St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-09-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are ninety-two distinctively
scientific schools in this country WITH
IA, 7O9 students.
The Catholic priests in New York
meet four times month and discuss
theological subjects in the Latin Ian.
guage.
Close application to study in schoo
will affect a boys mind. 1t will gen.
orally affect it favorably. however,
Chicago Tribune.
A presiding elder congratulated :"
pastor in his district on the salubrious
air he was living in. ''ies, he nalvely
replied. s.if could live on it as we'll as
in it my lot would be happy one. y
n. Y Mil
The Baptist Heskiy asserts that tn.
concert halls and other resorts where
amusements are provided. with the at
cessory of intoxicating liquors. have
proved far more helpful in leading
young men. and often older ones, astray
than any other agency of evil in Ne"
York.
A Lowell. (Mass.) paper says.
Undoubtedly the mos. extraordinary
class in point of height that will b.
graduated from any Institution iii
America this year is that of Nicholas.
Latin School in this city. The tot
height of the seven members is forty.
two feet, an average of six feet each.
-Twenty-seven boys in the iunio,
class of Dickinson College refused 10
engage in the annual oratorical contest
if the one young lady member Of the
class was allowed to compete. Sll :
stood to her guns and spouted while
the boys rang the coll .ge bell to drown
her voice. but she carried off the gold
medal just the same. -Boston journal.
English students are less overbur-
dened with reverence than their
American brothers. At the recent
the appearance of the vice chancellor
in his robes was greeted with noisy
shouts of Don't try to initiate Irving"
and when DIR. Holmes was presented
voice inquired: II say. did you come
up in the one-horse shay:g-Boston
Badget.
The word s.iiend." says an eN
change. is now used SO commonly lis y
half-humorOus name for all kinds OF
people who make nuisances of them
selves that it is in danger of losing its
original meaning Here is Il Western
paper referring to a certain clergyman
as the ..iong- sermon tiend. and an
other which talks about 1.-THE church
going tiand." In this part of the
country there are number OF nom
church going iiead'.-N. T. Otscrre'.
In June the missionaries of til
American Sunday School Union, in the
Northwestern district. under the d.
-eetion OF Mr.. +. &. Ensign, estab-
iisled eiglty-iive new Sundayschoo.s 5
and brought 3lj teachers and 2.i-
scholars int, them. besides aiding l. !
old schools which have membership
Of SIS teachers and 4.93) scholars.
They also held 2I3 religious meetings,
distributed $55l worth of religious lit:
erature and condu tied some twenty.
five conventions. Chicago Interior.
Once in while some man has
courage enough to marry a Nassar
graduate; but as a rule the. girls don t
step off very well. Out of nearly 1ui
graduates only about 200 have been
drawn in the nuptial Moose. The full
blown buds have taken up various call.
ings. There are IL physicians. : Or
ganists. 10 book-kecpers. D chemists,
- school principals. : farmers, cen,
sus clerk. ? insurance agents. 23t
teachers. q artists, l law clerk. Ii.
brarian>. copyist. II music teachers.
3 astronomical assistants. : journal.
lists. 3 g,mna 'tic teachers. ? mission
aries. ) public readers and 1 authors
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