The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

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There are 2,0II -school-teachcrs in
Dakota Territory.
The college which has the largest
number of graduates in Congress is the
University of Virginia; Harvard stands
second and Yale third.
Amherst College is said TO be the
only institution of its kind that provides
a special reading room for the maga-
zines and papers of other colleges.
A striking influence of Christianity
in the barbarous period of Europe is
contained in Alcuin' S letter to Charlie
magne, wherein he reminds him to
show mercy to prisoners, even as God
will show mercy to him.
Anatomy is more important than
Latin or mathematics combined at the
Edinburgh University, $4,000 being
paid as annual salary to its professor.
against $500 allowed TO each of the
professors of the other branches.
The bell of the public school at
Monticello, n. Y, was heard ringing
the other day at an unusual time, and,
on investigating, it was found the new
teacher" was using the end of the bell
rope to correct a refractory pupil
Y. Star.
The debt of the Boston Roman
Catholic Cathedral il now S1O9, 800.
Five years ago $150,000 was quickly
raised when it was known that the debt
was $500, GOO, and since then it has
been reduced to the above figures
Boston Gtobe.
The first convivium ever held in
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn, took
place recently in the college commons.
Everything was done TO mike the occa-
sion resemble an ancient Roman ban
quet as nearly as possible. The guests
were attired in flowing white togas,
and presented very imposing sight as
they sat at the tables. Speeches were
made on the Latin authors. Hartford
Post.
Germans, who have hitherto been
blind to the fact that the all work and
no play system of high schools has re-
suited in making more than half of the
educated classes short-sighted arc now
awaking to the fact and are making a
move TO givethe children more exercise.
DIR. Wolfsberg, the noted physician, says:
- On the proper education of our chill
dren, based on correct physiological
principles, rests the future Of the EN-
pire, +" ..t.
The class of 10 Of the College of
the City of New York has Given its
alma mater rare elecuotype collec-
ton of ancient coins taken from the
collection in the British Museum.
There are 375 distinct pieces, both sides
OF each coin being shown. They en-
brace the gold and silver coinage from
700 b. G. until the birth of Christ, and
the bronze coinage under the Roman
Empire during the first two centuries
of the Christian era, thus representing
a complete history of ancient coinage.
The electrotypes are. colored in exact
fac-simile of the originals. ~ y Zrtb-
U5e.
-Rev. C. H. Spurgeon recently
issued his 1,800th printed sermon in
regular. succession. He said in meet
ing that he had been five years in pre-
pairing these 1,S0O sermons for the
press He did not mean in getting
them ready to preach, or the time re-
quired in preaching them, but the alb
solute time spent in revising the short
hand report preparatory to sending tho
sermons to the printer. Ho never
could get any sermon done in less than
whole day, and if they divided 800
by 365, they would get five years or
Whereabouts.