St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-04-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

japanese children arc taught 10
write with both hands -
The earliest mining schools We1e e.
tablishcd in Saxony about 1900.
One hundred applications to enter
Cornell university were refused.
BE as thou wouldst in thine own clear sight.
And % thou wilt In all the worlds ere long,
--"Sonnets'
God only knows how blessed he
could make US II we would but let Him.
Sunlight
One of the things revealed in the
Bible is that Heaven is to be forever
devil-proof.-Ram's Horn
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 I'M
dergraduates before . degree is con-
ferred.
The Disciples of Christ now num-
Der a million. it is said The strength
Of the denomination Is chiefly in the
west and south.
The report is confirmed that the
car 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 none Of these
privileges
Athens has lately completed q
magnificent academy building of Pen.
telican marble. costing q million dol
lars, given by q wealthy Greek mer-
chant Sui by name. and has we'll
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
il. Yes, even more; when the names of
those present are repeated. q special
emphasis will always be given to his
own namc.-Unitcd Presbyterian.
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-like 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
81 = ID = b =
10000; in Pittsburgh thirty-seven; De-
troit twenty; Buffalo eighteen; Brook
lyn eighteen; Cincinnati twenty-five;
Washington forty-three; Dayton TWEEN
ty, Omaha, fifteen; Rochester, twenty
four; Philadelphia thirty-three; Cleve-
land twenty-five: New York ten. Chi
cago has about fourteen Methodists &c
every one thousand Of population.
st John Guild, m 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 As. 5s4
patients were cared for. At the Sea Side
hospital 1,13s patients were cared for,
including 80 children and 4l2 mothers.
1t has been decided to build an addi-
ton to the Sea Side hospital at New
Dorp. Staten Island.
"A gift of $l00. 900 has been made to
Barnard college for a building. on con-
dition that the college should acquire
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 $l0,-
600 this year. as against s. 900 last year.
Laws and help are much needed to car
~ on the institution. President Low
says OF tho work of the women Of Bar
nard, that it is worthy all praise and
and that the women
are meeting the standards required for
their degrees fully as we'll as the young
men.