Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-11-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

There are S69,6s4 teachers in the
United States.
The first normal college for the
blind was founded in 1873.
New churches built in America last
yeae numbered nearly 10000.
Sunday schools for teaching the
elements of English education were
established by Raikes about 1881.
The first systematic effort to teach
the deaf to speak was made by DR..
Thornton, of Philadelphia, in 1893.
--Charlemange founded schools in
every monastry in the empire, in which
reading, singing, urithemetic and gram.
mar were taught.
Between 1893 and 174l the society
for the promotion of Christian knowl.
edge founded nearly 1000 charity
schools in Great Britain and Ireland.
In Scandinavia, Switzerland and
Germany over 95 per cent, of the popu-
lation are able to write; in Great Brit
ain, 80; in France, So, in the United
States, 90.
He that repents every day for the
Sins of every day, when he comes to die
will have the sins of but one day to
repent of: short reckonings make long
friends. Phillip Henry
Joseph Lancaster began the sys-
tematic instruction of poor children iii
1906. The popularity of his system
was the fact that he utilized the older
pupils in teaching the lower classes,
10 hunger no more and to thirst no
more is but to have our ever-returning
need perpetually. satisfied, and from
the overflow of our blessedness to be-
come wells of the water of life to other
souls Lucy Larcom
The Peabody gift of 50, 100000 for
the purpose of promoting education in
the south was made in 1866, and in
1869 the donation was increased to 49,
10000 Mr.. Peabody's previous dona-
tions to the cause of education amount
ed to 81, 25O,0 900.
Gen, Booth carries on his missions
at comparatively small cost The Off
GERS who work among the Zulus get
sixty cents per week as salary, besides
cornmeal for breakfast, rice for dinner,
with an occasional bucket of molasses
thrown in. The latter costs twelve
cents at the sugar mill,
in 1928 Luther and Melanchthon
drew up scheme of popular education
which was followed in the German
schools for seventy-fve years. The
first class learned to read, write and
sing; the second class studied Latin,
grammar, music and the scriptures; the
third, arithmetic, Latin and rhetoric,
A colporteur was recently arrested
in the Galata district, Turkey, for sell
ing the Epistle to the Galatians, on the
ground that it was seditious docu'
ment The Turkish authorities called
| for certificate of the authors death &c
assure themselves that the document
was not of recent origin. Chicago
| Standard.
The seal ring worn by the pope
and used by him on official documents
to which his signature is attached, has
on it the engraving of fish with the
cipher of the wcarcr. Since the thir
teenth century every pope has worn {
ring of this character, and it is shat
tered with hammer when the weareI
dies to prevent it's use on a forged docu
ment.
| The number of Mohammedan pill
grms on their way to Mecca who ar
rived last year at the port of Jeddaf
was nearly IS, 900, of whom II, 900 were
Javanesc Including Malays from Brit
ish territory, nearly 1900 British In
dians, 5000 Egyptians, and nearly thu
same number of Turks and Syrians
Moors and Algerians number 1880, ant
BolIharians over 5000. Nearly all thu
pilgrims are conveyed in British ships