The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-08-10

-hrcenwOOd cemetery, Brouklvn,
has grown of late years to be extreme
~ valuable. II occupies ~ acres in
what now is IL thickly-scttlcd partof the
city: it is Il fashionable place of burial.
and lots there have appreciated enor-
mooSiy in value. 1t is said that last
year the trustees took in about $500, 900
for intcrments. Forty years ago a
man bought a lot there for $1,000, and
aftcrward was buried in it. His son
has been offered $50, 900 for the lot, and
wants to sell it and remove his fathers
bones to a less expensive resting place,
lie was about to carry out the plan
when the law was invoked, and the SUI
preme court has just rendered n deci-
sion declaring the inviolability of
graves, and cNcmpting them from
speculative nse. 1t percinptorily for
bids the disturbing of buried remains
and their removal to less valuable sites,
The school for Christian workers at
Springfield, Mass, has shown most
gratifying progress during the past
year. Large additions have been made
to the buildings, and S12, $50 have been
received in special gifts. The faculty
numbers twelve, and sixty students
took the regular course last year.
Among the many increased facilities
during the year have been the normal
department for primary superintcnd-
cutS and normal workers, under the
supcrintendency of Geo. W. Pease, for
merly of California; the physical de-
partmeut, whose object is the training
nf Vnnnp man aud woman TO-. a., H.,
ties of physical directors for Summaries.
schools, academies, Young Women's
Christian associations, etc, under the
superintendency of Geo. f. Poole, NJ.
D., formerly of Cleveland, o.; the home,
foreign and city missionary depart
ment, with Rev. II. p. Beach, formerly
of China, as superintendent.
DR.. Edward Everett Halle has not
much patience with the idea that a
clergyman must work six DAYS over a
m He says: "a sermon consists
of about W Thousand five hundred
words. | take n cup of coffee before
breakfast, and write about six pages
that is six hundred and fifty words. In
the morning | dictate to my amanuen.
sis n thousand five hundred words.
] am intensely interested in the sub
ject, and this takes only a quarter OF
an hour. In the afternoon / look II
over and add five hundred to six hun.
dred words, and the serman is done.
In all, haven't put my hand for over
two hours to paper"
George PARROT, of Lynn, Mass, has
been pegging away at shoemaking and
cobbling for eighty-onc years, and his
hand has by no means lost its cunning,
as the pair of shoes he recently sent to
the World'sfa fair will prove. He is ninety
years old, and went into a shoeshop as
apprentice at the age of nine. He still
works at a solid-looking old colonial
bench which was known to be one
hundred years old when it came into
his possession eighty years ago, An
unmarried sister of eighty-seven keeps
house for him, as his wife died twenty
years ago, AS the Oldest shoemaker in
Massachusetts Mr.. Parrott is a local
celebrity.
81 notice that you don't call on the
Byngs girl any more. Why is it?"
THE last time l was there ! asked her
II she had'anythipg l could take home
and read, and she handed me o book Oh
how to keep house on three hundred
dollars . year. Indianapolis Journal