St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-03-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

. The principal Protestant missions
i In South America are those of the Tres.
. hyserian church, north and south, the
eeuthern 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 60 tn
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 a course of five years. A
student may enter for any length Of
time he pleascs. but If he or she is alb
sent three times without satisfactory
excuse, the privileges of the school arc
| withdrawn. In some classes the num-
Der of applicants is greatly in excess
of the accommodation.
The Maryland Episcopalians arc
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 puffcd
up. They say he might get to calling
himself "Washington," after the En-
glish fashion; and if his front name
should happen to be George the result
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 &100. 900.
The site il valued at $500. 900, and
pledges towards buildings and endow-
ments amounting to $500. 900 had been
received before the last donation of
1l00,0 90 was received. The university.
therefore. has. in property and pledges.
500. 900. No department of the uni-
versitv has yet been organized and
opened. When sufficient funds are &C.
cured to warrant it, buildings will be
erected, and the work of organizing
the teaching Of the university will be-
gin.
Col. Thomas Wentworth HiRgin-
son, who has just celebrated 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 indulged
in the potent Zip" which nowhere
else was made so strong. and instances
of intoxicated students careering
through the college yard were not un-
common, '.while nowadays" 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 q thing would lose caste"
An Odessa correspondent says that
1.-The Russian'Orthodox missionaries have
so failed in their proselytizing efforts
among the Khirgese that the missions
~ill probably be shortly withdrawn.
Nearly the whole of the steppe tribes,
generally described rs 'heathens." are
How adopting, almost On masse, the
baiohammedan 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 tho
kirghese steppes According to re-
port just issued by the All-Russian
Orthodox Missions society. during tho
last % years its missionaries, have
made IS converts among the heathens
of Asiatic and European Russia and
Japan. The cost of these missions dur
ing the quarter of a century amounts
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