The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

| The Oxford Press, it is claimed.
nses paper enough each year in printing
Bibles to form a band nearly nine inches
wide around the earth. ... d.. n.y..
l# The most sublime announcement
ever made to maniis that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners; and
yet we are so familiar with it that we
regard it as a commonplace.
o. -Four young ladies were among the
recipients of scholarships at the recent
contest in Cornell University. -Four
young men also won. Cornell believes
in equal honors and privileges. -Syra-
cXSe Journal.
The Duke of Norfolk has given to
the Catholic Church since 1868, when
he became of age, more than So, 800, 900,
besides very large sums to private chari-
ties which amount to nearly as much
more. 49, ''.t
Bishop Wordsworth, of the Church
of England diocese of Scotland, has
lately announced to his clergy that he
despairs of a union between the Estab-
lished Church of Scotland, the "Auld
Kirk, and the Episcopal Church in that
land.
The eldest daughter of DR.. Thomas,
of Baltimore, one of the Johns Hopkins
trustees, recently graduated from Zurich
University with the highest honors in
philosopy earned by any student in the
past two hundred years.
During the trial of disputed set
Element at Leith, Scotland, one of the
witnesses was asked: "Do sermons
that are delivered and not read edify
you most?" He excited the visibility of
the Court by replying, Il consider that
if ministers can not remember their
sermons, it is perfectly unreasonable to
expect their hearers to do So"
"A man visiting London went to
church and seated himself without hest
tation in the nearest pew. Soon the
owner came in, eyed the stranger crit
ically, and writing "My pew on the
1lyleaf of a prayer-book, handed the
book to the intruder. The stranger read
the message, smiled a beautiful smile,
and wrote underneath: Mice pew.
What do you pay for it?' .
The difference between the condi-
ton of education in the South and that
III luC NOIull - hlVlul1 SeI lUIbIl III IL lew
statistics which we take from the report
of the Commissioner of Education. Ac-
cording to this document the average
school year consists in North Carolina
of 62.5 days, in Georgia of 65, in Ten
nessee of 70, in Rhode Island of 1874, in
New Jersey of 1872, in Maryland of 199
I'm Alabama the annual per capita ex-
pense of each child is $1.01, in Massa-
cilusetts, 1888. Chicago J0~rna!.
OF the donations by women to diff
ferent colleges in this country $3.50, 600
has been given for the benefit of women,
less than half of the sum given by wo-
men for mans benefit; Sl37, 900 have
been bestowed by women to co-educa-
ti0nai institutions, not taking into ac-
count the immense sum given by Mrs.
Fiske to Cornell University, which is
now in litigation There are now 13, 900
women graduates from colleges who aid,
in measure, these institutions. Vas
sar graduates have given $4,000 in
fifty years to their alma mater The
Harvard Annex has received a sum of
$45, 200. Wellesley, through Mrs.
Valera Stone, has been benefited over
100000 worth, and Smith College,
founded by a lady Miss Sophia Smith,
has had 1866, Cleveland Leader.