The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-03

The Chief Of the Bgreau Of Statistics
has received from |. , statistical de-
partment of the Kingdom Of Italy,
through the exchange agencies OF the
Smithsonian Institution, valuable
contribution of official publications,
including report Of the Minister OF
Finance and the Minister of Public
Works, to-wit: several volumes on
civil engineering with engraved maps !;
eleven volumes of the reports OF the
Italian statistical department; the
official report on navigation for 1869 !;
the industrial bulletin Of patents, and
other books and maps.
Such attentions from foreign gov
ernments and statisticians were chiefly
induced by the attendance of our Off
cial delegates at the international
Statistical Congress. Their appoint
ment affords tangible evidence OF
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statistical bureau and has helped to
put it more en- rapport with the similar
bureaus of other countries. Moreover,
the personal acquaintance formed by
our delegates with the leading statisti-
clans of Europe, also proves beneficial
in that it induces the latter to COM
municate freely with our Statistical
Bureau upon subjects of common in
terests in connection with statistical
inquiries. Although these results are
incidental to the objects for which the
delegates attended the Congress, they
are not without an important practical
value.
Mr.. J. r. Dodge, the statistician of
the Agricultural Department has been
designated by the President as an
honorary Commissioner to the Vienna
Exposition. Mr.. D. is one of the most
remarkable thinkers that has treated
of topics of social science in this cOun-
try. He is to examine the statistical
methods of Europe, and, if possible,
to open a correspondence with the
Old World. He is working up the
brilliant idea of international crop re-
ports which will supersede the clumsy
methods of commerce in arriving at
the latest results Of agricultural pro-
duction and will give far greater GER
tainty and stability to operations of
trade.
The Commissioner Of Education has
just return from participating in the
dedicatory exercises Of the State Nor
NAL School at Shippensburg, Pa. He
speaks in the highest terms of the
prospects of the school as being located
in a fertile region surrounded by an
intelligent and thriving population.
The principal, Mr.. Beard, is an able
man and the institution has the foster
ing care Of a most excellent board of
trustees. The Commissioners address
related to the Normal training of
Notwithstanding that the establish
ment of Normal schools was under
taken in Germany in the last century,
and that the first in the United States
was opened in Mass. in 1889; and
that there are now reported to the |
National Bureau Of Education one
hundred and one with an attendance
of over II 900 pupils. And showing,
also, that with all this progress these
institutions now in existence can not
yield to the profession more than
1000 trained teachers whereas, if all
the children of school age were under
instruction each year, the demand
would require supply of 127, 600 new
tehchers annually.
Statisticians and newspaper men
are anxiously awaiting the forthcom-
ing and last volume Of the census re-
port. 1t is interesting to watch the
play of social questions, tariff and
anti-tariff, protection and free trade,
as viewed by disciples of different
schools, many of whom are located in
this city for the purpose of writing up
public sentiment from their respective
standpoints, meanwhile the extreme
Jealous of all schools of theorists find
the hard facts impossible to co-ordinate
upon their cast iron systems. A little
moro modesty of speculation and
little more attention to actual facts
would greatly harmonize public senti-