The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-03-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are 1895 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are spin
sters.
The discovery has been made in
Brooklyn that the school children are in
the habit of getting drunk on candies
filed with a mixture of fusil oil and
alcohol.-Brookly'e Eagle.
Rev. Mr.. Wilder, aged eighty-three,
is student in Vermont University, haE-
ing gone back to finish his course, which
was interrupted in 1881 by troubles in
his fathers family.
MIR. Yam Phon Lee, Celestial by
nativity and sophomore by courtesy, has
carried off the first prize in English COM
position in his class at Yale College,
while some of the other boys were per-
fecting themselves in football. Boston
Journal.
While the theorists have been dis
cussing the propriety of industrial edu-
cation for children, fifty-two schools,
where girls and boys are taught all
kinds of trades, from cooking to agri-
culture, have sprung up in New York
City alone Current.
Stockport, one of the oldest and
most interesting towns of Cheshire, En-
gland, among its other attractions boasts
of the largest and, it is believed, the
oldest sSunday-sehool in the world. Gen
erations of Stockport people have come
and gone since this Sunday-school be-
came the famous institution Of the place
and the envy of neighboring towns.
The students of q western Theo-
logical Seminary are reported to have
discussed the question whether, in case
of prayer having been read from
printed slip, on formal occasion, and
there having been typographical error
entirely reversing the meaning of pas
sage, the petition was received by Provi-
dence as uttered or originally written.
The debaters spent whole evening
over the point and then had tie vote.
Chicago Times
The number of churches and chapels
belonging to the various religious de-
nominations in the colony of New South
Wales is 1,521, representing 247 1888 sit
tings. The average attendance is 202,-
059, which, with an average attendance
of 41,310 at temporary or irregular
places of worship, makes total of
243, 369, or about quarter of the whole
population of the colony. The number
| of ministers is 40, their salaries and
allowances amounting to nearly f13, 900.
The Indian industrial school at
Genoa, Neb., now numbers 167 pupils.
OF these twenty-four are Winnebagos,
eight Poncas, one Omaha, and the re-
mainder Sioux from the Yankton, Pine
Ridge and Rosebud Agencies. Seven
boys are taught carpenter work, and a.
regular detail of boys work the farm Of
320 acres. The girls are taught sewing
and laundry work, besides keeping the
dining-room, kitchen, dormitories and
halls in order. The products of tho
farm last year were 100 bushels of oats
and 5000 bushels of corn.
The new statistics taken from adj
vance sheets of the Congregational year
book for 1885 are: Whole number of
churches, 4,092; with pastors, 937; not
supplied, 1,012; new churches, III;
whole number of ministers, 1889; whole
number of church members, 401, ,549;
net increase, 5,340; added on profession,
1923; adult baptisms, 1920; infant.
| 5,80l; Sabbath-school members, 47S.-
357; increase, 1920; benevolent con-
tributions, as reported by 8, 900 churches.
81, ,523, ,924.22; home expenditures, as
reported by 5000 churches. 1884
| 105. .91.