The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
NOTES.

HENRY BEBeH is we'll named for all
the future as The American Apostle of
Kindness"
Mr.. GLADSTONE always says, an union
and an European. We suppose he would
also say an Universalist."
The Episcopal church has a building
fund of $121 900, which it is hoped to in
crease to 100000 before next year.
THE indications now are that the Meth
odists will raise $1,2OO,OOO for missions
the present year. This is q noble record.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is to write a reply to
IngersolPs attack on Christianity, which
will be published in an American maya
zine in May.
The choirs of the Church of England
include $4,000 voluntary and $4,000 paid
male singers. and $1,000 voluntary and
2.1OO paid female singers.
WOMEN desiring to enter the. London
Society of Lady Dressmakers have to
furnish testimonials Of their social posi-
ton" as we'll as OF character
TIFF Ctngregdtionalist reports that
the "moral and spiritual condition of
our American colleges probably never
was better than at present"
THE Sabbath Association of Illinois is
circulating petitions to the managers of
railroads, telegraphs, etc., asking them to
stop working on the Sabbath day.
The Baptists and Presbyterians of Chi
cago have been enjoying social union
together with pleasant postprsndial
speeches. The Interior calls the new
compound, Presbybspterianism."
IT may surprise some of our readers to
learn that Hungary is one of the strong
holds of Unitarianism in Europe. There
are 57,516 Unitarians in that country, and
at the last synod, fifteen ministers were
ordained.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has two sons
away at boarding-school. One of them
wrote home the other day: We have
debating society, and one OF our favorite
subjects is, The United States Navy, and
How Might 1t be ImprovedY"
The memory OF Helen Hunt jackson,
the devoted friend of the Indians, and
author of "a Century of Dishonor," isto
be honored by the erection of an Indian
girls school to bear her name at Santa
Fe, New Mexico. The building is to
cost thirty thousand dollars, and is to &C.
commodate one hundredand fifty pupils
WHEN Gen. Arson G. McCook was last
in Germany he visited the old palace at
Potsdam. There amid trophies of the
seven years war, he came upon statuet
of Carlyle. "Why is that here?" he
asked the old woman who was in charge
Of the room. "Why, sir" said she, cit
is because he copied the writings of Old
FritzT'
-ARoHDEAooN FARRAR has started a
movement for national monument to
the illustrious Admiral Blake, whose
bones lie in a nameless grave in the
churchyard of st. Margaret's, Westmin-
ster, the promiscuous and forgotten pit
to which the vile spite Of revengeful
king consigned also the mortal remains
of Ppm, Strobe, May, and CromwelPs
venerable mother.
The Gar of Russia has submitted two
measures OF interest to the council of the
empire. The first is to promote the col
onizing of the Black sea Caucasian coast
by Cossacks. The second is to organize
the whole northern Caucasus as a Cos
sack district on the Don Oossack system.
This scheme would compel some entirely
European communities to conform to the
features of Oossack life.
The theorists who oppose the higher
education of women find it difficult to
make their theories stand against the
facts which are offered by the life of
the time. The truth is, the opponents of
college education for women are only
theorists. When it comes to the matter
of practice, it is not easy to find man or
woman who does not believe in letting an
Intelligent young woman learn whatever
she likes, and put her knowledge to the
best uses which present themselves to
her ambition, her necessities or her tastes.
Boston Advertiser.
CHAvAssE, an eminent surgeon, says:
Encourage your child to be merry and
to laugh aloud; a good hearty laugh ex-
pands his chest and makes his blood
bound merrily along. Commend me to
good laugh-not to little staggering
laugh, but to one that will sound through
the house; it will not only do your child
good, but will be a benefit to all who
hear, and be an important means Of
driving the blue devils away from "a
dwelling. Merriment is very catching,
and spreads in a remarkable manner, few
being able to resist the contagion. A
hearty laugh is delightful harmony; in
deed, it is the best of all music"
Zion's Herald talks right out in regard
to the neglect of psrishioneIs in paying
ministers. 1t gives specification: ." We
heard an able preacher and efficient pas
tor say recently that his charge was $500
in arrears, on a pro rata basis, with his
salary. That man has wife and several