The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The London "Athen@um" says that
of the $4,000 works produced last year
in Germany, the educational publica-
tons numbered 2, 100-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 the
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
fundamentally of Aisle Tucker, a
Christian woman who visited him when
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
ed 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. H.~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 it entirely with
something The mind is not now capable
of imagining, because it has not the ed
ucation necessary to enable it 20 express
any better thought of motor. We have
schools of every thing else, from cook
ing to journalism. Why should we not
have a school for the educatiLa of in
ventors?-St. &ouis Republic.
The city council of Milan recently
solicited the votes of the parents send
ing children to the public schools as to
whether they wished to have them re-
OF total school attendance of 27,515,
such instruction was requested for 25,-
$50. In Rome, the city council has de-
cided that religious instruc ion can be
given in the elementary schools during
the last hour on Saturdays, but attend
ance is compulsory only at the written
request OF the parents. -Independent.
Many advantages are gained by
placing different educational institu-
lions in one town. The plan is finan-
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 GER
tain general benefits from that ancient
university
There is in London a school of medi-
cine for women which seems to be in
very satisfactory and fourishing con-
dition. At recent examination of the
University of London one of the fair
medical students passed all her subjects
in the first division. The societies for
the discussion of topics relating to the
professions of medicine and surgery
which are 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