The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Brown university mas decided 10 ad-
NIT women TO its classes on the same
conditions as men.
Brown university will receive s70,-
600 from the estate of the late j. W.
Smith, of Providence.
Boston university h rs received from
Mrs. Douglass, of Cam bridge, three high
ly-prized busts representing respectively
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. Arson
Burlington and Gen. Lyman.
The Smithsonian institution recent
ly paid 81, 500 for single butterfly.
The species has long been believed to
be extinct. The one now in the Smith
sonian was caught in the Sierras.
The English Missionary society,
whose centenary occurs in 1892, intends
to endeayor to raise special centenary
fund of e10o, OOO and to seek also to in
crease the annual income of the society
to e10O, 900.
I'm Persia any person not Moham-
medans are at liberty to attend Chris
tan worship, but Mohammedan can
not abjure his religion without fleeing
the country or losing his life. police
man stands by the door of each mission
| chapel to prevent the attendance OF
Islamites-
"A comparative table of the work OF
the Methodist Episcopal Mission to
North India shows that the growth has
not only been steady but that uniform
rate of increase has been maintained
The number of communicates being, in
1888. 2o9: 1868, 665; 1873. 1,567; 1878,
2 526; 1888, 4,4o0; 1888, 6,s44; 1891, 49,
697.
The king of the Belgians has honor
] ed one of the Baptist missionaries on
i the Congo with q decoration The
| gentleman, Rev. Geo. Grenfell, is not
only q. preacher, but an explorer OF
note. Great interest attaches to his
discovery of the Mobangi. which he has
proved probably to be the Congos
greatest tributary. ~
+ "A school for domestics," the first
of its kind, is to be opened IN St Pc
tersbur9. The object will be to teach
moor women all kinds of household
work, cookery, mending and sewing
linen. also dress and shirt making.
The women who successfully learn
their work will be recommended TO
good positions, and such of them as can
not stay away from their households
will get work at home
The Presbyterians of Canada did
better for home missions than for for
eign missions in the year recently
closed. giving to the former Sill, 96S
and 70 the latter SS7, lS5. The great adj
vance. they say, has been made by the
Women's Foreign society. Beginning
fourteen years ago, they have brought
mn their income from nothing to S34,
500 and are every year advancing In
the viror and success of their efforts. -
Illustrated Christian Weekly.
! in Mitau. Kurland, an industrial
school, for young women will be open
ed 'sfor the benefit of girls and young
! married women" who desire to work
for their own living. The principal
subjects taught will be trades in which
5 women are the least annoyed by the
: competition of male laborers. Lam
puages and bookkeeping will be taught
/ with view to enable the scholars &c
: take positions in the large factories OF
4 Warsaw, Kiey and Odessa, where goods
e are produced for foreign markets
, The Philadelphia Times says, ''Sev
e enty-fve million dollars are contribut
i ed yearly in the United States to the
i sustenance of the church, S31, 600, OO(
!: more being given for purposes purely
l. religious. Within the century nov
I drawing to close $50, 600, 900 copies o
Z the Bible have been printed in 226 dlt
Il ferent languages Fifty years ago there
a were SOP missionary stations, in foreign
II parts; there are now 5, T65. Fifty year
u ago there were 653 ordained mission
Il aries; to-day there are 6,69o such ser
{ wants of the Lord. Then there wer'
N but 1886 other laborers and helper
s abroad; now there are so, $50.