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VOL. II.
The Stopping of the Clock.
Surprising falls tho instantaneous calm,
Tho sudden sileuoo in my chamber small;
I, starting, lilt my head in half alarm—
Tho clock lias Btopped— that’s all.
Tho clock has stopped 1 Yet why have I bo
found
An instant feeling almost like dismay?
Why note its silonco sooner than Its sound ?
For it has ticked all day.
So may a life bosiilo my own go on,
And snob companionship unhooding keep;
Companionship scareo recognized till gone,
And lost in snddon sleep.
And so tho blessings hoavon daily grants
Aro in their vory commonoss forgot;
Wo little In cd what answoreth our wants—
Until it unswors not.
A strangoncss fallctli on familiar ways,
As if some pnlso were gone beyond rocall—
Something untliought of, linked with all onr
days;
Bonio clock has stopped—that’s all.
—George II. Coomer, in Youth’h Companion,
THE STORY OF A SCREEN.
Tho level beams of tho mollow May
suusot were revealing every flaw and
crack in tho cheap papering which cov
ered tho walls of the little garret-room
where Mabel Moro sat busily at her
sewing machine, and a single pot of
blue, velvet pansies in tho high, nar
row window made a spot of color for
poor Mrs. More’s weary eyes to rest
upon, as she toiled at the floss-silk em
broidery which was her whole occupa
tion. The room was small and scantily
furnished, but there was within its walls
one relio of evanished days—a black
satin screen, mounted on a standard of
gildod bamboo, and painted in deep
rich oil-colors, with a scarlet flamingo
floating upward against a background
of roods and grasses, while in the dis
tance flamed a stormy sunset sky.
“Mamma did it herself, when she
was a girl at boarding-school,” said
Mabel More, to thoso who sometimes
asked tho history of this one remaining
token of luxury. “ Wo have kept it
through everything. I would not part
with it for its weight in gold.”
And then sho would laughingly tell
tho tale of how half a dozen collectors
i f antiquities and esthetic furnituro
h at different times, endeavored to
pu: chase tho old satin screen.
“ One man wanted to bny it with a
pair oi longs and a brass coal-scuttle,”
said she; “ another one offered a broken
sot of Thackeray’s novels and n fender;
and a third bargained with a teto-a-teto
set of china, and a broken-nosed alabas
ter statuo of Psycho.”
For Mabel was a bright-eyed, sweet-
faced girl, who had a very keen sense of
tho ridiculous, and lived through the
hard realities of her life with tho quiet
fortitudo of an inborn heroine.
But after all tho second-hand dealers
wore nothing in resolution and persist
ence ns compared with Miss Ann Azalea
Harper, tho daughter of tho landlord
from whose leaky and badly-drained
premises they had removed a few weeks
previously. Miss Ann Azalea had a
very fair idea of bric-a-brac treasures)
and she had cast her lino eyes upon
this vory screen.
“ It’s worth a deal of money,” said
Ann Azalea to herself. “And it was
only this morning that Aunt Hepsy was
wishing for just such an old-fashioned
screen.”
Now Aunt Hepsy was a rich old maid
shrewd, crusty, elderly, and full of dis
trust of all the smooth-tongued rela
tives whoso professions of love and re
spect were so extreme.
“ A screen ?” said Aunt Hepsy. “ Yes,
I want a screen."
“ I’ll paint you ono, dear aunt,” said
Ann Azalea.
“Much of a screen you could paint!”
said the old lady, disdainfully.
“ I improved a good deal at board
ing-school,” said Ann Azalea, meekly.
‘And I’ll stretch it upon an antique
bamboo rack; and really I think it will
please you.”
“ I don’t 1” said Aunt Hepsy.
“May I try, dear aunt?”
•‘Yes,” said the old lady, grudgingly;
“you may try I”
And Ann Azalea, who had already in
her mind appropriated poor Mrs. More’s
antique screen, set diligently about the
work of getting possession of the same.
“ You owe my pa ten dollars of rent,’
said Ann Azalea, spitefully, as she sat
panting for breath in the little garret-
room, after having toiled up the three
long and narrow flights of stairs. “You
can’t deny it.”
