Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-10-22
SCHOOL AND cHuRCH.

Washington, d. c., has 1Sl churches,
-Of the 92S students at Boston uni'
versity, 256 are women. % 1i.ifagtf
During 1890 there were built in the
United States $500 churches.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
$50, 900 Sunday-school teachers,
The Russian language is TO be
taught in all of the Japanese schools.
1.-The state of New York supports
seven schools for deaf mutes, in which
there are about 1900 pupils These
schools have graduated many thou
sands, and most Of them are doing well.
lit is said that sos, s8s persons are
members of the Congregational church
in this country, and that more than one
fifth live in Massachusetts,, which thus
heads the list The average of benevo-
lent contributions is highest in Mime
apolis, Mimi. s8t hUa 1tlu1sr 41t
IA book and tract society on a pan
denominational basis has been formed
in Singapore for the printing and circu-
lation of Christian literature in Malay
STA, whctherin English, Chinese, Tamil,
Malay or any Of the other numerous
languages here Representatives.
trated Christian Weekly u1ut.nAll
--0f the 1,l00, 900 Lutheran commu,
nicants in the United States, about
three-fourths are German. The re-
mainder are Scandinavians, English,
etc. In. no. fewer than twelve lam
guages do lutheran pastors preach the
Gospel in this country. The ,talnum-
Der of ministers is 1902; churches,
7,94s.
The king of Siam has settled an
annual allowance of e9OO upon the
three young sons of the late Dwight
Bradley, son of the early missionary,
DIR. Bradley. Mr.. Bradley was in the
government service at Bangkok. The
king has also sent gift to Gen. Booth
toward the prosecution of his schemes
in England.
Two Japanese young men gradu-
ated from American universities this
year with honors One is Mr. Kozalxi,
of Harvard divinity school, and the 9th
er is Masayoshi TakalSi, of Syracuse
university, who has been selected by
the seniors for the Grafton. His com
mand Of English composition is said to
be excellent.
The receipts of the American board
of commissioners for foreign missions
for the first ten months of its financial
year are $3.50, ISL. S6, or an increase over
last year of S94 523 70 for the same pc
riod. Because of this increase the
committee has already appropriated an
extra SIS, 900 for the relief of some of
the more urgen appeals from the field
The Quakers arc not dying out,
after ALL A decline in their member
ship in Great Britain began before the
end of the last century and continued
down to 1860, but since that date they
have been increasing. In 1861 there
were IA, 9S1 members and 5,04l attend
ers" at meeting. Since that year
there has been an increase of about 100
" HVu CNCly year, anu thO uSui % lol
1890 were 1886 members and G, ITO at
tenders.
The Supreme Council of Hygiene
of Austria has been engaged in dis
cussing the advantages of erect as com.
pared with slanting writing, and, the
official report of Drs, Won Reuss aud
Lorenz points strongly in favor of the
former. According to the London Edu-
cation Times, they point out that the
direction of the written characters has
marked influence on the position of
the body. In straight" writing the
scholar faces his work, and is spared
the twist of the body and neck which
is always observable in those who
write slantwise, and one common cause
of spinal curvature is thus obviated.
The erect method is, therefore, ex-
Epressly recommended for use in schools
in preference to the ordinary sloping
lines II p fr-,.u.-. SID .s-..