The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
SCHOOL and CHURCH.


Dartmouth College is to receive
100000 through the will of the late Rev.
Cyrus w. Wallace, D. D., of Manches-
ter, N. Ii.
AT recent meeting Of the presby-
terry of Chickasaw the sermon was
preached by full-blooded Kiowa Indi-
an, Joshua Given.
One Episcopal church in San Fran
cisco is said to have membership OF
$75, 1000, 900, and yet the missionary fund
of the diocese is in debt nearly $500.
The German Methodists have Z
churches in New York, IL in Chicago, $
in Cincinnati, in Milwaukee, in Buff
falo, in St. Louis, in Brooklyn, in
Philadelphia.-The Beacon.
"A Lilliputian finger prayer-book
has been issued by the Oxford Univer.
sity Press. 1t is only three and a half
inches long and one inch broad, weighs
hree-quarters of an ounce and contains
go pages.
Mr.. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York,
has made gift of $4,000 to Harvard
University for the establishment of a
museum for the study of the literature,
history and remains of the Semitic peo-
pies.
The United States has 1851 colleges,
with 4,442 instructors and 7O,O24 stu
dents; 159 institutions for the higher
education of women, with 1854 instruct
ors; 80 schools of science, 145 schools OF
theology and so of law.
Along the valley of the Nile from
Alexandria to the first cataract are
70 mission stations and 10 Sunday
schools, numbering 4,017 scholars, whilo
the day and boarding schools have over
5000 pupils. -Religious Herald.
In the statistics of the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States
there is an increase in the number OF
Sunday-school scholars for the year
1ssS-s9 amounting to nearly $4,000,
nearly quarter of the increase being
in the diocese of Pennsylvania.
There is only one Methodist theo-
logical seminary among the 100000, 900
of India 1t was founded in 1872 by the
gift of $4,000 from Rev. D. w. Thomas,
of the North India conference. 1t has
so far turned out 165 native missionaries
and IA Christian teachers. - Western
Christian Advocate.
More than sixty years ago the
first churches of Disciples of Christ
were planted in Ohio. New churches
have been established annually to the
present date, so that the whole number
reaches 467 churches, with member
ship of 1880. The Ohio Christian Mis-
sionary Society has assisted in planting
200 churches.
AT Barangar, Calcutta, school for
girls has been conducted by Mr.. and
Mrs. Sasipada Banerjee for more than
twenty-five years. tits now proposed to
add a boarding department for the pur-
pose of training young women, and es-
pecially Hindu widows, as teachers, and
thereby to do for this unfortunate class
in Bengal what Ramabai is doing for
them at Bombay.
Speaking before meeting of the
Methodist ministers, Bishop Fowler
told of new heather temple in the
northern part of Japan. 1t is of enor-
nous size, and the timbers were hauled
to and placed in their present position
by ropes made from the hair of the
women Of the province. An edict went
forth calling for the long hair of the
women, and enough was obtained to
make two monster ropes-one seventeen
inches in circumference and fourteen
hundred feet long, and the other ten to
eleven inches around and two thousand
feet long.-St. Louis Republic.