Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-05-10
School and Church.

Cellant Wnen Oakeu.
School and Church.
The subject of establishing Chris
tian schools in Utah as means Of over
throwing Mormonism and regenerating
that Territory, thus preparing it for ad.
mission as State, is justly attracting
the attention Of the Christian public.
Several young women, members of
the Fulton Street Methodist Church of
Elizabethport, N. j., have been Sum-
moned before the investigating commit
tee of the church on an accusation of
having attended thsaters and danced.
They are to be expelled ii they do not
obey the church rule which forbids
dancing.
Bishop Potter of New York will be
made the recipient of an appropriate
testimonial on November %, the 25th
anniversary of his elevation to the bish-
opric. 1t is thought that the occasion
will be made the starting point for q
movement to build q great Cathedral in
New York.
Some talk has been excited in Hart
ford, Conn, by the recent action of the
Trinity Church Parish meeting in pass
ing a resolution that " hereafter no I'M
baptized person, and no one not attach
ed to the doctrines of the Episcopal
Church shall be employed as a member
of the choir" Subsequently an amend
ment was adopted excepting the organ
list.
-Petermann's Nittheilungen esti-
mates the population of the world, ac-
cording to religion. thus: Christians,
400, 1873, GOO; Jews, 1881, 900; Moham-
medans. l0S, Ass, 600; Buddhists, 1885,
5000; Brahmins, 139, 500, 900;
Fetch worshipers, 1S9, 100000. Of the
Christian population the divisions are
estimated to be: Roman Catholics,
1s6, $50, 900; Greek Church, 81, 926, 200; ;
Protestants, 131, 094 900. The Protest.
ant population of the world is usually
reckoned at 100, 100000
"A Vermont minister, beside his two
sermons every Sunday, and lecture and
prayer me citing and pastoral calls, raised
last year on two-thirds of an acre of
land 100 bushels of roots, II tons of fod-
der-corn, so bushels of ears of corn, 200
squashes, 70 watermelons, 80 musk
melons, 8 bushels of peas, 8 bushels of
beans, 4 bushels of potatoes, Is bushels
of tomatoes, 5 bushels of cucumbers,
beside flowers; fatted one hog weigh
ing 400 pounds, kept one COW from
which butter was made, and kept hens
which supplied many dozens of eggs.
"A Massachusetts teacher writes to
the National journal of Education de-
scribing an experiment in the school
room which seems to be successful.
Instead of facing his pupils he has his
desk behind them, and thus oyerlooks
them to good advantage. The naughty
little ones. not knowing when his eye is
on them, dare not whisper and
play. "They have" ne says. $50 fire.
quently come to grief in attempting to
calculate chances, that they have con-
cluded to make q virtue Of necessity,
and give up play in the schoOl-room as
Improbable, costing more than it comes
to-" Another decided advantage of this
system is that it completely isolates
classes reciting from the rest of the
school; the recitation benches being in
front of the teachers desk, between
him and the school, and the backs of
the pupils toward each other, cOmmuni-
cation by look or sign is out OF the
question. The only special rule made
is that pupils shall not look around.
Haps and Mishaps.
Christopher Barley had his skull
crushed in q saw-mill near Marion, Ind.
He was caught in the belt and thrown
violently against log.