Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Texas Legislature has fixed the
compensation of public school-teachers in
that State at ten cents per day for each
pupil in actual attendance.
in the final arrangement for the En-
glish Church Congress it is announced
that the Bishop of Tennessee is to be one
of the speakers at the first meeting
In 1920 the receipts of the Methodist
Missionary Society were something over
three cents a members in 1890, less than
three cents in 1910, twenty four cents; in
1850, eighteen cents; in 1860 thirty cents );
in 1870, fifty one cents.
The plize offered some time ago by
| the Rocky .Nountain Presbyterian for the
best hymn sent to it upon home mission
AIRY work has been awarded to "a Lady
of Virginia" whose name is not to be
made public, although her hymn has been
printed in the Presbyterian journals
The Rev. Thomas Toller, of Ketter-
ing, an English Independent minister,
eighty nine years of age, on Sunday, Sept.
%, resigned his charge after service of
fifty five years. His father ministered to
the same church for the preceding forty
five years. Mr.. Toller conducted his fare
well services without any assistance
The following are the statistics of the
West Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Church South: Local preachers, 1873 !;
white members, 1891; colored members,
"a added by baptism, 154; added on pro-
fession of faith, 1880; infants baptized,
36i Sunday schools, 1893; officers and
teachers, 1864; number of scholars, T.
922; volumes in library, 12,5lS; churches,
l45 value, $l4o,SC0; parsonages, 10;
value, So, $50; value of other church prop
erty, S3,S45 salary of ministers, &c.
4S2. 4G; expended for Sunday schools, ST.
2OS.02; building and repairing churches
and parsonageS, S5,9ll 20; foreign mis-
sions, 1902 80; domestic missions, $685.
9S conference claimants, $512 40, and
Bishops fund, SlS9,25.
Habits should enter largely into the
choice of "a teacher. II you wish your
boys To become incbriates employ "A teach
er who uses intoxicating liquors,
trequents saloons, etc, If you wish them
to eat tobacco, procure IA teacher
who will use it in their presence. The
idea with some is that if he only smokes
or chews a little it don't matter; better OBJ
tain one who is a perfectly dirty habitu-
ate, then your boys may become disguised
with its use. If YOU wish your school
room n hot-bed of disease procure a
teacher who is ignorant of the laws con-
trolling health, who will keep the air
yitlatcd with poisonous vapors and heated
10 degree that removes the oxygen of
the air. Such one Will most generally
be those whose lungs are 50 compressed
with some fashionable appendage as to be
unable to manufacture enough heat to sus-
tain the body and eXtremities during win
ter. If you wish your girls led into
fashions which dwarf the body get II
teacher who is corseted, hustled, with
light high-heeled boots and delicate APP
parel. 1t YOU want the mind dwarted OBJ
tain teacher whose time is devoted to the
reading OF novels, fictitious magazines and
other nonsense, instead OF good, sound
literature.-Cor. Westt7n Farm Journal
\ STATEMENT has Just been drawn up
respecting the losses OcCaSioned by the