“It is quite true,” acknowledged
meek Mrs. More, who, in her daugh
ter’s absence, was absolutely defense
less ; “ but—”
" You ought to be ashamed to owe so
much money as that,” said Ann Azalea.
“ Wo have been very unfortunate of
late,” said Mrs. More. “But we fully
intend to repay all our indebtedness as
soon as my daughter—”
“ Oh, that’s all nonsense 1" brusquely
interrupted Ann Azalea. “Pa ought
to have put an execution—that’s what
he ought to have done I”
Poor Mrs. More shuddered.
“ And it ain’t too late now,” added
the young lady, ignoring the code and
all its provisions.
“ Oh, Miss Harper!”
« But we don’t want to be exorbitant,’'
SANDERSVILLE, GA., JUNE 28, 1881.
graciously went on Ann Azalea. “ So,
sooner than be at the expense of a law
suit, I’ll tako some trifle or other in
pay. That screen, for instance,” with her
creedy eyes fixed on the pictured flight
of I he scarlet flamingo. “ Ten dollars
is a deal of money, and tho screen is an
old-style thing, but I wouldn’t mind
calling things even, just to easo your
conscience, if—”
"I couldn’t—oh, I couldn’t 1” cried
poor Mrs. Moro, tho tears coming into
her eves. “ It was work I did as a girl.
My own poor mother sketched in the
green rushes and grass with her own
pencil, and—and if any cne is to have
it, it is already promised to an old fam
ily friend, who is to pny twenty-five
dollars for it.”
“Vory well,” said Miss Harper, rising,
with an ominous toss of lior head.
“Then, if you really mean to swindlo
“Miss Harper 1"
“ If you really mean to swindlo us,”
severely repeated Ann Azalea, “I may
as well Btop at the constable’s on my
way back and put on tho distraint nt
once.”
Mrs. More clasped her thin hands in
a sort of nervous horror
If poor Mnblo, who had gone out so
buoyantly to carry homo her little parcel
of finished work, should return and find
tho minions of tho Inw in possession 1
“I am a selfish creature,” she told
herself, “to prefer my own inclination
to dear May’s happiness I ”
And so sho told Ann Azalea, with a
burst of tears, that the screen should
bo hors.
“I will sond it to yon—in tho oven,
ing,” said sho, pitoously.
“ It you’ll just wrap a bit of brown
paper around it, I’ll tako it now,” sug
gested Miss Harper, who believed firmly
in the anciont adago of tho “tlie bird
in tho hand being worth two in the
bush."
And so the scarlet flamingo was car
ried away in tho triumphant arms of
Miss Ann Azalea Harper.
“ After all," soliloquized sho, “I got
it for absolutely nothing. For pa said
tho old mahogany bookcase he took oil
them was worth a third more than all
tho rent they owed; any one but a
fool liko that whimpering little Mis
Moro would havo known it perfectly
well. And I’m sure it’ll suit Aunt
Hepsy to a T I”
While poor Mrs. More, Hobbing bit
terly boforo tho empty place where her
beloved screen lmd stood, felt as if all
the sweot associations of her early youth
had boon wrenched ”a\vay.
“ Mother—dear mother! why are you
crying?" questioned Mabel, hurrying
into the room. “ Is your neuralgic
headache worse? Oh, mother! where
is the old screen ? I havo brought Miss
Mil man to see you about it. Sho says
sho will givo you thirty dollars for it,
if—”
"I havo sold it,” said Mrs. More;
“for ten dollars. To our landlord’s
daughter. Or rather I have let her take
it away in payment for tho balance of
tho rent wo owed thorn.”
“ Sho has deceived you, mother!"
cried Mabel, coloring up with honest,
indignation. “Wo owed her not a single
cent I Oh, dear, mother, if I had only
boen at home 1”
Miss Milman, a stout, short, grizzla-
lieaded lady, stood still in tho center of
the room, looking sharply about her.
“Don't fret, Alico More,” said sho.
“Tears never yet did any good. You
may depend upon it, this woman’s de
ceit will yet recoil upon her own head.
What is your landlord’s name ?”
“Harper,” said Mrs. More. “Eben-
ezer Harper.’’
“ Oh 1” said Miss Milman.
And then she went away.
