Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-08-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Cougn gatioaal Academy at
Salt Lake City. Utah. has six teachers
and 30 pupils, 5. large proportion of
whom come FROM McSmon homes.
Washington is 4 remarkably re-
Eeious city. Statistics show $50
churches. with 1851 members. OF
this total membership, however, about
LOCO are in the colored churches,
A returning missionary writes to
church paper; I'VE suffer SO much in
the hot season that we are fully con-
WINGED that il is the will Of the Lord
that we should return to America be-
fore the hottest Indian weather is upon
us again.
He was = graduate in natures
university. Nature is wiser than the
SchoolmaSter; She educates. but she
never Grams. Her scholars do not so
up to take their degrees; their degrees
come to them. lean lnqtioc.
In 1877 there were twenty-thrce
Danish Norwegian Baptist churches in
eight Western States, with 1850 men,
berS, seventeen ordained ministers and
twelve meeting houses. Now there are
thirty-nine churches, thirty-four min
listers and twenty-Seven meeting houses.
~. y. E.raRlaor.
S nee 1870 women have been adj
mitted 10 universities in Sweden. Nor
way. Russia, Switzerland, Italy. Spain
and France, At St. Petersburg in
1882 ninety-nine Young women were
zeal department and SiNty.four in the
scientific department.
Japanese educators are makicg an
effort To substitute Roman letters for
those now in use in Japan. 1t would
probably require but little persuasion to
induce the people to adopt the English
language outright, if one may Judge from
the willingness with which they have
accepted other American and English
customs and methods. - Current
The public hears from time TO time
of discussion over the question of
public worship at Harvard University.
In point of fact, there are At present
no regular Sunday services in the col
lcge chapel During the winter an oc.
eaSional discourse was given. Attend
anco upon some church on SUNDAY is
no longer requisite, but by 4 recent de
ciSion compulsory attendance upon
morning prayers in the college chapel
is continued. " J. San.
An ancient custom was observed
recently III a I.ondoa church where. in
accordance with the will of Peter Sv-
mondS. which dates 50 far back rs the
Year 1856. sixty of the Younger BOYS Of
ChriStS Hospital attended divine Scrs-
ices in the morning, and afterward ~
ceived new penny and a bag of rails
ms. 1t was stated that this was the two
hundred and nincty-tirSt celebration of
this quaint ceremony.
At Portland. Me, clergyman who
manages 4 Gospel temperance mission
has organized a Gideon $ Band, which
is said to introduce Waguerian effects
in the choruSrs sung durilA the SerN-
ices. the idea on which the scheme is
founded being taken from Judges. vii,
l6 And he O;idcon) divided 800
men into three companies, and he put
a trumpet into every mans hand. with
empty pitchers and lamps within the
pitchers. y Boston Jourlldl
The famous "CodeN Argentcus.
the four gospels translated by Bishop
tlphilas, is preserved in the University
OF l'psala. Ii is written on lS2 leaves
of parchment in letters of silver on u
ground I'll faded purple. 1t is kept in a
glass ease and under lock and key. II
dates back to the second half Of the
fourth century. and, besides being OF
value to the religious world. il gives the
secular world all the knowledge il now
poa>e>sr, Of the early Gothic the parent
of all the Gcrmanic tongues