The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-05-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are about a dozen boys
Christian military organizations.
The Baptist Missionary union re-
ceives $50, 900 from Mr.. Rockefeller this
year.
Mrs. Laura J. Eisenhuth has been
elected state superintendent of public
instruction in North Dakota, and is
said to be administering the affairs of
her important position with great ac-
ceptance.
The Social Brethren church is a
small body, confined to five counties in
Illinois and three in Arkansas. 1t was
organized in 1867. They reject infant
baptism, but baptize true believers
either by sprinkling, pouring or i'm
mersion. One of it's articles of faith
pronounces against political preach
ing" and another de clares the right of
all lay members to a free speech and
free suffrage in the church. 1t has
30 organizations, with II edifices, valued
at 8 s ,700, and has a membership of 913.
Cardinal Archbishop Vaszary, pri-
mate of Hungary, together with the
other archbishops and bishops of the
Roman Catholic church in Hungary,
have presented a memorial to the en-
peror and King Francis Joseph, asking
protection for the church against the
measures introduced by the present
Hungarian government, and considered
by the prelates signing the memorial as
hostile to the church, chief among these
being the proposition to reform the
marriage law in Hungary, by making
civil marriage a complete legal fulfill
ment of the marriage contract.
The American Bible society has
printed the Bible in the following
tongues: English, Welsh, French,
French Basque Pyrenees), Spanish,
Catalan Eastern SPAIN, Portuguese,
Norwegian Tin German type), Swedish
lin German type), Finnish lin German
type, Dutch, German, Magyar yucca
tam, Polish, Hungarian. Bohemian Tin
Roman type, Italian, Bulgarian, Es-
thonian (Russia), Esthonian (Dorpsat),
Armenian (ancient), Armenian mod
ern), Arabic, Syriac (ancient), Syriac
(modern), Arabic (Mesopotamia), Ebon
(Marshall islands), Kusaien {Strongs
islands), Gilbert islands, Ponape (As-
cension island), Mortlock, Hawaiian,
Zulu, Benga West Africa, Grebo
West Africa, Mpongwe West Africa),
Dikele West Africa, Mohawk, Choc-
taw, Cherokee, Seneca, Dakota, Glib
way, Muskokee, Delaware, Nez Perces.
The night schools Of the Cooper
union, New York, are all free, and are
divided into two sections, the scientific
and the art. The studies pursued in
the former are algebra, geometry, nat
ural philosophy, astronomy, chemistry,
geology from October to january, de-
scriptive geometry, electrical measur-
ing from January to Apri1), analytical
geometry, elementary mechanics, trigo-
nometry, diferential and integral cal
culus, applied mechanics, analytical
chemistry and mechanical drawing.
They are divided into a curriculum of
five years. Any student may attend for
as long or as short time as he pleases,
though if he is absent three times with
out satisfactory excuses he forfeits tut
ton in the school. The art sections
studies are rudimentary drawing. orna-
mental drawing, decorative designing,
form drawing, cast drawing, mechan-
ical drawing, architectural drawing,
modelling in clay and perspective draw
ing.