“I think she grows more eccentric
every day,” said Mabel, looking after
the retreating figure of the stout lady.
“ Rich people have a right to be ec
centric if they please,” sighed Mrs.
More, still looking at the empty place
where the screen had once stood.
“ Dear Aunt Hepsy,” said Ann Aza
lea, radiantly, “ I’ve come to wish you
many happy returns of your birthday.
And here’s a little present—the satin
screen I promised you.”
“ Eh ?” said Aunt Hepsy.
“My own work,” said Ann Azalea.
“ And I do so hope you’ll like it.”
“ Humph I” commented the old lady.
“I’ve worked day and night to get it
finished,” said Ann Azalea, fervently.
“ Ann Azalea,” said the old lady, sud
denly becoming inspired with some de
gree of animation, “ where do yon ex
pect to go when you die ?”
“Dear aunt,” said Ann Azalea, “I
don’t in the least understand you!”
“ Because' you are telling a perfect
tissue of lies, each one more outrageous
than the other,” said this painfully
frank old lady. “The screen isn’t
your own work at all. The satin was
painted by an old school-friend of
mine, fifty odd years ago. You cheat
ed her out of it, tho day before yester
day, by a regular piece of swindling
that would have disgraced a mook auc
tioneer. And now you may go and
carry it back to her—Mrs. More, No. 7
Lilao court—with my compliments.
And, Ann Azalea—”
“ Yes, aunt," said the dejected young
lady.
“ You needn’t trouble to come back
hero again. If I adopt an heircBs it
must be some one who is pure nnd
good nnd truthful—not such a one as
yon! And I’m rather disposed to
think that it shall bo Mabel Moro.”
And so Miss Ann Azalea Harper’s
grand scheme resulted in utter failure.
The screen was borne ignominiously
back, and Mabel Moro is now her
aunt’s adopted darling. And Papa
Harper, instead of tenderly consoling
his daughter, says, gruffly:
“ It’s all your own fault 1”
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CVRIOVS
Small sponges often fix themselves to
living shells, nnd Dr. Johnston tells m
that he onco met with a sponge on the
back of a crab, which walked about
quite unconcerned with its light bur
den, though it was many times larger
than itself. ■
Mr. Gasse, an English naturalist,
onco saw a scallop, a mantle-covered son
animal, draw as muoh water as it could
hold within its mantle, and then, closing
tho edge, squirt it out at ono cornor so
as to drive itself along in tho opposite
direction.
Tho horns of tho water-snail are hol
low tubos, nnd whon it draws in its horns
tho eyes disappear down tho tubes.
When tho "optics” aro noodod again it
is only nocossary for tho muscles round
tho tube to contract, nnd so to squoezo
tho tip gradually out.
Tho edible parts of tho frog aro tho
hind logs, which are sold by tho dozen
on a skowor. Tho frogs aro obtained
by hunters armed with small bows, tho
arrows of which are attached to a
string, and thus perform tho offlee of a
harpoon.
It is probably not generally known
that the great pyramid of Cheops in
Egypt is not tho greatest structure of
tho kind in tho world. Tho pyramid
of Choops covors only fourteen acres,
while tho pyramid at Pueblo, in Mex
ico, covers forty acres of ground, and
was originally GOO feet high. It is esti
mated to^have been built 7,000 years
ago. Sun-dried brick is tho material
of which it is made.
An obituary of a fish is ono of the
queer items in a Paris paper. Ono cl
tho fattcBt carps, it says, in tho lako nt
Fontainbleau has just died. It wns
called Fanny, and is boliovod to have
been born in the reign of Francis I., or
nearly 400 years ago. Sho was accus
tomed every afternoon to show herself
to an admiring crowd, and accept
crumbs from tlieir hands as she had
done in times past from tho hands
of many of tho Rings of France.
A t'hinone Hell.
