The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The French Protestant Mission
among the Basutos has over 5000 com
municants.
"A significant educational tendency
of the day Is the increased interest In
the study Of history and politics at
Johns Hopkins University.
One Of the students at the Kansas
State University is a barber, and il
making his way through school by
working at his trade on Saturdays
Bishop Bowman. Of ST. Louis, has
passed more than fifty years in church
work. He is now scventy-four years
old and is in splendid health, straight
rs an arrow, with a constitution like
flint
The report of the General Clergy
Relief Fund of the Protestant Episcopal
church for the past year shows that tho
receipts from all sources were 81, ,2S0,
md that relief had been given during
the year to 147 persons in forty-four
dioceses.
1T is said that Daniel Webster was
the first editor of the first college paper
published in this country, the initial
number appearing at Dartmouth IN
1900 These journals now number 100
In the United States, but while one H.
sued in England.
England, Germany, Italy and Port
ngal have signed an agreement for the
reciprocal protection of missionaries Of
these four nationalities who settle In
Africa, in regions accorded to their
respective states by the recent treaties.
For liberty to exercise their ministry
the missionaries must have q passport
from the government to which they be
long.
"A clergyman recently sent to the
supply committee of a church which
was without a pastor a telegram sim
ply containing the words: Ruth l., 10"
The words of that passage are: THY
people shall be my people The reply
which went over the wire was: And
oil the people said amen" Rather
neat way to get a call, but it wouldn't
always work that way.
According to an amendment Of tho
school laws of the State of Michigan,
children suffering from consumption or
chronic catarrh must be excluded from
public schools. The circumstance is in
teresting as first step toward the pub
lie recognition of most important
truth, the fact namely, that the disor-
ders Of the respiratory organs can be
propagated by direct contagion, and that
the atmosphere of consumptive's sick
room, unless constantly ventilated, is
apt to become virulent lung poison
DR.. Felix l.. Oswald, in Belfords's Maga-
zine.
| In 1850 the Catholic church in Dem
mark had missionaries, 2 stations and
800 members. Now it is represented by
1 apostolic prefect. ~ missionaries. II
stations, 300 members, and more than
$50 members of religious orders In
1856 there were no Catholic churches in
the kingdom; now there are 10 churches,
public and 6 private chapels, Jesuit
college and high school for boys. No
where in the world are the spiritual in
terests of Catholics sowcl provided for,
there being clerical representative for
every Is members and a church for each
los.
/ AT recent meeting Of the normal
principal council of New York State,
an important change was effected in
!, the curriculum of the ormal schools,
the abolition Of the elementary
course. A Recommendation was adopted
that the elementary English course be
eliminated from the present courses
and that arithmetic, grammar. local
and political geography, United States
history, aud civil government b.
omitted in its published curricula OF
the normal schools, and that these
courses be limited to two-a higher
English of three years and classical
of four years. The change will go into
effect on the opening of the September
term in 1892