EDUCATIONAL
Chess is taught iu all tho Australian
publio schools.
It in miiil that the demand for colored
teachers in Maryland ezceods the sup
ply. There nre 13,283,170 enrolled pupils
In American schools, 303,922 tpaobcrs
and 148,173,487 are expended an
nually. .Gov. Flowor of New York has given
(1,000 to the university extension
Bioveniont, which he thinks should le
npportcd wholly by private benefl-
OBDOl'.
Pro feasor E. S. Dana, of Yale, is
quoted as saying, in regard to the at
tendance upon chapel : "The whole
thing resolves itself into the question
M to whother Yale is a collego or a uni
versity. If it is a college it may be a
proper thing to compol students to at
tend religious exercises ; but a univer
sity demands a more liberal spirit."
Hesido the system of common schools,
attended by over 300,000 pupils, the
city of New York supports two col
leges, the Normal College for girls, one
of the tet institutions of the kind in
the country, and the College of the
City of New York, in which 1,100 young
men are oducated. These institutions
re controlled by tho Board of Educa
tion and are supported by taxation the
Borne as the common schools are.
The results given in the aunnol state
ment of the United States Commis
sioner of Education for tho school year
IB'J1-U2 show that never has the sup-
pork of the people to the publio schools
been bo strong as now. Defects which
kare been disclosed by trial are being
eorrected all the time. Every year j
more attention is paid to the constrno
ftkra of buildings, to sanitation, to heat-1
tog and the like, so that the health of
the pupils may not be injured, and es-
pecially to improve methods of instruo- j
tion. Especially gratifying is the ,
marked progress of education among .
women. Colleges for women are i
steadily raising the grade of their work. ,
The influences of these agenoes will be '
strongly marked in the children. The
stream can not be clear and pure and
strong if the fountain is allowed to be
come defiled. The American peoplo,
especially those of moderate incomes,
owe it to their children to joalously de
fend tho public schools from the as
saults of their enemies in any quarter,
and especially from the debasing in- '
llnence -of the Small, narrow-minded '
politiciaa.-Baltisiore American. "
Of the sixteen American cities with a
population of over 200,000 in 1890,
only four Philadelphia, Boston, Mil
waukee and St Louis have incorpo- :
lated tue kindergartens on any large
scale in their public-school systems.
Four more New York, Chicago, Brook
lyn and Buffalo have kindergarten
associations organized to introduoe the
new method as a part of free publio
education. In San Francisco kinder
gartens are maintained with no appar
ent expectation of uniting them to the
tree-school system. Only Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit,
among the seven cities left the other
three being Pittsburg, Washington and
New Orleans are returned as having
charitable or religious associations sup
porting kindergartens. In 1886-88, '
forty-six lesser places were named as
having one or more kindergartens,
-mostly experimental," connected with I
public schools. The entire work of
providing a special oducation for ohil- '
dren from three to six years of age is
still in this stage in this country. Con
trast this with France, wbero the ecolea
mater nellcs, begun by Oberlin in 1771,
and given new lifo in 1826 by Mme.
Millet, have substantially adopted the
Frobelian principle and practice, and
had in 1887-88 an attendance of 741,
224 between the ages of three and six !
in a population only two-thirds that of
the United States, and having a far
smaller proportion of young children.
Talcott Williams, in Century Magazine.
LITTLE PEOPLE.
Mr. Staylate Is your sister expect
ing me to-night ? Tommy I guess so.
Biie a been sloeping all day. Brooklyn
life.
Little Dot Oh, mamma, there's a
sign, "Puppies for Sale." Won't you
bay me one ? Mamma Wait till you
are a little older, dear. Little Dot
But then they'll be dogs. Tid-Bits.
A Chip of the Old Block "My papa
says I am one of those children who
can only be managed by kindness," said
the little son of Leech, the illustrator,
to a new servant. "So please go and
get ma some sponge cake and an
orange 1" Youth's Companion.
Little Tommy What is that man
cutting the trees for, papa ? Tommy's
Papa He is pruning them, my boy.
Little Tommy Uow soon will the
prunes be ripe ? Philadelphia Record.
Little Dorothy, who was playing with
her kitten one day, turned to her
mamma and said: "Where will my
kitten go when it dies ?" Her mamma,
for luck of a better answer, said : "You
hod better ask your papa." "Oh, yes,"
said Dorothy, "that is too hard a ques
tion for ladios to answer."
A Question of Legs "Yon ought to
run all mamma's errand's without
grumbling," said papa. "Little boys
ought to be better than spidors and
yet spidors are just as patient as possi
ble." "Yes, sir," was the answer, "and
perhaps if I had as many legs as a
spider I'd be patienter." Youug Peo
ple. Little Johnny Dogs don't noed to
talk, 'cause auy one can understand
their bark. Visitor Can you? Lilt to
Johnny Easy as rolliu' oil a log.
Wheu my dog is ut the dooi aud barks,
that luHcttis he wants to get in ; if he's
tnsidu the door aud barks, that means
he wauts to got out. Visitor Humph !
Suppose he is half insula aud half out
side and barks, what does that mean ?