A trn r thus describes a represen
tation o; c punishment of the wicked
after den’ nccording to the Buddhist
theory ioh ho witnessed in tho
suliui - oi Canton:
After a walk of about a mile wo came
to tho temple of horrors. This is a hor
rible place—that is, tho scones aro
hideous. The intention is to represent
what a bad man would suffer after
death. It is composed of ten different
groups of statuary, of clay, and many of
them are crumbling to pieces. The
first group represents tho trial of the
man; ho is surrounded by his family
and friends, who are trying to defend
him; the second, where he is con
demned and given ver to the exe
cutioner ; in the third he is under
going a semi-transformation from
the man to the brute; the fouth, where
he is put into a mill head downward,
and is being ground up; his dog is by
the side of the mill licking up his
blood. In tho fifth scene he is being
placed between two boards, and is
sawed down lengthwise; sixth, he is
under a large bell, which is rung until
tho concussion kills him; seventh, the
man is placed upon a table, and two
men are beating him with large wooden
paddles; eighth, ho is upon a rack, and
the executioners are tearing his flesh
with red-hot pincers; ninth, he is in a
caldron of boiling lead; the tenth
scene represents him on a gridiron,
undergoing the process of roasting. In
all these scenes the family are present
also large figures who represent the
judge, executioners, little devils, and
v J5 ious instruments of torture.
History of the I‘otato.
The potato is a native of the new
world, and took its name from the
Indian word batatas, which was subse
quently called by the different nations
as follows : English, potato ; Spanish,
batatta ; French, patate ; Italian, patata;
Portuguese, batata; Spanish America,
papas. The potato was first found in spon
taneous abundance in latitude thirty-
five degrees south, in 1560. The former
Indians of Minnesota used large quanti
ties of the wild potato, which formerly,
and we suppose now, abounds in differ
ent parts of the State. The French
called this wild root or tuoer pomme de
terre. The Dakota name was undo, o
tamdo. When properly cooked and
prepared it was palatable, as we know
from experience.
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LOVE COMEMEH.
Five Itnihcr Amuilng (Inca.
A young woman of Springfield, Mass.,
was determined to circumvent a young
man whom she snspected of a desire to
escort her home from the Baptist oliurch
sociable. Tho entertainment was hold
in the basement, and she laid a plan to
gain tho audience-room above by means
of the back stairs and to escape thence
to tho Btreet, while her would-be cava
lier was preparing to pounce upon her
at tho basement door. All wont well
until a false step in the darkness sent
her splashing into the baptistry, which
had remained open Binco the previous
Sunday.
Charles H. Leighton is a young man
of Sea Cliff, and Miss Eva M. Leick is
a belle of Brooklyn. They were en
gaged to be married last winter, but
Mr. Loighton, for somo causo unknown,
sought to break the engagement. Miss
Leick admitted that it is always a sad
thing to take a lovo oaso to court, but
sho did tako tho caso in question thoro,
as woll as the following lettor, which
sho had rcoeived: “Yon dear, darling
littlo sugar plum, yon’ro ns sweet as n
lamb about six months old. I wish you
to como up on May 8. Leave the houso
about 2:80. I wish you would work a
motto (‘Sunshiuo After the Clouds’) for
mother. She says for you to como up,
and I wish you to toll your mother to
let your como for my sake. P. S.—
Try to work that motto if you can and
let mo know if you can. P. S.—I will
write to let you know nil about it.
“ CnAS.”
Whon tho letter was rend in court Mr.
Leighton’s affection apparently re
turned. Ho at once sent for tho Rov.
Dr. Hall and defendant and plaintiff
wore married.
Fort Branch, Indiana, was excited
whon Mr. Jasper Douglas, a bachelor
and prominent citizen of that town,
brought home a lirido. From a confes
sion by Mr. Douglas it appears tlint he
sat by his lonely fireside one night, re
cently, reflecting upon the loves of his
youth. Tho old rhymo eamo to him :
“ Anna lias gono on a mission,
Oil to tho Booth son sinners;
Noll is a widow, koopH boardors, an 1
Cooks hor own dinners.
“Charlotte and Busan and Hattio,
Mary, Jane, Lucy and Mnggio ;
Four aro married and plump, two
Maidons and scraggy.”
Ho was sad at heart, and bofore he
wont to sleep that night ho mailed to
a'Chicago paper an advertisement for a
wifo. Tho most kind response and tho
prettiest picture came from Stormvillo,
Miss., and thither Mr. Douglas went
for his lady-love. Tho courtship lasted
twenty-four hours.
