The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-02
SCHOOL AND chURch.

The Yale law school has 10 students
this vcar-a larger number than ever
before.
Women have done brilliantly III tne
honors examination at London UNI
ycrsitv, five succeeding in classics
Charles Il. Yerkcs, of Chicago, nas
arranged to build for the Chicago uni.
versity the completest Of astronomical
observatorics and 10 place therein thc
greatest telescope i. the world
IT is said that what il costs to hre
one shot from one Of our largest cannon
a missionary and his family can be sup
ported over two years in Japan. 'om'
meut is needless. --Canadian Church
Magazine,
Mr.. Moody. who will have charge
OF the Gospel meetings at Chicago dur
ing the Worlds fair. is now securing
assistants who will preach in the IAN
guagc Of every nation whose people are
likely TO attend the fair.
Mrs. :. q. Grubbe. SUPERINTENDENT
OF the Salem lOre.) schools. receives
salary Of 81, 100 year. The principals
receive from $3.50 to 5000. The assist
ants get 5000 year Out OF q force OF
/ thirty-four teachers. all but hve are
women.
The university of Chicago is nego-
tiatiup for the law library of the late
Nathaniel c. Moak. of Albany, \. r.,
which includes volumes which can not
ne found even in the state library. The
actual cost Of the library was upwaid
Of e65. 900.
The college Of the Propaganda al
Rome announces the conversion OF w.
900 persons to Christianity in the first
ak months OF 1892 The greater por
ton OF the converts were in Asia. Nes'
Africa. and a considerable number II
the British provinces.
The Order Of st. Andrew which wa
recently in convention in Boston. mum
/ hers ten thousand young churchmen
II was founded but nine years ago. AM
! has had remarkable growth, and &C
complishes a great amount OF practical
. Christian work. The membership
: represented in all trades, occupation
and professions.
The record Of the first church
!, Westfield. Mass. is said to be unpara
y lelcd. Its first pastor died in l1.9. ate
a pastorate of nearly ffty-seven year
:, Then followed pastorates OF fourtee
wears, thrty-fve years. twenty year
forty-four wears and thirty year
y None of the pastors thus serving tn
9 church during its first two hundre
q wears were dismissed; all died in SER
Z ice.
- The benevolent work begun amor
=, the Zulus by the late Bishop Colene
\" renowned alike for his heterodoxy ~
= his arithmetic. is continued by b
"a daughter. She has translated much
the Bible into the Zulu tongue. and D
o. taught number of the chiefs to spe'
~ English 1t is TO her intercession
Cetewayo and his people with the que
and MIR. Gladstone that the former on
10 many concessions. Harper Razar.
.ir There was curious Moslem rel
ious ceremony at the opening of
i'll Jaffa and Jerusalem railway for trait
4. The Jerusalem terminus of the 70
q. was decorated with pnlms.and when
Mohamedan priest had offered pray
of three sheep with snow'white heece
ne gilded horns were dragged upon
to rails and slaughtered. They were J
AT there until the blood had run from tn
ac- veins and Redeemed the ties, ana u
the locomotive freed by this sacri'
ty. from the Vaccinations OF evil gel
in went putting out Of the Holy City
In an account Of the parish OF
tie Stanmore close TO Edgeware, p
lished by Rev. II. J. Armitage In i
IL is stated that many OF the pra
books given by the duke Of Chanc
we who rebuilt the church. still rem
at chained to the pews for the use OF
nm poor parishioners. The present
i'm. tor. Rev J. t. Norman. it Is inter
hat ing to note. informed correspond
-ior. of the current number OF the Libr
ssh. that, although the books have di'
Wv. pearctr long ago, there are still .
his traces Of the old state OF things.
eed staples remaing in many OF the pc
the and in one or two cases portion OF
the chain is attached. Pail Mall Gaze