The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are sixty-fiye thousand
clergymen preaching in the United
States.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
But three students graduated al
the Massachusetts Agricultural College
This year.-Boston Transcript. Ia
Twenty States and Territories have
adopted compulsory education, but on
ly Massachusetts, and Connecticut have
effective means for the carrying out of
its enforcement Boston Herald. r
Mrs. c. II. Mccormick has added
twenty thousand dollars to the endow-
ment of the chair in the Washington
and Lee University. Virginia. which
her husband founded and endowed with
twenty Thousand dollars. - Ciicago
Journal. 'E fItllT fH gbl4
-''What fortunate thing it is" ex-
claims the Christian Register, that
then, congregations could not have the
tireless pleasure Of grinding. polishing
and sometimes resetting this kind OF
jewelry. lu rf RS .{f .rI
The School of Telegraphy for Wom-
en- in the Cooper Institute, New York,
is said to be crowded. There were one
hundred and sixty applications last year,
but only seventy-six of them could be ac-
cepted for lack of room. Telegraphy
seems to be an employment specially
suited for the physical capabilities of
women.-N. Y. Sun.
"A leading religious publishing
house manager says the days of hymn
writing seem to be over. 1--WE get bar
rels of so-called sacred songs sent TO us,
but ninety-five per cent. out of it is
twaddle. and of the scant FIVE per cent.
that gets into print next to none will
survive nine years. The few passably
good hymns that we get nowadays come
to us through the Sunday-schools."
Brewer Vassar did not give the
young women of America their first
college. The New York Herald says:
1.-The people of Georgia gave the women
not only of America but of the world
their first college. The Wesleyan Fe-
male College, created in 1898 by the
State of Georgia, adopted by the
Methodist Conference in 1910, endowed
and remodeled in 1882 by George 1.
Seney; is to-day the monument which
marks the earliest complete recognition
of woman's claim"
Rev. William Taylor, the recently
appo nted Methodist Bishop for Africa.
at the farewell reception gwen him in
Boston, said of his work: ut is reported
that most extraordinary discovery has
recently been made in Africa, in a tour
from east to west. There have been
found nations of people hitherto un-
known, who number fifty millions. and
live in houses built of stone, with gar
dens in the rear and properly laid out
streets. who work in iron, copper and
ivory. and are pretty well up in the in
dustrial arts, many of Them" 'as
The following samples of the spell
ing of man who was graduated with
honors at harvard College recently are
taken by the Boston Herald from his
examination papers: Preparing, orde-
nary, boundaries, descent (decent).
classic. immence, icolate, comerce,
cheepness, cituated, cristeline. polluted,
temperature, satisfactorily, freely,
gasses, valley. Tindel (TyndalD, Hum
bolt, suragc (sewerage). week weak,
bearing (bOring), emminant (eminent),
alum. orange, dycoteledous (dico-
tyledonous), deteriates (deteriorates),
sulpher. stratefecation, Cleavage. clev-,
age, PEBBLES, Apanines. ..-,-..+