St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-12-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are ss9,os4 teachers III the
United States
The first normal college for the
blind was founded in 1873.
New churches built in America last
year numbered nearly 10000.
Sunday schools for teaching the
elements of English education we're
established by Raikes about 1881.
The first systematic effort to teach
the deaf to speak was made oy DR..
Thornton. of Philadelphia, in 1888
-Charlemange founded schools in
every monastry in the empire. in which
reading. singing. arithemetic and gram
mar were taught
between 1898 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 81 per cent, of the pOpu-
lation are able to write; in Great Brit
ain, 30: in France, IS. in the United
States, o.
lie 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 rcclonings make long
friends. -Phillip Henry.
Joseph Lancaster began the sys-
tematic instruction of poor children in
1896. The popularity of his system
was the fact that he utilized the Older
pupils in teaching the lower classes
To 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 e., 10O, 900 for
the purpose of promoting education in
the south was made in 1866, and in
1869 the donation was increased to So
50C.G Mr.. Peabody's previous dOna-
tons to the cause Of education amount
ed to 81. 5000.
Gen. Booth carries on his missions
Mt 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 a scheme of popular education
which was followed in the German
schools for seventy-five 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 Epistlc to the Galatians, on the
ground that it was a seditious docu-
ment The Turkish authorities called
for a certificate of the authors death to
assure themselves that the document
was not of recent origin.
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 wearer. Since the thir-
teenth century every pope has worn a
ring of this character, and it is shat
tered with hammer when the wcarer
dies to prevent its use on a forged docu-
ment.
The number of Mohammedan pill
grims on their way to Mecca who ar
rived last year at the port of Jeddah
was nearly IS. 900. Of whom IL, 900 were
Javanese Including Malays from Brit
ish territory, nearly 1900 British In
lians, 5000 Egyptians, and nearly the
same number of Turks and Syrians.
Moors and Algerians number $500. and
over 5000. Nearly all the
pilgrims are conveyed in British ShipS.