Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-12-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The number of missionary stations
in Africa now exceeds five hundred.
"A Philadelphia school-teacher has
forbidden her girl pupils to wear brace
lets and other jewelry to school, because
such things distract attention and arouse
vanity and envy in the pupils.
The Russian Government refuses to
accept the millions offered by Baron
Hirsch to be appropriated to education
in which Jewish children have share;
the Baron now proposes to send Sl20, 600
annually to this country to be expended
in educating Jews who have been driven
from Russia
The German universities had in
1SSS-s9 2s,929 students. The three
largest universities are Berlin, with
5.79O; Munich, with 5000; Leipsic, with
3, 430 students OF the entire number OF
students in Germany, 1924 studied
theology, 6,577 law, S,66S medicine and
1850 philosophy. The entire number
OF universities in Austria is only 13, sol.
1t is said OF DR.. Kerr, medical
missionary at Canton, that he has in
the past thirty-six years treated over
$50, 900 patients, and has prepared 81
medical and surgical books. He has
trained 100 medical assistants, chiefly
Chinese. China now possesses 104 hos
pitals and dispensaries, at which, in
1889, moro than 34S, 900 patients received
treatment.
Honesty should impel the members
of any organization to study carefully
the principles of that order, and il they
find that they can rot harmonic with
its tenets, then they should withdraw.
Most of the reproach cast upon our
cause is by these half-hearted hangers
on, who neither pay nor pray, give nor
live as Christian men and women
should. Alabama Baptist
The University OF Pennsylvania is
to send out scientific exploring and
dredging expedition to the Bahamas and
about Caribbean waters. The craft is
the yacht Whitecap, of fifty -one tons.
Columbia College, Park Davis & Co., of
Detroit, and the Missouri Botanical
Gardens, st Louis, will also have rep
resentatives on board, making scien-
tific corps of seven or eight men.
"A large and handsome Episcopal
cathedral is being completed at Mel
bourne, Australia Although the city
is only half the size of Philadelphia, it
is proud of the distinction of possessing
an ecclesiastical building larger than
any belonging to the Episcopal church
in the United States, with the slight ex.
ceptioI in favor of All-Saints' Cathedral
at Albany. The organ has been built
in England at cost of S20 900.
Cornell University fails this year
to have her usual increase in attend
ance, opening with 1,S00, the enroll
ment of last year. The growth for the
last four years has been at the rate of
i75 per year. The failure to increase is
said to be due to the advance in the
tuition fee from S75 to S125 year, and
to raising the requirements for the ad-
mission to the courses in letters, agri-
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falling of is not in new men, but in
undergraduates.
The meteorological observatory at
the Massachusetts, Agricultural College
has received delicate and expensive
apparatus for measuring the electric
potential of the atmosphere. The ma
chine consists OF Thompson electrome'
ter, a registering apparatus and a
water-dripping apparatus. BY means
of the water-dripping apparatus the
electricity of the air is conveyed to the
electrometer, where magnetic needle
is hung between four quadrant mag
nets. A mirror is so arranged above
this needle as to turn with every varia
ton, rejecting pencil of light thrown
by confined gas jet on to sensitized
Photographic paper stretched upon @
cylinder in the registering apparatus
The cylinder is operated by powerful
clock work. The wavy line of light il
continuously photographed, and thus
represents the variations Of the elec
trical potential of the air, which are
measured by suitable scale on tn,
chart