The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
HID. McCarty, superintendent of public
instruction of Kansas, stated that the school
population OF Kansas had doubled in four
years, and that they had now 100000
children of school age.
1t has been decided to erect an immense
factory in Springfield, Ohio, for the manu-
facture of reaper and mower knives for
harvesters These have hitherto been pro-
cured from Eastern manufacturers.
The combination of the salt and lumber
business in the Saginaw region has resulted
advantsgeously this year. The millmen
have sold their salt tor cash and so were not
constrained to sell their lumber at loss.
A department of Woodworking has been
ofitablv added 70 the Cincinnati Universe
ty This department has made rapid pro-
gress both in work and numbers. When it
closed last month the class numbered 100
During the last year there were 32S pupils in
the regular drawing and design depart
ment. fftI
The straw berry season along the Hudson
river, New York, closed last week, having
lasted Is days. In that time 81, 800 bushels
were shipped to New York. Two thousand
pickers received S60,0O0 tor picking them !:
they were sold tor $40. 900.
BY the addition of the Emanuel Protestant
Episcopal church of Louisville, Kentucky,
the new church now numbers about dozen
congregations, of which two are in PhiIadel-
phia two i'm Chicago, two in New York, one
each in Pittsburg, Peoria, Louisville and
Washington, with perhaps one or two scat
tered in other cities.
General Francis A. Walker, late superin-
tendent OF tine census, who charged by
the FOrty-Second Congress with the prep
aration of statistical atlas as an appendix
to the ninth census, will complete his labors
in a couple of months. The work will be
unique, and will probably be as eagerly
sought after as the original volumes Of the
census
Fl. Durham, of LiscOmb, Wis.,, last sum-
imer succeeded IN tanning a sandhill crane.
This spring. as flock of wild cranes were
passing over his farm, the pet set up cry
fordcompany, whereupon one of the wild
ones left the flock and came down to try the
realities of civilized life. 1t stays, and, with
the exception of being little shy of the hui
man family, seems quite cOntented.
Messrs. House, Gerlock, Smith, Cogswell
and Vanderveer. Marion, Wayne county,
have hog which they bought last August
time of purchase it was two years old and
weighed $50 pounds. 1t now weighs 1,O50
pounds, and the following are it's dimen
sions, as taken by gentleman fir m this
city: Length, s feet AZ inches; height, 8
In the fall they will "fat' him and make
him, if possible, pull the scales at l,5OO
pounds Rochester Express. HFe
The State of Virginia furnishes a notable
instance of the great progress that is being
made in educational interests IN some parts
of the South. By the last report of the su-
perintendent of public instruction of that
state it is shown that, considering the white
population alone, Virginia has a larger pro-
portion of her sons and daughters in collie
giate institutions than any other state or
country in the world, and that even when
the entire negro population is included in
the estimate she Is first on this continent.
Massachusetts has one in 6,ll5 persons at
tending college, while Virginia has one in
722 white persons, or DOB white and colored
1t is claimed that comparative statement
of the common schools of the state would
make IS favorable showing. s11
More fexibility, not so much adherence
to unyielding courses of study. was advo-
Gated at the meeting OF the Ohio, Michigan
and Indiana teachers al Putin Bay last
week. President Fairchild of Oberlin gave
an address on "The Personal Power of the
Teacher" uttering in particular this bit Of
!, good sense: "Grest mischief is done by
teachers in the use OF sarcasm, which should
be avoided. Its use seems effective. but IL
leaves the sting of bitterness behind
Sarcasm In our schools should be entirely
avoidod- Plain, kind reproof is far prefer
able 20 sarcasm. The teacher Is not infalli-
bic. hence, when be makes mistake in ad-