with the offer to her of the deanship of the Harvard Conoway, two Delaware teachers, will graduate, A.B., Annex. It was felt that her freedom from the tram- from Delaware College at the next commencement. mels of college traditions would be of advantage to Rev. Russell Conwell, well known to Pennsylvania the school; her ideas would be apt to be fresher and teachers, has sailed for Europe. William Dwight Whitney, professor of Sanscrit and philology at Yale College since 1854, is critically ill with neuralgia of the heart. He is the author of George John Romanes, F. R. S., LL. D., who died at Oxford, Eng., last week, was born in Kingston, Canada, on May 20, 1848. He spent his boyhood in many text books and the best authority on Sanscrit of was this time. He was editor of the Century Dictionary. England, France, Germany and Italy, and was educated by tutors and in private schools. In 1867 he Supervisor John Kneeland who has served the Bosentered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He ton for many years, is about to retire. He writes: was graduated in natural science in 1870 and "Though I have passed the Psalmist's limit of three Burney Prize Essayist in 1873 and Croonian Lecturer score years and ten, and shall welcome in many ways to the Royal Society in 1875. Having published a the relief that retirement from active service will bring, series of papers on the nervous system of medusa, he I do not sever my connection with the public schools was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. without much regret.—Ex. In 1981 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the University of Aberdeen. Robert C. Ogden, partner of John Wanamaker of this city, has been elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Hampton Normal School, Va. Supt. Brooks, of this city, will make a trip to Europe during the coming summer. Provost Body, of the Trinity College, Toronto, Ont., has been offered the professorship of Old Testament literature and exegesis in the General Theological Seminary of New York, and will accept. Prof. J. C. Merriam, of Hopkinton, Ia,has accepted a position in Berkeley University, California. Mr. Merriam graduated at Lenox College, afterwards taught in Delaware county, and then finished his education at Leipsic, Germany. Hints. Burial Places of our Presidents. George Washington.-Mount Vernon, Va. Thomas Jefferson.-Monticello, Va., James Madison.--Near his home at Montpelier, Va.,and John Quincy Adams.-Rests with his father beneath the Andrew Jackson-At "The Hermitage" near Nashville, Tenn. Martin Van Buren-In the village cemetery at Kinder Prof. C. W. Martindale was recently elected city hook, N. Y. superintendent of the Webster City Schools, Ia. Dr. Jerome Allen, late Dean of the School of Pedagogy, University of the City of New York, was stricken with paralysis during the month of February last and has since been confined to his home in Brooklyn, where friends and relatives have most lovingly cared for him. After a lingering but painless illness, a severe cerebral hemorrhage set in last week and on Saturday morning, May 26, he died.-School Journal. William H. Harrison.-At his old home at North Bend, on the Ohio, a few miles below Cincinnati. John Tyler.-See James Monroe; Tyler's grave is scarcely marked, except by a Magnolia tree at the head. James K. Polk.-At the family homestead at Nashville, Tenn. Zachary Taylor.-In the Taylor Cemetery, five miles from Louisville, Tenn. Millard Filmore.-Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. James Buchanan.-Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lan Mr. George L. Townsend, Jr., and Mr. Walt P. caster, Pa. Dr. William A. Mowry, Supt. of the Salem schools has Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the value of resigned. The Salem school board puts on record "their fresh air in teaching the Respiratory System. If an incen-appreciation of his faithful, intelligent, and efficient service tive is needed, bear in mind that it is the future architects in organizing the office, under peculiar difficulty; of his and artisans of our city we are educating-and much they courteous and willing suggestions, and advice to the comstand in need of it! Think of erecting structures costing mittee as occasion has called for it; of his earnest and unifrom $50,000 to $150,000-school building, churches, club houses, to be occupied by beings whose health and life depend upon oxygen, without any regard to ventilation! form desire to act justly towards the teachers; of the kindly relations which he has sustained toward all under his care; of his wide and accurate knowledge of educational methods and his influence in elevating the standard of scholarship Carbonic acid gas is just as dangerous whether generated by a crowd or by charcoal. Is it ignorance or want of and administration in our schools." principle that would save a few paltry dollars in this way? I. -Selected. A Test in Geography. The students and graduates of the University of the City of New York have said farewell to the old and picturesque building on Washington square. Soon the last trace of the Account for the climate along the coast of (a) Alaska. historic structure will have disappeared from the spot it (b)Labrador. has occupied so long. 2. (a) What is the width of each of the zones? (b) What cause determines the width of the zones? 3. In what countries of the state are the following cities respectively located: (a) Buffalo. (b) Rochester. (c) Binghamton. (d) Ogdensburg. (e) Ithaca. (f) Auburn. (g) Utica. (h) Brooklyn. (i) Syracuse. (j) Troy. 4. Near the mouth of what river is each of the following cities: (a) Buenos Ayres. (b) Hamburg. (c) Alexandria. (d) Mobile. (e) Liverpool. 