The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

o6esAsOOS ANIL 6OOSA buONAS
OF the forty-three thousand new
members of the Presbyterian Church
last year about twenty-one thousand
came from the Sunday-schools.-Chris-
tiGn Union.
The late Senior Dona susanna
Beintez Vindade Parejo left $500. 900 to
found boys school in Madrid. aud
$3.50, 900 in medical charities.
The State of Pennsylvania has
eighteen schools for soldiers orphans,
ON which %, OOO, 900 has been expended
during the past twenty years.-Philadel
phia Press.
I'm the 1875 colleges and the other
institutions of learning in the country,
attended by $500 young men. there
are now 210 Y. NJ. G. Associations
N. 7. Examiner.
The Norwegians of Brooklyn have
founded q hospital for the benefit of
their fellow countrymen. A deaconess
from the old country has entered upon
the work as nurse.-Brooklyn Union.
"A Waterbury paper mentions citi-
zen who removed his daughter from q
great female college in consequence of
the prevalence there of the baneful
and disgustinglhabit:: of chewing gum
Hartford Courant.
The London correspondent of
Science announces that the old public
schools in England are relaxing their
strict adherence to the classics. ''Rhg-
BY" he says, lis about to institute q
modern side, and changes in the same
direction are gradually introduced at
EtOn, her great rival, Harrow having
long had something of the kind"
That was a good bit of advice given
by an old and reverend minister to some
young theOlOgues who were seeking
your text" he said, ''then try to lire it
for q week. and at the end of that time
you will be in condition to write" If
this method of preparation were in more
frequent use, audiences might have less
reason to complain of ''dry" dis
courses COngreJationaiist.
In Chicago school, recently, the
class that was reciting the Language
lesson" were requested to give a sem
tence with the word capillary. A lit
tie girl wrote, Il sailed across the ocean
in a capillary" When asked what she
meant by that, she turned to Webster's
unabridged and triumphantly pointed
out this definition-'.Capillary: fine
vessel" Further investigations showed
that nearly all the class had made the
same blunder.-1he 4Adrance.
"A curious company went over from
New York to Brooklyn few Sunday
nights ago. 1t consisted, among 9TH
ers, of the Rev. Mr.. Haweis, CORTLAND
Palmer, Andrew Carnegie and two
daughters of Bob Ingersoll. Mr.. Beecher
knew they were there and he arose
to the situation and preached one of the
very best sermons that ever came from
the Plymouth pulpit. After the sermon
he was introduced to the little party.
One of Colonel IngersOlrs daughters
told him that that was the first time she
had ever been in a church in her life,
whereat Mr.. Beecher said that she was
the prettiest pagan he ever saw. and
the priests and the agnostics laughed
heartily at the pleasantry.-M Y. Tri-
bune.
progress in the world is going on in the
Telugu Islands. The missionary work
among these Telugus has been attended
with marvellous success, the baptisms in
each year being numbered by the thou
sands. Now the idolators seek to get
even with the missionaries and win the
people back to the faith of their fathers.
They go among the Christian converts
bearing on bamboo poles small idol
houses. They make a great noise with
drums and shoutings and generally at
tract crowds of people. The mission
aries say that there has not in half :,
century been such a revival of idolatry.
Herald.