St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Since 1850, in Armenia, eOO, 600 per
sons have become Catholics, and six
teen dioceses have been erected there.
AT Oxford this year 1877 candidates
presented themselves for honOrs in
classics, the largest number on
record; there were o. candidates for
honors in modern history.
The Aquarians, an early Christian
sect, took their name from the fact
that they insisted that wine should
not be used In the sacrament OF the
Lords supper and substituted water
1or it.
In Wales before the great revivals
of the last century crime abounded.
Since that time Presbyterian and Nom
conformist counties Of Wales are frcer
from crime than any other county in
England.
The late Edward A. Hunter, OF
Philadelphia. left about $500. 200 to be
used, after the death Of his wife and
daughter. for the FREQ treatment OF
surgical cases in the hospital of the
university of Pennsylvania.
Ono Of the smallest denominations
in this country reported to the emu
merators of the eleventh census Is the
Reformed Presbyterian (COvenanter.
1t has four societies. one church, three
halls and thirty-seven members.
-Marseilles wishes to have a uni
versity of its own like Lyons and Bor-
deaux. and suggests that the faculty
of letters at AK, near by, Ike trans
ferred to it, as at AK there are but
three students outside Of those hold-
ing state scholarships.
Sig. Ansaldi, . student, blind from
birth, graduated recently with high
honor from the Florence Istituto de
Studi Superiori. the school for post
graduate university work. His thesis
on "Compensatio in the Senses of
the Blind" was declared by the exam
iners to be an important contribution
of new material to physiological psy"
chOlogy.
DIR. d. X. Pearsons, of Chicago. has
given not less than $1,000. 900 to west
ern educational institutions Beloit
college has received 5000, 600. Knox
$50, 900, and the Chicago theological
school $50. 0OO To Whitman college,
of Walla Walla, WASH, and Berea col
lege, Kentucky. $50. OOO each was giIen
upon condition that the fl lends Of the
school would raise an additional $780,.
600 within specified time.
Representatives of persons who
have died in the odor of sanctity and
OF their actions and works may be
placed on the walls or on stained glass
in Catholic churches, by a recent de-
cree of the congregation of Rites. pro-
vided there be no mark of worship or
attribute of sanctity connected with
them. Pictures only Of persons beat
ified or canonized can be placed on
tho affairs or represented with the
aureole.
-Kena has recently had an expert
ence not common among German uni
versities. The four little saxon
duchies to which the university be-
longs - Weimar. COburg, Meiningen
and Altenburg-are unable to support
it, and there was danger that it would
be closed, when the old students and
their friends sent in donations large
enough to assure the continuance OF
the old university. which is one OF the
most pleasant in summer in Germany.
A lady in St Andrew. Jamaica, has
been communicated by her vicar un-
der extraordinary circumstances She
had lost . lOcket and chain at church.
and after two years found the verger's
daughter wearing them; she sent .
lawyer to demand her property. aud it
was returned at once. The vicar there
upon insisted that she should apologize
to the verger, and refused to admit her
to communion until she did. She went
tn another church,