Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

North Carolina has 1000 white
teachers and SIT colored ones.
!. --Philadelphia has more Baptist
churches THAI any other city except
London.
A branch of tie Texas Mechanical
College is to he established for the ben
eft of the colored people of the State.
The Wesleyans now have an an
nual conference in New Zealand.
That church hasnow ,413 members in
that colony. Yaa g.f
1T is said that the erection Of a
Protestant Episcopal cathedral viii
soon be begun in Biooklyn, to be
called the Cathedral Of the Incarna-
ton, and to be presided over 10y Bishop
Littlejohn.
The Jews are building model tene-
ment houses in and Hear Jerusalem
for the use of their own people free
of rent when that lis necessary,
whether or not they intend to return
to their own land.
-Druidism, strange Is it may seem,
is not yet extinct, for, according to a
report made recently before the French
Anthropolo gical Society some of the
peasants of Brittany still practice the
ancient pagan rites
A School law recently adopted in
Missouri requires Schoo Boards to give
the preference to colorei teachers for
colored schools, and prohibits the en-
ployment of a white teacher for a col
ored school when a competent colored
one can be had.
There are 500 Congregational
Churches. with $50, 65S members in the
United States, and 1888 ministers. In
1876, 20, $50 were added on profession
OF faith and 12,400 10y letter. The
longest Passionate was that of Dr.
Leonard Wilmington, which was sixty
one years.
DR.. Derby of Boston, has Just dis
tributed among the officers of Harvard
College his report of results OF an ex-
animation OF the eyes of the freshman
Class, which he conducted last Janu-
AIRY. out of 122 men, thirty per centum
were found to be near-slghted. and
twenty-five per centum Of this num-
Der did not before the examination
know of their Short sight.
The annual meeting Of the Ameli-
can Bible Society was recently held in
New York City on the 10th. The
annual report shows the receipts for
the year 10 have been S54357g. incud-
ing S227.92S for publications, SISS, 0t3
from legacies. and S9l, PA from dona-
tons. The expenditures nearly equaled
receipts. During the wear 82l, 1926
Bibles were issued at home and go, $50
abroad, making total of SS1. 0j6.
Mr., Levi Bishop, of Detroit, has
offered to give TO the state for a library
building for Michigan University the
sum of $4,000, with the conditions
that the state pay to him during the
lifetime Of himself and present wife
the sum Of eight per cent, on the
amount donated. and five per cent. to
the survivor after the death of either
and that the state shall contribute
$4,000 toward the building, and a
small sum annually for the care and
increase Of the library.
There are many entering upon the
important work OF the school-room
without any love tor it, What a pity
This Is something to make angels weep
over. The teacher must love to do
his tasks, tasks though they be poorly
paid for as they are and US little hon
ored as they are. Ii he sees nothing
attractive bnt The dollars. woe be to
that school-dItd by and 10y. woe be to
that teacher. The teacher is not a
mere day 'aborer. he is more. He is
doing good, a lasting good. the highest
good-and his object should enlist all
bis faculties, Hence he viii love his
work if he cannot. let him quit it