Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1891-06-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Christ's time was largely taken up
in making people happy.-Drummond.
- When Wesley died, his followers
numbered 800, 600 There are now 3o,-
600, 600 Methodists in the world.
There are fifty Yale graduates in
Toxic, Japan They are now about to
form an alumni association 9oBig
The mission for Lepers in India has
established a new center of their own
in Neyeor, Trayancore, South India
Prof. L. B. r. Briggs has been APP
pointed dean of Harvard university to
succeed Prof Smith who has resigned.
The mission house of the Baptist
mission, at Irebu, on the Congo has
been destroyed by FIRE, .entailing loss
of over 81, 200. 5Edj 9v5Dsd CIV yTAit
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet
anchor Of your liberties; write its pre-
cepts in your heart, and practice them
in your lives.-U. S. Grant. sD9r4
The number of women in attendance
at the University of Geneva is LAT, OF
whom IS are matriculated and candl-
dates for degrees. The Russian contin-
gent is 81, while 16 are from Oriental
countries, "a are from Geneva, and the
rest from other European lands
The colored sunsets and the starry
heavens, the beautiful mountains and
the shining seas, the fragrant woods and
the painted fiowers-they are not half
so beautiful as soul that is serving
Jesus out of love in the wear and tear
of common, unpoetic life.-Faber.
The Johns Hopkins university has
received most notable gift from the
historian, Col John Thomas Scharf, OF
baltimore, consisting of his very large
and valuable collection of manuscripts,
pamphlets, books and autographs relat--
ing chiefly to the history of the southern
states and the southern people.
There has been little mission work
accomplished in Patagonia, but the
Roman Catholics have a mission center
at Viedma, in the southern part of the
country They have twelve colleges
with 5000 Students and an industrial
school with thirty apprentices OF car
penters, blacksmiths, bootmakers,
thinkers and tailors. They have also
dispensary and the only hospital in the
territory.
The Educational News has the fol-
lowing note: Forty counties in
Iowa voted on county uniformity on
the sth day of March. About thirty OF
these carried and will have a uniform
series of textbooks, Not less than
twenty other counties have arranged
J:.<e, ooc4,., of;pe r Nv &oxvnch ipS.
SO that by the close of this school year
there will not be less than fifty coun-
ties in the state which will have uni
form series of text books, and contract
ed for for five years This practically
settles the textbook question in Iowa
for some time. s,olf ada seH w
Within a few years the public school
system of New York city, which is now
one Of the largest systems in the world
is likely, according to School, to exceed
greatly its present size With a popu-
lation of 1, 200, 900, there are now more
than 800 school departments in the city,
1900 teachers, an average attendance
of 1900 pupils daily, and total at
tendance of 100000. The salaries of
teachers. janitors- and employees now
aggregate over So, 000,0 900, and the ex-
penditures for the schools yearly ex-
ceed, considerably, 81, 600, 600. Another
10 years will add, by the natural growth
of the city, half a million to its popula-
ton, and not less than 25 per cent. to
the number of school buildings, to the
attendance, the teachers and the ex-
penditureS A...L - wv 49,