The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The almost universal practice OF
teaching abstract numbers before con-
crete IS an inversion of nature and COM
noa sense.-Ptilddelphia Press.
The Oxford Press. it is claimed,
uses paper enough each year in printing
Bibles to form band nearly nine inches
wide around the earth.
The most sublime announcement
ever made to man is that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners; and
yet we are so familiar win it that we
regard it as commonplace.
-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.-Syrd-
case Journal.
The Duke of Norfolk has given tn
the Catholic Church since 1868, when
he became of age, more than S2.500.0 900
besides very large sums to private chari'
ties which amount to nearly as much
more.
Bishop Wordsworth, of the Church
of England, diocese of Scotland, has
lately announced to his clergy that he
despairs of union between the Estab-
| lished Church of Scotland, the ''Aulo
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?h 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 tG
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
flyleaf of a prayer-book, handed the
book to the intruder. The stranger read
the message, smiled 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
in the North is wildly set forth in few
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
nessce of 10, in Rhode Island of 1Sf. in
New jersey of 1872, in Maryland of 1919.
In Alabama the annual per capita cx-
pense of each child is Sl.01, in Massa-
chusetts, S15.S3.-Caieago Journal.
OF the donations by women TO diff
ferent colleges in this country $3.50, 0OO
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-
tiOnal institutions, not taking into ac-
count the immense sum given by Mrs.
Fiskc to Cornell University, which is
now in litigation. There are now 5000
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 sum ol
S45, 700. Wellesley, through Mrs.
Valeria Stone. has been benefited over
100000 worth, and Smith College,
founded by lady, Miss Sophia Smith,
has had 1855, 000.-ClcUeland Leader.