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mented and more than the usual amount raised


been 81, 759 $40 beyond that Of the preceding
year.
Wisconsin, for comparatively new State,
without the aid of large and wealthy cities,
has raised for school purposes 50, CPS, OPT, and
expended for repairs OF school-houses $780,
934.
Minnesota, out of 1856, 975 children scattered
over her great surface, shows the fair proper
ton OF 1875 5S3 enrolled in her free schools
with about 3. 1853 more in pay schools. Dur
ing the past year 228 new school-houses have
been erected, at cost OF $203,3ll
Iowa reports S4,5l9, 688 raised to instruct a
school population numbering 49l ga, OF
whom 3i7, 572 are enrolled in public schools
and 1915 in private ones. The sum OF
81, 954 has been expended In this state
in the erection of now school-houses and sup
ply Of libraries and apparatus.
In Missouri the enrolment in public schools
is 3S9, SOC out of 673, 493 children OF school
age, and the amount raised for the support OF
school is ~, 790.314
Kansas has 12l, 800 in her schools, out CT
school population reaching only 1S4, 957, and
has devoted to tho education of this number
81, 1858 09S, with S5l5, 071 for school buildings
and repairs, the increase Of school-houses
for 1873 being 696 and that of enrolment
1907.
Nebraska, with school population OF g.
109, has on her school rolls 81. 372, and has
raised for school purposes $79S, 660.
California justifies the general sense OF her
Importance by reporting school population
OF 14i. $40 and school enrolment OF 107, SOB,
her school revenue reaching S2551, 799 or
about $23.70 for each enrolled child. Clear
evidence of popular favor toward her public
schools comes in the fact that within eight
years 294 children have been transferred
from private schools to them.
Hopeful progress is manifest In the growth
or special schools for the training of teachers
for our public schools. Statistics are given of
113 normal schools and normal departments,
having SIT instructors and 16.6 $40 students.
Eleven of these were established or organized
in 1873. the most notable being the Massa-
chusetts State Normal Art School,
The Commissioner estimates the population
between the ages Of and 16 in the thirty
seven States and eleven Territories at about
TO- 22S, 900.
Allowing forty pupils to each teacher, the
number required to teach the youths between
and l6 years Of age is estimated at 26O, 900.
1t is estimated that the public school teachers
in Massachusetts teach on an average three
years. Perhaps this period Of service would
be high average for the whole country.
Hence, combining the estimate to the school
population between and 16 years of age, the
number of new teachers which should be pre-
pared each year to take up the work would be
Sc 6G6.
tistics of 1,039 schools for secondary instruc-
ton, commonly denominated academies, sem
inaries Institutes, etc, including college pre-
paratory schools. The number of instructors
in these schools was 5,748; number of stu
dents, 131, 057; total number OF volumes In
library $50, 1873.
The number of institutions for the superior
instruction OF women reporting in 1878, not
including the five colleges for women in the
State Of New York, was 205, with 2,l20 in
structors and "a, 613 students; 107 of the num-
Der are designed as colleges, 6, 321 of the stu
dents were in the preparatory departments,
17,267 were reported to be in regular or ad-
vanced courses of study, and 1925 in special
and postgraduate courses, The number or
volumes reported in the Libraries was 213, 675.
The number OF schools of science Qncluding
special scientific departments of universities)
embraced in the Commissioners tables il s.
reporting $50 professors and instructors, 6, 500
students in regular courses, 533 in special
courses 68 in postgraduate courses, i, 426 in
preparatory sourses 163,0 900 volumes i'll libra
ries. about A 900 volumes having been added
to them during the year.
The number of schools of theology in the
country, in 1873. was 10, having 573 pro-
fessors and 1888 students; volumes in libra
ries $50, asa increase in libraries during the
year, SO, 3O3 volumes. The aggregate corpor-
ate property Of the schools, as far as reported,
was $7,766, 498; endowments. IS, ass 097.
or the 10 theological schools and theo-
logical departments of colleges in the United
States, 20 ara Presbyterians, 16 Roman Cath
Ole. 16 Baptists, IS Lutheran and Reformed,
10 Protestant Episcopal, 10 Methodist, Con-
gregational, unsectarian, and ! each Uni
tartan, Moravian, New Jerusalem and Union
Evangelical.
There are in the United States 40 institu-
tons for the instruction of deaf mutes. The
number of instructors employed in them is
289. The number Of inmates under instruc-
ton in 1878 was 4, 534.
The number OF asylums for the blind ia
90, having 545 teachers. The number Of in
mates under instruction during the year was
1916
There are probably more than 400 institu-
! tons for orphans and homeless youths in this
country, sheltering not less than As, 900 peor
and unfortunate children. Information con-
corning 17S Of these asylums is given in the re-
! port They were under the supervision and
| care of /, 484 persons and contained over q, :
600 inmates, most of whom were probably un-
der instruction.
the number OF institutions distinctively
| known as reform schools which furnished in
formation for the bureau was 81. The num-
Der of commitments during the year was G, :
S58. The number who received instruction in
| reading in the year was ,675 number taught
to write, 1908. Number of volumes reported
in the Libraries Of these schools was q, TAT.
The number of instructors in all classes OF
educational institutions in 1870, according to
the census, was 221, 042; number of pupils T.
209, 93S. According to the Commissioners re-
port there were in 1873 in all classes OF in.
situations about which information was OBJ
tanned, $40, 1872 teachers and S,723, 945 pupils
Indians.
The Hon. f. p. Smith, Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, has made his report to tn,
Secretary Of the Interior. He discerns un
mistakable evidences of advancing civiliza
ton among almost all of the aborigines. Al
twenty-one agencies, Indians who. three
years ago, made no effort and showed no in
clination toward labor or education seem nov
to have settled into an earnest purpose tt
learn to provide for themselves, and adopt
civilized mode of life.
The Commissioner Classics the Indians
under three heads, for easier reference:
/. Wild tractable only to the extent of be-
ing willing TO take rations and blankets from
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