The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-08-14


sylvania state college. ~ Bellefonte.
adopted resolutions 81 thanks 10 the
legislature and governor for the appro-
priation Of ei,o, 200. just granted the in
stitution-
As indicative OF the amount Of labor
performed under the auspices 81 tho
American board at their rooms in Bos-
ton. there are sent out from there an
nually. exclusive Of postal cards, some
thirty thousand letters.
In the Railway mission the United
Kingdom missionaries. colporteurs and
evangelists have constituency ~ over
5000 military men. Multitudes 81
devoted Christian women are giving
their lives 10 this work.
According 10 official reports the
number of Jews in the nine old prov
inces Of Prussia who became Christians,
between the years 1878 aud isss. was
2.ioi. During the same period 1856
Christians went over TO the Jews
This is the way the Wellesley girls
masqueraded on one Of the class days:
The freshmen were sailor lads. the
sophomores Were gnomes. the juniors
were in the costume Of King Arthur's
knights and the musicals went as choir
girls.
Prof John Stuart Blackic. Of Scot
land. and Prof. W. ). Tyler. Of Amherst
college. have been teaching Greek for
more than fifty years And what IS
more. they are still pretty lively. though
close on eighty. for people whose spe-
cialty is handling dead languages
Rev. J. Hudson Taylor. Of the China
inland mission. says that in response 70
the appeal of the Shanghai conference
for one thousand missionaries in five
years. one hundred and eighty have ar
rived during the ten months since the
appeal. 81 that in NIL probability the
first years quota will be secured.
The czar has sent to the Stanford
university in California magnificent
collection Of rare minerals valued at
mems in the collection. In return for
this liberal gift Mrs Stanford intends
% present collection of California
precious stones and minerals TO the ST
Petersburg National museum
The Baptists certainly hold high
place for practical philanthropy. John
D. Rockefeller. who gave nearly two
sity: Charles Pratt. who established the
Pratt institute in brooklyn. and James
u. Colgate, who has just given a million
dollars TO Colgate university. have been
devoted followers 10 the Baptist faith.
All three gave their money while liv-
ing. -Philadelphia Ledger.
A young graduate from vassar had
read the following paragraph 1T
must be disinterested bcnevolence
which leads the sweet young things
who 60 10 vassar college to plant trees
on commencement day. They can't
ever expect 10 climb them She didn't
like il. and in reply wrote: 1T is sure
" better to plant trees at college. even
If debarred the questionable privilege
Of climb bling Elem. than to SOW wild
oats from which no one ever yet failed
70 reap harvest"
An agreement has been reached b.
tween the executors Of the estate Of
William B. Ogden and william r. Har-
per. president OF the new Chicago uni
versity. which insures 70 that insfitu-
tion gift Of large amount Of money,
TO be devoted 70 establishing a scien-
tific school The new department is 10
be called the Ogden scientific school.
and the endowment will not be less
than $500. 900. and may reach $500. 600.
the result depending upon the outcome
Of the litigation still pending over Mr..
Ogden's will N. " Tribune.
The old boys Of old Yale have been
reading with awe the announcement
that the entering freshman class Of
Yale university numbers five hundred
and eleven. This includes. Of course.
the She field scientific school and other
departments At Princeton university
the entrances number something over
three hundred Not 70 60 too far back
70 the region of antiquity. in the days
when Jimmy Hustled and Chauncey
NJ. Depew were at Yale. the graduating
class in the school of arts there was
no science about il them numbered
about one hundred. At Columbia the
class averaged between thirty and forty
in the academical department. which
was then regarded as the college proper.