Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

in the Presbytery of Southern Da-
kota fifteen Presbyterian churches have
been organized within twelve months
past.
"A schoolgirl of Skowhegan, Me-.
who was whipped for not telling what
case followed transitive verb or prepo-
sition, brought suit against her perse-
cutcr and was awarded $500 damages.
Boston Post. +.
DIR. John Hemphill. of the Calvary
Presbyterian Church of San Francisco.
has organized Society of Christian
Endeavor in the church, one feature of
which is lookout committee to find
all new corners in the church.
There are at present nearly four hum
dred female physicians in active prac-
tice in twenty-six of the United States.
the majority of them being settled in
New York, Massachusetts and Penn
sylvania. These figures show a rapid
increase in the number of women prac-
ticing medicine in the United States.
The country schools of Maine are
not, as rule, open more than three or
four months in the year. Some of the
districts are deficient in pupils. In one
county there are districts where the
average attendance at school was only
five scholars. There is a district near
Augusta where forty years ago the aver
age attendance was fifty; now it is but
ten.-BoSton Transcript.
Mr. Kinsley went to Washington
theater and was astonished to see that
the dancer put down on the bills as
Addie Weems was his wife. She had
ostensibly come to the city from Rich
mond to visit relatives, and had never
limited at any inclination toward the
ballet. The husband forced his way
through the stage door and would have
appeared in the scene to drag the wo-
man out if the stage manager had not
withdrawn her quietly in the middle of
a dance. y. Sun.
AT the recent convention of the
American Humane Association, held at
Buffalo, n. Y, the following resolution
was adopted: ReSOtred, That it is the
sense of this association that a part OF
each day should be devoted to the in
struction of the children of the country,
through its public schools, in the direc-
Sabbath-school superintendent be re-
quested to take such steps as will place
this subject before their charges, to the
end that instruction in piety and mercy
NAV 90 hand in hand with that IL art
and science.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
asked the Presidents of other colleges
whether they will forbid their college
baseball mines to play with profession
ais provided Harvard takes the lead,
and has received affirmative answers
from all except Yale, which had not yet
been heard from. The faculty of Har-
ward, though DESTROYS of encouraging
athletics, wish to restrain muscle max
ing and training within proper limits.
and believe that the boys can not help
being tainted by contact with men who
strive for no other education than that
OF the body.-NeW Hacen Register.
The present issue of the Year Book
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton states that tSere are in the United
States and Canada 779 associations, and
81, members. The property owned
by these associations is valued at 49,.
so, GOO, and their annual expenditures
aggregate $4,000 The international
and State Committees expended in the
work of supervision and caring for the
associations. in 1881, $4,000. Two
hundred and fifty-fve persons are en-
ployed as general secretaries and agents
OF local associations, and of the State
and international Committees.