The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The first college annual ever pub
lished in the South was recently issued
by the University of Georgia.
The nobility of England give $780,
900 a year for missions, the Sunday
schools 100000 and the 'poorer
classes" S2,000,000.
The Chautauqua University has
nonresident School of Theology for
the benefit of young ministers and
others who wish to review their studies.
The little Chinese Presbyterian
Church in San Francisco gave forHome
Missions last year $50; for Foreign
Missions $158. The Chinese of Los
Angeles gave $50 to one of the native
helpers in China to open mission
school. San Francisco Chronicle.
Some vandal has stolen the ivy
planted by the Yale class of $50. 1t
was the gift of Mrs Cushing, who got
it herself from Mount Helicon, in
Greece, from the face of cliff where
the marble was quarried for the build
ings of the Acropolis of ancient
Athens. Hartford Post.
A church in. Morelia, Mex, has
been agitated by visit from the devil.
Nobody saw the gentleman in person,
but in a single instant every movable
article in the church, except the reli-
quarry and statue of the virgin, fell to
the floor. 1t was plain that only the
devil could have caused the disaster
NJ Y. Times.
There are fourteen Presbyterian
theological seminaries in this country,
with libraries aggregating 203, 900 vol
umes; eighteen Catholic, with $4,000;
ten Congregational, with 119, 1886; four
teen Baptist, with 1O5, 900; twelve
Episcopal, with $4,000; thirteen Luz
theran, with $4,000; one Reformed
Dutch, with $4,000, and six Methodist,
with 28,000.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
The country Is becoming rich in
schools and colleges. Public Opinion
(Washington) figures out that the dis
tinctively scientific schools number go;
manual schools, 255; medical colleges,
AS; institutions for the higher educa-
ton of women, 236; law schools, 81
There are $40 universities and colleges
in the United States, with 65,522
students in attendance.
The Catholic ReUleU announces q
new translation of the Bible into the
Slovenian language by Slovenian
priest at Prague. 1t is to be published
at the expense of a Slovenian dean and
priest, who has given 10000 florins for
the purpose in gratitude to God for
sparing him to celebrate his jubilee of
fifty years in the priesthood. A copy
is to be given to every Slavonian parish
and convent church.
The following advertisement re-
| Gently appeared: ga father wants to
find school for his son where manly
and useful education will be given him,
and where the teachers do not fill the
heads of their pupils with humbug
| stories about nations that died and
| were buried thousands of centuries ago,
| not a citizen of which could either COM
mand steamboat or manage railway
station. ~ Y. Herald.
The report of the Baptist Mission
| airy Union reveals remarkable activity
| and growing power on the part Of the
| denomination. In the past seven years
the receipts of the union have been
| So, 282, 1888, an increase of siXty-six per
| cent. over the receipts of the previous
seven years. The number of mission
aries has increased from PSI to 500.
| Over 700 churches have been organized
and 467 church edifces have been built.
1t is now claimed that tive-slxths of
the Baptists in the world are in the
United States. Y. Examiner.