St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
CONVICTION, ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. MAY . 1885,
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

About $1,000 gallons of wine ar
consumed at the sacrament tables in tn
United States every year.-Chacag
Journal
President Seelye. of Amherst, i
quoted as saying that every man VIII,
writes for his college paper lowers hi
scholarship.
Rev. 7. d. Witherspoon. of Louis
vile, KY, has been elected President O
Davidson College. North Carolina Thi
is Presbyterian institution.
The total white public school chill
dren of Tennessee is 420.997; colored
$50. span aggregate of 81. S29; white
teachers employed, ), 40: colored. 1.51S
total, 6.92S-195 more than during the
preceding year. White schools opened
1924; colored, 1,47l: total. $685..
A New York Judge recently gave s
lesson in independence to a school
teacher. Il had the pleasure of youl
acquaintance when we were equals. y
said the teacher 1T is the same still, y
replied the Judge; "a school-teachel
holds rs high position "a any man in
the country.'-N. !. Sun.
The Harvard University authorize:
have concluded to continue for the
present the practice of Latinizing the
names of students in the annual cata.
logues, despite the effort made to sub.
stitue plain English. Banks. however,
still persist in requiring checks to be
signed in English.-Chicago Currem.
Six members of the Baptist Church
at Ashdon, Eng. adopted novel plan
for raising funds to renovate their
church editice. They each sowed half
a pint of beans, sowed the entire product
the second year and again the third
year. The third crop was sold and
Welded about $500. The most success
full of the six secured the first year nine.
teen pints. the second year nineteen
bushels, the third year thirtv-one
quarters. which sold for E70, or $780,
y. J. Examiner.
Superintendent Bennett. of Piqua,
o.. has been investigating the extent to
which tobacco is used by boys in the city
schools. He finds that in two grades OF
seventy-three boys from twelve to fifteen
years, thirty-One habitually smoke ciga.
rettes. and only seven could say that
they had never smoked. OF ninety-siz
boys from ten to twelve there were
siNty-eight smokers, and in the primary
schools, boys from six to ten, forty pei
cent. smoked. and in the A Be class
many had begun the practiee.-Gere.
land Leader.
The young ladies of La Grange
(Ga.) Female College are one step in
advance of their sisters in similar insti.
tutions. They have little paper called
the Lenidn Cdsket, which has heretofore
been prepared in manuscript form and
read at weekly meetings. They have
now decided, however, to introduce
printing into the college curriculum
and learn how to set type, SO that they
may prepare their own paper and print
it with their own hands. They will
begin with q monthly issue, with the
of soon making it semi.
General Morgan. OF the Rhode
Island Normal School, submits. as the
i've fundamental requisites for success
ful teaching, the following: Q higher
order of personal character and apti-
.ude for the work; (2) accurate knowl
edge of the nature of the children to be
rained; (3) a thorough acquaintance
With the subjects to be taught; (D a
of method, based upon
on the one hand. and the
ogic of sciences on the other; (5) skill
n actually organizing, governing and
eaching children.