The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-26
mented and more than the usual amount raised

mented and more than the usual amount raised
by taxation.
Illinois shows schoo population larger by
27.l35 than in 1872, smaller enrolment in
schools but an average attendance about the
same. Her school revenue, 49, 259, AL, has
been 81, 759, 319 beyond that of the preceding
year.
Wisconsin, for comparatively new State,
without the aid of large and wealthy cities,
has raised for school purposes So, 628, OPT, and
expended for repairs Of school-houses $307,-
934.
Minnesota, out of 1876, 975 children scattered
over her great surface shows the fair proper
ton of 1858 enrolled in her free schools
with about 1888 more in pay schools. Dur
ing the past year 228 new school-houses have
been erected, at a cost Of $203,3l1.
+ Iowa reports 50, SIS, 688 raised to instruct a
school population numbering 49l 644, Of
whom 347, 572 are enrolled in public schools
and 1915 in private ones. The sum of
81, 1863, 954 has been expended in this State
in the erection of new schoolhouses and sup
ply of libraries and apparatus.
In Missouri the enrolment in public schools
is 389, 1856 out of 673, 493 children Of school
age and the amount raised for the support of
school is 81, 100, 314.
Kansas has 121, $50 in her schools, out Of a
school population reaching only 1874, 957, and
has devoted to the education of this number
ST. 1863, 098, with $515,O71 for school buildings
and repairs, the increase of school-houses
for 1873 being 696, and that of enrolment
1927.
Nebraska, with 8 school population of g.
108, has on her school rolls 1882, and has
raised for school purposes 1913, $50.
California justifes the general sense of her
Importance by reporting school population
of 141, 610 and a school enrolment of 107, SOB,
her school revenue reaching So, 551, 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 1924 children havo 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 877 instructors and $500 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
10,228, 900.
Allowing forty pupils to each teacher, the
number required to teach the youths between
and l6 years of age is estimated at 260, 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
$1,000.
The report presents summary Of the sta
tietics of 1,039 schools for secondary instruc-
ton, commonly denonninated academies, SEM
paratory schools. The number of instructors
in these schools was 5,748 number of stu
dents, 131 057; total number of volumes in
library, 559, 1888. I.D 81 gs
The NUMBER of institutions for the superior
instruction of women reporting in 1873, not
including the five colleges for women in the
State Of New York, was 205 with 2,120 in
structors and "a, 613 students, LOT of the num-
Der are designed as colleges, 6, 321 of the stu
dents we're in the preparatory departments,
IL ,267 were reported to be in regular or adj
vanced courses of study, and 1,025 in special
and postgraduate courses. The number OF
volumes reported in the libraries WAS 213, 675.
The number OF schools of science (including
special scientific departments of universities)
embraced in the Commissioners tables is 68,
reporting $50 professors and instructors, 6, 1896
students in regular courses, 533 in special
courses, SO in postgraduate courses, ], 426 in
preparatory pOuI5CS 1OO,UOO NO1uul0S III lDTd-
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 ITO, having 573 pro-
fessors and 8, 838 students volumes in libra
ries, &c., 484 increase in libraries during the
year, SO, 303 volumes The aggregate corpor-
ate property of the schools, as far as reported
was $7,766, 1893; endowments, SIS, 455, 097.
OF the ITO theological schools and theo-
re- NF %1aT s4a1
States, 20 are Presbyterians, 16 Roman Gath
Ole, Is Baptists, Is Lutheran and Reformed,
10 Protestant Episcopal 10 Methodist, s Con-
gregational, 2 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 1873 was 4, 534.
The number of asylums for the blind is
%, having 545 teachers. The number of in
mates under instruction during the year was
1915.
There are probably more than 400 institu-
tions for orphans and homeless youths in this
country, sheltering not less than As, 900 peor
and unfortunate children. Information con-
corning 178 of these asylums is givenin the re-
port. They we're under the supervision and
care of 1,484 persons and contained over o.
900 inmates, most of whom were probably I'M
der instruction.
Inc number of institutions distinctiyelv
known as reform schools which furnished in
formation for the bureau was 81. The num-
Der of commitments during the year was g.
$685. The number who received instruction in
reading in the year was 1,675; 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.
209938 According to the Commissioners re-
port there were in 1873, in all classes of in
situations about which information was OBJ
tanned, $40, 932 teachers and 8,723, 945 pupils.
Indians.
The Hon. E. P. Smith, Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, has made his report to the
Secretary of the Interior He discerns I'M
mistakable evidences of advancing cviliza-
ton among almost all of the aborigines. AT
twentv-One apanciaG Indians who three