The Iola register., 1886-06-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are 65S places for religious
worship in Philadelphia.
I'm India there are four female mi+-
sionaries to every million Of women.
DR.. Lansdell. the English mission
ary, in q single wear distributed no less
than $1,000 Bibles among the exiles in
Siberia
An association has been formed in
England called the Morning Watch.
whose object is to encourage early
rising and early communion with God.
1t is said that in the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania, between ShamO-
kin and Scranton, there are about two
| thousand persons who are members Of
the Greek Church.
"A country rector complained to DR..
Kouth that he had received only five
pounds for preaching q sermon at Ok
ford .'Five poInds!'' calculated tho
doctor. "Why. l would not have
preached that sermon for rfifty!"-Chris-
tiGH at Work.
Rev. Rupert Cochrane, NJ A.,
rector of Langton. Spilsby, Lincoln
shire, has just completed the l33d year
Of his family's service to the church.
For three generations, without the break
Of a year. this service has been going
On. His grandfather gave forty-three
years of his life to the work. his father
tifty-six years. he himself thirty-four
years.-Chicago Liring Church.
Rev E. ID. Jones. who has spent
ten wears in China as a missionary,
preached sermon to n Congregation Of
two hundred Cinnamon in New York
recently, addressing them in their nstiv.
tongue. At the opening Of the service
he attempted to repeat theLord' prayer
in English. but broke down because he
had been speaking Chinese so long hs
| could not remember the words.-N. T.
| Tribune.
The only schools which the National
Bureau of Education has under its direct
control are those of Alaska. There are
seven schools in that Territory. located
at Sitka. Fort Wrangel. Jackson,
Haines, Ounalaska, Hoonah and Bethel,
and the total number of pupils is 49l.
These are mostly Indian children. of
| course.
A Presbyterian church in Ulster
| County, n. T., has voluntarily gone
into liquidation, sold its place of wor-
ship and placed the funds in the hands
of the presbytery to be held in trust
against future exigencies. The reason
given for this step is that church of
the same denomination in a neighbor-
ing village has absorbed the member
ship and attendance of the smaller Or
ganization.-Troy Times.
The ..Lancasterian' schoolmaster
and author of series of school readers.
John f. Lowell. has been diligently en-
gagged for the last four or five years in
preparing a new and complete series of
school readers. Mr.. Lowell has just
completed his ninety-first year. and is in
remarkably good health for man of
his advanced age. His eyesight and
hearing are impaired. but in a recent
letter he writes that he can easily walk
four or five miles without fatigue. He
is residing in Waterbury, Conn
Hartford Conrant.
The principal of a colored school
in Louisville had the temerity to punish
one of his pupils. twelve-year-old
boy. The boy retaliated by throwing a
stone at the presumptnous teacher.
which hit and injured him quite severe
ly. The latter had the young mis-
creant arrested for assault. whereupOn
his schOolmates rebelled and demanded
that their teacher should be discharged
Here the trustees were called in. and
soon settled the trouble by discharging
the ringleaders of the rebellion. twas
found that one promising youth carried
a knife. with which he said he meant
to kill the principal.-ChicaJo Times.