The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


erection of building for the Young
Mems Christian Association.
"A church in Jersey City, N. j., has
been decided to trustees on condition
that instrumental music shall not be al
lowed in the services. Y. Sun.
DIR. McCosh, of Princeton. is of the
opinion that child's mind is best fitted
for the beginning of school education
when the child is twelve years old
Ne,oark Register.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Education Eaton shows that the
school population of the thirty eight
States is IA, 227,784. OF this number
there are in daily attendance 4,9l9, 40S,
"A recent report of the French Min
lister of Public Instruction shows that in
January last %, 222 schools had school
savings bank, and that 488, 624 school
boys were depositors in these banks.
and possessed there the sum total OF
IL, 285, 046 francs.
"A young Japanese nobleman has
graduated from the Rutgers College
grammar school, at New Brunswick, N.
j., receiving the prize for the best ora
ton, and another for the cleverest work
done in history during the past year.
Professor James d. Dana, of Yale
College, has been made an honorary
member of the Royal Society of En-.
gland. Professor Asa Gray. of Harvard
College, is the only other American
who enjoys this Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The Southern Baptist Convention
does not believe in rotation in Office
when the best men are once in position.
At the meeting in Augusta. it reelected
as President, DIR. P. II. Nell, who has
filled the chair for so many years, and
who, among other works. has written a
convenient manual of parliamentary
usage.-M Y. Examiner.
Although state of war exists be-
tween France and Madagascar the
Malagasy Government have in no respect
relaxed their efforts in the cause of edu-
cation. Two Malagasy youths of con-
siderable promise, who have been
educated in London during the last four
years. will return to their own country
in few days in order to occupy a posi-
ton as teachers in the public schools
Since the war there has been no inter.
ruption of educational work in NADIA
gascar.
In Germany teaching is evidently
regarded as its own reward At Easter
the schoolmaster Schnell, in Fleeth,
aged seventy-six years, was put on the
retired list, with the grant of an annual
pension Of LA marks 1886 United States
currency and seven metres measure.
menD of firewood, after having faith.
fully and conscientiously served for over
fifty-two years, and for nearly three
years supported from his own means an
assistant. to whom he was obliged to
furnish free board and lodging, inclu.
sive of light and washing.
When Rev. Mr.. Rainsford. of Cam.
bridge University, England. was offered,
in 1888, the rectorship of st. Georges
Church, New York. on the retirement
of DIR. Tying, ST., he accepted on one
cOndition-that the seats should be
made absolutely free. This was acceded
to. and during the year 1884 the church
raised over $4,000. The congregations
fill the church at every service. Mr..
Rainsford said recently that 1.-The way
to hold people to the church is to give
them work to do, and not to try and
hold them by the tie of a seat or the tie
of fashionable assoc atoms. IN y.
Herald.