Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-08-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There is joy in Heaven over one
sinner that repenteth,' no matter
whether he has any money in the bank
or not.-Ram's Horn
Asia, the cradle of the human race.
has 102 Young Mems Christian assoc
tions Darkest Africa" has Is, and
Oceanica, comprising the islands Of the
sea, has 10.
God is the only being who has time
enough, but prudent man, who knows
how to seize occasion, can commonly
make shift to find as much as he
peeds.-Lowell
Il. The University of Upsala, in Swe-
den, during the present term has an at
tendance of 1858. OF these 254 are in
the theological department, TAO In the
philosophical, 443 in the law, and 221 in
the medical
If there be one thing on earth
which is truly admirable, it is to see
Gods wisdom blessing an inferiority Of
natural powers when they have been
honestly, truly and zealously cultivat-
ed.-Dr. Arnold.
Before Christianity entered India.
lepers were treated with shocking hu-
manity. Many of them were buried
alive. The English rulers have put a
stop to this custom, and for fourteen
years there has been special Christian
mission to the 1S5, 900 lepers in India.
The total property valuation of the
Catholic church in the United States in
1850 was 50, $50, 72S; in 1860 it was S26.-
TIA, 119; in 1870 it was $50, 2s5, $685. Than
is to say, the aggregate wealth of the
Catholic abI1rnl .ir,o
cent. from 1850 TO 1860, and about 12s
per cent from 1860 TO 1s7O.-N. o.
Itmes-Democrat.
Mrs Gen. Custer is one of the few
semi-professional women in New York
who can hold the interest of a school
full of boys. In her talks on frontier
life to these restless audiences, who
must be interested before they will con-
sent to be instructed, she begins with
some true Indian stories, bristlinp with
tomahawks feathers and scalps, and
presently has the listeners spellbound.
AS science can not determine origin.
so 1t can not determine destiny; as it
presents a sectional view of creation.
so it gives only a sectional view of ev-
e1ytEfng in creation. II is not oxllv a
sectional view in time, but in scope and
reach. Everything rises out of its
domain, and disappears from its view
| in that larger world which is about it; a
crystal and man are equally inexplic-
able within its necessarily limited range
of vision. T. Munger, D. d.
The baccalaureate degree was con-
ferred by President Taylor recently at
Poughl<eepsie. upon thirty-six young
women who graduated at Vassar; and
| the second degree in art on Louise s.
Pagan, Myra. Reynolds and Ellen C.
| Semple. The baccalaureate degree N
music was conferred on one persoJ a
diploma in the school of painting was
| given to one person. and the diploma of
the school of music to three persons.
| After the conferripg of the degrees
| President Taylor announced the receipt
of the John Guy Vassar bequests; also
| that the board of trustees had accepted
| the offer of Mr.. Frederick f. Thompson
to build library at his own expense
and present it 10 the COLLEGE
-Hemovlng the tause-..Doctor
said young Goslin to his medical adj
wiser, Il am suffawing fwom insomnia, -
DO you hang up those trousers in your
sleeping chamber?" asked the physf-
clan, nodding his head at the pair Cos
lin was wearing "Yahs-" ssPut them
in the hall when you retire. Five dol
lars, please. Epoch.
They were talking confidentially of
the present and the future with that
sublime happiness which only love at
90 knows What is wealth or station
he remarked, trying to bring in some
poetical quotation on the subject, ''the
idea that to be happy one must be born
with silver spoon in his moufhp'
"Any metal would suit me, Robert, !"
she whispered approvingly, 80 long az
we had ice-cream to eat with it."--Phil.
adelphia Times.