Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

About $1,000 gallons of wine are
consumed at the sacrament tables in the
United States every Chicago
Ioalr!Au.
President Seclyo, Of Amherst is
quoted as saying that every man who
writes for his college paper lowers his
scholarship.
Rev. 7. d. WithcrspOon, OF Louis
vAle, Ky, has been elected President OF
Davidson College, North Carolina. This
Is Presbyterian institution.
The total white public school chill
dren of Tennessee is 1887; colored.
$50, S32-an aggregate of 81, 1929; white
teachers employed, 5,4l0; colored, 1913;
botal, 6,92S-l95 more than during the
preceding year. White schools opened,
l,024; colored, 1,471; total, $685.,
"A New York Judge recently gave
ksson in independence 70 a school
teacher. "a had the pleasure OF your
acquaintance when we were equals. :
said the teacher ut is the same still, "
replied the Judge; "a school-teacher
holds ne high position as any man in
the country. Y, SaH
The Harvard University authorities
have concluded to continue for the
present the practice Of Latinizing thu
names of students in the annual cata-
Gogues, despite the effort made to sub
stitue plain English. Banks, however,
still persist in requiring checks to be
signed in English. -Chicd9o Current.
Six members Of the Baptist Church
at Ashdon, Eng, adopted novel plan
for raising funds to renovate thctl
church edifce They each sowcd hah
= pint of beans, sowed the entire product
the second year and again the third
year The third crop was soil and
Welded about $500. The most success
lul of the six secured the first year nine
teen pints, the second year nineteen
bushels, the third year thirty-one
quarters, which sold for f70, or $3.50
Nj Examiner. L-.- 5t
Superintendent Bennett of Piqua,
o., has been investigating the extent tS
which tobacco is used by boys in the city
schools. He finds that in two grades o.
seVenty-three boys from twelve TO fifteen
years, thirty-one habitually smoke eiga
rettes. and only seven could say thai
they had never smoked. OF ninety-sil
boys from ten to twelve there were
sixty-eight smokers. aud in the primary
schools, boys from six to ten, forty pe'
cent. smoked, and in the A BIC clasi
many had begun the practico.-eaeeio
Lasad LedCey. - .r..- .rIr
The young ladies Of La Grang'
GA } Female College arc one step i
advance of their sisters in similar inst
buttons. They have little paper callet
tho Ls'eaiGR CGSbet. which has heretofoF'
been prepared in manuscript form am
read at weekly meetings, They haw
now decided however, TO introduce
printing into the college curriculum
and learn how to set type, so that the
may prepare their own paper aud prin
b with their own, hands. They vii
begin with monthly issue, with tn
ia,Seokiaa u soon making is sem
monthly. "Et. . lt
General Morgan. OF the Rho6
Island Normal School. submits, as tb
five fundamental requisites for success
, full teaching, the following: % ahighc
order Of personal character and apt
tude fox the work; (2) accurate know
edge on the nature OF tho children TO !
trained; (3) thorough aeqnaintanC
:, with the subjects to bo taughti ~ y,
= knowledge of method. based upo
psychology on the ono hand, and u
, Logic of sciences on tho other; (5) All
, in actually organizing, governing on
Coaching children.