Cambridge, Mass. ... Joel Parker, LL.D.. 1851 Hon. Henry Dutton, LL.D. 120 Dane Law School, Harvard Univ. 1859 1859 1833 1845 Hon. G. Sharswood, LL.D,| 1850) Law School Cincinnati College.. Cincinnati, Ohio..... Hon. Bel'myStorer, LL.D. 1833 1782 1825 1845 323334 1817 1 3 1847 For one or both sexes. Number of pu Number of teachers. pils Number of gra- State Normal School....... Se'l, 12th D. State Normal State Normal Winona, Minn......... 1858 Both * In most of the loyal States which have no normal schools, provision has been made, usually by annual State grants, for the instruction of normal classes in colleges or academies. By means of these appropriations the tuition for those intending to become teachers is either rendered entirely free or reduced to a nominal sura. In Iowa and several of the other Western States, the State universities have a normal class, who are admitted, to the extent of two or four from a county, without charge for tuition. In most of the large cities there are socalled normal schools, which give instruction on Saturdays or evenings to the younger teachers in the primary schools, to qualify them for promotion. Neither of these schools are State institutions. The McNeely School was partially founded and endowed by Mr. Cyrus McNeely, and both are sustained by the Ohio State Teachers' Association and their tuition-fees. RELIGIOUS STATISTICS OF THE WORLD. (Prepared by Professor A. J. SCHEM for the "National Almanac.") I. SUMMARY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC, THE PROTESTANT, AND THE TOTAL CHRISTIAN POPULATION OF The 10,700 Christians of Russian America belong to the Greek Church. †The Protestant population of South America consists of a steadily-increasing number of congregations of German and Swiss immigrants in Brazil, of a colony of Waldensians in Uruguay, of German, English, American, and other foreign residents in all the large towns of South America, and a small number of congregations of native converts to Protestantism. * In the number of Roman Catholics are included those Eastern Churches which have acknowledged the supremacy of the Pope. Thus, there are in Asiatic Turkey 25,000 United Greeks, 75,000 United Armenians, 20,000 United Syrians, 140,000 Maronites; and in Syria 150,000 Syrian Christians (Christians of St. Thomas), of whom 96,000 (the “United Syrians"), with 97 churches, still follow the old rite of their Church, while the others have entirely identified themselves with the Latin rite. The Protestant population of Asia is made up of the Lutherans (mostly Germans) in Siberia, the Protestant Europeans and Americans living in China, India the Archipelago, and other parts of Asia, and the missionary congregations of converts. The latter class are most numerous in East and Farther India. Other Christian Denominations.-The Christians of Asiatic Turkey who are not Protestants or Roman Catholics belong to the Greek or Armenian Churches. These two Churches are the most numerous Christian bodies also in Asiatic Turkey, which contains, moreover, adherents of several other Oriental Churches, as Nestorians, Jacobites, &c., the aggregate number of whom may amount to about 200,000. China contains, besides Protestants and Roman Catholics, a few Greek congregations, for the most part descendants of Russian captives. Also in Tartary the Greek Church has already gained root, in consequence of the progress of the Russians. The Christian population of India comprises 70,000 Syrians, 200,000 Jacobites in Malabar and Travancore, several thousand Armenians, and a few Abyssinians. The Christians of Persia are mostly Armenians and Nestorians. The statements about their number greatly differ. That of the Armenians is estimated from 30,000 to 200,000; that of the Nestorians, from 25,000 to 100,000. |