Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Of the $4,000 French-Canadians in
Chicago fully $4,000 are said to be Ro-
man Catholics.
The oldest of England's famous pub
lie schools is Winchester, which was
founded in 1885.
The Emmanuel Baptist church OF
Ashland, Neb., has extended call to
Miss Frances Townsley. of Chicago, to
supply the vacant pastorate.
Glasses at Yale are sub-graded by
scholarship. In the first or best grade
only % per cent. use tobacco; in the
second grade, 4s per cent, and in the
third, 20 per cent In the fourth or
lowest grade IS per cent. of the stu
dents are smokers.
Cavalry Methodist church, corner.
Seventh avenue and One Hundred and
twenty-night street, New York city.
was started about eight years ago with
less than fifty members. The present
membership is 1,o71, and the pastor re-
ported to conference that the member
ship had increased last year at about the
rate of one per day.
If Boston does not witness very
soon marked religious and moral up
lifting it will not be the fault of the
church workers of the city. There is
not a denomination which has not en-
tered upon some line of practical work
among the people its vicinity or in the
crowed sections of the city. The work
has not been exclusively religious, but
has touched both the physical and social
needs of the masses, '-''-'---
has resigned the presidency of Cornell
university. In his letter. to Henry w.
Sage, chairman of the board of trustees,
he gives as his reason for the step the
existence of grave and seemingly irrec-
oncilable differences of opinion in re-
gard to matters of administrative inn.
portance," but does not 60 Into details
The resignation is to take effect With
the close of the collegiate year:
The will of Mrs, A.. D. Frances, OF
Pittsfeld, Mass, lakes the following
bequests: The House of Mercy, the
Union for Home Work, the Home for
Aged Women and the Young Mems
| Christian association receive e5,0ee
each. The Society for the Aid Of Bap.
tist Ministers receives >S3, 900. The
| ALlcIlCdn IDdpbiSL 41SSlOuf1Iy lQntOu. dnO
the Baptist Home Missionary society
are made residuary legatees, share and
share alike.
-Vassar college is to have a new Ii
brary, the gift of Mr. Frederick Thomp-
son, of New York, for whom IT is named
1t is built of brick with. gray stone
trimmings, and will cost. .s75, ,00O A
new students hall is to be erected BY
the college, and it is arranged toaccom
modate 100 students. The Students
Aid society is collecting fund of $40, ,oot
for the establishment of fellowship
which will be open TO all graduates OF
the college, and will enable the re-
cipient to study wherever she chooses.
"A magnificent. set of priestly vest
ments has recently been presented tc
st. Stephens Roman Catholic church in
New York by Mrs. Theodore Have
meyer, wife Of the wealthy sugar re-
finer. The vestments are SO richly en-
broidered in gold and silver, and the
white silk Of which they are made is 50
heavy that the. garments can almost
stand alone. They were found - an
out-of-the-way place in Paris, were pur-
chased for q, 500, and another 500 was
spent in getting them cleaned. They
are in the style of the time of Louis XIV.