Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

For the last fifteen wears there has
been no time at which there was not an
American woman studying medicine in
the Swiss National College in Zurich.
The Worcester County Mechanics
Association is going to test the practical
bility of industrial training for boys by
establishing a school Of its own.-Bos-
ton Journal.
The official yearbook of the Church
OF England shows that during the last
twenty-five years the church has raised
and spent for religious and educational
purposes the sum of $4O7, 1866, 1876.
1t is claimed that the union of the
four Methodist churches in Canada has
worked so harmoniously that an in
crease OF 10000 to the membership the
first year demonstrates the wisdom of
the union.
The synodical reports were read at
the recent session of the PRESBYTERIAN
Women's Board of Foreign Missions at
indianapolis. For Illinois there were
reported 483 churches, with q member
ship of $4,000, but in only 100 of the
churches was there an organized mis-
sionary effort.
"A skeptic who was trying to confuse
Christian colored man by contradic-
tory passages IN the Bible, asked how it
could be thatwe are in the spirit and
the spirit in us; he received the follow
ing reply: ''Oh, dar's no puzzle bout
dat; it's like dat poker. / puts it in the
fire till it gets red hot. Now, de poker's
in de fire and de fires in the poker. "
Chicago Ltvtng Church
The number of ',speoial" students
at Harvard college having grown in
four years from thirty-four to 10, the
faculty has decided that hereafter each
special student shall appear before five
examiners and show on severe test that
he has heretofore been a good student,
and that he will while at the college
work in thorough and honest way.
This policy, 1t is believed, will decrease
the number of these students.
Lectures have recently been deliv-
cred in several agricultural parishes in
the diocese of Oxford, England, with a
view to the formation of night classes
for instruction in the elementary prin-
ciples of agricultural science. It is
thought in many villages that the elder
lads in the day school, with others who
have just left school, might benefit by
the proposed course of Instructions
1t is stated that the pupils of one of
our principal public schools are contem-
plating the presentation of petition to
the school committee asking that the
practice of out of school studies may be
discontinued. Grave complaints are
made in some quarters that the tasks
set out for the pupils in the Girls High
School are so onerous that parents
threaten to take theii children away
and send them to private schools, where
they will not have to study beyond
school hours. Boston, Pest.
The organ-blower in the London
church recently fell asleep during the
service, of which fact the audience soon
became conscious by his vigorous blow
ing of his own organ. Rev. Arthur
Hall, the preacher, after bearing it for
a while, stopped and remarked: II do
not object to quiet nap on hot day,
and am fattered at being able to con-
tribute to anybody's repose. But, while
proud at being able to give the beloved
sleep. | wish it to be distinctly under
stood that [ draw the line at shores.
There is man snoring in the congre-
CATION, and shall be obliged if some
body will awaken him. The offender
was quickly reused.