The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Vermont has 113 Baptist churches,
with 1926 members and LOG ordained
ministers.
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 question of allowing further
participation in intercollegiate foot
ball matches has been decided in the
negative by the faculty of Harvard
College by a vote of % to 4.
The principal of one of New York
| hany ''finishing" schools where young
ladies are presumed to get the ilnai
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.
The following statistics are given
concerning the Catholic Church in this
country: Cardinals. archbishops and
bishops, 76; priests. 6,s35; churches and
chapels, 1853; seminaries, colleges and
academies for both sexes, 708: asylums,
294; hospitals, 1880; commandments,
1900, 900.
Bishop Lyman, of North Carolinas
takes except on 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 tried IL Chicago Herald.
The valae of chewing gum as q
factor in education has been settled al
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 gllmless 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
1 | than for each one to maintain a weak
\ and poorly equipped high school. The
t only thing that stands in the way Of
! such union is local jealousy, and the
t sooner that is set aside the better
v Boston journal.
The will of the late Governor Abnel
q Coburn, of Maine, bequeaths the bulk oi
t his property TO the cause of education
r in the South. To Coburn Classical In.
n stitute he bequeaths $4,000; to Colby
q University, of Waterville, $200,000
which, with other amounts for the ben
J, eft of the university, make his entire
y bequests thereto over 100000. The
State Agricultural College at Orono re
: ceives 800. 900, and the Maine Genera
;, Hospital in Portland $4,000.
: The New York sam is discussing the
grammar of the family prayer, ..Now
lay me down to sleep" 1t pronounce.
o it all right. 1t undoubtedly is; but
e grammatical or not, it has gone up tt
u the great judgment seat freighted will
J the sweetest confidence and trust tina
u u only infantile humanity can understand
!, That simple petition will endure as lons
u u as Christianity prevails, and will b.
II familiar to more hearts and lips thar
s' probably all other prayers combined
;, Few English-speaking men and womel
: but learned it at mothers knee and few
y wholly forget tit.-[,adidndDolis journal