The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-13
EDUCATIONAL.
The Condition of things in
New England States.
Extracts from GEse Commits
sIORersS Report.

puDllc SCHOOLS mas Deen Sucn as to
raise the amount secured for them
by district-tax from $50, 964 ten
years ago to $4S5, 523.56 in 1873;
that by town tax from $75,213 in
1864 to 42,194.11 in 1873; and
that from ali sources to $I,442,-
669.O1 in 1873, against $39O,454.
20 in 1864.
Rhode Island shows that in 1868
her towns raised nearly 100000
for the support of schools, and
that in 1873 the same towns raised
over 100000 for the same pur-
pose, more than three for one, or
over 2GO per cent. increase; and
this, too, without reckoning nearly
$500, 900 expended in 1873 in the
building and repair of school
houses. The increase of schools
in the same time was 207; of teach
ers, SO.
The returns from Massachu-
sets for the school-year 1S7I-'72
show So, 76,927.65 raised by taxa
ton for public schools alone, being
1899 for each child of Sabotage
Obs and 1915 for each member
of the population. If to this be
added voluntary contributions, in
come from trust funds, Legislative
appropriations for normal schools,
expenses of board, of education,
tuition paid in private schools,
academies, colleges, etc, the Sec
rotary thinks the whole amount
expended during the year for pop
ular education would reach Sc, $780,
600, or $23.S5 for each school
child and $4.3G for each person in
the population. The estimated
value of school houses in the State
was over $2O,OO0,0OO at the close
of 1873, against $13,7 ,O69 at the
beginning of 1870; 176 high
schools and So Incorporated acad-
emies are returned, while in nor
NAL, technical, and art-train-
ing there has been q great
advance, q new normal school,
a new normal art-school, and
industrial drawing in all the
common schools being the signs
of this advance. "a.
Maine shows q smaller number
enrolled in schools, but q decided
iy better average attendance, an
increase of 1911, 129 in the amount
raised for school purposes, a very
large addition to the number of
its high schools, more Yigor in
many instances of local action,
and a better adjustment of the
parts of the State system, calculat-
ed to promote the advance of all
the interests of culture. ,y-
New Hampshire presents 222
new or newly repaired school
houses, "A new schools, 81 addit-
ional graded schools, but dimin-
ished average attendance. OF its
227 towns, SO either failed to re-
port to the State Superintendent
or reported lack of interest. "The
remaining l31 comprising three
fOurths of the school population,
present reports interesting and en-
couraging, containing unmistaka-
BILE evidences of Improvement and
progress; teachers are approved;
the different branches have never
been so well taught; elmentary
drawing and vocal music have
been introduced into many schools.
Many of the larger towns are con-
sidering the question of establish
ing town high schools" The
efforts to establish q normal
school deserve special commenda-
ton, as wen as those seeking to
give greater efficiency to agricul-
tural and scientific instruction.
Vermont, reporting biennially,
makes no statement as to the pub
lie schools for 1873; but the re-
ports from institutions for secon-
Diary and superior instruction show
Improvement.
Asa rule throughout heNew En-
gland States, the condition of Sec
ondary, scientific, and collegiate
instruction appears to be not only
fully up to the standard of proceed
ing years, but!even in some respects
beyond it, the colleges and scien-
tifc schools endeavoring to meet
the current call for higher culture,
and the academies and high
schools striving to come mp to the
rising requirments OF the colleges.
professor" Donaldson, Barnum's
ballOOnist, has had 9 varied expert
ence. His age is thirty-foQE. His
father tried TO make photographer
of him, but he had taste for show
life, and he became by turns the
"bones" Ofa negro minstrel compa.
ny, q circus gymnast, . tight-rope
walker, pantomimist, and . man
ager of an exhibition of live Indi-
ans. In 1866 we find him . magi.
clan, and two years after . French
electro-physiciaa" in Cleveland. His
balloon enthusiasm dates back bat
five or six years. He formerly
went through 3 trapeze act at his
ascensions, hanging by one foot to
the bar, at an elevation of 3, goo feet.
His pet scheme now is to build q
balloon in the east, to carry thirty
persons, and start across the cont.
nent TO California. He is very
careful in his personal habits, using
neither liquor or tobacco.
Mary Clemmer Ames has finish