Little Johuuy That means that thore's
a bigger dog thou him in our yard.
Good News.
THE HUSTLER.
The lmstler, being unbdoved,
Hy every Grace and Mii-e,
llo mtts at ulglit in HoMon and
Next morn In Syracuse.
From the Adlrnnrinck Mountains
To the far Pacific slopes .
He play with lines ot latitude ,
Like little skipping-ropes.
His home it In the iloerlns-car
No vine or flg-tree'e shade
Ills music is Its clunking wheels,
His poetry is trade.
Till missionary of the mart
He spreads the true faith's (terms
The endless merits of his house
Above all other Arms.
He buttonholes the kings of trade.
His sample case unrolls,
And talk until the love of life
Grows feeble In their souls.
The bolted doors swing wide for him,
He heeds not bulls nor bars.
And fears not any face of man
beneath the sun or stars.
The heroes of haronlnl times
Wore armed from hair to heel.
With iron pots npon their heads
And pantaloons of steel.
The hustler hero of to-day .
Isarmorless and weak.
But for the vigor of his tongue
And blushlees breadth of cheek.
lie meets all men with fearless mela
Nor k nows to panse or swerve.
With l.lliputian bashfulness ;
And Hroudljinaitlan uerrs.
No dim abstraction vex his soul,
llli creed and hapiduess
Is just to make a sale and catch
The two o'clock express.
Yankoe Blade.
How They Were Married.
The wife of a popular preacher sars
that a fine-looking young farmer,
roughly dressed, with an ox whip in
his hand, knocked at the door and was
shown into tho parlor. There he laid
his whip down upon the mantelpiece
and proceeded to make known his
errand.
"I say, parson," he began, with some
embarrassment, "if I u
round to-day till I got things fixed to
my notion, could I come up hore along
with a girl and git marriod?"
"Certainly," said the minister. "What
seems to be the trouble?"
"Wal," answered the farmer, 'Tre
got my license that's all ready: I got
it more than a weok ago. And now
I've got a place to get married at
That's two things. But 1 haven't said
anything to the girl yet. She's in town
to-day, though, and I saw her in a store
buying some things, and I'm going
right down now to ask her."
He took down his whip, flung it over
his shoulder and went ont of the door
and down the street.
The minister and his wife laughed,
but the wife went often to the window
and peeped out to see if the couple
were in sight.
More than an hour passed; sho had
nearly given them up; but at last they
appeared the girl, as the parson's
wife expressed it, "a perfect little beauty
and as neat as a pin. "
"I had lots of trouble finding her,"
said the young farmer, by way of ex
planation. Then they stood up and were mar
ried, while the bride seemed hardly to
know whether to smile or to weep.
But when the oeremony was over and
the minister's wife said something to
her about it being so sudden, she re
plied, while tears brimmed her eyes:
"But you soe, ma'am, I've loved Jim
ever since I can remember, and he was
just too stupid to find it out"
Too Funny.
In a small New Hampshire town,
Which happens to be the junction of
two roads, a young woman had occasion
to change cars. She explained to the
station ageut that she was to wait for
the seven-forty train for suoh a place,
and he nodded gruffly. A train came
in about seven twenty -five, and she
asked the guardian of the place :
"Is that my train ?"
"No," said he gruffly, "it ain't."
She waited patiently. In half an
hour she advanoed again and asked :
"Isn't the train to very late ?"
"Gone," replied the man, laconio
illy. When did it go T"
"Went at seven twenty-seven."
: "What I You said that train wasn't
my train 1"
"It wasn't your train. That train
belonged to the New England and Aro
tic railroad."
The humorist is now looking for a
job.
Two Facts About a Kins.
An impressionable young gentleman
fn a country town reoeutly met a charm
ing girl wnose grace and beauty took
his heart by storm. While conversing
with her he made a discovery which he
fondly hoped would enable him to
make at one brilliant stroke an elegant
proof of his ready wit and his bound
less affection. Glancing at a modest
band of gold that encircled her finger
he began:
"Sweet damsel, I pray you present
me with the ring yon wear, for I assure
you it exactly resembles my love for
you it has no end."
"Indeed, sir," promptly replied the
maideu, "you must excuse me if I keep
the ring, for it exactly resembles also
my love for you it has no beginning."
Throwing a Slipper After aDrlde.
The proctioe of throwing an old shoo
after a bride, is, it seems, quite mis
applied when it is done by some of her
companions for luok. Aooording to the
spirit of the oeremony, which is of very
ancient lineage, it should be done by
the parent or guardian of the bride, ns
indicating a renounoing of all authority
over her. Chieftains in feudal times
took off their shoes and banded them
to thoir conquerors in token of accepted
defeat, from which practioo the slipper
throwing custom is said to have de
scended.
One Was Easily Recognised.
Gnmmey You'll have to admit that
tinodgrass has his strong points.
Glanders Yes, of course I will.
Theie is his breath, for instance. Har
lem Life.
BITS OF INFORMATION
There are 110,000 species of plants.
Tlnc'lo Sam has 6,000 postmistresses.
Stone bridges wore built in China
2,000 years airo.
