Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Bishop Haven VIII sail for Africa
in October.
There are seventy-seven Protestant
Episcopal churches in the city of New
York.
The average age of Congregational
ministers who died i'll Massachusetts
last year was siXty-nine years.
The salaries of female teachers in
the low-grade schools of Rhode Island
increased last year 1871 per month.
The legacies received by Congrega-
tionalist churches IL Connecticut for
the last six years amount, according to
report, to more than $3.50, 900.
The Presbyterian Board of For
eign Missions was made so. 900 richer
recently by Boston man who said he
would rather pay his legacy while he
was alive.
1t is announced that the Pope is
about to publish an encyclical, in
which the questions at issue between
the Brazilian Bishops and the Free
masons will be decided.
AT the session of the Rocky
Mountain Episcopal Conference, re-
Gently held in Helena City. Montana
it was decided to make of it two con-
ferences, to be named Montana and
Utah.
The Methodist Recorder says that
the Sabbath breaking in London is
grosser and more profane than in
Paris, and besides, that there is more
of it.
Rhode Island CLANS are extensive
ly utilized for the benefit of impecuni-
Gus churches. "Wickford clam-bakes"
are now in fashion, and have yielded
to one society of struggling Baptists
at least ST. 400.
Mathematics rule the schools
nevertheless, Acknowledgements
ent Harrison, of New York, says
After careful study of the results
accomplished in the teaching of algebra
in our schools, l am decidedly of the
opinion that no other subject shows so
small an amount of intellectual gain
in proportion to the time and labor re-
quired to teach it,
Every male teacher in Canada is
by law required to pay into a fund for
superanuated teachers two dollars,
every six months, one-half of the total
contribution being refunded to him in
case of his quitting the profession.
So popular is the profession there that
at each normal school there are sew
eral hundred applications more than
can be met, and six hundred at the
most celebrated of the schools alone.
DR.. j. =. Newman calls attention to
the fact that the religious welfare Of the
soldiers in the far West is neglected
by their chaplains. He says many Of
the latter are disposed to seek easy and
safe positions. He says that the sol
diers now engaged in the indian war
are sadly neglected. There is but
one chaplain, and he an old Catholic
priest, on our whole frontier. The
chaplaincy in the United States army
is failure, and should be abolished or
reformed"
Concerning arithmetic, the VU-
ginid Educational Journal advises
teachers as follows: "To teach pupils
to read numbers promptly, instead of
spelling them haltingly. To teach
them to perform operations mentally
and in silence rather than audibly. To
teach each fundamental principle in
its entire scope as unit. To gather
practical examples from actual life,
from objects with which pupils are
already familiar, so as to encourage
habits of observation. TO induce
pupils, particularly those who are adj
vanced, to originate examples for each
other, instead of depending on text
books