The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-11-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Chinese Baptlsts of Oregon
nave erected church and support
missionary in their native land.-oa"
Francisco Call.
A young Christian Cinnamon WHO'S
EARNING twenty-five dollars month AZ
the Island of Tahiti devotes twenty doi,
lars of it to the purchase of tracts ana
leaflets for distribution among MS
countrymen.
in a church near Chicago the mem
hers of the congregation have constant
" before their eyes this motto, IN
scribed on one of the walls: IL am
only one. but I am one; cannot 90
everything, but l can do something;
what / can do ought to do, and wh%
1 ought to do. by the grace Oh Uou
will do Chicago journal.
AT the Congregational Club OF New
York DR.. Clapp said, among otner
evils of the present, one was the buiid-
| ing of too costly churches. "better
build fifty churches for the poor than
one $500, 600 temple. do not believe
| the Lord cares whether church cost
500 or $500. 900, but do believe he
| cares whether there is one church or
| fifty churches.-N. Y. Times.
| England has population OF 3D.
| OOO. 900. and sends 5000 students to
her two great universities. Scotland
has population of 100000 and has
$500 university students. Germany
| has a population of $4,000, 900 and has
22,5OO In her universities. The New
England States have population OF
A.. ITO. 900, and have 1000 in their col
leges and universities.-C Chicago Her.
atd.
The Yale men are still of the opin-
ion that the greatest triumph of the
wear achieved by their college was
when the champions of the blue came
in at New London four whole lengths
ahead of Harvard in the great boat-race.
We may expect next year that IN potn
colleges boating will be the study that
will engage the chief attention OF the
students What time they have lett
they may condescend to spend on Latin
and Greek and such comparatively use
less matter.-N. Y. Examiner.
in 1881 the average income OF male
teachers in Vermont was 81. Al week,
while in 1884, under the influence OF a
benign and progressive civilization. it
has risen to 1888. The female teachers
in 1881 were paid Si.2l week, which
sum has been increased to S5.0l In
1884. 1t is also stated that the number
| of schools and teacher has very con-
siderably decreased within the period
"a statement that is not at all surpris-
ing. 1t is evident that New England
needs some reform in her educational
policv at home, before claiming the
privilege of holding herself up as a
shining exemplar to the rest of the
country Current.
The London Tablet says: The ordi-
nary expenses of the Holy See may be
put down at about 1000, 900 francs, and
certain other expenses may bring the
, total up to nearly 100000. Formerly
the Holy Father drew from the States OF
, the Church an annual civil list Of
3,21O,O00 francs, which was employed
/ in the maintenance of his court. of the
| Cardinals residing in Curia, of the per
sonnet of the Punciatures, the various
, congregations, etc. That is the reason
why the Italian Government offered
/ | Plus TX. the annual State income o
5000, 900 francs. Since the seizure o
, the Papal States many other expenses
which formerly were met by Other
} | means, have to be undertaken by thu
Pope's civil list. Leo Kill, moreover
, spends about 100000 francs in aim
8 each year.