St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-08-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Canterbury cathedral is 514 feet
long, 80 high and 1s4 broad: the choir
b $50 feet by -.
MANY Of the medieval. churches
were originally constructed TO serve.
when occasion required. as fortresses.
There is . church at Kirkwood. &C.,
owned by Presbyterians. with Meth
oilist pastor. and the seats were origin
ally owned by Baptists and donated BY
EpiscOpalians.
The men who comprise the crew
which will represent Yale ut New Lon
don next spring have been selected and
are now rowing in the harbOr both
morning and afternoon.
Mrs. Minnie Norton Caldwell. Of
the broadway church in Louisville,
KY, has given to the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, in that city, real
estate worth not less than e7s, ,00o.-
Watchman. = :.
The doors Of Delanare's college foy.
colored men have been closed some
weeks before the usual time this year
because the legislature's sppropriatios
of one thousand dollars il estimated in
sufficient for certain expenses Il n de-
signed to meet for the next two years.
The college will. however, reopen In
the autumn.
The Johns Hopkins university =
making a fine exhibit at the Worlds
fair. The collection of scientific maps
and instruments and geological speei-
mems was exhibited to the students in
lowering hall before leaving for Chiea-
go. President Gilman Il very proud Of
the showing that is being made by the
university in scientific resultA
The season colors in the Episcopal
church-and In such churches as do not
show them in the vestments. they are
displayed in the altar cloths and book
marks-arc white for Christmas. Easter
annunciation. Ascension and puriAca-
tion of the Blessed Virgin; rcd for Whit
Sunday and martyrs' day; green for
Trinity, violet for Advent and Lent and
black for Good Friday.-Denver Crest
Divide. s
The Primitive Methodists Of En-
gland are this year celebrating their
jubilee. The celebration
has taken the practical form Of jubi-
Ice fund. which, it Is hoped. will
amount to 100000. This sum will b
used for the extension of mission work
at home and abroad, the formation ofs
chapel loan fund, the extension Of the
college and the increase of the super.
fund.-Nlinneapolis Ensign.
Col. X. r. Mcmahon. Of Washing
ton. offers to President Turner of tho
West Virginia university = prize Of s2s
in gold for the student who shall write
the hest article On the question:
''What WAS Shakespeare Religion:-'
The competing students must have
spent not less than three yeafs In the
university. A second prize Of e25i In
gold is also to be given to the student
who on commencement day stands
highest in the military department Of
the university. 80.
OF the vexed question Is 70 mis-
Mr.. Selous' testimony Is
clear He has nothing but praise for
the hard-working and indefatigable
who pioneer civilization in
Central Africa: and he expressly says
that the only natives whom he has
ever admired or respected were the
SONS of some of Khsma's headmen,
who had been educated by Mr.. Mac
lxenzie at KurumAn. It Is indeed dim
cult for such slayer Of animals not TO
feel admiration for . man like Mr..
Sykes, who in 1859 established his mis-
sion station at Emhlangen in Mstebele-
land. in the midst of rowing lions, who
aisseed to come and drink every night ut
,. pool two hundred yards from his
doorstep, and whose most appreciated
pastoral duty was the driving Of wild
elephants ont of the corndelds Of hia
of ReviowA