With ono of his arrows for a goose
quill Cupid has written for the San
Francisco papers an account of u unique
wedding that occurred there. A dandy
employe in the United States mint was
accepted by tho mudeap daughter of a
respectable citizen for the purpose of re
venge. The wedding hour was fixed for
a Monday evening, and a number of
guests, all of whom understood tho hoax
about to be played, met in good time.
A white-haired old gentleman consented
to act as clorgyman, and the ceremony
was performed in a dim light in the
back parlor. As the dandy groom turned
to salute the bride, the latter throw
away a close veil and a blonde wig and
disclosed the features and mustache o f
the dandy’s fiery rival, a fighting fellow,
who, if nocossary, could act tho part of
mother-in-law as well as bogus bride.
The guests threw up their hands and
feigned amazement, and some of tho
madcap’s fair friends seemed to faint.
As for the shocked and angry groom,
he slammed the front door after him in
a rage.
NO. 13.
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indoions of correspondents.
A young woman, who is described as
“ one of the loveliest and most accom
plished daughters of Cheyenne,” while
riding through the streets of that lively
city a few months ago was thrown from
her horse. A Spanish lad sprang from
the lamp-post against which ho had been
leaning and endeavored to prevent the
accident, but the only assistance that
he could ^render was to lift the lady
from the ground and bear her into a
neighboring house. Then, sighing for
further sight of the fair one, the youth
resumed his duty at the lamp-post. As
for the young woman, she sustained an
annoying injury. It was nothing less
than the fracture of one of her front
teeth. The delicate pearl that flashed
through “lips within whose rosy laby
rinth when she smiled the soul was
lost,” was hopelessly crushed. Beauty
in distress appealed to art; the young
woman went to a dentist, who promised
to search high and low for a pearl of the
proper size and brilliancy. Tho search
was made faithfully, bnt not until
the dentist saw a young Spaniard lean
ing against a lamp-post did he find the
coveted prize. The youth gladly sold
one of his teeth for $100, offering all his
stock in trade at the same terms. Tl. a
tooth was submitted to proper treat
ment and the young horsewoman ap
peared at a ball on tho following even
ing apparently none the worse for the
accident, Rut, with a woman’s carios
ity, she would have given her head to
know whenoe came the tooth. Time
passod. The Spaniard made a fortunate
purchase of stock with his hundred dol
lars, and not only began to patronize the
tailor, bnt indulged in a bank account.
Ono ovening chance threw him
into a select little party, where the
fair rider happened to bo present, and
he related his dental adventure. When
ho smiled and pointed to the vacant
placo in his mouth tho young lady gave
a little shriek. Her secret was discov
ered, and now the Cheyenne and Denver
papers announce that the Spaniard will
soon get his tooth book at the altar.
Inillan Holy Fair*.
In sailing down tho Ganges during
the month of Katik, onr Ootober, one
may pass in the course of a single day
half a dozen holy fairs, each with a mul
titude of pilgrims equal to the popula
tion of a largo city. All of them are
n nderod picturesque by tho tents and
equipages of the wealthy, tho variety of
the animals and tho bright coloring in
which tho nativos delight—thoso de
scendants of tho ancient Aryans of In
dia, “ in many* respects the most won
derful raoe that ever lived on earth,”
as Professor Max Muller colls them.
At night all these tents and booths nre
illuminated, so that tho scene is hardly
loss animated by night than by day, and
all without tumult nnd disorder.
Every one of these localities is hal
lo wod by somo mythological tradition,
and tho firmest faith is reposed by the
pilgrims in tho truth of those traditions.
Ingrafted for hundreds, nay, thousands
of years in tho minds of the people,
thoy lravo grown up with thorn nrtiolos
of faith, strengthened with their
strength. “Your words are good,
Sahib; your teaching is oxoollont,”
said somo nativo head men of villages to
a Christian missionary in Oudh, “but
go and preach olsowhore. We do not
want it. Our fathers’ faith is enough
for us. Wliat should wo do in your
lionvon ? You want us to go thoro whon
wo die. We had rather bo with our
fathers who went before ns. What
should we do in tho heaven of tho
Sahibs?” This is no fanciful picture.
