Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-09-22
WHOLE NO. lI36.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

When the Rev. John Hall, of New
York, begins his sermon, the doors of
his church are locked, and are not
opened until the benediction has fallen
upon the congregation Y Graphic.
The Connecticut Legislature has
provided that School Boards, on the pc
tition OF twelve adult residents, may Or
der instruction in the public schools
concerning the effect of intoxicating
beverages.
In the first decade of the Methodist
Episcopal Church there was one min
ister to every 100 members; in the fifth
decade the proportion was one to 2S4.
The present proportion is one minister
to l47 members. against 142 in the ninth
and tenth decades.
AT Cambridge University Miss Hell
en- Magill. PHI. d., who was a student
there. declares that woman can now
do almost all that man can in all de-
partments, classical and scientific. Al
most all the university and number of
the college lectures are open to women.
--Bellewood Seminary is a Presby-
terian institution for girls near Louis-k
vile. The faculty forbade the students
to make any acquaintance with the
young men of the neighborhood, who
have retaliated by night raid on the
seminary. The ruffianly invaders re-
moved the shutters from the house for
a bonfire, and smeared all the accessible
rooms and furniture with tar-Detroit
Post.
The Rev. David Mossom is said to
have been the first native American who
was ordained in the Church of England.
He was the clergyman who married
General Washington, near St. Peters
Church, New Kent County, at the
White House, Virginia. The church
pounds of tobacco. Daniel Parke Gus
tis. whose widow became the wife of
Washington, was vestryman in st.
Peters.
I'm concluding late lecture on tele-
phOnic communication Colonel Webber
said that there was great social aspect
OF this new industry which will mate
rally affect the body polite, namely,
the question of public order. and the
preservation OF the peace. Power of
communication between a number of
householders means rapid combination
against disorder, rapine or burglary.
which no police regulations could ever
supply; and comparative aid and secur-
ity will be afforded in thousands of cases
for which there is now hardly any pro-
vision.-American Register.
The calendar for 1S81-1SS2 of the
University of Michigan is large PAM
phlet of 1SS pages and gives complete
information regarding the institution.
The total number Of students in at
tendance is 1,534, divided as follows
among the various departments. De-
pagtment of Literature, Science and the
Arts, 5l3; of Medicine and Surgery.
$50; of Law. 395; of Pharmacy, 100; the
Homeopathic Medical College, II; and
the College of Dental Surgery, IS. The
faculty numbers 81. under tho presiden-
cy of James b. Angel, IL. D.-M T.
Independent.
TO make potato patch out of part
of the Lewis College grounds is under
taken by Perley Belknap, prominent
citizen of Mortified VT, who asserts a
claim to the grounds on account of
work done when the buildings were
erected in 1866. The students set out
a hundred or more trees few weeks
since, some of which interfered with his
plants and We're pulled up. The next
morning Mr.. Belknap's newly-planted
potatoes were found on top of the
ground. and the stud ents had the patch
thoroughly narrowed. The trees were
replaced and the field seeded and rolled.
Mr.. Belknap was hanged in effigy the
other night from tree on the common
and buried the following day with muf-
fled drllm-N y Post