St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-03-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Vermont has 113 Baptist churches.
with 1896 members and 10s ordained
ministers.
There are 16,O00, 900 school chill
dren in the United States. 10000, 600 of
whom are enrolled in the public schools.
So many valuables are annually
stolen from churches in the south Of
France during the midnight service at
holiday time that those services have
been ordered discontinued in the future.
The principal Of one Of New York
many '.finishing" schools where young
ladies are presumed to get the hnal
touch of polish to fit them exquisitely
for society, includes in her course Of
lectures one on the art of slumbering
presentably.-N Y. Sun.
Tho following statistics are given
concerning the Catholic Church in this
country: Cardinals. archbishops and
bishops, rs; priests, 6,8S5; churches and
chapels, 7,763; seminaries, colleges and
academies for both sexes, 708; asylums,
294; hospitals. 1880; communicates,
5000, 900.
Bishop Lyman. of North Carolina,
takes exception to the statement OF DIR.
Thompson, Bishop Of Mississippi that
negro rectors are not desirable in the
Protestant Episcopal Church through
the South. He says that ten blacks in
his State are satisfactorily ministering
to congregations of their own color, and
he would not like to see any other
system Chicago Herald.
The value of chewing gum as a
factor in education has been settled at
last. A Macon (Ga.) schoolmarm had
six bright scholars come to school pro-
vided with gum and six without. Then
she threw twenty-nine problems at them
with astonishing results. The chewers
of gum correctly answer twenty-one,
while the gumless six had mastered only
eight. This is another vital educational
problem solved.-St. Louis Post.
President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity in an address before the Massachu-
sets Teachers Association the other
day, said that it would be much better
for two or three towns to maintain one
high school adequately equipped, rather
than for each one to maintain weak
and poorly equipped high school. The
only thing that stands in the way of
such union is local jealousy, and the
sooner that is set aside the better
Boston Journal.
The will of the late Governor Abner
Coburn, of Maine, bequeaths the bulk of
his property to the cause of education
in the South. To Coburn Classical In
stitute he bequeaths $4,000; to Colby
University, of Waterville. 500, 900.
which, with other amounts for the ben
eft of the university, make his entire
bequests thereto over $500, 900. The
State Agricultural College at Orono re-
ceives S1OO, 600. and the Maine General
Hospital in Portland $4,000.
The New York Sun is discussing the
grammar of the family prayer, 'Now I
lay me down to sleep" It pronounces
it all right. 1t undoubtedly is; but.
grammatical or not, it has gone up to
the great judgment seat freighted with
the sweetest confidence and trust that
only infantile humanity can understand.
That simple petition will endure as long
as Christianity prevails, and will be
familiar to more hearts and lips than
probably all other prayers combined.
Few English-speaking men and women
but learned it at mothers knee and few
wholly rgetit.-hsdianapolis journal.