The Jasper weekly courier., 1891-12-04


The free schools for colorrd chill
dren in Virginia for the pest twenty
years have cost nearly six million dol
lara
The estimate for the mnintenance
of the public schools OF New York for
the ensuing year Is e4.o2-. So. which in
-ludes $1,000 for m exhibit ~ The
worlds fair.
Two graduates from Harvard AN
mex" will open school It Menlo Park.
San Mateo county. Cal. 20 prepare
young women for college, with special
reference to stanford university
Frances T. Willard wants TO have :
professor Of total abstinence connected
with the new American university In
Washington. and proposes 70 raise
fund 70 support such profcssorship.
The imperial university at Toxic.
Japan. il probably the largest in the
world, having an enrolment Of two
thousand scholars. and faculty Of
forty memberA IL Il under govern
ment control.
The number Of students seeking
admission into the St Vladimir univer-
sity At Kiev. Russia. is four hundred
and sixty. OF this number one hum
dred and sixty are Jews According TO
the prevailing laws only thirty Jews
can be admitted.
The chapel in the sequestered
Augustinian convent at Heidelberg, in
which the monk. Martin Luther. had
preached during the convention Of the
order in 1915. has been given for a place
Of worship to . ewly-organized Luz
theran congregation in that reformed
city
The summary Of the work done by
all the Christian denominations in Utah
10 about Is follows: Eghty-hve mission
Christian schools in seventy-eight dif-
ferent towns, employing one hundred
and seventy two Christian teachers and
educating about six thousand five hun
dred pupils. three fourths Of whom are
from Mormon families
The Icelandic version OF the New
Testament was printed in Denmark in
1870. The three hundred and fiftieth
anniversary Of this event was celebrat-
ed with much rejoicing by the Iceland
ers resident in and near Winnipeg.
They are good Lutherans. and show
their faithfulness by earnest study and
obedience TO the Word.
The oldest college graduate in
America so far as is known. is Amos
Andrew Parker. Of Fizwi.liam. n. II.
He il also the alumnus who has been
graduated the greatest number Of
years from an American college. He
graduated from the university of Yer
mont in 1873. and recently he celebrat-
ed his one hundredth birthday. He il .
finely-preserved old gentleman. does
not look to BE- more than seventy-6ve.
and reads. writes and gets about like .
man Of fifty.
According to Practical Electricity.
electrical instruction is now TO be added
20 the other studies in the course provid-
ed for young men in the evening classes
OF the Young Mems Christian association
Of Boston. Mr.. A. II. b. Fisk. = gradu-
ate Of the Massachusetts institute Of
technology, and IT present engaged
with the Thomson-H Houston Electric
Co. will deliver > course Of twenty
four lectures on successive Friday
evenings. and the course will be illus
trated by numerous experiments
-One Of the aids offered to prospect
i've students Of vas<ar. not weli-to-do,
is the scholarship of $500 awarded BY
the vassar Students Aid society 1t Is
loaned to a student who passes the en-
trance examinations without condi-
tions and covers half Of all the ex-
penses for one year Examinations
are held in nearly . dozen Of our lead
ing cities The chairman Of the COM
mittec managing this scholarship il
Miss Jessie Il. Smith. Of South wey-
mouth. Mass