The Osceola times., 1886-12-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The First parish Sunday-school OF
Charleston, Mass. which is the Oldest
one in New England. celebrated its sew
entieth anniversary recently.
Cornell University will confer ne
honorary degrees hereafter. and to be-
come a doctor of laws under the new
rules of the institution one must be ex-
amined. .-Ithaca Journal.
Hereafter the students a. the New
JERSEY State Scientific School, in addi-
ton to the military drill, will receive
instructions in craftsmanship on n
range in the suburbs Of New Bruins
wick.--N L. SIN.
The Methodist Church in Canada
has three local preachers who are mil
lionaires. w. T.. Sandford, of Hamil-
ton: John Macdonald, of Toronto, and
G. A. Cox, of Peterboro. Toronto
Mail.
Rev. Jeremiah o. Hearn, priest OF
the Roman Cat Holic Church. has been
received into the Baptist Church at
Dallas, Tex. lie had spent three years
investigating and studying the Baptist
faith.-N. J. Witness.
In recent discourse DIR. Hopkins.
ex-president of Williams, stated that
of the 1850 graduates of the college,
2,229 have sat under his instruct on in
the sixty-one years during which he
has been connected with it.-N J.
Ty1bane.
Chaplain McCabe claims that the
81. I.- ~
year for the work of God' Sl9,04I,3S7,
including 81. .292, 407 for the support OF
pastors, elders and bishops; Si,l3l.S3l
for building churches and parsonages;
81 900, 900 for missions; $500, ,O0J for
current expenses of 1900 churches
Recently census of the attend.
ance of the churches of London. Eng,
was taken. II showed that 400, 900
persons attended the services in the
morning and 10000 at night. The
largest establ shed church. 81. Paurs,
had an evening attendance of 3,i03.
Mr.. Spurge ms church was at the head
of the dissenting churches, having n
morning atten lance of 4,519 and an
evening attendance of 600.
DR.. John II. Brunner, in his Union
Of The hHrcbes. puts the number of
negro Methodists at 10000. which is
more than half the number if the status
tics of the various churches are correct.
They are as follows, viz; African Meth
odst Episcopal Zion, 100000; African
Method st Ep scopal, 39l,00J; Methodist
Episcopal, 22j.0O0; Colored Methodist,
l5j. 600; all others combined, 2j,000.
Total, l,196,0 900.
AT the annual session of the Synod
of the Reformed Church held IN Phila-
delphia, resolut ons favoring 60 stitu-
tional amendment prohi iting the man.
ufac,ure and sale OF liquor, and request
ing Congress to legislatc in favor OF
Indians holding land ind vidually, were
passed. The offer of the town of Wich-
ita, Kan, in regard to the establishment
of a college there was accepted. The
statistics show that the body has now
2lj ministers, 4jS congregat ons, and
5000 members. - Hiiadeiphia Press.
There is, perhaps, no science of
equal importance and interest which re-
ceivcs so little attention, in or ont of
the schools, as ornithology. Now and
then a little spasm of sentimental prclu-
dice can be aroused against the ruthless
slaughtering of birds to secure orna-
mcnts for the milIiners But as for any
intelligent interest in bird life, any real
knowledge of their habits, any adequate
appreciation Of the r value in the econo-
my of nature, there is, outside the little
band of spec allsts, absolutely none.-.
IrOtideRce journal.