These are tho very words spoken in
Hindoostanoo to an enthnsiastic mis
sionary by the simplo villagers.
And what could ho say in reply ? He
felt tho force of them, although ho did
not allow thorn to paralyzo his efforts.
Tho religious molas are attended by
thousands of dovotees on the samo prin
ciple that prompted tho villagers’ words
to tho missionary. Thoy were observod
by their fathers. Generation after gene
ration has attended them. Hindoo, or
Moslem, or Christian tho rulers may
ho, but tho molas are still the same,
nnd, looking back into the vista of van
ished centuries, wo still see tho same
crowds, tho samo devotions, the
samo amusements, food, clothing and
attendant animals. When Britons were
painted savages it was so, and now that
Victoria, queen of England, is empress
of India, it is so still.—Nineteenth Cen
tury.
“ Traneevotianee.”
Some interesting scientific experi
ments demonstrating the truth of the
disputed phenomena of clairvoyance
have recently been made by Dr. G. M.
Board, of this city. Tho “sensitive”
was a lady, tho wife of u lecturer on
mesmerism. A first experiment failed,
but on a second trial the lady, whose
eyes were covered with cotton and
closely bandaged, was able to name
actually cards drawn at random from a
pack and held by the doctor upon her
forehead. She also read the title-page
of a volume whioh the doctor took from
his pocket. Other experiments with
coarse print were equally successful,
but she was unable to read fine print.
Dr. Beard calls the faculty trance-
voyance, and thinks that it may be de
veloped to such a degree that the per
son gifted with it can read ontire pages
of ordinary print held against the fore
head. The lady, describing her son-
sations when in the trancevoyant state,
suys that an electric light scorned to be
thrown forward from the back of the
brain upon the object held upon her
forehead, illumining it and enabling
her to see it distinctly. A further study
of this curious power of reading without
eyes will no donbt be of great
value to the development of the
still rudimentary science of brain
and nerve action. Suoh ex
periments as those of Dr. Beard are
heavy blows at the theories of the mate
rialists who claim that all mental action
is a physical phenomenon depending on
the organs of sensation. What power
is it, will they tell us, that reads coarsq
print when the oyes are practically
blinded ? There must be a faculty of
perception in the brain quite independent
of the organs of sight, which under cer
tain rare conditions comes into play.
What is it that sees without the aid of
optic nerve or retina? Here is a ques
tion which opens a wide and interesting
field for speculation.—New York Tri
bune.
EIWVATIOX,
Comparative St mimic* u la Klemeatary
K liicmlna Throughout the CTvIIIm*
World.
In a paper prepared by the United
States bnreau of edneation is included
some interesting and valuable statistics,
compiled from tho latest official reports-
sliowing certain fucts relating to the
condition of elementary edneation
throughout the civilized world. Among
the facts exhibited regarding each coun
try are the total population, the school
ago as established by law, the total
school population, the number of schools^
the number of pnpils enrolled, and the
most interesting facts thus to be pre
sented are given in tho table printed
herewith.
It will be observed, upon reference
to the following table, that in some o
tho countries the number of pupils en
rolled in soliools exceeds the entire
school population. For example, tho
school population of England and Wales
was reportod at 2,500,000 in 1879, while
tho number of pupils enrolled in schools
in the same year was 3,710,883. This
apparent discrepancy is explained by
the fact that the official school age in
those countries comprises only ohildren
from three to fifteen years old, includ
ing those in infant schools. Tho 2,500,-
000 school population is an estimate,
and included only those children who
wore between the ages of seven and thir
teen years. Of tho 3,710,883 pupils en
rolled, 1,208,010 wore between tho ages
of three and seven yoars, 2,333,073
wore between tho ages of seven and
thirteen yoars, and 108,804 were over
thirtcon yoars old. In nearly all the
continental countries of Europe tlnj
school age covers a period of only seven
or eight years, usually from six to thir
teen or six to fourtoen; and consequently
many children younger than six years
or older than fourteen years are en
rolled as pupils in {he schools, although
they do not form a part of tho school
population,-
In the United [States the school age
varies greatly in the different Statos
The longest ^period is seventeen years,
from four to twenty one (In Florida,
Maine and New Hampshire), and the
lowest six years, from oight to fourteen
(in Texas). Sohool age in the United
Statos covers an average period exceed
ing fourteen years, while in European
countries tho avorago period 16 a little
more than one-half as long. It would
not be fair to conclude that, beoanse
Saxony reported more than 100 per
cent, of hor school population enrolled
in public schools in 1878, she was
ch-. refore, in an educational sense, ahead
of the United States, whioh reported
only sixty-four per cent, of the school
population enrolled in the public
schools in tho same year. In Saxony
the school ago covors a period of only
eight years, while, as has been shown,
in the United Stateu the period exceeds
fourteen years. In this table the school
population of Russia is estimated at
15,000,000 in round numbers. This,
and tho reported school population of
England and Wales already mentioned,
aro the only estimates in the table. Of
the 09,527 teachers reported in England
aud Wales, 29,710 aro certified teachers,
0,010 are assistant teachers, and 33,195
are pupil teachers. Following is the
table above mentioned:
'3
Srlwol^i Number
6**
1‘Ofllli
Him.
