The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The best boy in school should all
way be the best one out of it.
Prof. George w. Alberton, of Rut-
gers College, N. j., has accepted the
Presidency of the Pennsylvania State
College.
During the last year Virginia has
expended upon her public schools. of
which she has 5 1882, money to the amount
of 81, 100, ,23S.95.
So many of Port Jervist On. W
school boys carry revolvers and toy pis-
tolls that the Board of Education has or
dered the immediate expulsion of any Of
their number found in possession of the
deadly weapon.
The mortality among the Bishops on
the Methodist Episcopal Church has been
great during the last few years. Kings
ley, Thompson, Baker, Ames, James,,
Gilbert, Haven, E. o. Haven and Scott
have all died within very short time.
Of the survivors, Fost. Foster and Bow
man have recently been near death.
N. 7. Sun.
"A lady and her little daughter pass
ing out of church, the child bade good
by to poorly-dressed little girl. '.How
did you know her?" inquired the mother.
"Why, you see, mamma, she came into
our Sabbath-school alone and | made a
place for her on my scat, and smiled
and she smiled and then we were ac-
quainted. Chicago Tribune.
Tho Rev. Samuel Scoville, of Stam.
ford. said at the Yale Alumni meeting
that the Yale yell of twenty-five years
ago was more manly than the weak
'yah" of the present. He illustrated
his remarks with a specimen howl of tbs
past, and the New Haven people who
heard it silently thanked Heaven that it
had been modified. Boston Post.
MIR. Robert S. Coleman, recent
graduate of Trinity College, Hartford.
| Conn, is pleasantly remembered by the
students of the college for his munifcent
| gift of the Delta Psi chapter house, a
| beautiful granite building on the college
| Grounds. Since leaving college he has
;ctively entered the iron business at Leb-
nnon, Pa. and is known as the million
itire iron MASTER of that region.-M T.
Post.
| The Church of England has of late
| been kindly disposed toward that rather
irregular religious body, the Salvation
Army, and the Bishop of Bedford lately
conducted meeting in which members
of the Army did the singing. He spoke
of the Indifferent masses which the
Church failed to save and which the
Army was somehow awakening. "We
will have" said he. mo jealousies. Go
| in God name and drag them out of the
mire, if you CAM The Bishop Of Ok
ford spoke more cautiously in a sermon
devoted to the subject; but he said the
Church dare not forbid these jealous
men or oppose them, lest it should be
found to be fighting against God.-N 7,
Times.
Few men in Maine have crowded
more genuine hard work into their lives
than Elder John Spinner. of Starks, 8
Free-Will Baptist clergyman, sixty-foul
years old. The old gentleman is black
smith by trade, having worked twenty
years at that business. When nine year:
old he commenced preaciifng, ffeduentf,
walking ten miles to church on Sun
day, preaching two sermons, and re-
turning on foot at night. In his life he
has moved thirty-eight times aud has
erected twenty-three buildings, Among
other things he has delivered 5000 SER
mons, attending over 200 funerals in
Starks, married over 200 couples, bap-
tized over 200 people, and raise a fami-
ly of ten children. augusta Journal