The midland journal., 1894-01-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the M. E. church, at its re-
cent meeting at st. Paul, appropriated
sS19,OoO the coming year.
"A New South Wales society has an
''open air committee" which conducts
an open air Gospel meeting every Sun
day before church services.
The remarkable statement is made
that ten Yale students have been
stricken with appendicitis within a
year. This looks as if some dietary
problem were involved in the case.
The Bridgman school for girls at
Peking, China, has recently determined
to receive no more girls with bound
feet. The native Christians at Peking,
as the result of an enthusiastic meet
ing, have formed an anti-foot-binding
society.
Nearly 11.0O0 women have regis
tered in Boston, substantial increase
over last year. The women in Deer
field, Mass, who sued the assessors for
refusing to register her has obtained
S42.04 damages, and now all the other
Deerfeld women are registering. School
suffrage in Massachusetts, is looking up.
When Winifred of Devonshire (6sO-
754 A. d. went to Germany to convert
the heather his first act was to fell
sacred oak which had been dedicated
to Thor. A great storm assisted him
in laying the giant prone upon the
earth, and the heather, regarding 1t as
miracle, were converted by hundreds.
of the 4,239 girls attending the
various high schools of Berlin 1908 be-
long to Jewish families, that is, 3s per
cent Of the s,725 pupils attending the
gymnasia (colleges) 1909 are Jews,
percentage of "a. While the total at
tendance of the Berlin gymnasia has
decreased, that of Jewish pupils has in
creased.
Missionaries of the English church
engaged in itinerating in southern In
dia find numerous instances of edu-
Gated men and Brahmins who are con.
vinced of the truth of Christianity. In
one place whole Brahmin street was
found to be in state of dissatisfaction
with Hindooism, their leader confess
ing: "The more 1 read of it the less I
believe it."
One of the most picturesque &C.
clesiastical structures in New York is
st. Johns German Evangelical Luz
theran church in Christopher street. Its
brown-stone front is ornamented with
quaint carvings in the colonial taste,
and its low steeple bears for weather
vane a gilded arrow, that looks as if it
had been whitfield out of shingle by
some choir boy in an idle hour. Ad-
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brick parish structure, having look
that bespeaks handsome endowment.
The executive committee of the
Western Reserve university has ap-
pointed Mrs. Mary Noyes Colvin pro-
fessor of romance languages in the col
lege for women. Mrs. Colvin was
graduated from Mount Holyoke. and
after studying and teaching several
years she entered for degree at the
university of Zurich. In February,
1888, that university bestowned upon
her the degree of Phi. D., summa cum
laude, she having been the first woman
to receive the doctors degree from
the institution.
The state of Michigan has taken an
important step in the treatment of con-
sumption by deciding to quarantine the
disease. The idea is that while every
thing should be done in the way of pro-
Viding for those affected with the dis
ease, and are endeavoring to lessen
their sufferiugs, especial care should
be taken to isolate them, and thus di-
minish the danger of their propagating
the disease among those who are
healthful. Michigan will establish,
therefore, separate hospitals for con-
sumptives. The physicians of tnat
state declare further that quarantine
against consumption will give the best
opportunity for prosecuting the study
of this malady.-New Orleans Times.
Democrat.