The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,

On the arrival Of the Cambridge
University missionaries at Pekin. China,
the members of the English and Ameri-
can missions united in ten days Of pray.
er and Bible study.
OF the 249 Congregational churches
in Maine. 225 have houses of worship,
estimated in value at S1.318, $50. Tho
total membership Is q, O86, Of whom 691
were added last year on confession Of
faith.
The benefactions Of the late Cyrus
II. Mccormick. personally, and through
his executors. to the Presbyterian Semi
nary of the Northwest, amount to tho
magnificent sum of $450. OOO.-C Chicago
Aavancc.
The German Archaeological So
ciety has found that rather more than
sne-fourth of the school children of Cen
trail Europe are pure blondes, and about
sne-sixth are brunettes. more than one
half being Of the mixed type.
The University of Zurich has been
Of late years the most liberal among the
high schools of Europe in admitting
women to its privileges, and at the pres
ent time about one-tenth of the whole
number of students are women; four
teen are found in the Philosophical
Faculty, and twenty-nine in that Of
Medicine. Heretofore those in attend
ancs were all foreign women. but now
there are fifteen from Switzerland.
-AtTacoms. w. T., Bishop Walden
On. E.) was trying to raise 81 900 to pay
off church debt. why" he ex-
claimed, 'teverv property-owner hero
ought to subscribe. II I owned . corner
lot in Tacoma. I'd give $50 myself"
"All right, Bishop said member of
the congregation. "give your $50 and
call at my Office tomorrow morningf0r
the deed of your corner lot" The bar
gain was carried out.
Tho Lowell Courier Il opposed to
extending the summer school vacation
any further. 1t says: 1T is only within
few years that vacations have become
so prominent in our educational system.
There used to be q summer term of
school, and the vacations were all very
brief. Nobody was injured by too much
study. or ever thought of being. We
are getting to make our schools mat
ter of coddling. The boys and girls
who are injured by too much study are
a. scarce as white blackbirds."
Joseph C. Hendrix. reviewing the
history and work at the public schools
of Brooklyn, in the Brooklyn Magazine,
says that one of the first free schools in
this country was established in Brook
Ign, in 1861, by the old Hollanders. This
Dutch model he finds has prevailed
over the Puritan form. The first levy
for school purposes in the town amount
ed to only twenty dollars as against one
and half millions annually LEVIED now,
to provide for system requiring in ito
operation LAG teachers instructiDg TO-
600 pupils in sixty-two buildings.
Prof. Huxley affirms that If . man
can not get literary culture of the high
est kind out of his Bible, Chaucer.
Shakespeare, Milton. Hobbies and
Bishop Berkeley he cannot get it out Of
anything, and be urges their study upon
children. He believes the English
speaking people to be the only people
who seem to think that composition
comes by nature. The awakening of
leading educators to the necessity Of
promoting the study of English in the
schools has certainly been complete.
Every one is in favor of it, and many
colleges have already advanced it to the
position 1t Crrrnt.