The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-08
soAooL ANp CHURCH

Mr. j. l.. sibley the librarian Of
Harvard College, IS eighty years old
Pope Leo XIII. thinks that tho evil
Of the working Glasses arise chiefly from
the abandonment 0i religious principles.
-hs tho Massachusetts, towns and
riti0s arc obliged 10 give school books
and other supplies TO the pupils frea---
Boston Post.
AT Yale thirty per cent, Of the
Freshmen room Ia the college buildings;
st Harvard forty-eight per cent; and
at Princeton eighty-f0ur per cent.
The sexton Of a New York church
has q crank In his pew, by turning
which he regulates the temperature OF
the house during service. ~ T. Sun.
The University of Cairo, in Egypt,
said to be nine hundred years older
than Oxford. has ten thousand students,
who are being educated as Moham-
medan missionaries.
A church paper makes the positive
assertion i'm regard to Christian workers
/ chat in most churches "about nine
tenths of the work is done by less than
One-tenth Of the members, W Chicago
| Herald
During 1888 the six faculties Of
| medicine In France conferred 662 diplo-
mas of doctor of medicine, viz: Lille
! 20, Nancy n, Lyons 43, Bordeaux A,
Montpelier SO, and Paris 465. During
the same year 692 diplomas of medicine
were conferred in Germany.
The total cost Of maintaining the
common schools of the State Of New York
last year was S11 ,S84,9ll. The number
of pupils was l,OOO.057. These figure,
acquire peculiar interest when one con.
siders what New York was when Sin
Moses MontefOre was a boy.-CUrrcnt
Russia is so far behind in educa
tional matters that in the rural district,
the village priest is the only teacher
available for the education of the chill
dren of the working classes, while ever
in such a city as Moscow, with lOO,OOJ
children of school age there is onl,
school accommodation for 1000. II
Technical education, however, the twJ
IIgreat schools in Moscow and St. Peters
burg are among the finest in Europe il
point Of equipment and endowment
The capital also contains efliCiCn
schools for education in mining and en-
geering pursuits.
! President White, of Cornell UniveI
| sity, believes in the value of athleti
sports as part of college life, and cite
the fact that while he was at Yale tn
sixteen men who composed the boat
crew were not only the best men in co
lege physically, but were also the bes
3 mentally While this may be tru
, enough, the tuition-paying public ma
S still properly insist that the colleg
S authorities shall see to it that the SIT
dents shall be continually reminded tn,
l the chief business of college-lfe
, study Chicago Current.
General Booth, of the Salvatio
Z Army, having been interviewed by on
of the staff of the Methodist Times, give
}, this report of the financial condition {
! the army: "Our own people contrbuI
! l about St 800, 600 a year, We get abol
100000 from outsiders, The last tvs
/. years we had very heavy expenses. w
4 had to spend $35O,OOO on Clapton, Il
Grecian and other special undertaking
L That withdrew some subscriptions fro
L the ordinary work. We have not "
y recovered from that great effort. b
y $25, 900 is all we want now to put on
/ selves in easy financial circumstance