St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Harvard university has established
the highest meteorological station in
the world on the Cordilleras in Peru.
Lord Overtoun, who was recently
elevated to the house of peers. still
continues his evangelistic work. He
has been elected president of the Glas-
Cow (Scotland) United Young Mems
Christian associations.
After being refused communion by
. church in Columbia, because she
worked three hours every Sunday as q
telephone girl. decision that was up
held by the Charleston presbytery.
Miss Sadie Means has won an appeal
to the South Carolina synod, which de-
cides in her favor by vote of 63 to 40.
The Baptists of England will add
100 to their army of missionaries now
at work among the heathen. This is
made possible by the t6OO,OOO fund
gathered during the centennial year. ="
Adaptation of leading men is now visit
ing the Baptist churches of England
10 sound call through them for the
men and women for missionaries
Christian at Work.
In the South Pacific islands it is
believed that the spirits of the dead
rule and protect the living. That mys-
terious power "Mana" abides with the
soul after death and he who has been
powerful in life will I've powerful in
spirit This spirit is equally inclined
to be malevolent and beneficent and
against others its aid is invoked for
every kind of hatred and injury.
Rev. John c. Faville, at the
Worlds Evangelical congress in Chi
cago, stated that he had increased his
evening congregation from 200 to more
than 700, revived interest in the MORN
ing service and given new life to the
whole church organization. by follow
ing four rules. viz: IN good church
music: (sl printed programmes of the
service: ~ good ushers and bright
reception committee: (p a short sermon
of from Is to 20 minutes.
In Syria and Palestine there are
now nine thousand and eighty-one girls
under Protestant instruction. and there
are thousands in the Greek and papal
schools. The effect of female educa-
tion, prosecuted for so many years, has
been a palpable change in the status
and dignity OF woman. The light and
comfort. the moral and intellectual
which have resulted are plain
even to the casual observer. The
mother is becoming the primary in
structor of the children at home, and
by precept and example their moral
and religious guide.-Church at Home
and Abroad.
Rev. ID. H.. L. Wayland tells this
story on himself: 'On a recent occa-
sion the Rambler. according to his
feeble light, preached the Gospel in a
village which is enriched, illuminated.
and sanctified by the presence of a
school of prophets With such capacity
rs he was possessed of he endeavored
to preach to the people about God,
Christ, the immortal soul. and the eter-
nifty that spreads around and beyond
us. A local paper of the following
week, wishing to do the handsome
thing, stated that the pulpit was occu-
pied by So-and-So. and added The doc
tors remarks were very entertaining
The chief mosque of Damascus.
which was destroyed by fire on the 14th
Of last month. was one of the most fa-
nous and interesting in the east On
. commanding site. its great dome and
tall minarets were the first objects seen
by travellers to the oldest city in the
world. The mosque was built more
than thousand years ago on the site
of an early Christian chu. ch. the old
walls and many of the columns of
which were permitted to remain. The
edifice was an object of great venera-
tion by the Mussulmans. for about it
were clustered many sacred traditions.
among which was one that within its
walls rested the head of John the
Baptist.-Philadelphia Ledger.
There are probably one hundred
and fifty schools for cooking in Ger
MANY and Austria. the best of which
are at Vienna, Berlin and Leipsic. A
man who wishes to become chef must
begin at the very bottom of the ladder
at peeling potatocs-and work up,
round by round, to the top. A course
of schooling as strict as that of any
polytechnic school in this country must
be followed for four years before the
student can get a diploma Every year
examinations are given, in
which as many as two hundred chefs
take part. The chef who was employed
at the White House by Grover Cleve-
land during his first term has gold
medal which was presented to him by
the Empress Frederick for excellence
in cooking, silver medal given by the
king of Saxony, a diploma from the
empress of Austria. and numerous other
marks of appreciation and honor won
in competitive contests in cooking.
Fortunes from Rags.
1t is astonishing what immense sums
ragpickers receive in the course of 4
day. The combings of women's hair
sell at eighty cents q pound: this
means three hundred dollars to the
knights of the hook. .'Merinos." as
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