The Osceola times., 1885-10-31
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The upper classmen Of Princeton
have formed law and order society to
prevent the hazing of freshmen.--M y.
Tt3jue.
An sgilation 10 change the name OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
is likely to result. II is thought, in choice
of Episcopal Methodist. Chi,a9o Herald.
Father Knox. for fourteen years
Roman Catholic priest in New Bruns-
wick, was recently received in the Epis-
copal fold at ST. Louis as assistant rec
tor of st. Johns Church. ST Louis
Giobe.
The child Is "father of the man,"
and the inverted scriptural text, parents
obey your children, is accepted in q
spirit of such religious resignation on
the part OF many fathers and mothers
that their only privilege in matters Of
education is re suced TO the one of duly
paying the bills. - Boston Herald.
The largest Synod in the Presby.
terian Church is that of Pennsylvania,
which reports this year l46, JAG commu-
nicants. New York reports l39.0lS.
Ohio comes next, with 7l,039. New
Jcrsey is fourth, with 1880, and ILL
nois fifth, with 46,S90
Reports from the colleges that have
opened their fall terms indicate that the
freshmen are above the average ip
physical strength. That is the opinion,
at least, Of the professor Of athletics at
Harvard, and he looks for an excep tion.
year in sports. s.--M y Times.
The Russian Government has il.
sued a decree making the Greek Church
the established religion of the Baltic
provinces. Professionalism will only be
tolerated. Children born Of mixed mar.
riages are TO be trained in the Greek
Church. The decree excites great dis.
content among the German settlers.
A Canadian medical authority has
given the following ss being safe periods
of quarantine, which teachers should
exact of pupils, who have suffered at
lacks of the diseases mentioned, before
their return to school Scarlet fever,
eleven days; measles, sixteen; epidemic
roseola, sixteen; chicken-pox, eighteen;
smallpox, sixteen; mumps, twenty-one;
whooping-cough, twenty-onei diphthe.
ria, ten.
A boy in a California school re.
marked that the teacher had red hair.
He was whipped to make him retract.
but he insisted that he could not tell
lie, and he had the utmost confidence
in his judgment Of color. The woman
declared that she would beat him to
death unless he changed the word from
red to auburn, and he abused his con-
science TO that extent, but afterward took
the case to the trustees, who sustained
him and dismissed the bright-headed
punisher. y. Sun.
A preacher at . camp-meeting fer
wildly said, when proposition was made
to shut the gates on Sunday: Brethren,
there are souls that will be damn'd II
you don't hold over Sunday. They are
almost persuaded by Saturday. Sunday
will bring their convictions to crisis.
D! brethren, let us save them! Thou
sands. too, will come then that will
come at no other time" The Christion
4Adroca'e makes the report, and its editor
adds that by personal investigation he
found out that the urgent speaker
owned the refreshment stand.
The women's Temperance Christian
Union of Boston has been instrumental
in procuring laws III fourteen States for
compulsory education in the effects OF
liquor on drinkers. The society now
seems TO feel the responsibility Of ihdi.
eating what the lessons ought to be. II
has been decided that, in Massachusetts
at least, children shall be instructed that
alcohol is never desirable as an article OF
food; that any considerable indulgence
in it is sure to be correspondingly injuri.
Gus to the body. and that meptal and
moral ruin is bound to result from ex.
cess.-Bcs'on Journal.