The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-03-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


+ DR.. Mn~edith has Bible class in
fremont T nple, Boston, which had 10.
more than 1000 members a few days
| ago. ttfs.g ,..- ag
America, Miss Emily Faithful saws,
is far ahead of the old world in extend 60
ing the field Of work and, education for
women.
The New York tribune has rat =
tling article against the vicious system
l of examining large masses OF undigested
facts into the heads of our public school
children gnoranc is preferable to the 4
evils of such system. sf,''~ ~ +a''
1t docs not follow that girl has =
entirely finished her education because g
she has, as one said lately, been through "
the nominal school ''and ciphered
clear through from simple ambition to
chemical fractures. IN. Y. Herald. .liE8
b. t-+Kung Wing the new Chief.Magis- =
trate of the city of Shanghai, is a Chris
tian' and has an American wife. He is ~
a graduate of Yale College. andi the ~
original promoter of the scheme of edu-
eating Chinese boys in the United STATES.
{ Political economy is said to be the
one subject in which no Harvard student
fails to elect course during the, three
years in which he is allowed choice Of
studies. Ten years ago there were
seventy-one students of political econo-
my, while this year there are 210.
The fire drill is being practiced in.
several of the public schools in Toronto
Canada,sit is said, with excellent effect. y
The children are required, on the alarm
being given, to leave theirseats in order,
divide into two lines. one at each side of a..
the room, and at the, exit meet and
march out two abreast. 80 go
!, Missouri has next to Indiana. the
largest amount of permanent funds de-
voted to school purposes in. the Union. !,
They aggregate $9,471, 696, not includ-
ing the annual apportionment of State q
revenIIe.i The State has school popu- =
lation of TAI, ,632, and of this number
4S8, 900 are enrolled in the public
schools. There are 1892 schools in
operation, conducted by 10,667 teachers
and last year 81, ,568, 438 were expended w
upon these schools.-DetroI Post.
h. Its not often that country church
has more than. ordinary luck with the
contribution basket Once in a while, !,
however. the church gets even with tho
penurious hearer. IN Huntingdon last
Sunday a man accidentally dropped the
contents of his purse on the church floor.
just as the contribution box was passing
: him, and the liberal-hearted man who D
satin the next pew gathered up hand
full of silver and filed the basket. A
cheerful giver is a Joy. to che country
church. philadelphia ZGnsss.--
notwithstanding all that has been
said about the dignity of the common
school teachers, their pay remains, on Nj
an average, below that of ordinary me-3.I
chanics. The average monthly salary
is S67.54 for men and 800 SO for women, g p
in Massachusetts, against S32 So. for .f
men and $28.42 for women, in Penn
sylvania. In Alabama the monthly paw
of white teachers is S2O.96; Kentucky i,
and North Carolina, S21.25. But in
Nevada it is $101.4e for men and S775
for women; in California, $80. .26 for men
and $64.73 for women. The Al, 200 nt
common school teachers of Prussia .re-itr
ceiye, on an average $282 per annum,
besides a house and fuel. - Chicago
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