The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-19
School and Church.

School and Church.
Bishop Peck is visiting the MethO-
dist Churches in Minnesota and Dakota.
The Congregational Church at
Dummerston, VT, achieved its centen-
NAL August Is.
Rev. DIR. David Swing is talked of
for the pastorate of Unity Church, Chi
cago.
Bishop Quintard of Tennessee has
issued an appeal for contributions for
the relief of Memphis.
Mrs. Higginson, a sister of Prof.
Agassiz, has Is kindergartens under her
charge at Boston.
The New Hampshire Legislature
has passed an act taxing church prop
erty on all sums exceeding $780,
The Tennessee University of Knox
vile is about to have endowed chair
of Athletics and Gymnastics.
The degree of d. d. has been con-
ferred upon 65 clergymen this summer
by the colleges of the country.
According to the list in the Year
Book of Education for 1873, there are not
far from 1000 private educational insti-
tutiOns in the United States.
In every Italian school, public or
private, girls are taught to sew and en-
broider, and as soon as they can take
their dresses to school to make them
there.
Iowa has four Methodist Episcopal
Conference.-The Iowa, Upper Iowa,
Northwest Iowa, and Dies MOines. They
embrace about 600 clergymen and nearly
1OO, 900 communicates.
Robert College, an American mis-
siOnary institution in ConstantinOple,
has graduated large class. Ten young
men delivered OratiOns in English,
French, Turkish, and Bulgarian. Prcsi-
dent Washburne stated that, despite the
disturbed condition of the country the
past two or three years, the college had
a larger number Of students than in pre-
vious years.
The final decision of the German
Government on the religious questions
at issue with the Vatican has been COM
to the latter. 1t is that all
of the exiled clergy who ask permission
will be allowed to return to Germany;
the May laws will he tacitly suspended,
provided the clergy obey the common
law; and all fresh nominations are to be
submitted to tine Government. The
Pope is satisfied with these terms.
Foreign Notes.
"A richly ornamcnted garter is one
In Infi TO IN.
royal bride, and an illustrated German
paper depicts such an article given to
the Empress 80 years agU.
Leopold ILL.,, King of the Belgians,
is said to be modest, kindly, timid per-
sOnage, VINO would blush to hear his
own magnificent titles and distinctions
read.
Ninety persons exercising trades
and professions in Great Britain have
incomes exceeding $c5O,OOO. About
three thousand have incomes between
s25, 900 and S25O,OOO.
So great have been the changes
since the establishment of the Republic
in France that many young ladies of
high family and brilliant prospects are
in converts to qualify them
selves for governesses.
Mrs. Guinness recently gave ball
in London at Il cost of $4,000. Mantel
pieces of stephanotis, banks of gardenia,
md blocks Of ice into which flowers
we're frozen were among the decOra-
ions.
Queen Victoria has sent to the ex-
Empress Eugene a frame made of viO-
ets in amethysts for the last photo
graph of the late Prince Imperial. The
garland is surmosinted by an eagle,
which holds in its talons three-cOlOred
on which is written in golden
letters the motto, "Not lost, but gone
befOre.''
The ex-Empress Eugene has just
purchased of Baron Sessler-Herzinge
The Castle of Wasserburg, Upper Syria. |
The front contains 122 windows, and
The building is over 400 years old. She
will have the ex-Khedive of Egypt as a
neighbor, if he succeeds in buying of
Moritz Won hartmann his Castle of
Prank.
Holloway, the English pill manu.
facturer, is to build a college near Lon
lon for the higher education of women,
1t cost of 81 900, and endOw it |
with half as much more. The way in
which he became able to do so much |
good was by spending about $4,000, 900
N advertising during the past 80 years. |
The official journal of St. Peters
burg says that in Russia, in the month |
If June, there were altogether $500 |
Tres, which caused loss of property to |
he extent of over twelve millions of |!
sos of the fires were from in
,endiarism, $50 from neglect, 80 from
lightning, and in 1852 cases the cause
vas unknown.
The three agricultural colleges |
proper of France are, Grand JOuan,
irignon, and Montpelier. They have
1863 students; the expenses of the estab-
ishments are $4,000 francs, yearly,
against which there is to be written off |
he one-half for receipts. The students,
f meritorious, alternate their residence |
If fbaSn institutions anI en- /