St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The young ladies of the Ontario La
dies College have organized two base
ball clubs
The recent vote of the faculty of
Harvard University to dispense with the
study of Greek as requirement was set
aside by the overseers.
In an address at the Louisville Uni
versity the late DR.. Yandell is quoted as
recommending habit of cheerfulness:
"A wide-spreading. hopeful disposition"
he would say. ''is your only true um-
brella in this vale of tears"
The Anglican Communion now
numbers 2O6 Bishops and 29,668 clergy.
This gives an average of one Bishop to
every IA clergy. In England there is
only one Bishop to every 553 clergy; in
Ireland, one to LAG; Scotland, 35; Colo
MES, SO; and United States, 81.
The annual report of Mr.. Justin
Winsor. librarian of Harvard College,
shows that much greater use is made OF
the library by the students than ever
before. Nine years ago only fifty-seven
per cent. of them used the library; five
years ago the percentage had risen to
seventy-seven per cent, and last year 1t
was eighty -four per cent.
The English University constit-
uencies include the whole mass Of
graduates who choose to keep their
names upon the books; the lawyers and
the physicians, the 'squires and the
parsons, the bankers, merchants. and
writers-men of every trade and OF
every rank in educated England.
Oxford has 5,4OO such electors, and
Cambridge about thousand more.
DIR. South. when once preaching
before Charles H., observed that the
monarch and his attendant began to
nod; and as mobiles are common men
when they are asleep, some OF them
soon after snored. ON which he broke
off his sermon and exclaimed: Lord
Lauderdale, l am sorry to interrupt
your repose. but let me entreat you not
to snore so loud, lest you awaken His
Majesty"
Says the New YORK Independent:
ut may be untrue that certain clergy
man advertised, Marriages specially;
strangers particularly invited but we
fear the story was founded on fact,
and that there might have been added
the words, No questions asked Some
ministers are altogether too ready to
declare vagrant couples husband and
wife"
Several months ago the Russian
Government interfered to suppress the
mission work carried on in the empire
by the Religious Tract Society of Lon
don. It is now stated, however, that
all the tracts confiscated have been re-
turned by the Government. and per-
mission has been given to resume the
work of gratuitous distribution OF the
religious reading.
The late Francis A. Drexel. the
wealthy Philadelphia banker, left one
tenth of his immense property to be di-
vided among some fifty charitable in
stitutions connected with the Roman
Catholic Church, of which he was a
sincere member. This money is to be
distributed by Archbishop Ryan, Of
Philadelphia. The remaining nine
tenths Of his property is left in trust,
the interest to be divided among the
three daughters. and the principal to
their children, should they have any.
If they have no issue, the Church Of
Rome is to receive the nine-tenths
twenty-one years after the death of the
last of the three daughters. The
Church is thus likely to get total oi
$40, 900, OOO.-PhiladeiphiG Press.