Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-03
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Eighteen hundred and nincty-ona
persons united It'll the Presby telian
churches of Michigan during the year
ending with April
Rev. n.bc.. Evans. d. D., recently
stated that Welsh people have c-ecte'
five hundred sixty-nine chaPels Ii
America, but not a single Welsh Epis
copalian church.
The Cornell school of law has en-
rolled Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown,
graduate of Wellesley and young
widow, as one of its students. She is
the first lady who appears on the school
list.
The growing Importance of Wash
ington. ID. c., an educational and
scientific center may be better under
stood in view of the fact. just an
nounced, that it's libraries contain l.
362, 761 books and $50, 225 pamphlets.
1t is said that the experiment of the
telephone church service has proved SO
successful in birmingham, England,
that it is now proposed to develop the
idea by connecting the hospitals of the
locality of Christ church, the center of
the experiment.
The familiar face of Prof. John s.
Newberry is not seen at Column bia col
lege this year. His health was remark
ably good until a year ago, when his old
age showed the first symptoms of re-
belling against his daily appearance III
the class room, and he was forced to
rest.
Take care of your heath" Presi-
dent Patton tells the Princeton boys.
You may not need binominal theo-
rems, but You will need your digestion
every day. ! wish | had thought of
my health. a frequently recurring
headache, a bad appetite and sleepless-
ness are solemn warnings that you
must heed. Dyspepsia is not a thing to
make fun of"
Six years ago, Rev. VIM. Herbert.
of Llanon. Wales, lost his sight at the
age of eighty-nine. He resigned his
rectorship in consequence, but has just
resumed his position in his ninety-tifth
year, as his sight has been completely
restored after few months treatment
by Manchester oculist. He lately en-
tertained five hundred of his parishion-
ers, and pathetically described some of
his thoughts and experiences during
six years OF darkness.
The Egyptian government has es-
tablished an agricultural college at
Cairo which appears to be doing work
and is heartily appreciated by the agri-
culturists in the land of the Pharaohs.
Besides n course of lectures on various
scientific subjects, practical work is be-
inn ia1 4 .r10 on1 form, II
three hundred acres are attached to the
college. European agricultural nipple
ments. such as p!ows, scythes and reap
ers have been introduced for trial
Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, d. d., ed
itor of the Missionary Review, says:
"At present the exact number of mis-
sionaries is $685. But for the native
laborers who outnumber ours almost
seven times, our work would come al
most to standstill, with one mission
airy, on the average, to 1876, 600 unevan-
gelized. The church should robe her.
self in sacllcloth and ashes at the re-
membrance of the fact that. in the
nineteenth century, it takes nearly
5000 Protestant church members to sup
ply one III missionary"
According to statistics prepared by
Rev. Frank Russell. secretary of the
Presbyterian Sunday-school association
of New York, there are in the Sunday
schools of the world 2O,07S, 595 mem
bers, and more than half of these are
in the United States. In New York the
proportion of Sunday-school attendance
to the population is about ten and a
half per cent. which NJ. Russell de-
clares to be relatively very large. He
finds the highest ratio in Wales, where
every third person is either teacher or
a scholar in Sunday-school.
The Hampton Normal and Agricul-
tural institute, at Hampton, Va. which
Gen. Armstrong has made successful in
it's work for negroes and India MS, for
the past twenty-five years, has had one
thousand pupils in the year just closed.
Of these, one hundred and thirty-two
are Indian boys and girls. Many of the
students are forced to earn the money
to pay their own expenses while in
school. and variety of useful trades is
found in the curriculum. About one-half
of the colored students earn their liv-
ing and tuition. OF the seven hundred
graduates, many are teaching the ig
norant of their own race, while others
have gone into business or become
farmers.