St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-26

Il S08uON6 SSvVO SOOnNUUo
The average salary Of the mi.
tresses in the London board schools 1
$3.50. -i:ii a 49,
The Salvation army holds abou
60. 600 meetings every week in diifcren
parts Of the world.
The ]. Cumberland Presbyterian
church in Indiana has forty congrega
tions. with about 5000 members
Mrs. Leland Stanford has pur
chased $50 handsomely bound Bibles t.
go in the students rooms ut the Pals
Alto university.
The accommodations Of the Vatican
may be imagined when the pope put
1900 beds in 10 at the disposal of the
French 4ilgrims. FREQ Of charge.
I "-lna North Warren Me-, weekly
prayer meetings have been held unin'
} terrnptedly for seventy years, without
Aelp of any minister. except for an &C.
essionai lecture.
Miss Sophie II, Wright, Of New Or.
leans, teaches free Of charge q night
school for working men and boys. This
school numbers some fifty men and
boys whose daily 1abors debar them
from attending day schools.
The youngest college-prcsident
record is believed to have been broken
by the university of Utah, at Ogden.
which has elected as its president q
brother of Congrcssmvn Dolliver. of
Iowa. Heis twenty-four; salary. s.. 600.
Yale university will put $3.50. 900 or
5000, 900 of its big bequcst from the
Fayerweather estate into new build
ing for the Sheffield, scientific school.
"A feature will be the mechanical de-
partmest supplied with . l0O-horss
power engine.
Something new, in school-bool<
aiterature appeared a short time ago in
Berlin. It. is n sycophaut's history Of
Germany, which begins with the reign
of EMPEROR William II. as the most inn
portant period in German affairs, and
backs down 20 Frederick the Great and
other predecessors of the present sovcr-
cign. IL e...--.-,.
The Women Servants Home Soci-
ETY. is the name of q Christian organiza-
ton in London. which shelters female
help from the perils that infest the in
terval between leaving one place and
securing another. or the e4O. 600 fe-
male Gomestics in that great city. TO-
coo are always seeking employment A
great 6eld fos, practical philanthropy
Western Christian Advocate.
The ,Sayoyar,!e. is the name of the
bell offered to the church of the Sacred
Heart at ,Montmartre by the town of
Annecy. where il was cast. II is said
to weigh a5. 800 kilos. exceeding that of
the famous Kaiser bell of Cologne by
] 500 lxilos.' If is true that it is only
one-fourth as heavy as that of Moscow.
but ID is also true that the latter has
never been. suspended. = Revue des
Revues.
The Baptist Missionary Union sends
ont this year the largest number Of
ever sent IN single year.
Forty four 81 the sixty arc newly ap-
pointed. The largest band eighteen
go to Bufmah, that field where Baptist
Effort has been SD greatly. blessed from
the beginning. Ten go To Tclugus Of
india, eight to,Assam, and the remain
dc. are sc1ftered in China, Japan and
Africa.
The ,,ok.yn Young womcn's
christia ;sociation. although but
three year, old. has over a,eOO men,
bers, 1.COC of whom are associates, 500
and 400 acting. Classes in
practical and educational work are es.
and largely patronized. A
6ne lot and nearly 500. 600 have been
given by various benevolent people OF
thecity to provide suitable home for
the association, the latter sum includ-
ing a gift Of sla5. 600 from Mr.. c. d.
Woods, in memory of his wife. who was
one Of the organizers Of this good work.
lip in the mountains about thirty
niles from Chihualma, Mexico. is an
Did -Gatholie mission The church is
.aa to be one of the oldest ON
he continent having been built
inst after the subjugation Of the
AztecS., This church is away from the
Usual haunts of white men, and all the
are 'Indicns 2. The priest,
father In L1H6cre. an old. white haired
.'renchn,an. has had charge Of the par
sh for more than. half q century. In
he church is.,a statue Of the Virgin
'lary. a. foot high, Of pure gold. worth
ully $4,000. The church is closely
'uarded by the Indians, but an enter
'rising American artist recently forced
lis way in and saw the treasure. 1t was
made from the ornaments and idols of |
he old dAxtecs.-Boston Journal.