St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-09-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
There are now thirty-seven wome
in the Universalist ministry.

In the UnlverSallSt ministry.
A colored normal State school to
cost ten thousand dollars will be To-
Gated at Louisville. Ky.
Jewish citizens in Las Vegas. N.
NJ, are erecting the first synagogue in
New Mexico.
Evening high schools are now pro-
vided for cities of fifty thousand OF
more inhabitants in Massachusetts,
Boston Journal.
The Christian Unio1 says ''this 10
the whole of righteousness-to be un-
selfish. to obey reason, and to love
beauty"
The Royal Academy of Belgium
offers prize of five thousand dollars
for the ablest paper on treatment of
nervous diseases, especially with
view for a remedy for epilepsy.
The income of Yale during the last
college year was $1S7,54O. with ex-
penses aggregating Sl67, ,235. The
total bequests to all the departments
exceed $l,6OO.OOO.
Half > century ago in Turkey it
was considered shame for woman
to read. To-day two schools for girls
in Constantinople have been estab
lished by the Sultan himself.
A remarkable record of prompti-
tude is that of Miss Annie Louise Good
rich of the classical course Nashua
IN. Y. high school. class of SO, who
was neither absent nor tardy for nine
consecutive years.
Several Philadelphia school boys
who had got into bad odor with their
teacher wrote to the chairman of the
school board asking him to use his in
nuence in their behalf. and they closed
their appeal with: won't you please
try to do something in our favor, as we
might be able to do a favor for you
sometime. Philadelphia Press.
The cost per child in average at
tendance for the State schools in the
principal Australian colonies. and for
the Board schools in England and
Wales. is as follows: Total cost per
child of the average attendance in the
State schools in New South Wales f6
12s. I'D; ditto ditto in Victoria Is 2s.
I'D; ditto ditto in South Australia Is
Is; ditto ditto in Queensland Is Is.
SID; Board schools in England and
Wales "a los. I'D.
The lines of one member of the
Salvation Army have at least fallen in
pleasant places. One of the brightest
and prettiest having gone to Plymouth
to convert the town, met with such sue
cess rs preacher that, at the sugges-
ton of many prominent citizens, she
has heen induced tn leave the army and
to establish herself as an independent
minister i'm church of her own. A gen.
tleman who offered to escort her home
was rather taken aback with the re-
response: Il have come to Plymouth
to catch souls, not beaux." ."-Boston
Gazette.
The San Francisco Report wants to
have commencements abolished on the
ground that they are out of place in a
country where free education is offered
to all. 1.-The college commencement"
it SAYS. ''is relic of the ancient time
when the scholar was rarity and
distinguished person who must be treat
ed with exceptional honor. He gener-
ally was compelled to suffer hardships
and privation in order to obtain his
knowledge, and he was treated with
corresponding respect upon winning
the battle. But it is absurd for the
State to furnish the children of this
State with free education. and then
to make heroes of them for acceptingit."