Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-11
SCHOCL AND CHURCH.

SSHOC- AND III l. i1CF.
William Winter, the poet. has beer
elected president of the board of trus
tees of the Staten Island Academy ant
Latin school. The board is composed
of twenty-one of Staten Islands mos
influential citizens.
In China, according to the most re
cent statistics, there are 1896 foreign
missionaries, including a16 single WON
en- and 391 wives, 2l1 ordained and / %;
other native laborers, 522- churches
37,2e7 communicates. and J6. $50 pupil:
in school.
1t is proposed to honor the memory
of the late Joseph Leidy, the natural
list, by establishing a chair of anatomy
ut the university of Pennsylvania
where he taught for many years. A
fund of $50, 900 for Leidy memorial
museum may also be raised.
Mr.. George w. Childs, of the PhiIa-
delphia Ledger, who one year ago gave
the Methodist Episcopal church al
Wayne, Pa, the corner lot on which
the handsome edifice has since been
erected, has just made the church a
present of a lot SOx241 feet, adjoining
the church pro perty, as a site for a par,
sonage.
The Cleveland College for Women.
in recent report, shows a total enroll
nl"It of 1872 students for the three years
Of its existence. A permanent site has
besn secured, and Clark hall and Mather
cottage will be erected. The gifts of
Mrs. James F. Clark and Mrs. Samuel
Mather not only cover this expense, but
also aggregate $1,000 as the nucleus
Of an endowment fund.
The first dental college in the
United States was esta blished in 1910 at
Baltimore, and even as late as 1864
there were but 3 others in the country,
, in Philadelphia and in Cincinnati.
T.iere are now about 26 of these schools
i'm .he United States, and in several of
the states collegiate course is COM
pnisory to one intending to practice
dentistry as a profession.
THE Clergy List" puts down the
poorest living in the church of En-
gland as that at Wainfeet, Lincoln
shire, where at ST. Thomas church the
parson apparently receives the mag
nificent stipend of one shilling and one
fraction per week for ministering to
some three hundred persons. The liv
ing of Wordsworth is put down at one
and eleven pence per week, and an
other in Breconshire is worth eight
pounds per annum.-Christian Union.
The Huguenots in France number
some 600,000, and are gathered into
about Go churches, though 30, 600 or
more are scattered and destitute of pas
tors and places of worship. They sus-
tain three Bible societies, three book
and tract societies, many young mems
Christian associations, two theological
Summaries, two schools for evangelists,
four societies for carrying on evangel-
ist;c work, and. a host of colporteurs
The annual Contributions for home
missions amounts to 800, 900, and for
foreign missions $50, OOO
The annual statistics of the Presby-
terrain church,, by DIR. William Henry
Roberts, the stated clerk, show a
growth in the mum Der of churches and
Communicates and presbyteries, and
decrease in the amount of contribu-
tons. There are T,O7O churches,
growth of 176 in the year; the total
number of communicates is SOC, 796, as
against IT'S, 903 for 1890; the number of
pres byteries is 216, an advance of on
1890; there are '6,223 ministers, as
against 6,155 last year. an increase of
only IS; the contributions show fall
ing off, being S14, 062, $50, instead of
S14, 36S, 131.
I'm the library of the Moravian
school for boys at Nazareth, Pa, which
was founded in 1741, and whose SEES
sions since We're interrupted only for a
brief period by the revolution, is a Sc
ries of quaint old volumes containing
the compositions. graduating colloquies
and essays, together with sketches in
pencil made by scholars whose hands
became dust half a century ago. The
main building of the school on the
academic green is the stone Pomeranian
''castle" erected by Count Zinzendorf in
what was then the wilderness of Penn
sylvania, and which attracted many Gu
rious visitors in the last century.