The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


There are ninety-two distinctively
scientific schools in this country with
14.7Oo students.
Edinburgh University has decided
TO establish degree OF Bachelor of
Science in Agriculture.
The Catholic priests In New York
meet four times month and discuss
theological subjects in the Latin Ian.
guage.
Close application to study in school
will affect boys mind. 1t will gen.
orally affect 1t favorably, however,
Chicago Tribune.
"A presiding elder congratulated
pastor in his district on the salubrous
air he was living in. Eyes. he naivcly
replied. '.if l could live on it as well as
in 1t my lot would be happy one."-
N. Y. MpH.
The Baptist Weekly asserts that the
concert halls and other resorts where
amusements are provided. with the ac-
cessory of intoxicating liquors. have
proved far more helpful in leading
young men, and often older ones, astray
than any other agency of evil in New
York.
"A Lowell. (Nlass.) paper says:
Undoubtedly the most extraordinary
class in point of height that will be
graduated from any institution in
America this year is that of Nicholas
Latin School in this city. The total
height of the seven members is forty.
two feet, an average of six feet each.
-Twenty-sevcn boys in the Junior
class Of Dickinson College refused to
engage in the annual oratorical contest
If the one young lady member of the
class was allowed to compete. She
stood to her guns and spouted while
the boys rang the college bell to drown
her voice. but she carried off the gold
medal just the same. Boston Journal.
English students are less overbur-
dened with reverence than their
American brothers. At the recent
commemorative celebration at Oxford
the appearance of the vice chancellor
in his robes was greeted with noisy
shouts of Don't try to initiate Irving!''
and when DIR. Holmes was presented
voice inquired: II say. did you come
up in the one-horse shay?"-Boston
Budget.
The word "fiend." says an ex-
change, is now used so commonly as
half-humorous name for all kinds of
people who make nuisances of them
selves that it is in danger Of losing its
original meaning. Here is a Western
paper referring to a certain clergyman
as the ''long-sermon fiend," and an
other which talks about ''the church.
going fiend." In this part of the
country there are number of nom
church-going fiends.-N. Y. Observer.
In June the missionaries of the
American Sunday y-School Union, in the
Northwestern district, under the di-
reetion of Mr.. +. G. Ensign, estab-
lished eighty-five new Sunday-schools
and brought 315 teachers and 2.48O
scholars into them, besides aiding 1873
old schools which have a membership
of 518 teachers and 4.23Q scholars.
They also held 243 religious meetings,
distributed $551 worth of religious lit
erature and conducted some twenty
five conventions. .-C Chicago Interior.
Once in while some man has
courage enough to marry a Vassar
graduate; but as rule the girls don't
step off very well. Out of nearly 700
graduates only about 200 have been
drawn in the nuptial moose. Tho full
blown buds have taken up various call
ings. There are II physicians, Or
ganists. 10 book-keepers, chemists,
Is school principals, 2 farmers. CEN
sus clerk, 2 insurance agents, 230
teachers, 6 artiSfs, l law clerk, IL
brarians. copyist. IL music teachers.
= astronomical assistants . ionrnal-
lists, gymnastic teachers. mission.
ares. 3 public readers and 4 authors
Troy Times.