The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There was, says DIR. John Culinary
Shea, a colony of Dominican Monks in
Virginia one hundred and fifty years
before Plymouth Rock was discovered.
The First Baptist Church of Chi
cago will be fifty years old next 0cto-
Der and there will be an appropriate
celebration and jubilee. Chicago 7'rib-
une.
There is Eeed authority for tho
statement that Japan and Greece each
spend more money for common schools
in proportion to their wealth than the
United States. Chicago Times
The will of the late j. n Hunger
ford, of Corning, N. Y, bequeaths
$4,000 to Hamilton College, in addi-
ton TO $4,000 given by him TO that in
stitution year or more ago.
1T is estimated that there are
twelve hundred towns west of the Mis-
sissippi River without churches or regu-
lar preaching of any kind. Yet young
men say there is no room for them. -
N. Y. Examiner. ai
The Hartford public high school is
to have a new equatorial telescope with
an object glass of nine and one-third
inches aperture. This is the most
powerful glass in any high school in
the country and few colleges have any
more powerful. Hapen Register.
The Philadelphia Record goes in for
sending the pauper children in the poor
houses TO the public schools. 1t hollis
that if the State can educate the chill
dren of those who are able topay for it.
it is a hundred times the duty of the
State to educate the unfortunate chill
dren who have no one to pay for their
tuition.
The State authorities of Vermont
have come into possession of n bequest
of 100000 made for the benefit Of the
common schools by the late Arnahan
Huntington, of Brantford, Canada. MIR.
Huntington was a native of Vermont.
The legacy was obtained only after a
long contest with Mr. Huntington S ral-
atives in the courts.
The Rose Polytechnic Institute has
been opened at Terre Haute, Ind Mr..
Chauncey Rose, n wealthy citizen If
that town, is the founder, Besides Civ
ing the beautiful buildings, he has en-
bowed il with nearly $500, 900, and is
soon to provide ii with a library and u
valuable museum. The students are to
be thoroughly drilled in manual labor
and the use of machinery, besides re-
ceiving liberal education. Detroit
Post.
In st. Johns Episcopal Church at
Montreal recently. just before the cele.
bration of the holy communion, u
member of the church who had made u
rank but unfragrant record in the
world, advanced to the altar rail and
made public profession of penitence for
his grievous sin. The rector, Rev.
Edmund Wood, standing within the
rail accepted his confession and re.
stored him to good standing in the
church to the unbounded establishment
of the congregation. Detroit Free
Press.
Rev. DIR. j. M. Scudder, of Vellore,
India, wishes that every missionary in
the land were medical man, and urges
the home societies not to send out any
workers who have not at least slight
knowledge of medicine. He visited
two towns for several years in success
sion without gaining the least hold,
apparently, upon the people, when a
slight surgical service on his part
opened both their hearts and homes.
This reminds one of the medicine
men, among the aborigincs of this
country, who were physicians for both
body and soul.