Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
There are 659 places for religious
worship in PHILADELPHIA.

There are 658 places for religious
worship in Philadelphia.
In India there are four fo male mis-
sionaries to every million of women.
Or. Lansdell, the English mission.
ary, in single year distributed no less
than $4,000 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.
Routh that he had received only five
pounds for preaching a sermon at Ok
ford Give polndsr' calculated the
doctor "Why, l would not have
preached that sermon for tiftyr'-Chris-
tian at Work.
Rev. Rupert Cochrane, M. A.,
rector of Langton, Spilsby, Lincoln
shire, has just completed the 133d 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 LiUing Church.
Rev. E. d. Jones, who has spent
ten years in China as a missionary,
preached sermon to congregation of
two hundred Cinnamon in New York
recently, addressing them in their native
tongue. AT the opening of the service
he attempted to repeat theLord' S prayer
in English, but broke down because he
had been speaking Chinese so long he
could not remember the words.-M y
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 491,
These are mostly Indian children, Of
course.
"A Presbyterian church in Ulster
County, N. Y, 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 L. Lowell, has been diligently en-.
gagged for the last four or five years in
preparing new and complete series Of
school readers. Mr.. Lowell has Just
completed his ninety-first year, and is in
remarkably good health for a man O
his advanced age. His eyesight ant
hearing are impaired, but in a recent
letter he writes that he can easily wall
four or five miles without fatigue. HI
is residing in Waterbury, Conn.,
Hartford Courant.
The principal of colored schoo
in Louisville had the temerity to punisl
one of his pupils, twelve-year-olC
boy. The boy retaliated by throwing
stone at the presumptuous teacher
which hit and injured him quite severe
ly. The latter had the young mis-
creant arrested for assault, whereupol
his schoolmates rebelled and demanded
that their teacher should be discharged
Here the trustees were called in, ant
soon settled the trouble by dischargin!
the ringleaders of the rebellion. 1t wa
found that one promising youth carriet
a knife, with which he said he mean
to kill the principal Chicago Times.