roughly from his breast, and, as q crown.
ing disgrace, his sword is broken by a
sergeant, who shouts, SOLDIERS, this is
the sword of coward and felon," No
more painful and horrible ceremony
could be conceived.
Religious and Educational.
in view of the detection Of Bishop
Cummins, the Church Journal thinks "the
Bishops should set apart day of humilia.
ton and prayer"
An officer of the British army, known
in London society, has volunteered for
missionary work, asking only to be sent
to the post of greatest danger.
Last Christmas DR.. Chatard, the rec.
tor OF the American College, presented, in
the name of the Catholics of the United
States, $500 to the Holy Father.
The Christian Union says that "a lit
tie less machinery in the shape of boards
and societies might not hinder the benev.
olent work of the churches, while it
would certainly decrease the expenses"
The Jews have caught the spirit of
the age and are agitating the question of
giving up the elaborate and artistic style
of singing prevailing in the synagogues,
and substituting congregational singing
therefor.
The principal of the Norwich, Conn,
Academy recently stated to the school
that those who wished to attend the dane
iHg school must leave the Academy. He
considers the two inconsistent with each
other.
The Boston School Board recently
abolished corporal punishment in the
high schools. That it was not also abol-
ished in the grammar schools was the
result of blunder among the resolutions
proposed.
The Presbytery of Weston, Texas, is
asking for more ministers. There are
many places in that section destitute of
religious services, and Presbyterians else
where are making strenuous efforts to
supply them.
Bishop Hare, of Dakota, is about to
make an experiment in teaching the In
dians of his diocese mechanical trades,
especially blacksmithing, tailoring and
shoemaking. The Rev. st. George Young
is to have charge.
The Friends have from time imme.
mortal sat apart in their worship, the fe
males on one side of the room and the
males on the other. At meeting recent
ly held in Brooklyn, for the first time in
their history as denomination, the sexes
sat together.
A society has been formed in Belgium
for collecting all waste paper and selling
it for the benefit of the Pope. The society
has appealed to all the possessors of bad
books, such as the works of Voltaire,
Rousseau, Diderot, Volney, and other
detestable authors" to hand them over as
waste paper.
--"1n our day." says the Christian
Union, 1.-THE intelligent Christian perceives
that pOvery is not holier in the sight OF
God than riches, nor ignorance more
saint-like than knowledge, nor the hair.
shirt devotional above the business coat
nor drab more acceptable hue to heaven
than blue, nor f1ounce the symbol of q
reprobate mind, and skimp skirts meet
offering of righteousness"
The Detroit board of Education has
just dropped algebra from the union
school course, the course being too full
and the teachers generally being in favor
OF leaving out that study. One of the
members of the board took occasion to
say that such opinion came from the
feminine teachers, and thence proceeded
to the declaration that the substitution Of
feminine for masculine teachers at the
head of the union schools hal been very
unwise.
The Lawrence (Kansas) Republican
Journal doesn't believe that it is we'll ia
found SO many new colleges. "What We
want" it says, lis to concentrate GU,
forces on few colleges and make them
good. 1t seems monstrous proceeding
to be setting up new institutions on q
money basis large enough to be worth
saving, but not large enough to make q
decent college; to leave Institutions al.
ready started and approved bare of fur.
niture and means. There are so many
colleges already existing, embodying SO
many different ideas and representing SO
many phases of thought, that any mod.
crate man could find among them the one
fitted to his prejudices on which to be:
stow his money without making a new
one"