Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-10-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Prof. George c. Chase, of Bates
college, Lewiston, Me-, has been adj
vanced to the presidency, He is a grad
uate of the college, forty-nine years
ago During the past year he hns rails
cd about $4,000 for the institution.
"A missionary in Chin-choo, China,
recently received letter from banker
asking him to recommend ten or more
Christians to be employed in his bank,
because" he said, THE Christians
arc the only trustworthy men in the
city.
-Afghanistan has 100000 of popu-
lation and no missionary India one
missionary to 275,000, Persia one to
200, 900, Thibet one to 100000. If 49,
600 missionaries were sent to India
there would still be only one to every
so, 900.
The united ages of the bishop of
Bath and Wells, England, and his three
archdcacons give an average of upward
of eightyfour years apiece The bishop
receives some assistance from his CO.
adjutor, but with this exception all are
doing their own work.
1t is said that Mr.. Andrew Bonar
began sermon to his people, on one
Sunday morning, in the following way:
"Once upon time congregation asked
their minister to give them strong
meat. Next Sabbath he preached on
the duty of Christian giving, And
they sent him no more requests for
strong meat, Wesleyan Advocate,
The statistics of the senior class at
Yale college this year, furnished by
| the class history, raise the question as
to the effect of hard study on the eyes.
Out of class of 1856 there are fifty-four
who wear glasses and of these twenty
five have taken to their use since enter
ing college. The average age of the
class is twenty-five years, and yet
nearly two-thirds of them are com
PEELED already to re-enforce their
| eyes.
| The GIRLS Latin school, in connec-
ton with the Woman's college, Balti-
more, will be opened September 18TH
| 1t is a fine new building in Etruscan
style, made to correspond with the
] other buildings, four stories high,
| S0X125 Its cost was 100000. Over
sixty students have been admitted to
| the freshman class of the college, and
many applications have been made
which could not be entertained for
want OF accommodations.
As pride has been transferred from
the list of vices to that of virtues, so
humility, as a natural consequence, has
been excluded, and is rarely suffered to
enter into the praise of a character we
Wish to commend, although it was the
leading feature of that of the Saviour of
the world and is still the leading char
acteristic of his religion; while there is
no vice. on the contrary, against which
| the denunciations are SO frequent as
pride. Robert Hall
Harvard observatory is the first in
stitution to develop corps of trained
| women assistants dealing with difficult
problems, and these women, who are
| not hired because their labor may be
| obtained for less money than would be
paid to men for the same work, but re-
ceive the regular fee for such service
are showing not only fine accuracy in
| their routine work, but also consider
able capacity for original investigation.
| Not all women are capable of working
in this field, but Mrs. Fleming, the
leader of the group, has IAN eye re-
morI1ably keen in making measure
mcnts, mind unusually alert in OBJ
serving, and great executive ability"