Pupils Number
Unrolled. Teachers.
Bromen(frcoeity
British Burmiih.
Britisli Col’mbia
British India.,..
Bavaria..
Denmark ,
2,194
615,744
841,304
231,959
167,175
United States... 14,596,183: 9,378,195
Algeria 58,000 51,592
Alsace-Lorraine! 259,020 217,019
Argentine ltcp... 503,078 110,244
Austria | 3,122,863 2,134,083
Badon ! 243,507:
Belgium 1 772,076
Brazil No report
17,892'
No report;
2,734:
No report
745,251i
240,500^
Egypt 'No report 1
Engl’d and Wales: 2,500,000 3,710,883
Finland j 342,280 20,279
Franco I 0,409,087 4,716,935
Greece | 210,000 81,440
Hamburg (city).: 44,310 48,348
HawaiianislandB:No report: 7,755
Hungary ; 2,127,950 1,550,036
Ireland !No report 1,031,995
Italy i 4,527,582 1,931,617
Jamaica 'No report j 52,243
Japan j 5,251,809 2,102,902
Luxemburg ; 33,000! 30,477
Malta |No report;
Moxico No report'
Netherlands j 590,691,
Now Brunswick, j 51,684]
NewSouth Wales No report
302,000!
No report;
494,424!
615,949;
4,396,738;
No report
271,144
1,260
4,364
5,893
81,190
145,369 3,603
687,749 11,808
187,915 No rep’rt
17,315' 400
80,292 No rep’rt
“All I am, or ever hope to be, I owe
to my wife!” exclaimed Boggs to a
friend the other day. But the general
impression in the community was that
Boggs’ liabilities were not very large.
Norway
Nova Scotia.
Ontario....
Portugal....
Prussia....
Quebec ....
Queensland No roporli
ltoumania j 700,000
Russia 15,000,000
Saxony
Scotland
Sorvia
South Australia.
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland ....
Tasmania
Victoria
Wurtemberg.,..
448,814
561,600
No roport
No report
2,603,265
765,645
441,794
No report
No roport
295,923
7,746
849,000
480,737
54,472
128,135
261,622
84,355
487,012
198,131
4,007,770
239,808
41,380
108,824
1,213,325
451,324
508,452
22,756
39,127
1,410,476
598,354
411,754
12,453
231,169
No roport
58
No rop’rt
11,921
3,469
No rop’rfc
09,527
532
110,709
1,205
1,826
No rop’rt
20,747
10,489
47,08f
No rep’rt
59,825
660
No rep’rt
No rep’rt
12,692
No rep’rt
1,824
4,030
2,011
6,596
No rop’rt
li
57,936
6,182
924
3,651
No ren’rt
7,'219
9,477
627
788
29,022
9,311
10,156
No rep’rt
4,006
5,887
The Indians in the Klamath reserva
tion in Oregon are more industrious
than those ot any other tribe in the
Pacific States and Territories, and
are making rapid progress in, the arts of
peace. They are building good houses,
all dress like their white neighbors,
have a school attended on an average
by fifty pnpils or more, and own to- ]
gether nearly a hundred wagons.
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