St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-03-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The Yale divinity school has IL
students, against 13S last year.

The Yale divinity school has IL
students. against 1873 last year.
Throughout France gardening
practically taught in the primary an,
elementary schools. There are abou
e. 600 of these schools.
Mrs w. II. Vanderbilt has com
menced the erection of mission build
ing in New York City which is to cos
$50, 600. The mission which is to re
ceive this munificent gift is run by Col
Onel II. H. Hadley.
The total baptist strength in Mary
land is l4.37O. Of these 1868 are mem.
bers of white churches, 6,617 cOlOred
Baptists, The whites gave to all pur-
poses last year Sl39.3ll, and the coloretl
gave sl7.6s', making grand total Of
S156, ,999.
The Old Testament has 50 books,
90 chapters. 23.2l4 verses, 592, 439 words,
and 2.72S, 800 letters; the New Tcsta-
ment has % books. 26O chapters, 1859
| verses, Isl, ,353 words, and S3S, $50 letters;
the complete Bible has, therefore, &C
books. 1.ls9 chapters, 81, 173 verses, 49,
692 words, and i, ,;67, $50 letters.
One of the three great Italian rail-
road companies, the Mediterranean, has
followed the German practice in cstab-
fishing schools for its shop apprentices.
intended to qualify them for service on
the railroad. The apprentices compete
for admission to the schools. and twenty
are admitted to each school in each year.
N. Y. Railroad Gazette.
In the Quaker schools. says the Bal
timore American. it is very odd to hear
the children call the teachers by their
first names. MARY, can I be excused
from my history lesson to-day?" asks q
tot with hair down her hack Of her pre-
ceptress. and with the greatest sang
frOid Bobby. yet in knickerbockers,
asks If Louis will let him out an hour
earlier?"
The new college Book" of Lafay-
.tte College shows total enrolment of
s.7SO names. of whom 1,137 have re-
ceived degrees. The distribution by
professions is 341 physicians. including
l3 professors in medical colleges; 61e
lawyers, including S3 judges: 152 teach.
ers. besides 1O1 professors and residents
IF colleges: $50 clcrgymen. including 81
foreign missionaries and g. doctors Of
Divinity. and g. editors.
christianity is not merely q collec.
ion of propositions, whether ethical or
religious: but rather the revelation of a
Saviour in Jesus Of Nazareth. Its pow-
.r and value reside in Him, in what lie
was and is. and in what He did and
said, and in what lie is still doing. We
:an detach the Platonic philosophy
from Plato without harming it; but we
:an not detach Christianity from Christ;
'ince He Himself is the substance and
essence of the whole system.--Inde-
,cndent. ....-.
The Mississippi constitutional con-
'entiOn incorporates the following para
graph in regard to education in the new |
There shall be q common
chOol fund, which shall consist of poll
AK, to be retained in the counties where
he same is collected. and an additional
um from the general fund in the State
sufficient to maintain common
choOls for the constitutional term Of
our months. Any county or separate
chool district may levy a further tax to
their schools for longer time
han the constitutional term of -four:
months. The common school funds
hall be divided among the several
ounties and school districts in proper
ion to the number Of etlucatable chill
rcn therein according to data to be
uynishcd by the State Superintendent |
I Education.