The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Chicago clergymen have formed
polygot club for the purpose OF in
structing prospective missionaries in
the various foreign languages by means
Of the monograph.
Rev. Henry Lewis, missionary to
Japan, says that the government of
that country has Withdrawn all objec-
tion to the possession OF the Bible by
the people, and the normal schools are
allowed to use 1t.
Johns Hopkins, founder Of Johns
Hopkins university, was Maryland
Quaker. He died Il bachelor in 1873 at
the age of 70, leaving for the institu-
tion $3,O0O,O0O He was a director of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
1T is reported that town in Texas,
settled by infidels, fifteen miles south
east of Texarkana, was named Inger-
soil, after the infidel leader. Lately
an evangelist went there and conduct
ed meeting, which, by Gods bless
ing, resulted in two hundred and fif-
teen professions of faith. The people
proceeded to change the name to Ell
son, and they have voted out all the
saloons.
The Countess Ersilia Cetani-Lova-
te1li, the first woman TO be distinguish
ed by German university with the
degree of doctor Philosophi@ Causa
Hoporis," an honor recently bestowed
upon her by the University OF Halle,
belongs to one of the oldest and most
famous of Italian noble families. From
her childhood she met distinguished
and learned men, and was herself an
earnest student, and when she was left
widow, in her early twenties, she
devoted herself to study. Science,
archaeology and literature are all in
her province, and she is a hard worker
as well as brilliant writer.
Equal pay for service" is the
slogan of the women teachers in the
Philadelphia schools. Although the
board of education allows $3.50 year
to men, graduates OF the school of
pedagogy in the Central high school,
appointed to teach the eleventh and
twelfth grades, . young woman grad
uated from thcs normal school and
school of practice is paid only $500 for
her first year, and after five years gets
but 1910 in the eleventh grade and
$3.50 in the twelfth grade. After five
years of teaching, therefore, the salary
of woman teacher in the twelfth
grade is $3.50 less than what man
teacher would be paid fresh from the
high school. fl>
lin 1719 Rev. Peter Thatcher, Of
Weymouth, was called to be assistant
pastor of the New North church, Han
over street, Boston. Some Of the So
ciety were so much opposed to the new
preacher that they withdrew and
erected a new meeting-house near
Richmond street, which for many years
was known as the Revenge Church"
1t is said that because Mr. Thatcher's
name was Peter" the disaffected Sc
ceders had weathercock made Of cop
per. five feet in height, placed it above
their church for vane, the man who
did the work getting astride it, turn
Ing its head toward Thatcher's church
and growing Justify three times. In the
great gale of September 8, 1869, this
copper cockerel was blown from its
perch into the kitchen of q house be-
low. The great rooster has since been
gold-plated, and now surmounts DR..
McKenzie,s church in Cambridge.
Probably Weymouth is the only town
In Christendom that has had clergy
man who has been immortalized by
having the enmity of aesthetic Boston
laymen against him, materialized in .
belligerenr game-cock, and placed on
the top of church steeple in the lit
erary metropolis of nation.