Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The California Legislature has passed a bill abandoning tuition in languages and music In the common schools. The two cost ia San Francisco $50,000 a year. —Resolutions have been adopted ia the Rhode Island Legislature, calling for information as to the expediency of giving instruction in the " industrial arts"ln the high schoofc. —A convention of delegates from all the Jewish congregations in the Malted ! States will be held in New York city on May 24, to take steps to found a Hebrew Theological University. —Of 232 Congregational Churches in Connection*, 127 allow the female members to vote in church affairs, and of the remaining 100 a large proportion allow them to vote in calling or dismissing pasters. —A commission has recently been in session in Berlin to consider and recommend a purely phonetic system of spelling; ana it is understood that the Minister of Public Instruction is ready to introduce suck a system into the schools as soon as it is perfected. —The Indian Commission of the Protest ant Episcopal Church has issued an appeal for help. The schools are foil and the religious services are well attended. The school at the Spotted Tall Agency has 170 pupils. Unless subscription* are sent in, the embarrassment of the Commission will render tbe withdrawal of the ministers and teachers necessary. —The first Sunday ia July baa been set apart in the Reformed (Dutch) Church for the celebration of the prmtmwaal year. In ease an earlier day is desired by any of the churches, the third Sunday in April has been recommended by the General Synod. The contributions wen these days are to be formed into a “Centennial Seminary Fond,” the interest of which Is to be used for the support of the theological schools.

—Virginia has hero doing something for the cause of education since the war. A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer estimates that $5,650,000 have been appropriated to educational purposes in the State during the past ten yearn, la the sanae period endowment schemes for the benefit of the colleges and theological institutions in the State have ben wholly or in part carried out, amounting in the aggregate to $3,400,000. —Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan, in treat ing in the National Ttaetkri Monthly of some cases of historical jealousy of woman toward woman, says: “A school superintendent assured me, the other day, that a certain lucrative school principalship would be Conferred upon a woman, capable and expert .j**l, if the assistant teachers—all women—did not so strenuously object.” Mrs. Sullivan thinks that the greatest obstacle in woman’s way is woman. —The Philadelphia Ledger says: “It is. then, a fatal mistake, in every point oz view, to supply a young man with largo sums of money while he is acquiring an education. It is aa unkindness to him, for it is annutitog the object in pursuit and unfitting him to become a worthy and JMefal citizen. It is an unkindness to the family, if tbsir means are limited, fee therr comforts must be curtailed for tha indulgence of one member. Most of all is it an intnry to tire cause of education itself, by converting it into an aristocracy, which repels all tawat, however promising, that is not accompanied by the credentials of wealth." .■. * • m At* ‘ excellent spirit varnish titua made: Take one gallon of alcohol, one pound gum aandarac, half pound gwa UmSlh<<| IWw ptHlullo Ocßt wurm three pounds gum benzoin; cot the gums cold. When they are thoroughly dmi solved, strain the mixture through fine muslin, and bottle for use; keep tneoofr U* W corked. k abeauttfol varnish for violins and other mnaMau m strumente of wood, trt for fimey articles, such as those of inlaw row*- « **«*»» well adapted for yael-wmfc and all nuired only onj fiowiag cj|®nd^protion the surface is pertettiy nhancie ■ TfSmMl