Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-10-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Switzerland schools teach watch
making.
"A new mission has been commenced
in New Guinea, The church of England
and the London Missionary society both
have agents laboring there.
The missionary convention of Mos
COW has declared the Austrian Free
Church, the Theodocians, the Philip
peans and the Wanderers the most dan
gerous Christian sects in Russia.
An offer has been made by Mr.. and
Mrs. Taylor, of Canton, H., of hun
dred and sixty of acres of land in Ne
braska for an Emma Willard home, in
memery of the celebrated teacher
The petition from the German
Union for the admission of women to
the universities was shelved. But the
petition for increased salaries to the
German school-mistresses was referred
to the consideration of the government.
School gardens, of which there are
more than eight Thousand in Austria,
are being laid in different parts of Ger
many. Their object is to give method
zeal instruction in the cultivation of
ftuit-trees TO he used in the teaching of
botany -..s a-,
Miss Charlotte Higgins, who car
ried off the honors of entrance into the
university of London over LOCO male
students, is little Scotch girl, twenty
years old and, TO Judge from her pic
ture, a very youthful-looking person.
Her brilliant education has been due to
the efforts of her mother, her father
having died when she was child of
eight years
The head mistress of the high school
for girls in Birmingham, Eng, suggests
| that parents who are anxious as to the
career and future of their daughters,
should train them 70 be teachers of
cookery. She finds, from the Liverpool
cookery school, that there is q constant
demand for qualified teachers, and that
more applications were received than
could be satisfied. 49, IA, t,..ff
The value of the Investments in
church property in Brooklyn is esti-
mated by the Standard-Uni at nearly
$50, 900, 600. OF this vast sum the Protes-
tant churches represent about $13, 000,-
O1O and the Roman Catholic about ST.
900, 900, The former number 800 and
the latter So. The sum of the debts
resting upon the Protestant churches is
about S8, 600, 900, and upon the Roman
Catholic churches 81, $50, 900. Ias.
The Marathi mission, India. of the
American board, covers 1900 square
miles, embraces Bombay, Ahmadnagar,
and eight other cities, besides 5000 vii
lagos and populat of 1886, $50, OF
whom 2s5, 900 are Mohammedan. This
field is held by thirty-three mission
aries, eighteen native pastors, and nine
teen native preachers. The thirty-five
churches have 2,306 members, Of whom
two-thirds have been received during
the last ten years, and 21b last year.
| The schools number 200 and the pupils
S,ss2. In the hospitals 12,2S9 have been
treated. The native contributions were
| 81, 617 in 1890.
According to Census Bulletin No.
! l0l, recently issued, the Roman Cath
Ole church has congregations in every
state and territory of the union, includ-
ing Alaska. It has 1921 church organ
izations, s.765 church edifices, with a
seating capacity OF 1885, 1888; Sis $751;
516 IN church property, and 6,25O, O45
communicates. OF it's COMMITMENTS
one; half are to be found in the five
states. Of New York, Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. The
number of communicates in New York
is 1,153, 1870; in Massachusetts,, Ola, 627;
in Pennsylvania, 551,577; in Illinois,
AIS, 1924, and in Ohio, Ss6,ll4. The Cath
Ollie church in the archdiocese of Santa
Fe, N. NJ, is said to be the oldest body
of Catholics in the United States.