Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Madras has gradu-
ated 500 persons, none OF whom are
Christians.
The Jesuits have recently purchased
the villa in the Island of Elba which
was occupied by Napoleon after his alb
dication, in 1914. 1t is to be converted
into college.
During the year 1884 there were
pa new Lutheran churches erected in
the United States, divided in language
as follows: German, 1888; English, 50;
Swedish, %; Norwegian, IA; Norwegian
Danish, z; Danish, 2; Finnish, l; Slow
akian, |.
THE City of Churches as Brook
lyn has been styled for many years, APP
pears not to be correspOndingly a city
of church-goerS, As one of her ministers
finds upon investigation that there are
100000 people there who never go to
church.-BOston Transcript.
Wedding fees constitute an impor-
tant item in the revenues of the popular
ministers of New York and Philadel-
phia, their annual receipts sometimes
reaching 5000. The fees vary from
$40 to $500. The average of one min
lister last year was $50.
An eccentric PerthShirc Scotchman,
all his life member of the Free Kirk,
has lett his entire fortune about
Sl30, 900 in our money-for the building
and endowment of Wesleyan chapel
in a village where. so far rs is known,
there are no Wesleyan inhabitants.
"A Lowell man whipped out his
memorandum book in church the other
| Sunday and took down this remarkable
thanksgiving from the lips of his scicn-
tiiic pastor: 1--WE Thank Thee, o Lord,
that we are permitted to unwind the
mighty coil of material circumstances,
and gaze into the everlasting abysseS
where flaming comets roll. '-LoWeI
Citizen.
Pastor Dickinson, Of Norwich
Conn, was accused of having said il
prayer meeting that the spirit of the
late U. S. Gardner had appeared to him
What he did say was that brother o.
Gardner, who had spoken in the meet
ing, brought the dead man so wildly Il
his memory that he could almost see hin
standing by his side. His description
was so striking that the hearers con
strdcd it literally.-M y. sun
The new head-master of EtOn pro
poses to return to the old system of ad
hitting boys of eight or nine years o
age, it being the latter usage to ADM
only those of twelve or thirteen. 1t l.
urged that the boys are at the school
too short II time to get the full bench
of its discipline, and, as they cannot bC
kept till they are older, they should be
gathered in when they are younger
Donald G.. Mitchell better know
as TX Marvel, is sad to be mucl
pleased with the Professorship OF bellies
lettres, which he has held for yea
past at Yale College. The students re
gard him as an amiable and delightful
instructor, and many of them have rea
his "Dream-Lifen and "Reveries of
Bachelor" with an interest approachin
enthusiasm. He studied law fort
years ago, but never practced, an,
afterwards attempted daily journalism
but did not find it to his liking.
Rev. DR.. Shedd, in letter to tn
New York Observer, insists that faith
eternal torment makes men tranqu
and cautious, but never throws "a SCUM
orthodox man into a CONSERVATION G
makes him lose his head" On the cor
trary, he says: Hell is like any otht
danger. 70 be forewarned is to |
) forearmed. In order to escape DANCE
, one must believe in it. Disbelief of it
sure destruction. Speaking general.
all who acknowledge hell and fear i
will escape it; and all who deny he
and ridicule it, will fall into it."