Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


 Winchester; founded in 1887. Lake Michigan boasts of a gospel ship that makes tour each year to the lake villages and cities.
 The constitution of Louisiana per mits women to hold any office connect ed with public education.
 During the past year there gradu- ated from the medical colleges of the United States about 5000 young doc tors.
 Tt is said that Bishop Taylor, of Africa, receives s6,OOO salary per year, and gives all but $500 of it to advance his missionary work in the dark conti- nent.
 Applicants for certificates to teach in the schools of Birmingham, Ala, are required to pay an examination fee of one dollar, which is applied to the libra ry fund.
 The late George Fowler, the mil lionaire packer of Kansas, left S5OO,OOO to be divided among the charitable and religious institutions of England and the United States.
 It is believed that when all the of ferings are in, it will be found that the Lenten offerings from the Protestant Episcopal Sunday-schools in the United United will be over S100,000.
 The Friends school of Providence, R. l., is now over a century old, and among the fifteen thousand names en- rolled on the registers may be found those of many distinguished people. -Director-GeneralD Davis has received petition from the trustees and elders of forty-six German Evangelical Prot | estant churches middle states, repre- | senting a membership of 63, 1000, strong ly urging the opening of the exposition on Sunday.
 Native Christians are increasing in India, at least in the northwest province of Dude, for which we have statistics There are 22, OGa this year, against 13,- 264 at the last census. More than half belong to the Methodist Episcopal church The Church of England has only 5,O13 and the Roman Catholics l 1916.
 | The Swedish Bible Society at it's an nual meeting in April, reported during the year 5000 copies of the Bible print | ed, 6,272 Bibles, G,517 Testaments and a75 Psalters sold and distributed. Since its organization the society has l ments, S75 Psalters and 601 copies of the Gospel of Matthew in the Lapp lan- guage.
 A valuable and interesting addition to the public school system of New York city is the schoolship St. Mary's, which, when in port, is in East river at Thirty first street. Any boy, between the ages of fifteen and twenty, of good moral character and the required physique, whose father is citizen of New York city, may be admitted. Board, lodging and tuition are free. Each boy, on entering the class, makes a payment of thirty dollars, for which he receives one suit of blue sailor uni form, including cap, one short, dark blue seajaclket, three suits of white canvas uniforms with the cap, one pair of rubber boots and two pairs of leather shoes. In addition the boy must come provided with one suit of oil skins fo1 wet weather, three towels, three pairs of heavy socks, three suits of heavy underwear, three pocket handkerchiefs one black necllerchief, one scrub brush one tooth brush, one box of backing thread, needles, wax, tape and buttons The boys are taught the usual common school branches in the morning and have nautical drills in the afternoon.