Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-23
NUMBER 80.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The London "Athenmum" says that
OF tho $4,000 works produced last year
in Germany, the educational publica-
tions numbered 2,1OO-heading the list
Two hundred girls are now being
educated in the medical schools in In
dia. Madras has already supplied six
fully qualified female doctors for tho .
northern part of the country.
Rev. Alberto j. Diaz, the first one to
preach the Gospel OF Christ in Cuba,
was converted in New York through the
instrumentality OF Aisle Tucker,
Christian woman who visited him whom
he was sick and thought to be near to
death.
The American Institute OF Sacred
Literature, of which Prof. Harper, Of
New Haven, is the head, announces a
plan for the study of the Gospel of Luke
throughout the world. There will be
four grades of study, for ministers, for
adults for Bible classes and for chill
dren and examinations will be conduct
cd and certificate given to those who
are successful.
Those deficient in intellectual ca
pacity, practical sense, discrimination.
tact for business and adaptation to any
one of the professions will most need
college Endorsements, special legal en-
actments, certificates, etc, that they may
be "boosted" into notoriety and patron
age, while the really worthy seek and
obtain recommendations and diplomas
in the success of everyday service. The
former may deceive; these never.-Dr.
j. II. Hanaford
The same mental labor that great
lawyer puts on a brief that is to take
away an estate might improve steam
engine or supersede 1T entirely with
something the mind is not now capable
of imagining, because it has not the ed
ucation necessary to enable it to express
any better thought of motor We have
schools of every thing else, from cook
ing to journalism. Why should we not
have school foe the education of in.
ventors?-St. Louis Republic.
The city council of Milan recently
solicited the votes of the parents send
ing children to tho public schools as to
whether they wished to have them re-
ceive religious instruction or not. Out
of total school attendance of 27,515,
such instruction was requested for 25,-
$50. In Rome, tho city council has de-
cided that religious instruction can be
given in tho elementary schools during
the last hour on Saturdays, but attend
ance is compulsory only at the written
request of the parents. ts.-Independent
Many advantages arc gained by
placing different educational institu-
tions in one town. The plan is fnan-
cially economical. The atmosphere OF
scholarship is made more bracing. Even
though there is no organic relations be-
tween the institutions, each institution
aids the others. A theological school OF
the New Church (Swedenborgian) has
recently been opened in Cambridge. 1t
) IS thus able, though having no organic
relation with Harvard, to receive cer-
tain general benefits from that ancient
university.-Advance.
There is in London school OF metittss--
cine forwomen which seems to be in q
very satisfactory and hourishing con-
dition. At a recent examination OF the
University of London one of the fair
medical students passed all her subjects
in the first division. Tho societies for
the discussion of topics relating to the
professions of medicine and surgery
which arc usually found in medical
schools are not absent from the School
of Medicine for Women, nor do they
show any lack of thoughtful research
or able understanding of the subjects
discussed.