The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-03-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

j. Pierrepont Morgan, of New YorA,
will build $500, 900 memorial parish
house for St. George Church in that
city.
Dartmouth College has received
from Levi P. Morton a gift of the val
liable Rood property adjoining the new
chapel.
The Onondaga IN. Y. Indians have
determined to have school for their
children, to be supported at their own
expense.
The only young lady student AZ the
Boston University Law School is called
appropriately by the men law students
their sister-in-law.
AT the recent meeting of Jewish
ministers in Baltimore, committee
was appointed to compile and publish
an English prayer-book.
1T is said that in England one man
in every 5000 takes university course,
in Scotland in every 512, in Germany in
every 213 and in America in every 1000.
-Mohammedanism has made great
strides in Africa within the last fifty
years. and Christian missionaries freely
say they will soon have to deal with it
rather than with paganism.--N Y. En-
Gnliner
Hon. George H. Barnes promises
to give $4,000 towards college at
Fargo. d. T., to be called Barnes Univer-
sity He is President of the Northern
Pacific elevator system.
A royal decree has been promul
gated in Spain ordering the corpora
tons of all towns whose population
exceed 100000, on the request of the
local Educational Committee, to appoint
a Medical Inspector of schools. The
salary is to be fixed by the corporation.
The desks and chairs were taken
by the male pupils from Reading, Pa,
school few days ago and made bon
fire of. An official on a visit to the
school some time since is reported to
have suggested that unless new furni-
ture be provided the old ought to be
carried out and burned. 1t is supposed
that this saying led them to pursue the
course they did.-Ptiiade!phia Press.
This is certainly the age of private
muniticence. A year ago the council
of Kings College, Windsor, N. s., re-
moved the principal and all the staff
of professors because the university did
not pay its way as church institution.
Now its affairs are suddenly frightened
by the reversion of SS2, 900, left it by
Rev. &. w. Hodgson, of Prince Ed
ward Island, one of its graduates
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A missionary in Africa found q
heather tribe worshiping leather.
bound and gilt-edged book which had
been given them by traveller. 1t was
much the worse for wear, but on ex-
aiming it the missionary found that it
was an Episcopal prayer-book. The
heather had been quite as highly de-
lighted with it as if it were wooden
image. The gliding on the edges was
the special attraction which inspired
them with sentiments of reverence for
the volume.
The venerable DIR. Won Dollinger,
now eighty-six years old, says of the
disestablishment of the English Church:
"Such measure should be firmly re-
sisted. 1t would be blow to Christi.
anity, not only in England but through
out Europe. II such a measure were
adopted by the Legislature of a country
with history like that of England,
there could be no mistake as to its sig
nificance. 1t would be well understood
alike by the friends and the foes Of
Christianity-in Germany, in France,
throughout the civilized world"