Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

We1s0tOOS AND EO12CALlONACS
There are 65S placesfae religious
worship in Philadelphia.
In India there are four female mis-
Aonaries to every million. Of women.
DIR. Lansdell. the English mission.
AIRY. in single year distributed no less
than $4,000 Bibles amongthe exiles in
Siberia.
AN association has.beem formed in
England called the Morning Watch.
whose object is to encourage early
rising and early communion with God.
1t is said that in the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania. between Shamo-
kin and Scranton. there are about two
thousand persons wkOs are members of
the Greek Church.
"A country rector-oompfained to d..
ROuth that he had received only fivV
pounds for preaching q sermon at Ok
ford. Five polndsi' calculated the
doctor. ''Why. l would not have
preached that sermonfor tiftyr-CariS-
tian at Work.
Rev. Rupera Cochrane, NJ. A..
rector of Langton. Spilsby, Lincoln
shire, has just completed the lS3d year
of his family's service to the church.
For three generations without the break
of year, this service has been going
on. His grandfather gave forty-three
years of his life to the work, his father
tifty-six years. he himself thirty-four
years.-Chicago Lirin3 Church.
Rev. L. d. Jones. who has spent
ten years in China as missionary.
preached sermon to congregation of
two hundred Cinnamon in New York
recently, addressing them in their native
tongue, At the opening of the service
he attempted to repeat theLord's prayer
in English. but broke down because he
had been speaking Chinese so long he
could not remember the words.-N Y.
Irib,taae.
The only schools which the National
Bureau of Education has under it's direct
control are those of Alaska. There are
seven schools in that Territory. located
at Sitka. Fort Wrangel, Jackson,
Haines, Ounalaska. Hoonah and Bethel.
and the total number of pupils is 49l.
These are mostly Indian children, Of
course.
"A Presbyterian church in Ulster
County. n. Y, has voluntarily gone
into liquidation, sold its place of wor-
ship and placed the funds in the hands
of the presbytery to be held in trust
against future eXigencies. The reason
given for this step is that church of
the same denomination in neighbour
i,,cv lla thn hnr
ship and attendance of the smaller or
ganization.-1roy Times.
The ..Lancasterian" schoolmaster
and author of a series of school readers,
John f. Lowell, has been diligently en-
gagged for the last four or five years in
preparing new and complete series of
school readers. Mr.. Lowell has just
completed his ninety-tirst year. and is in
remarkably good health for a man of
his advanced age. His eyesight and
hearing are impaired. but in recent
letter he writes that he can easily walk
four or five miles without fatigue. He
is residing in Waterbury, Conn.,
Hartford Courant.
The principal of colored school
in Louisville had the temerity to punish
one of his pupils. a twelve-year-old
boy. The boy retaliated by throwing a
stone at the presumptuous teacher.
which hit and injured him quite severe.
ly. The latter had the young mis-.
creant arrested for assault, whercupon
his schOolmates rebelled and demanded
that their teacher should be discharged.
Here the trustees were called in, and
soon settled the trouble by discharging
the ringleaders of the rebellion. 1t WAC
found that one promising youth carried
Il knife, with which he said he meant
to kill the principal.-Chicago Times.