The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-02
School and Church.

The Rev. DR.. Mcleod of Philadel-
phia is preaching against the wearing
of mourning, which he says Is product
i've of needless melancholy.
The Indiana Supreme Court has
decided, in the suit of church against
a member, that subscriptions made on
Sunday can not be collected by law.
BY a new law, all children who fin
ish their education in any school of the
Canton of Berne undergo an examina-
ton. This year 5000 were examined
and the result is reported as "unsatis-
factory
In a recent charge, Bishop Barring
of Durham, England, warns his clergy
against becoming Justices of the Peace.
Formerly hundreds of parsons were
magistrates, but now they are very
rarely appointed. ....- 4
The average income of Irish school
teachers is $3.50, but SO of the total num-
Der - 10, 4S9- have $3.50; 1862, $3.50;
1918, 1895, and the rest, $40. These
are men. Female teachers have from
1925 down to 1925.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Chicago has secured the ser
vices of some of the leading physicians
of that city for a course of free medical
lectures to young men on practical sub
1ects.
"A new synagogue, said to be one of
the finest of its Kind in Europe, and
costing S220,000, exclusive of the
ground, has been opened in Warsaw.
Instead of the Jews focking to Palestine,
they are said to be gathering in large
numbers in the Russian cities. .T ,...-
William Winkley, of Philadelphia,
has given $4,000 to Dartmouth College
to found professorship of Anglo-Saxon
and English literature. 1t is only a
short time since Mr.. Winkley sent a
check for S25, GOO to the college to be
used as the college authorities saw fit.
DIR. James B. Gould, of Rome, Italy,
native of Sharon, Conn.,, has had
erected for church society in that
town beautiful chapel as a memorial
of his wife, Mrs. Emma Bliss Gould, the
founder of the Protestant Schools in
Rome for poor Italian children. nj
Compulsory education is just now
receiving a good deal of attention in
Pennsylvania, and the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction has pre-,
pared the draft of bill intended to deal
with the question of educating the large
class of destitute and neglected children
who are growing up in ignorance and
training for future crime. The princi-
pal features of the bill are to provide re-
ports as to the number of children re-
ceiving no education; for the enforce
ment of existing laws in relation to the
employment of children, and for the
provision in each county of homes for
friendless children, TO which habitual
truants, young Migrants, and children
who are receiving no education may be
committed by proper officers of the law.
There is scarcely any hazing at
Harvard this year, so far as an outsider
can observe; but student writes to the
Springfield Republican that plenty of it
is done by certain secret societies.
q" The limitations are devilish," he saws
each member is branded on the arm
so as to be identified, and cases have oc-
CURED where arms have been seriously
burned by the brander being in beast
ly state of intoxication. Each member
is obliged to take plunge into the
Charles River by night, and if he de-
elines on account of his health, he is
dealt with all the more severely in some
other way. Resistance is out of the
question, and case occurred not long
since where a man was felled to the floor
for refusing to obey orders. To con-
clude, the new member is obliged to
drink an exceedingly strong bumper of
liquor, and as soon as this is done, he is
pressed upon from all sides to drink
with friends, who wish to Congratulate
him, but whose real object is to intoxi-
cate him. During ali these limitations
the members are masked. so that those
who commit the atrocities can never be
detected. -s---a