Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The principal Protestant missions
in South America are those of the Tres
byterian church, north and south, the
Southern Baptist church, the Methodist
Episcopal church, north and south,
and the South American Missionary
society.
Now that the rod is practically out
of date as an educational implement,
it surprises and pleases people of mid
die age to observe the friendliness
that their children often show for
their teachers The younsters go to
school willingly and stay after hours
to chat with the teachers.
-Inthe free night-schools of Cooper
Union, New York, there are two sec
tions, the scientific and the art, each
having course of five years. A
student may enter for any length Of
time he pleases. but if he or she is alb
sent three times without satisfactory
excuse, the privileges of the school are
withdrawn. In some classes the num-
Der of applicants is greatly in excess
of the accommodation.
The Maryland Episcopalians are
talking of dividing the diocese, making
the city of Washington one diocese and
the state of Maryland the other. Some,
however, object to this, on the ground
that the future bishop of Washington
ought to have some outside missionary
territory to keep him from being puffed
up. They say he might get to calling
himself Washington, after the En-
glish fashion; and if his front name
would be awkward.
AT the annual meeting of the board
of trustees of the American university
in Washington, the chancellor, Bishop
Hurst, announced gift of $780, 900
The site is valued at $500, 900, and
pledges towards buildings and endow-
ments amounting to 100000 had been
received before the last donation of
100, 90 was received. The university,
therefore, has, in property and pledges,
100000. No department of the uni
versity has yet been organized and
opened. When sufficient funds are Sc
cured to warrant it. buildings will be
erected, and the work of organizing
the teaching Of the university will be-
gin.
Col Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, who has just elebrated his seven
tieth birthday. recently gave interest
ing testimony to the decline of drink
ing among the students of Harvard
university. He used in his younger
years to see students reeling down
North avenue, in Cambridge, from Por-
ter's tavern, where they had INDUCED
in the potent flip which nowhere
else was made SO strong. and instances
of intoxicated students careering
through the college yard were not un-
common, while nova days. says the
colonel, II am sure no student would
willingly be seen staggering across
Harvard square. 1t would be consid
cred poor form, and any man who did
such a thing would lose CASTE"
An Odessa correspondent says that
the Russian orthodox missionaries have
so failed in their proselytizing efforts
among the Khirgese that the missions
will probably be shortly withdrawn.
Nearly the W hole of the steppe tribes,
generally described as ''heathens," are
now adopting, almost en- masse, the
Mohammedan faith, which is spread
among them chiefly by Tartar teach
ers. The Mohammedan Tartars have
always enjoyed the right of free prose-
lytism among the natives of the
Kirghese steppes. According to re-
port just issued by the All-Russian
Orthodox Missions society, during the
last % years its missionaries, have
made S5 converts among the heathens
of Asiatic and European Russia and
Japan. The cost of these missions dur
ing the quarter of century amounts
to 3, Il 46, 1853 rubleS.