5. Commencing at the highest, arrange the following cities in the order of their elevation: Buffalo, Duluth, Toronto, Boston, Detroit. NO MORE TOM BROWNS AT ETON.-"Fagging" has become entirely obsolete at Eton. Thirty years ago it was carried on with great brutality. The story of "Tom Brown at Rugby" has, it is said, done more to kill the old system in English colleges than any other agency. A NOBLE EXAMPLE FROM BERLIN.-A resident from Berlin, Herr Sala, has bequeathed to the town a sum of 300,000 marks (nearly £15,000), the interest on which is to be employed in sending to the country or to the seaside sickly children of both sexes. Children of all religious be 6. Through what waters would you pass on a direct liefs are to be eligible to participate in the benefits of Herr voyage from Sebastapol to Athens? 7. Where are (a) the White Mountains? (b) The Cau casus? (c) Carpathian? (d) Green? (e) Atlas? 8. For what is each of the following noted? (a) West Point. (b) Salt Lake City. (c) Columbia River. (d) Banks of New Foundland. (e) Chautauqua Lake. Sala's bequest. A party of 187 members of the Philadelphia High and Normal Schools Alumni Associations spent last Saturday on the mountains in Reading and took dinner at the Summit house. Hillsdale College receives a fine endowment for its li- committee was appointed to prepare such a course, and brary from Mr. Jacquith, an alumnus of the school. It promulgate it before the opening of the schools in the Fall. will be about $10,000. Benton Harbor college supports a teachers' reading circle of fifty members under the direction of Ex-commissioner Tate, who is now one of the faculty. There was quite a lively discussion by some of the farmers in attendance upon the meeting as to the value of some of the studies now in the common school curriculum, and there were some especially strong attacks on physiology. It was claimed that the children of farmers should be taught more about plows and horses and other practical Gen. Alger allows the Michigan University boys to use matters relating to the farms. his private car for their base ball tour this spring. WANT A MILITARY INSTRUCTOR.-The committee on This story comes from Stanford University, Cal.: Several the Boys' Central High School of the Board of Education bottles of wine were stolen from Gen. Harrison's private have adopted resolutions recommending the Board of Edudining-room in Encina hall. This wine was placed at his cation to request Secretary of War Lamont to appoint disposal at the request of Mrs. Stanford, and in violation Captain E. E. Gilbreath, of the United States army, as of the rules of the hall made and approved by her at open-military instructor at the Boys' Central High School. Caping of the university. As the hall is run on the co-opera-tain Gilbreath is at present the recruiting officer in this tive plan, there is a committee of three students who audit city. the accounts and criticise and report on the management. When they reported a charge for the stolen wine, the students protested and voted unanimously not to pay for the loss of such contraband goods. The following are the appointments to the New Jersey State Board of Education. First district, Bond V. Thomas, Cumberland; George A. Frey, Camden; Second district, James B. Woodward, Burlington; Silas R. Morse, AtlanAll the teachers of Marietta borough, Pa., received from tic; Third district, James Deshler, Middlesex; T. Frank County Superintendent M. J. Brecht, for practice in teach- Appleby, Monmouth; Fourth districh, Steven C. Larison, ing the highest mark attainable, (No. 1.) This speaks well Warren; Steven Pierson, Morris; Fifth district, Nicholas for the teachers of Marietta and as they are paid as well as N. Butler, Passaic; Joseph P. Cooper, Bergen; Sixth disany in the county it shows the wisdom of paying teachers trict, James M. Seymour and James L. Hayes, Essex; well for their services. All the teachers of East Donegal Seventh district, William R. Barriclo, Hudson; Evan Stedtownship also received No. 1 in teaching.-Ex. man, Hudson; Eighth district, Benjamin H. Campbell, Union; James Owens, Essex. I A resolution was passed favoring a standard course of resident scholarships and a European graduate fellowship study for ungraded schools throughout the county, and a at the Taylor Women's College, at Bryn Mawr, Pa. 365 The German educational exhibit from the World's Fair journals come fresh from the office of men whose whole is being installed by Mr. Waterman in the new Normal thought is to provide just what progressive teachers need. School, Thirteenth and Spring Garden streets, Philadel--Albert G. Lane, Chicago. phia. The German educational exhibit, as outlined by Dr. W. P. Wilson, was the most complete and scientifically For larger salaries or change of location, address Teacharranged of all the exhibits in the Exposition. The com- ers' Co-Operative Association, 70 Dearborn St., Chicago plete practical part of it, which constituted its great value, Orville Brewer, Manager. together with various maps, charts, models and different. appliances of great benefit to education, will be shown. Of special interest is the practical school work from the gymnasia, real schools, girls' schools, folks' schools, technical schools, blind, deaf and dumb schools. There is a large amount of material, models, charts and drawings, illustrative of scientific teaching; for example, a collection of common insects so arranged as to show their habits of living and development; a series of natural products, mineral, vegetable and animal; a fine series of plant models, with diagrams and charts, used to illustrate botanical teaching, with many models for teaching design; geography, history, photographs of school houses and school architecture, textbooks and works of pedagogica! interest. Mr. H. C. Frick, the head of the Frick Coke Company and Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, has given to the public Schools of Mount Pleasant, Pa., a fine observatory building and a complete set of the best astronomical instruments. This will be a most valuable gift. here come to talk | not Not modifies the verb talk. QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED. S. B. SCHOOLS IN THE WEST.