The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Toxic, the capital of Japan, with
100000 or SO inhabitants, has 137 pri-
waite schools with IS, 904 pupils in them.
The Rev. Joseph Cook says: "'We
have churches that. when they erect a
new house, dedicate to God only "a mort
gage"
The University of South Carolina,
which was recently closed by the trus-
tees, will probably be reopened some
time next year.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna
has been refused the eTeQuotur of the
Italian Government on the ground that
he has individually exhibited the most
bitter hostility to the new Kingdom.
q don't believe in fashionable
churches" said a lady, recently; "but,
after all, considering that we are all to
60 to the same heaven, perhaps it's bet
ter to keep up the social distinctions as
long as we can"
Miss Jennie NJ. Bancroft, who was
recently graduated from Syracuse Uni
versity, has accepted the position of
dean Of the Woman's College connected
with the Northwestern University at
Evanston, Ill.
Under the new Constitution of Penn
sylvania a tax has been imposed on
the unfinished Catholic cathedral at
Erie on the ground that cit is not an
actual place of worship" The case is
in the courts.
The English Church Association was
started twelve years ago to resist the in
roads of Ritualism, chiefly by legal
measures. 1t has now $50 branches,
forty of which were formed during the
Unsurpassed twelve months.
The new regulation of the Harvard
faculty in regard to voluntary attend
ance provides that all who had 20
per cent. or above the annual scale for
their junior year shall have the privi
lege of voluntary attendance at recita-
tions.
st. Michaels Church, at Marblehead,
Mass, was built in 1906 of material
wholly brought from the mother country.
1t has a Tcrcdos, an ancient chandelier,
and a pulpit of a quaint wineglass-
tern. Its second rector was the minister
who married the widow Gusts to George
Washington.
The Sunday school Union of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has expend-
ed So, 600 in aiding / 200 needy schools
within the past year; it furnishes litera-
ture not only to the 1900 Methodist
schools, but also to many Others the
Lesson Leaf now has a circulation
monthly of 100000 copies.
The English Presbyterians propose
to put up two churches at Oxford and
Cambridge, to cost not less than E25, 900.
The Scotch churches are asked to help
on the ground that Scotch Presbyterian
students are found in the two universe
ties. There is also suggestion of the
erection of a Presbyterian College at
Oxford.
-" What blunders do you as Sun
day school teacher most frequently
make?" was recently asked at a Sunday
school institute, and answered thus by an
honest teacher: Eat too hearty din
ners on Sunday; get lazy and sleepy in
my usual Sunday-afteTnoon nap, so that
am generally late at school; scold my
Superintendent too often; and never re-
member Scripture names correctly"
In FitChburg, Mass, there are three
grammar schools In one of them a lady
was Principal. At the head of the other
two there were gentlemen. A salary of
81, 200 was paid to all three of these
Principals; but recently the mems sala-
ries were cut down 800, while the wom-
ans was left the same on account of her
superior excellence as a teacher. 1t is
the first instance of the kind on record
The most catholic church in the
country is probably the one at Nahant
The few permanent inhabitants are &C
cOmmodatcd by small Methodist and Ro-
man Catholic churches. The city resi-
dents, finding the Sunday journey to
Lynn too long and too hot, built har.
monious temple in which an Episeopa-
liam otfiCiates one Sunday, a Congrega-
tionalist another, a Unitarian the third,
etc, etc.
M. Legouve, the clever Frenchman,
says that in America reading aloud is
counted as one of the elements of public
instruction; it is one of the bases of early
education; while in France it does not
even rank with the lighter arts; it is re-
garded at best as curiosity. After
many years of study and experience NJ.
LegOuve has become convinced that read
ing is an art, and he is DESTROYS of intro
ducing it among the various branches of
education in his country.
In the Grand Duchy of Baden a new
State law ordains the establishment of
middle schools for girls, with seven
years course of tuition. The very best
teacIs2ts will be employed. These new
higher schools for girls are to receive
subvention from the State exchequer,
like the corresponding institutions for
boys. Seminaries for the training of
lady professors are to be founded in con
nection with these new educational es-
Establishments,
"A young lady in Buffalo has Sun
day-schOol class of seventy five young
men. Thirteen years ago she began with
class of seven wild boys She gave
her class weekly receptions in her par
Tors, and played the piano and led the
singing for them. Now her class of sew
enty-fve have band of music whose in
struments cost 800, a boat club, and a
literary society which publishes small
newspaper. She was only eighteen years
old when she started this work. She