Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-19
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN,
Edited and Conducted by
j. f. LANGENBA UGH.
Number OF European Universitfe
Founded I'm each Century.

In the twelfth there were founded 4. In
the thirteenth IL. In the fourteenth %.
In the fifteenth 81 In the sixteenth 81.
In the seventeenth %. In the eighteenth
90. In the nineteenth 90. The first
University was founded in Italy, in the
year 11l9 (Bologna). The second;
France in the year 1896 (Montpelier).
The third England in the year 1901 COX
ford). The fourth Spain In the year 1922
(Salamanca). The fifth Portugal in the
year 1897 Nislon). The sixth; Austria
in the year 134S (Prague). The seventh; ;
Switzerland in the year 1868 (Geneva).
The eighth; Germany in the year 1886
(Heidelberg). The ninth; Scotland in
the year 1411 Saint Andrews). The
tenth Belgium in the year 1926 Oouvain).
The eleventh; Hungary in the year 1465
(Euda). The twelfth; Sweden in the
year 1477 (Upsala). The thirteenth; /;
Denmark in the year 1879 Copenhagen.
The fourteenth Poland in the year 1870
(Wilna). The fifteenth; Netherlands in
the year 1915 Ueyden). The sixteenth !;
Ireland in the year 1891 (Trinity College,
Dublin). The seventeenth; Finland in
the year 1910 (Abo). The eighteenth; !;
Russia in the year 1755 (Moscow). The
nineteenth; Norway in the year 1911
(Christiana). The twentieth; Roumania
in the year 1914 (Jassy). The twenty.
first; Greece In the year 1923 CORFU.
The Inspector Geneneral of primary in
struction, in France, reports that 1886, 900
French children professe1ly attend ele-
mentary schools; but Of these 4i5,500 are
under instruction only half of the time
Dps. 900 during four months only, while
100000 attend by "fits and starts" Out of
$40, 40 leaving the schools, only I14,OOO
could read and write at the end &C the
year; $4,000 could read only; the rest bad
forgotten all they ever learned.
Statistics show that in the United
States and in Switzerland there is one
newspaper to every 5000 inhabitants; in
Denmark there is one to every 5000; in
Germany, Norway, and Holland, one to
every $4,000, in France, one to 10000; in
Sweden. one TO $4,000; in England, one
to 1000; and in Belgium, one to $4,000
In other European countries there arr
tar Iewer newspapers in proportion.
japanese Government is in negotiation
with several eminent Prussian school
men, for the rection of a University
analogous to the Prussian Cultus Univer
sity in Japan.
There arc in the United States fifty -onC
Normal Schools, supported by tweEty
three different States, having POL teacher:
and 1884 pupils; four supported by
counties, with eighth-three pupils sixteen
city Normal Schools, with 12l teachers
and 2,Oo2 pupils; all others, forty-three
supported in various ways, with eight,
teachers and 2,503 pupils-making tota
of one hundred and thirty four schools
with 446 teachers and 10,92l pupils. Th'
fcrty-thiee private schools including col
leges and other institutions that sustain
normal departments, exclusive of higl
schools. The number of private norma
f schools is constantly increasing.
7 Among the curious female avocation
recorded in the tables of the recent cen
: sus. Independently of women in agricul
tural districts, who assist in the fiel
work, there are 45 female stock herders
6 female apprentices to BARRIERS, "a wome
) dentists, female hostlers, 2 female pro
fessional hunters and trappers, 81 femal
clergymen, 5 female lawyers, 525 femal
physicians and surgeons, 2 women sea,
engers, female sections, 10 female 'cans
men," 1856 women draymen, l femal
pilot, 6 female guano laborers, femal
gas stokers, 80 women gunsmiths,
female gunpowder makers and 16 femal
al shipriggers.
n; n; Under Texas law which compels a
tn persons under fifteen to attend school,
is married woman in Houston, aged fou
d. teen, goes to learn her lesson every da,
taking her baby with her.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES.
A monumental stone has been disco
cred in the Parahyba district Peru, beal
> ing an inscription in clear Phenicia
characters which narrates that body
Canaanites left, 10 centuries before Chri
the port of Aziongahon (Boyakaba), an
after navigating about the coast or Egy]
for one year, we're thrown off their cour
70 by currents, and eventually carried to Il
present site of Guayaquil, Peru I'll
names of the travellers, both male al
nd female, are also given. Another disco
ut. cry is that reported in Les Mondss,
three living mastodons, by Russian CO
OF victs, in the hitherto unexplored parts
Siberia. This does not seem impossib
when NJ. Dupont, of the Brussels Roy
,hs Academy, states that the mastodon, Iii
led the reindeer is contemporary with 4