Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-12
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municants.
"A significant educational tendency
of the day is the increased interest in
the study of history and politics at
Johns Hopkins University.
One of the students at the Kansas
State University is a barber, and is
making his way through school by
working at his trade on Saturdays
Bishop Bowman, of st. Louis, has
passed more than fifty years in church
work, He is now seventy-four years
old and is in splendid health, straight
us an arrow, with constitution like
flint.
The report of the General Clergy
Relief Fund of the Protestant Episcopal
church for the past year shows that the
receipts from all sources were ST., 239,
and that relief had been given during
the year to 147 persons in forty-four
dioceses.
1t is said that Daniel Webster was
the first editor of the first college paper
published in this country, the initial
number appearing at Dartmouth in
1900. These journals now number 1870
in the United States, but while one is
sued in England.
England, Germany, Italy and Port
ugal have signed an agreement for the
reciprocal protection of missionaries of
these four nationalities who settle in
Africa, in regions accorded to their
respective states by the recent treaties.
For liberty to exercise their ministry
the missionaries must have a passport
from the government to which they be-
long.
"A clergyman recently sent to the
supply committee of church which
was without a pastor telegram sim
ply containing the words: Ruth l., 49,"
The words of that passage are: ''Thy
people shall be my people" The reply
which went over the wire was: "And
all the people said amen" Rather a
neat way to get call, but it wouldn't
always work that way.
According to an amendment of the
school laws of the State of Michigan,
children suffering from consumption or
chronic catarrh must be excluded from
public schools The circumstance is in
teresting as a first step toward the pub
lie recognition of most important
truth the fact, namely, that the disor-
1ers of the respiratory organs can be
propagated by direct contagion, and that
the atmosphere of consumptive's sick
ROOM unless constantly ventilated, is
apt to become virulent lung poison
DR.. Felix l.. Oswald in Belfords's Maya
zine.
In 1850 the Catholic church in Den
mark had missionaries, 2 stations and
300 members Now it is represented by
1 apostolic project, 81 missionaries, IA
stations, 3,700 members, and more than
$50 members of religious orders In
1856 there were no Catholic churches in
the kingdom; now there are 10 churches,
8 public and private chapels, Jesuit
college and high school for boys. No
where in the world are the spiritual in
terests of Catholics so well provided for,
there being a clerical representative for
every IS members and a church for each
1853.
AT recent meeting of the normal
principal council of New York State
an important change was effected il
the curriculum of the n ormal schools
the abolition of the elementary
course. A recommendation was adopted
that the elementary English course bc
eliminated from the present courses
and that arithmetic, grammar, loca
and political geography, United States
history, and civil government b.
omitted in its published curricula o
the normal schools, and that thes'
courses be limited to two-a highe
English of three years and a classica
of four years. The change will go int
effect on the opening of the Septembc
term in 1892.