The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-05

number 2,472, out of total of some
10000.
Rev. j. V. McMara of New YOrI
City, formerly priest of the order
known rs the Congregation of the Mis-.
sion, has seeded from the Catholic
Church and has been installed Bishop
of the Independent Catholic Church.
The entire church membership OF
the Swedenborgians in America does
not exceed 5000 in all. The Boston
society, which is the largest, numbers
GAO members; the New York society,
1853; Cincinnati, 112; Brooklyn, III
Pittsburg and Allegheny, 151, etc ,
while few of the other societies in the de-
nomination number more than 25 men,
bers each.
The London School Board has dis
posed of the truant problem in sum-
marry manner. When a parent or guar
dian can neither persuade nor eoerce a
lad to attend school with the regularity
prescribed by the rules of the Board, the
fact is reported by the teachers, and he
is forthwith incarcerated in the, Truant
School. This is IA newly created adjunct
to the city school system. The instruc-
ton is half industrial and half in the Or
binary studies. The work is cutting
wook, and constitutes the punitive part
of the scheme.
"A novel enterprise, called "The
Peoples Church." is being built in BOs-
ton. The Rev. Mr.. Hamilton, its pastor,
has secured 10-cent contributions from
over 100000 persons by selling to each
of them an undivided interest in the con-
Germ to the extent of one brick. The
inventive genius of this pastor now takes
another direction. Having filled the
brick market, he opens gigantic pho
tOgraph album. Persons contributing
dollar or more to this Onanauna gatterUna
of art may send their portraits, or the
picture of store, or office, or factory,
with any personal statement or business
card. The Sunday-school children are
taking lively interest in the remarkable
album, with prospects of speedily filling
itup.
Foreign Notes.
The London Times shows that al
though many of the English straw plat
ers are working for six cents a day,
their productions can not compete in
price with the Canton plat at present
flooding the market.
The fact that little Norway has the
second largest commercial fleet in the
world is alleged to be chiefly due to the
fact that villages pool their savings to
build or buy ship, instead of, as here,
InCp sp,fO 1,Ov Il 70
vide fast horses, etc., for a delinquent
manager.
The 5OOth anniversary of the founda-
ton of New College was lately cele-
brated at Oxford. This splendid insti-
tuition, whose chapel Qately rehabili-
tated with great magnificence) with its
choral service is one of the glories of the
university, was founded by William of
Wykeham, a prelate and statesman of
great renOwn in the fourteenth century,
who also founded and endowed with |
equal magnificence the most ancient of
English public schools Winchester-
as a sort Of feeder to his college at Ok
ford.
The growth of London in all direc-
tons continue marvellous. A number of
new towns have sprung up within the
last three or four years. No longer ago |
North End Fulham was a rural district |
of fields and market gardens. The I'm
Railway opened a new line
to Hammersmith, with q station at the |
north end, which changed its name to
Kensington, and to-day the surrounding
area is covered with streets of well built
houses at high rents. Similarly, at the
other end of Lond. n, increased facilities
of locomotion by railway and tram car
have led to the erection of many hun
dred of small houses in South Bermond-
sey or Rotterhithe. The same process
goes on steadily at Edmonton, on the
north, and at Sydenham, on the south
of London.
Odds and Ends.
The embers of the year-Nov. and
Dec.