The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
SCHOOL AND chURcts.

Tho woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the NJ. E. church, at it's re-
cent meeting at st. Paul. appropriated
e81S, 900 the coming year.
"A New South Wales society has an
''open air committee which conducts
an open air Gospel meeting every Sum
day before church services.
The remarkable statement is made
that ten YaAe students have been
stricken with appendicitis within
year. This looks as if some dietary
The Bridgman school for girls at
Picking, China. has recently determined
to receive no more girls with bound
feet. The native Christia MS at Picking,
as the result of an enthusiastic meet
ing, have formed an anti-foot-binding
society.
Nearly 1900 women have regis
tered in Boston, a substantial increase
over last year. The women in Deer
field, Mass, who sued the assessors for
refusing to register her has obtained
e42.O4 damages, and now all the other
Deerfield women are registering. School
suffrage in Massachusetts, is looking up.
When winifred of Devonshire $3.50
754 A. d. went to Germany to convert
the heather his first act was to fell a
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
q miracle, were converted by hundreds.
of the 1880 girls attending the
various high schools of Berlin 1908 be-
long to Jewish families. that is, 80 per
cent. OF the s.725 pupils attending the
gymnasia (colleRes) 1000 are Jews, a
percentage of "a. While the total at
tendance of the Berlin gymnasia has
decreased, that of Jewish pupils has in
creased.
-Missionarie of the English church
engaged in itinerating in southern In
dia find numerous instances of edu-
Gated men and Bra hminS who are con-
vinced of the truth of Christianity. In
ono place a whole Brahmin street was
found to be in state of dissa tiSfaction
with Hindooisn, their leader confess
ing: ''The more 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 it's low steeple bears for weather
vane q gilded arrow, that looks as if it
had been whitfield out of a single by
some choir boy in an idle hour. Adj
joining the church is a substantia
brick parish structure, having look
that bespeaks a handsome endowment.
The executive committee of the
Western Reserve university has APP
pointed Mrs. Mary Noyes Colvin pro-
fessor of romance languages in the col
lege for women. Mrs. Colvin was
graduated from Mount Holyol<e, and
after studying and teaching several
years she entered for a degree at the
university of Zurich. In February,
1885, that university bestowned upon
her the degree of PHI. D., su1nma 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 sufferings. especial care should
be taken to isolate them, and thus di-
minish the danger of their propagating
the disease among those who are
healthfu1. Michigan will establish,
therefore, separate hospitals for con-
sumptives. The physicians of that
state declare further that a quarantine
against consumption will give the best
opportunity for prosecuting the study
of this malady.-New Orleans Times
Democrat.