The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A New York teacher has been fined
twenty days pay for thrashing q boy.
The trustees of Cornell University
have decided 70 open law school in
September Of next year.-Bu6alo En-.
press.
1t is proposed to add certain new
degrees at Princeton College, such as
Doctor of Literature Lit d. and
Bachelor Of Divinity (B. d..
New York takes four Of the twelve
honors. including the valedictory. of the
graduating class at Y ale, and COnnecti-
cut four. The other four are scattered
among the other States.
Rev. N. N. Gilbert, of Christ Epis.
copal Church, st. Paul. has been elected
IS assistant to Bishop Whipple, of Min
nesota, with q salary of three thousand
dollars. Mr.. Gilbert was born in Otsego
County. N. Y, and is thirty-eight years
old.
Oscar H. Cooper. the new State
Superintendent Of Public Instruction in
Texas. is the youngest man in the
United States holding similar position.
He is only twenty-three years of age and
. graduate of Yale, where he was
formerly Chicago Journal.
During the past year $3.50. 900 have
been contributed to the Salvation Army
in Great Britain alone, and 1000 girls
have been rescued from the streets, and
nineteen homes for the friendless estab-
lished.
English Methodism is beginning to
protest with great carnestness against
the the three years limit of its pastor
ate, and q prominent London Journal
says it is successfully emptying the larg-
est chapels in city and country. and con-
dennis it as being no longer necessary,
and totally un-Wesleyan.-Christia
Union.
AS an example of the confidence
that some professors have in their stu
dents, it is said that prominent Cor
nell professor, leaving town before q
few Of his students had taken the exami-
nation. generously sent set of ques-
tons to these students to be answered
in their roOms.-N. y Mail.
in China the converts of the Eng
fish and American churches put together
| amount now to something like fifty
thousand, as against half dozen forty
| five years ago; and in one mission alone
"a mission of the Church of England
in the province of Fuh-Kien. there are
some two thousand baptized members.
The mission was begun in 1850.
I'm the public schools of New York
they spare the rod. and the New York
papers agree with Solomon in believing
that they are spelling the children. The
discipline of the schools seems to be
very much worse than when corporal
punishment was allowed. One boy
recently became very unruly and the
teacher gave him little tap ON the
cheek. 1t was not claimed that the boy
was hurt in the least yet the teacher
was fined sixty-five dOllars.-ChicagO
Mail.
DIR. Smith, pastor of the First Meth
Odist Church in st. Paul, found a gang
of men paving the street in front of his
church one Sunday morning. He asked
them to stop. They did not. Then he
said that they must stop. and right of.
too. If they did not he would make a
complaint against each individual work
man, and see that he was arrested and
punished for breaking the Sabbath day.
At this the PAYERS took up their tools
and quit work, and the energetic pastor
walked into the pulpit and preached
with great fervor, saying. in the course
of the sermon, that he proposed to have
Sunday observed in front of his church
if hot in any other part of St Paul.-M
y. San.