Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Episcopal church at Hickman,
KY, has two women on its vestry
Free drawing schools for girls were
first organized in France by Rosa Bon
heur.
Thousands of illuminated Scrip
ture texts are circulated in Uganda,
Africa.
There is a village on the Northern
Pacific railroad which has fifty-four
inhabitants and two churches, both
Presbyterian.
DIR. A. P. Peabody, chaplain of Har-
ward college, graduated from that in
stitution in 1925, three years before
Oliver Wendell Holmes
London has only 439 churches for
its population of 5,S47,O0 Chicago
has nearly if not quite that many
churches for a population of 1.5Oo, oOO
During the past year, in the field
covered by the North India conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
baptisms of converted heathens have
aggregated $4,000.
DR.. George S. Burroughs, professor
of biblical literature at Amherst, has
accepted the presidency of Wabash col
lege, Indiana. He is graduate of
Princeton, class of '73.
The wife of China s great statesman,
Ii Hung Chang, died few years ago.
Her physician for long time was DR..
Howard, an American lady connected
with the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society in Tien-Tsip.
The Fifth Baptist church, Cincin-
natl, O., will Immediately build three
new chapels at a cost of S25, 900 each.
Rev. Johnston Myers is the pastor of
the church, and is active in carrying on
mission work In that city.
Mrs. 8. G. Grubbe, superintendent
Of Salem (Ore. schools, receives salary
of $1,000 a year. The principals receive
from $3.50 to seee. The assistants get
$500 a year. Out of force of "a teach
ers, all but five are women.
Fifty years ago there was not a
native Christian in the Fiji islands;
now there is not a heather. Recently
fifteen missionaries were required for
dangerous and unhealthy work in New
Guinea, and forty volunteers responded.
Cardinal Towards death reduces
the number of cardinals now living to
f1fty-one, all save ten of whom were APP
pointed by the present pope. Since
Leo's succession to the papacy eighty
six wearers of the scarlet have died.
Twenty.four of the surviving cardinals
live in Rome. although three of them
are Germans and three are French, and
of the remaining twenty -seven, nine are
Italians, six Frenchmen, three Aus
TRANS, three Spaniards, two Portuguese,
with one from each of these four coun-
tries; The United States, Canada, Bel
gium and Australia.
1t seems odd to think of missions
aries going to Scotland, the home of the
Covenanters, to convert the savage in
habitants to Christianity. At Anwoth.
In irGcudbrightshire, there was found
few days ago one of the old hillside
crosses" set up by the early missiona-
aries who went to the lowlands from
Iona, or Ireland, to mark the spots
where they first preached Christ to the
heethen Scots, This interesting cross
Is OF red sandstone, 4s inches long, i4}S
inches across the widest part and :
inches thick Its arms are 26 inches in
length, or were, for one is broken off.
Rude inscriptions are carved on the
cross.
Miss Ume Tsuda, special student
st Rryn Mawr. is very anxious to found
scholarship which will give Japanese
women a four years training in this
country and At them as teachers for
japanese girls. The sum needed is
about eight thousand dollars. Miss
Tsuda says: There are Japanese
womeR anxious to prepare for the work
OF educating the girls of Japan. They
are willing to devote their lives to it. If
only they were suitably prepared; but
few of them have opportunities of study
such - men have, for none of the high
or institutions are open to women; still
less have they means 70 come abroad for
study"