Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-03
SCHOOL, AND CHURCH.

Eighteen hundred and nineiy-one
lpersons united with the, Presbyterian
churches Of Michigan during the, year
ending with April, ,o1 s-.,,..l. "a
Rev. Heber Evans, D, d., recently
stated that Welsh people have erected
five hundred sixty-nine chapeis lin
America, but not a single Welsh Epis-
| copalian church. 'yyOuN
The, Cornell school of law has en-
rolled MRS. Mary Kennedy Brown, u
graduate of Wellesley and young
widow, as one, of its students She is
the first lady who appears on tbeschool
list. N97WT7s
The growing importance of WASH
| ington, ID. G., as an educational and
scientific center may be better under
stood in view of the fact, just an.
nounced, that its libraries contain L.
1862, 761 books and $50, s95 pamphlets. no
1t is said chat the experiment Of the
telephone church service has proved SO
successful in Birmingham, England,
lsthat 1t 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 Columbia col.
lege this year. His health was remark.
ably good until year ago, when his old
age showed the first symptoms of re-
belling against his daily appearance in
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. l wish had thought of
my health. frequently recurring
headache, bad appetite and sleepless-
ness are solemn warnings that you
must heed. Dyspepsia is not a thing to
make fun Of" = ~ - .'i 3 'ti
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
Presumed his position in his ninety7tifth
year, as his sight has been completely
RESTORED after few months treatment
by a Manchester oculistl He lately en-
tertained five hundred of his parishion-
ers, and pathetically described some of
his thoughts and experiences during
six years of darkness.
ls-The Egyptian government has les-
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 a course of lectures on various
scientific subjects, practical work is be-
ing carried on. A garden and farm of
three hundred ncres are attached to the
college. European agricultural imple-
ments, such as plows, scythes and reap
ers have been introduced for trial. "
Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, d. D., ed
itor of the Missionary Review, says:
SAT present the exact number of mis-
sionaries is 5,994. But for the native
laborers who outnumber ours almost
seven times, oui. work would come al
most to standstill, with one mission
airy, on the average, to 1866, 900 unevan-
gelized. The church should robe her.
self in sackcloth and ashes at the re-
membrane of the fact that, in the
nineteenth century, it takes nearly
5000 Protestant church members to sup
| ply one missionary" -r~ t.,
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,O7s, 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 Mr. Russell de-
clares to be relatively very large. He
finds the highest. ratio in Wales, where
every third person is either teacher or
o scholar in Sunday-school. org,
The Hampton Normal and Agricul-
tural institute, at Hampton, Va. which
Gen. Armstrong has made successful in
its work for negroes and Indians, 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 hundre d
graduates, many are teaching the ig-
norant of their own race, while others
have gone, into business or become
| farmers. =.