Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-20

degrees to women.
AIRS. NJ. A. Croker Of San FRANCHISES
has given the Young Women's sssoeia-
ton of that city $1,000.
President Cleveland VIII lay She
corner stone of the new library building
ct Cornell university in June.
The senior class. in all departments.
in Wisconsin state university. number
l5O; that IN the collegiate depart
ment sixty.
The managers of the Iowa state
university ask the legislature to ap-
propriat $50, 900 for the purpose of pur-
pose Of purchasing a base ball ground
for the students.
Mrs. Eliza r. Wheaton has given the
town of Norton, Mass, new public
library building, worth $40, 600. Nearly
hall OF the 2, 200 books in the library
are also her gift.
1t is said that of 2, GIG female gradu-
ates OfAmerican colleges 998 are mar
rcd, 949 are teachers, 1873 are In other
occupations, and $50 are not engaged in
rsmunerative work.
The total number of churches and
preaching stations in England and
Wales IN connection with the WeIeb
Presbyterian church, commonly called
the Calvinistic Methodists, is /, 1874.
A project is on foot in New York for
s school to be used for training servant.
girls. They want S., 600 for the pur-
pose. All are In favor of the scheme.
but no one wants to put up the money.
An Arapahoe Indian Of full blood.
now taking postgraduate course at
Hobart college, is a regularly ordained
clergyman Of the Protestant Episcopa1
church. He is known as Rev. Sher-
man Coolidge.
Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw of Boston,
daughter of Prof. Agassiz, has for eight
years supported free kindergartens in
the poorest quarters Of Boston and
Cambridge at a personal expense of az
much as $50, 600 a year.
Two of the members of the senior
class at Hillsdale, Mich, are G. h.
Jackson and G.. A. jackson. The
former is ffty-three years old and the
father of the latter, who is twenty-three
years old, and both expect to graduate
in June.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, an Icelandic
Lutheran church was recently conse-
Grated. The size of the building is
42X66 feet, and cost $4,000, and the
pastor is Rev. John Biarnason. There
are said to be 1900 Icelandars living
in Winnipeg.
Major Henry E. AIvord, professor
of agriculture at the Massachusetts ag-
riculturaI college, has resigned his POI
sitiOn there, and viii probably accept
the presidency of the Maryland agri-
cultural college and experimental sta
ton, to which he has been elected.
In the HISTORIAN Mission in 1857
there were 215 communicates; in 1867,
697; in 1877, I,O87; in 1887, over I, 800.
There are l20 preaching places, and
the congregations embrace g, 600 souls.
There 40 ordained preachers, 10 theo-
logical students, n elders, and 81
deacOnesses.
at Wooster university a natural his
tory society has been organized as a
branch of the Agassiz association, which
was founded by Mr.. Harlan Ballard, of
LenOx, Mass, some years ago. The
society meets once IN two weeks, and Is
in a furnishing condition. Such stu
dent organizations deserve to be heart
lily encouraged.
Bishop Whitehead of Pittsburg, Pa.
depreciates the use of flowers at funer-
ais and in the church on Easter day.
The use Of flowers in church on Easter
has undoubtedly been overdone. But
1t hardly as bad in this country as it ia
IN the English churches on harvest
home festivals, when many churches
resemble nothing so much as a green
grocery.
A little time ago, says the Toronto
Globe, we gave under the heading "a
Busy Clergyman, - the name Of the Rev.
Or. Macrae, who had made between.
800 and LOGO visits among his con
gregatiOn In one year. Now we learn
That the Rev. j. W. lotion, of the
Methodist church, Markham, has in
one year IN his present charge beaten
that record by about 30O making near
Iy 1. 300 visits IN the one wear. Mr.
lotion has made $50 visits In six
months
The five Methodist churches giving
the highest contribution to the millions
for missions" fund last year are: ST.
Luke's, New York, S25.24; Spring
Garden Street, Philadelphia, SI7.96
IS. PauPs, New York, SLIT; Madison
Avenue, Now York, S12.91 and Wash
LngtOn Square, New York, SIO.31. This
the average per member for
each Of the seven collections during the
year The entire amount raised was
over 81, 100000
Gordon TAYLOR HUGHES Of Ohio so