The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

DIR. Felix Adler has volume of es.
says, entitled Greed and Deed" in
press.
The Egyptians formerly worshipped
cats, and put noble Roman to death
for killing one by mistake.
The Rev. Lyman Coleman, D. D., is
in his eightysecond year, and still per-
forms the duties of his professorship at
Lafayette College.
The North american Reoieso will be
transferred from Boston to New York
after the list of January. D. Appleton
d Co. will become its publishers.
Canon Rawlinson has new book on
"The Origin of Nations" discussing the
descent of man from the sons of Noah,
and the history of early civilization.
AN enterprising German publisher in
St. Petersburg, Herr Schmitzdorf, is pub
fishing complete English Russian die
tionary, compiled by A. Alexandrow.
The great fire of London originated
in November, 1866, in the time of Charles
II. The great plague occurred in the
previous year (1665), when 6s, 500 per-
sons are said to have persisted.
The ancient Jewish year opened
with the 25th of March, and it was not
until 1852 that the 1st of January be
came the initial day of the legal year in
England.
By the will of Dr. I. W. Peabody, a
recently deceased member, the church
in Binghamton, N. Y, is to receive
legacy of $500, to be invested, and it's
income devoted to current expenses.
The only kind of nature that is free
from temptation, so far as can judge,
is the cold, hard, stingy, mean temper
ament. What would Satan do with such
a man if he got him?-T. De WGH I'aL-
mage.
j. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia,
has published volume on the "Ele-
ments of the Laws" being the outlines
of the system of civil and criminal laws
in force in this country. 1t is a work
calculated to be of service to popular
readers.
If some should write book and call
it My Great Toe," somebody else would
Immediately issue "My Little Toe" fol-
lowed rapidly by the second, third and
fourth toe, and probably other portions
of the pedal anatomy. Servile imitation
seems to be the rage among the book
makers of the day.-Fat Contributor.
The man who seeks gain from re-
ligion prostitutes that religion to the use
of his own Observation-Disclosures the no.
blest and the best, the highest service
Of spirit, to the purposes of the flesh,
md oIyno off ha nf
house of merchandise, and so den of
thieves Req, DR.. Tiffany.
Brown University has received from
Mrs. John Carter Brown bust of her
husband. 1t is to be placed In the IL
brary, with the inscription, John
Brown, founder of the building" A
new dormitory is to be erected at Brown,
to cost from thirty to thirty-fve thousand
dollars.
Out of 2,54O Emperors, Kings and
royal rulers over Ga nations, 300 were
dethroned, "a abdicated, 90 committed
suicide, II went mad, 100 died on the
. battlefield, 1873 were made prisoners in
battle, 25 were pronounced martyrs and
saints, 151 we're assassinated, 62 were
poisoned, and 1903 were sentenced to
death.
Right Rev. DR.. futile, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Utah, ETC., in SER
mon lately was so far tolerant as to the
Mormons as to declare that while their
religion is worse than heathenism, and a
stain upon the country, he did not be-
lieve they had settled in the great valley
for purposes of sensualism, but were
honest, faithful, prayerful workers under
their delusive forms and belief.
George William Curtis has been
drawing large number of persons to
the Unitarian Church, New Brighton,
Staten Island, to listen to his reading of
sermons from some of the best religious
writers. His great elocutionary and ora,
torical powers, and his attractive person
atty, lend charm to the service. He
does not read doctrinal sermons, but
those teaching generally accepted Chris
tian truths.
The Smithsonian Institute, Wash
ington, is so called from it's donor, James
Smithson, an English physicist, who
died in Genoa, June 81, 1923. Three
years previous to his death nc executed
his will, in which, upon the concurrence
of certain contingencies, the whole of
his property was left to 1.-The United
States of America, to found at Washing
ton, under the name of Smithsonian In
sutton, an establishment for the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among men"
The Presbyterian Synod of New Jer-
sey have decided as to women preach
ing" that it is irregular, unwise and
contrary to the views of the church as to
Scripture and church order, while, at the
same time, they wish to record their high
appreciation of the services of woman in
other departments of Christian work.
Rev. |. W. See, whose case was before
them on the ground specified, gave no.
tice that he would appeal to the General
Assembly from tn, decisions of the Synod.
The Presbytery of Elizabeth, N. j.,
strikes blow at the General Assembly,
by determining to contribute no more to
the general mileage fund, which it de-
clares an unjust and increasing burden
Should all the Presbyteries do this, the
Assembly would eventually die out for
want of people to go to it, There is an
increasing sentiment throughout the
Presbyterian Church in favor of holding
the Assembly once every three wears