The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-01

school and Church.
The Boston School Board have yot-
ed against reducing teachers salaries.
The State University at Oxford,
Miss, had S19 students last session.
There is movement to make plain
sewing regular branch OF the public
school education in Syracuse.
The widow Of Bishop Cummins has
presented her husbands entire thcolog-
ical library TO the Reformed Episcopal
Church.
DIR. Parker, rather eccentric
preacher Of London, has been invited TO
preach in Mr.. Beecher's church for three
months this summer.
The Archbishop of Canterbury be-
lieves signs are visible which presage a
great spiritual revolution in Asia and
Africa.
The New England's Women's Club
has an educational department connect
ed with il, and classes in botany. litera-
tlre and ceramics. The botany class is
the most enthusiastic. IL meets regu-
larly once week, and its studies are
taking gradually much enlarged field.
The agent Of the Connecticut State
Board Of Education has found num-
Der of American children growing up
in ignorance within eight miles Of New
London. He found two farmers fami-
lies in which the children, ranging from
8 to IA years, could not read.
Twenty fellowships, each yielding
$500 year, were recently awarded al
Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore,
whose holders are required to live in the
city during the academic session, and
make return for the benefits received
By occasional service as teachers.
Bishop whipple has called a con-
ference for next October, to meet at
Davenport, Iowa, to discuss the subject
Of border missionary work. The Bish-
ops Of Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri, Niobrara, and Iowa. whose
sees respectively border on the Missou-
ri, will participate.
Mr. Kuhara Is clever and scholarly
Japanese gentleman, who is about to
come to this country for the purpose OF
post graduate study at Johns Hop
kins University. He Is a graduate Of
the Imperial University at Tokia. and
has translated many English works into
Japanese
The Dominion Government intends
to make military instruction part Of
the high school course in the different
provinces, and will form IS companies
Of IS boys each in Ontario, rs COM
panies in Quebec. and Is in the mari
time provinces. These companies will
be furnished with instructors from the
military college and with Government
arms
Prof. Hitchcock Of Amherst Col
lege lately told his students that brain
work, properly engaged in, was health
full TO body and mind; but the brain
might easily be overworked. Suicides
follow school examinations in England,
and i'll health accompanies them in our
high schools. Children can not use the
brain more than three hours daily, and
brain work is more hurtful here than in
Europe. Let us educators then dis
pense with much Of this intense cram
ming. Worry, speed. greed and ex-
cess in our school work are elements of
disorder in the health Of young pupils.
Foreign Notes.
Lord Beaconsfield has requested a
designing friend not to put him in
bronze or marble during his lifetime.
The bellies Of the present season in
London are all married ladies, and two
Of them are Americans. The girls
think they themselves are to be pitied,
for the matrons carry all before them.
There are indications in London Of
progress on the temperance question.
There Is less public drunkenness, the
gin palace Is not 80 glaring a nuisance
as formerly, and the people have at last
begun to debate he question Of total
abstinence, which Is no lohger dismiss
ed with q smile and jest.
Prince Hohenlohe, the German En-
bassador in Paris, Is said to be very &C.
centric and peculiar in his habits, strong
in his friendship and equally 80 in his
prejudices. He il man of great intel
ligence, linguist and something of a
musician, but very reserved and naughty
in society. 1t Is said that his populari-
~ in Paris Is not very extraordinary.
The Prince Of Wales says of the late
Prince Imperial: "A more charming,
q more promising young man has rare
" existed. II IL had been the will of
Providence that he should have been
called to succeed his father as Sovereign
Of that great country, our neighbor, l
believe he would have proved an adj
mirable Sovereign, and that he, like his
father, would have been true and great
ally Of this country"
The Empress Eugene has become
almost childish with grief, and she car