The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-11-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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The Episcopal church NJ Hickman.
KY. has two women on its vcstrv.
Free drawing schools for girls were
first organized in France by Rosa Hon-
hcur.
Thousands Of illuminated Scrip
turc texts are circulated in Uganda.
Africa.
There is n village on the Northern
Pacific railroad which has h~fty-four
inhabitants and two churches, both
Presbyterian.
DIR. A. T.. Peabody, chaplain Of Har'
vard college, graduated from that in
stitution in 1926, three years before
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
london has only $50 churches fox
its population o. $500 0 Chicago
has nearly IL not quite that many
churches for "a population OF 1900, 900.
During the past year, in the field
covered by the North India conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal church,
baptisms of converted heathens have
aggregated 10000.
DIR. George S. Burroughs, professor
OF biblical literature al Amherst, has
accepted the presidency of Wabash col
lcge, Indiana. lie Is a graduate OF
Princeton, class Of '13.
The wife ofChina's great statesman,
III Hung Chang, died a few year ago.
Her physician for a long time was DR..
Howard. an American lady connected
with the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society in Tien-Tsir.
The Fifth Baptist church, Cincin-
natl, O., will Immediately build three
new chapels at a cost of $4,000 each.
Rev. Johnston Myers is the pastor of
the church. and is active in carrying on
mission work in that city.
Mrs. s. G. Grubbe. superintendent
OF Salem (Ore. schools, receives IA salary
of 81. 200 n year. The principals receive
from $3.50 to 5000. The assistants get
$500 a year. Out of a force Of "a teach
crs, all but five are women
Fifty years ago there was not q
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
ffty-onc. all save ten of whom were APP
pointed by the present pope. Since
Leo's succession to the papacy eighty
six wcarers 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 Frcnchmen. three Aus
TRANS, three S%paniards, two Portuguese.
with one from each Of these our coun-
tries: The United States, Canada, Bel
GUM and Australia.
1t seems odd to think OF missiona-
aries going 10 Scotland, the home of the
Co%venanters, to convert the savage i'm
habitants to Christianity. At Anwoth.
in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. there was found
. few days ago one of the old hillside
crosses set up by the early inissiona-
aries who went to the lowlands from
Iona, or ireland, to mark the spots
where they first preached Christ to the
heather Scots. This inter csting cross
Is Of red sandstone, ~ inches long. 141i
inches across the widest part and
inches thick. It's arms are 20 inches in
length, or were, for one is broken Oft.
Rude inscriptions IRE carved IN tha
cross.
Miss Time Tsuda, a special student
at Bryn Mawr. is very anxious to found
q scholarship which will give japanese
women a four years training in this
country and fit them rs teachers fol-
Jocape<a cirls The Sum needed l.
about eight thousand dollars. Mis-:
Tsuda says: There are japanese
women anxious TO prepare for the work
Of educating the girls of Japan. They
are willing to devote their lives to 1t, il
only they were suitably prepared; bu'
few OF them have opportunities Of study
|. such as men have, for noncof the high
or institutions are open to women still
less have they means to come abroad fol
study"