The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-03-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Rev. John Jasper, the Richmond
colored preacher of 1.-THE sun do move
fame, has been communicated from
his church. Chicago Tribune.
in one of the st. Louis schools 3
girl thirteen years old was given prob
lems in complex fractions to write out,
and she headed her paper "Perplexed
Fractions. st Louis Post.
At the dedication services in the
Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church in New York the other day,
So. 900 was subscribed, covering the
entire indebtedness of the church.-N.
Y. zribuae.
Plug hats are worn as mark OF
distinction by the students Of the uni
versity of Texas, at Austin. When
they appear with their head gear they
never fail to create a sensation. -Ier-
as Siffings.
MIR. w. w. Corcoran, the Washing
ton millionaire, is practical in his phil
anthrophy He has given $4,000 to st.
Johns College, Annapolis, Md, on
the condition that it be expended in
planting trees upon the campus. =
Washington Star.
DIR. Bliss, of Constantinople. who
sailed from this city, has distributed
more than 1000, 900 Bibles in the East
during the quarter of q century of his
superintendent of the American Bible
Society's work in the Lcvant.-N. Y.
Mail.
New Haven Comm girls don't
like to have their names printed when
they earn pocket money by teaching in
the public schools, and the board have
amended their rules so that temporary
teachers can be hired without getting
their names in the pers.--HarJord
Post.
Every girl and boy should be.
'chooled in practical business. If they
are to be rich. it will not last long UNI
less they know how to manage and take
care of it. If they are destined to be
poor, they win need all of the practical
schooling and experience parents aud
guardians can confer.--Detron Post.
Efforts are being made by the
Catholics of Denver, Col, to make that
city the seat of the largest Jesuit college
in America. Twenty-Five thousand
dollars have already been subscribed
toward fund for the erection of the
necessary buildings, and much more is
promised under certain conditions
DenUer Tribune.
-Bryn Mawr College, Of Bryn Mawr.
Penn, has just issued its first circular
of information. The college was
founded by DR.. Joseph w. Taylor, of
Burlington, N. j., with view to giving
young women the advantages of col
lege education or to preparing them to
become teachers Of high order. The
college buildings are in process of con-
struction, and the trustees expect that.
they will be ready for the reception of
students in the autumn of lS85.-N Y.
-Erdmizser.
There is clergyman in Tennes-
see called the satisfying preacher.'
If congregation is discontinued he is
sent for, and so astrociously bad is he
that after hearing him once or twice
the congregation is entirely satisfied to,
keep the pastor it has. The Ctrisiian
A1Uocate tells this story, and adds that
when the great Robert Hall was recov-
ering from mental alteration he took a
whim that he would not preach. Sew
eral clergymen filed his pulpit. At
last he heard one so poor that he said
to him-so the tradition is .'Sir, you
have. produced great effect by your
sermon to-day. If the people must
hear you or me, my duty is cIear--I
must resume preaching?"