The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-12-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

I'm the college at Yankton, d. r.,
there is strip of slate blackboard 260
feet long.
Bishop Taylor writes that mis-.
sionaries with big families are wanted
in Africa. They can dig and teach, hoe
and preach. Chicago Herald.
1t costs $1,000 a year to keep up
the Yale boat club, $4,000 year for
the ball nine, and $4,000 year for
football team.-Neso Haven Register
A Lodi, (Cal.) schoolma' am wrote
to the trustees of Butte County school
asking for position, and if there was
no vacancy she requested them to assist
her in "ousting some old fossil. "-
Chicago Times.
St Peters Cathedral, just finished
at Moscow, has five cupolas, and 900
pounds of gold were used in OVERLAPPING
them. The doors of the temple cost
$310, 900, and the marble floors $780,
900.
The Rochester Baptist City Mission
has already succeeded in erecting three
mission chapels and three more are
projected. It has eleven mission Sum
day schools and these number about
two thousand teachers and scholars
Baptist Weekly.
The Jewish Association for the
Diffusion of Knowledge has adopted
the revised version of the Old Testa-
ment as the basis for a new edition Of
the Scriptures which is about to be
issued for the use of the English-speak-
| ing Jews.-N Y. Tribune.
"A church is to be erected in the
venerable town of Speyer, the capital
| of Rhenish Bavaria, In commemoration
of the protest of the six princes and
| the fourteen free cities, that in 1873
espoused the cause Of the Reformation.
The OsserydtoTe Romano states that
il results from the estimates made by
| the various missioners that the total
| number of the members of the Roman
Catholic Church throughout the world
is between 275, ,000,0 900 and 800, 900, 600.
Rev. P. NJ. Rudra, of North India,
says, as the result of tour in South
India: 'sFrom what / have both seen
and heard, the prospects of Christianity
in South India are SO encouraging as to
lead me to hope that in no very distant
| time the whole country will be brought
to the feet of Christ. y
/ Evolution has been accepted by the
Virginia Presbyterian synod as being
in harmony with the Scriptures. Il has
sustained Prof. Woodrow, of the
Charleston Theological Seminary, who
was removed from his position because
of his views on evolution. - Chicago
.IOMrndI
/ The Haredrl Crimson notes that
England, with population Of 25,000,.
900, sends 5000 students to her two
universities; that Scotland. with 8
population of 1000, 900, has $500 uni
versity students; that Germany, with !
population of 4S, 900, 900, sends 23,50t
to her numerous universities; that New
England, with q population of A. 100, 900
has 1900 students in her eighteen uni
; versities and colleges.
Careful investigations have beer
made in Denmark, both by educator
; and the Government, as to overpressur'
in the schools, and the conclusion ha
been reached that not enough attention
has been paid to the preservation OF tn
health Of children by intelligent regula
ton of their hours of work and by tn
maintenance of proper hygienic sur
roundings. One investigator found tina
one-third of all school boys were suffer
, ing from chronic complaints. IN 7
, Iasdepende7lt.