The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Church property to the amount OF
$1,000 is exempt from taxation in
Washington Territory.
"A census of a Philadelphia board
ing school of forty-eight girls showed
that one could make bread, one knew
how to fry oysters, three knew how to
broil beefsteak, forty-eight could en-
broider and forty-seven dance. -PhiJG-
deLpit5G Press. -7-------s--
Vienna has society which renders
assistance to boys and girls who, on
leaving school wish to enter any trade
and who have no one else to help or
advise them. The children are looked
after, both as regards their moral and
intellectual development.
1t is related of the thirteen-vear-ol
Boston school girl who died recently,
as alleged, of over-study, that during
her delirium she repeated page after
page of history, and struggled with the
notes of music, frequently crying; 80,
mother; if could only get those notes
out of my head ''-Boston Herald
According to the New York hide
Pe1adefat there are for the vast popula-
ton of Russia eighty-five Bishops, over
100000 other clergy, $4,000 monks and
nuns and Al, 058 churches There are
only fifteen regular religious periodi-
Gals in the empire.
Mr.. Surgeons Pastors College,
supported mainly by gifts from his
own church, has educated 667 men, OF
whom 557 remained earnest workers.
These men have baptized $4,000 be-
Hevers, and the churches under their
care have a present membership of
$4,000 persons. The annual income OF
the college is $4,000.
"A society has been formed in the
Harvard Congregational Church,
Brooklme, Mass, called ''The Church
Porch" the object of whichis ito pro-
mote Christian discipleship among the
young" Membership is conditioned
on the consent OF parents or guardians.
1t was started five months ago with
forty members, and now has 105 The
members pledge themselves to read the
Bible and pray daily, and list of
Scripture readings, bearing upon the
Sunday school lessons, is prepared for
their use.-N. Y. Examiner
"A curious thing in the Texas school
system is the community organiza-
ton. There are no districts and no
geographical subdivisions at all, but
as many persons as choose may unite
for school purposes by registration, and
are then recognized as community
and given share of the public money.
There is no local taxation and no reg
ulations as to the size of the communi-
ties. As a matter of fact they vary
greatly and overlap each other so as to
make endless practical inconvenience.
A man once included in a community
cannot leave it except by permission of
court.
-Lecturing in Boston upon "Educa-
ton in Russia" Dr. Theodore Vetter
said that the Russians reputation as
linguists is due to their peculiar in
struction in childhood. The infant has
French nurse for a sole attendant
until it is six years of age. BY that time
it has learned to speak the French
language. Then the German governess
comes in and is the child's constant
companion. Later the English tongue
is acquired in the same way. At twelve
the girls continue their studies at home
and submit to mammals matchmaking.
The boys go away to the gymnasia.
The course there embraces seven years
and fits the youth for professional
course at the university.