The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-26

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are now in South Carolina
3,057 free schools, instructing 1889
white and 72,119 colored children
Detroit Post.
DIR. Newman Smythe, after passing
a rigid examination as to his orthodoxy,
has been installed pastor of the Center
Church, New Haven. the pulpit occupied
for fifty years by DIR. Leonard Bacon
". Y. Times.
I'm the SGnitdridn, DIR. Bell takes
the ground that the most common con-
ditions that depress and stunt the in.
tellect of school children are bad school
house construction, criminal crowding,
exposure to soil emanations and bad
ventilation.
The Unitarian Conference held its
session at Saratoga, N. Y, recently.
There were 900 delegates present and
an attendance of over 1000. Aresolu-
ttion was adopted to raise the sum eof'
| $50, 900 annually, for the next two years
!. for the American Unitarian association
An effort is alsp being made tQkraise the
sum Of 5000, 600 fof che ENID syni ealt Q5
7siie pfoposed wade The6iogfcal Schoor
1T Cleveland. Ohio. Mr.. Wade. ha,
pledged the association S400. 00G under
certain conditions. Il Christian Union.
"A convention of the colored clergy
men of Maryland, irrespective of denom-
| ination, was held in Baltimore. The
object of the gathering. which was large.
was to carefully consider the present
condition of the co1ored race in Mary
land, religiously, morally, educationally
and financially, and devise ways and
means to better the present status OF
the race along every line of duty, through
all the avenues of Phitadetf tfttd
| Press.
| The Sandwich Islands are following
the example Set them by Japan in the
matter Of educating their young men,
! There arrived in New York recently six
yorftfe Hawaiians sent over by their Cow
ernment to feceive foreign education-
One is to remain In California, another
will attempt to enter Yale College, three
90 to Glasgow as apprentices in cele-
brated machine and engineering estab-
1ishment, and the other will study nedi-
cine and surveying in England
At the school of the mobiles in To-
lilo, japan, is a physical map of that
country 500 or 400 feet long, in the
court behind the school-building. This
map, or model. is made OF turf and rock
and is bordered with pebbles, which look
at a little distance so much like water.
Every inlet, river and mountain IS re-
produced in this model with fidelity to
detail which is simply wonderful Lat.
itude and longitude are indicated by tel
egraph wires, and tablets show the posi-
ton of the cities. Ingenious devices
are employed I'm illustrating botanical
studies also.-The Workman.
Following is the opinion of the edi
tor of the London Truth in regard tc
the education Of children: "The schoo
hours ought to be shortened. All th'
work should be done in school, in alter
nate hours for study and repetition
There should be no evening prepsratiol
at home, and no child ought to be taugh
anything but to tell the truth, and So!
If you please and No, thank you,
much before seven years of age. Tw'
years later he would, 1 venture to pre-
dict, be far better scholar than the AZ
erage nine-year-old victim of the Schoo
Board, and he would furthermore havt
at least the chance of being fine
healthy, happy and wel1-grown urchin. ;