Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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Japanese children are taught to
write with both hands.
The earliest mining schools were es.
tablished in Saxony about 1900.
One hundred applications to enter
Cornell university were refused.
BE as thouwouldst in thine own clear sight,
Aud so thou wilt in all the world s ere long
--"Sonnets"
God only knows how blessed he
could make us if we would but let Him.
Sunlight.
One of the things revealed in the
Bible is that Heaven is to be forever
devil-proof RAMS Horn. E Il
Two educated women, says the Mis-
sion Field, have begun the issue of the
first newspaper in the Congo Free
State,
An examination in gymnastics is
now required at Johns Hopkins of un.
dergraduates before a degree is con.
ferreds
The Disciples of Christ now mum.
Der million, it is said. The strength
OF the denomination is chiefly in the
west and south.
The report is confirmed that the
czar has ordered the ministry of the in.
terror to transfer to the holy synod the
administration of all church affairs.
Spain has ten universities, Italy
seventeen, Germany twenty-one, Great
Britain eleven, Russia eight and the
United States three hundred and sixty.
Women now vote for school com.
mittee in twenty states and three terri
tories; in municipal elections in Kansas
and for president in Wyoming. TWEEN
ty-five years ago they had mono OF these
privileges
Athens has lately completed a
magnificent academy building OF Pen.
telican marble, costing million dol
lars, given by wealthy Greek mer-
chant, Sui by name, and has well
equipped university, with complete
school system besides
"A good man who allows himself to
be found in bad company, must submit
TO the ordeal of being rated as part OF
ii. Yes, even more; when the names of
those present are repeated. special
emphasis will always be given to his
own name. United Presby terrain.
The dew distills in silence; SO does
the speech of our God, most frequently
in the silence OF trust. In that stiffness
Gods silent love can be Condensed into
dew-likc communications, not read,
not heard, but made known by the di-
rect power OF the spirit upon the
soul. Frances Ridley Havergal
The proportion of Methodists to
citizens in Baltimore is sixty-four to
10000; in Pittsburgh thirty-scven; De-
troit twenty; Buffalo eighteen; Brook
lyn eighteen; Cincinnati twenty-five;
Washington forty-threc; Dayton TWEEN
ty, Omaha, fifteen; Rochester, twenty
four; Philadelphia thirty-threc; Cleye-
land twenty-five: New York ten. Chi
cago has about fourteen Methodists to
every one thousand of population.
st. John Guild, an Episcopal organ
ization in New York city, having for its
special work providing the poor and
| sick with summer outing, reports that
during 1892 the Floating hospital under
its care made forty-one trips and 43, 5S4
patients were cared for. At the Sea Side
hospital 1,13S patients were cared for,
including 722 children and Az mothers.
1t has been decided to BALD an addi'
ton to the Sea Side r. spital at New
Dorp, Staten Island,
"A gift of 100000 has been made t.
Barnard college for building, on con
dition that the college should acquir,
suitable land within 100 feet of the new
site of Columbia college, on Morning
side heights. The trustees find them
selves face to face with deficit OF $40,
900 this year, as against IS, 900 last year
Laws and help are much needed to car
ry on the institution. President Low
says of the work of the women of Bar
nard, that it is worthy all praise ant
encouragement, and that the womel
are meeting the standards required TO
their degrees fully as well as the younl
men.