The world has thirty-three magnetio
obfiorvatotios.
Blotting-paper is ma le of cotton rags
boiled with soda.
During tlio Crimean War of 1854-53
785.(100 men wore slain.
Clocks were worn as ear pendants in
Germany in the days of Charles V,
Millions of butterflies aro eaten every
year by the Australian aborigine.
Three of tlio first four prosideuts of
the United Statos mnrried widows.
The first book stereotyped in this
country was a New Testomect in
ISM.
The blood travels through our arter
ies at a rata of about twolvo foel per
second.
There aro said to bo about two thou
ran. I varieties of apples raised in this
country.
The temperature of the planet Nep
tmie is estimated to be !)00 degrees be
low zero.
A cherry tree at Elkiu, N. C, is said
to measure twenty-one foot in circum
ference. Tho Crotott aqueduct in New York
surpasses all modern engineering efforts
of this kind.
Before the War of Independence all
tho colonies, which afterward became
States, coutuiuod slaves.
l'luco five huudrod earths like ours
utile by side, yet Saturn's outermost
liug could easily cuoloso them.
On the Isthmus of Darien either sex
ran do the coiirtlno-. with tlm natnral
result that almost everv one rata mar.
tied.
In manufacturing nniinnlinne tha av
erage lifo of soap-boilers is the highest,
and that of grindstone-makers the lowest
The roffistrv foo is rednoed from tn
to eight cents. Tho fee of eight cents
must be iu addition to the regular post
age.
A recent estimate places the amnnnfc
of standing tilnlwr in tli fit at a f
Washington at three hundred billion
loeu
The first natent in Mia TTnifjwl
was issued July 31, 1790, to Samuel
uopaius lor making pot and pearl
ashes.
The Hoosan tnnnnl in UuiulinuM.
which is said to be the longest in the
Country, is four and thrAA.miarfr tnilna
in length.
The Italians invnntn.l tVin (arm (
w. in
fluenza in the Seventeenth century, and
attributed the disease to the influence
of certain planets.
The loncest dav in th Tor tw,j.
bury, Norway, lasts from May 21st to
Julv 2 2d. In Tomes Finland r-iat-
uias day is only three hours in length.
ui tno whole length of the Suoz
Canal, sixtv -six milfla arA nnttinfl fn-
i i
teen have been made by dredging
wirougu mo laices, ana eight miles re
quired no labor.
Punctuation Points are comnnratirnl
modern. Only the poriod is more than
five hundred years old. The oolon is
roputed to date from 1485, tho comma
about 1520, the semicolon about 1570;
the othors hove been gradually added.
It is estimated that in the United
States the annual exnnndit.nrA far ,v.
lio charitable institutions is fully one
hundred and twenty-five million dol
lars, aud not less than five hundred
million is invested in buildings and
equipments for carrying on the work of
these institutions. In thin
account is taken of penitentiaries and
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
Electrio heaters give satisfaction.
Sir liobort Ball declares that the
smallest objects that would be discerni
ble on Mars must be as large as London.
It is claimed that an eleotrio plant
has boon discovered in India, which
will influence a magnetio needle twenty
five feet distant
Pipes of cement, in which wire net
ting is imboddod, are manufactured in
Berlin. The wire netting is intended
to greatly increase the strength of the
pipes against bursting, so that they are
well adapted for water conduits.
A new use for aluminium is men
tioned by a I rench paper. It consists
in inserting a thin plate of tne metal
between the two soles of a shoo, with
the object of preventing the penetra
tion of dampness, while retaining the
warmth of the foot
There is a point near the famous
Stony Cave, iu the Catskill Mountains,
wliero ico muy bo found on any day in
tho year. This locality is locally known
as the Notch, and is walled in by steep
mountains, some of which are more
than 3,000 feet high.
According to a French investigator
the production of smoke does not re
sult in an important wasto of fuel.
Even where the smoke is purposely
made as dense us possible, he says that
the waste of combustible matorial is
less than li per oont lie considers
that the best method of reducing the
smoke to a minimum is to burn it by
providing for its buiug mixed with very
hot gases.
Knssia has tried an experiment with
aluminium sLojs for cavalry horses, A
few horsos iu the Fiuland Dragoons
vei-ii shod with ono uliitniiiium shoe
an I taioo iron shoos oauh, the former
being on the forefoot iu totuo eases,
ii'iu on mo nimi in diners. Xbe ex
periments lastud six weeks, and showed
Unit the aluminium shoes lusted longer
mi;I preserve. 1 tlio foot better than the
i-on ones. No aluminium shoos broke,
mi 1 they were used over agutu for re-
dni' iiiy;, 1 Iieso horses were worked
tvr hin d ninl very stony ground. The
rio-t important fact of all is that alum
iiiiuni lioi'so-slioes are only ono-third to
I ou.i lo.irtlj t!t weight of iron shoes.
Great Reduction in f inter Goods.
A
3 out in prices of Winter Croodls
must fee cleared! ont to make way
our Large Spring priro'hnses. Call mi
ibe convinced tliat yon can buy a Win
ter 0VOAT or SUIT for less mon.
ey mm ever before. For Mae next 0
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