-The elaborate provision for public schools is a striking characteristic of state and territorial legislation in the far west. North Dakota estimates the ultimate amount of her school fund at somewhere between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. Oregon's school fund is now $2,500,000. Idaho's school lands are worth nearly $7,000,000. Kansas holds nearly $7,000,000 in bonds for the benefit of her public schools. Missouri holds between that can be exactly measured by a three quart, a peck, or a five-gallon measure? $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 for her schools. Oklahoma will one day have a large school fund and half a dozen other western states and territories have many millions in. vested for the benefit of such funds. 69. What is the least number of even bushels of grain 70. Analyze, Our island home is far beyond the sea 71. Analyze, E. How easy it is for one benevolent person to diffuse pleasure about him. Parse the words italicised. E. The arcs The best educational papers of to day are giving us the latest and the best in method, principle, and psychology, It is a great mistake, if not a fatal weakness, for superintendents not to recognize the possibility in the best reading 72. Two secants intersect without a circle. of these journals. There is no substitute for a brief, after included between them are respectively 60° and 20°. The school, round-table discussion by the principal and his segments of the first are 4 feet and 20 feet; the external segteachers of the good things in the latest professionaal jour-ment of the second is 16 feet. Find the angle between nal. There are possibilities here that are limitless. These them and the length of the second. J. S. B. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC PATENTS. NOTICE TO INVENTORS. Sulphate of zinc, one grain. Foxglove (digitalis,) one grain. Half teaspoonful of sugar. Mix thoroughly with two teaspoonfuls of water, add four ounces of water. Dose, teaspoonful every hour. Disease will disappear Literary Notes. There was never a time in the history of our country when the demand for inventions and improvements in the in twelve hours.- Chicago Tribune. arts and sciences generally was so great as now. The conveniences of mankind in the factory and work-shop, the household, on the farm, and in official life, require continual accessions to the appurtenances and implements of each in order to save labor, time and expense. The political change in the administration of government does not Agriculture, writes on "Farmers, Fallacies, and Furrows," affect the progress of the American inventor, who being to show that the agricultural unrest is caused less by agrion the alert, and ready to perceive the existing deficiencies, cultural distress than by political and economic fallacies does not permit the affairs of government to deter him In The Forum for June, Mr. Morton, the Secretary of from quickly conceiving the remedy to overcome discrep. by which a certain noisy proportion of farmers have been ancies. Too great care not be exercised in choosing a led away from their furrows. As a class, the tillers of the competent and skillful attorney to prepare and prosecute soil are yet the most independent and the most thrifty. an application for patent. Valuable interests have been The Forum sweeps over its usual wide range of lost and destroyed in innumerable instances by the employ ary work, the conjugal conditions of our population, the solution of the tramp problem, and an expedition to the least known quarter of the world. ment of incompetent counsel, and especially is this advice topics-the condition of the farmers, a criticism, the womanapplicable to those who adopt the "No patent, no pay" suffrage movement, two aspects of the Roman Catholic system. Inventors who entrust their business to this class question, higher education, a discussion of finance, missionof attorneys do so at imminent risk, as the breadth and strength of the patent is never considered in view of a quick endeavor to get an allowance and obtain the fee then due. 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C. ment of women in the New Zealand colony and the unsuccessful woman suffrage campaign in New South Wales. These articles and caricatures are submitted by the Review of Reviews apropos of the great pending discussion in the State of New York. P. O. Box 385. PRESCRIPTION FOR SMALLPOX.-Remedy that is said to have proved efficacious in an epidemic. Some years ago there appeared in several newspapers in different parts of the country a prescription for a remedy for small-pox and scarlet fever which was vouched for by responsible paties as efficacious in both diseases, allaying in twelve hours all dangerous symptoms. Later, during the epidemic of small pox in Philadelphia, it was stated that the Superior of the convent in that city had administered the remedy with distinguished success to crowds of people who came to the convent for the medicine which she prepared and gave out. The prescription is here given for what it is worth: CATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. |