The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

A Sanskirt school for Hindoo girls
has been opened in Calcutta.
1t is now just 100 years since Prot
estant missionary work was begun in
India.
"A new theological seminary has
been established by the synod of Ken
lucky of the Presbyterian church south
at Louisville, KY.
There are 4s5 missionaries on the
staff of the , London city mission.
French, Germans, Spaniards and other
foreigners are employed to reach GER
tain classes.
Prof. William S. Tyler, for fifty
years the loved and honored professor
of Greek at Amherst college, Massa-
chusetts, often called 'the Amherst
Socrates, is to retire from his position
and devote himself to the preparation
of a book.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who argan-
lied the first kindergarten in San
Francisco in 1880, has received more
than $500, 600 to enable her to carry on
the work. There are now sixty-fve
kindergartens in the city, and more
than 10, 900 children have been trained
in them.
Many Stundists now in Punishment
in T-ranscaucasia will petition the car
to change their place of exile to
Siberia, were agricultural land is
plentiful and where they may have
some chance of making a living. Now
they are entirely dependent upon the
charity of their friends.
Seventy young men have gone from
the Evangelists' home, Birmingham. to
preach in England and abroad. Their
work is on nonsectarian lines, and their
labors have been wonderfully success
full. Mr.. Adell is aboutt to build a large
hall in the thickly populated part of
Birmingham, to gather in the neglected
masses.
Fifty years ago there were twenty
four professors in the university of
Cambridge, of whom five only were lay
men. There are now forty professors,
of whom, excluding the professors of
divinity, only three are in holy orders:
while at Oxford, of the fortv-eight pro-
f@essors, excluding the professors OF
divinity, again only three are clergy
men.-Nineteenth Century.
Rev. Nj. M. Vancleave. pastor of the
Baptist church at Charlottesville, Ind.
has the enviable ministerial record OF
having married seven hundred and six.
ty couples. This venerable clergyman
has preached the Gospel for nearly
eighty years, and the good, old-fash-
Toned ceremony with which he ties the
nuptial knot neatly and with dispatch
makes the ordeal pleasure rel to the
most bashful swain.
1T was decided by the Hermanns'
burgh missionaries among the Zulus
after holding a conference, to abolish
the prevailing custom among the ma
tives OF exchanging girls and womer
for cattle. Strange to say, the Chris
tian converts refuse to submit to thi.
innovation. and have demanded of the
missionaries that they prove to then
from the Scriptures that it would bt
unlawful for them to sell their daugh
tiers for cattle.
-Nagasaka, the educated Jap who
fell in love with the Salvation army a
Adelphi theater, San Francisco, is nov
on his way to London to lay the claim,
Of Japan before Gen. Booth. Since hi
conversion Nagasaka has been bus,
translating the army literature into hi
own language, and some two hundred
army songs, besides the generals holi
ness readings, pamphlets, explanator,
of the Salvation army, r now to b.
found in the hieroglyphics of Nagasa
ka's ~vernacular.
AT the French'government agricul
tural colleges students may enter a
fourteen years of age, after a strict ex
animation in general knowledge. The,
pay nearly ninety dollars per annun
for tuition, board and lodging, and tn
course lasting three years. There ar
free scholarships. There are goo,
class rooms, laboratories, also natura
history collections. Each day fv,
hours are given to practical work an,
, five to lectures and class work. Eacl
boy in turn spends a week in tn
kitchen, and a week in taking up an
bringing in vegetables from farm o
garden. They study chemistry, botany
geology, animal physiology, veterinar.
science and carpentry.
The VonfoIfn. 90 C~s.HA.