The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-29

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"A Boston schoolma'am paste6
paper over the mouth Of . little girt
who 80 far forgot tho rules a. to sing
during school hours.
lin the Presbyterian Churches IN
Prince Edwards Island it is the custom
ID contribute every one . penny. no
more. no less. Expenses are more
than paid.
Tho colored people of Georgia pay
taxes ON six million dollars worth Of
school property, the sum thus derived
being nearly sufficient to maintiOn the
col0red schools of the State. Chicogo
Current.
In speaking OF the Bible, John
Milton said: There are no songs to
be compared with the songs of Zion;
no orations equal to those of the
prophets. and no politics like those The
Scriptures teach"
Ex-senator Charles Maclay, of San
Francisco, Cal. has added $40, coo to
his previous gift of $3.50, 900 to establish
a theological college at San Fernando,
in connection with the Methodist Uni
versity at Los Angeles.
On q recent Sunday Mr.. Watkins,
. missionary in South Africa. baptized
fifty-four adults, all converted from
heathenism during the year, and also
thirty-one children. At the same time
he married seven couples.
AT Cornell University the salary At
tached to the professorships of civil en-
cheering and of physic have been adj
vanced to $500. Those of eleven
other professorships were increased
from 81, $50 to $1,000 One was raised
from 1900 to $1,000, and four were
raised from $4,000 to 81, OO.-Iktac0
IN. y )Jou,nal.
An effort is making in Boston to
take the schools entirely out of munich
pal politics, and to this end separate
elections are urged. The complaint is
made that local politicians use positions
in the schoOl-bOard simply as stepping.
stones to places in the Council, the re-
suit too often being that the members
of the school-bOard are men who have
no intelligent sympathy with the cause
of Standardization Bulletin.
"A correspondent of the Living
Church, who claims to have kept care
full record presents the following as the
conversions of ministers to the Episcopal
faith the past year: Methodists, s.;
Roman Catholic. 3; Presbyterian, 8; Re-
formed Episcopal, 2; Adventists, 2;
Salvation Army, 2; German Reformed.
1; Universalist, 1; Jewish Rabbi, 1;
Evangelist 1; Se:ularist, /; Unknown,
1. Total %. The period is from Ad-
vent to Advent.
These college sports should be kept
within proper and safe limits. There
is President Bartlett, of Williams Col
lege, in the dry dock with broken
arm, caused by falling on the ice, and
Professor Sumner, of Yale, in the ditto
with ditto. caused by falling of a
bicycle. 1t is high time the students
held a meeting to consider how far it is
safe to allow the Faculty to go in their
reckless love of manly sports.-Eln,ira
advertiser.
The Christian Church at Shoa-hing,
China, has pleasant and practical way
of taking up collections for the support
of the preacher. A long bamboo tube
which is fastened to the wall is inscribed
God lOveth a cheerful giver." Each
church member is expected to drop into
this tube every Sunday morning what
ever he can afford. The members are
mostly poor people, and their gifts are
small, but they are trained in the habit
of giving something each week. Thus
the preachers support is regular. even
If not princely.-M. Y. Exanaiaer.