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Pennsylvania.


The State Superintendent of Common
schools of this State is appointed by the
Governor for three years. The final ju-
risdiction of the State Superintendent is
very limited. 1t only embraces disputes
in which points of law are involved.
This State has no State Board of Educa-
ton. Superintendents are elected every
third year by the County Boards of Direc
tors, which Boards consist of six Direc-
tors from each district, elective-two
each year-by the people. Cities and
boroughs have also Superintendents,
chosen in like manner; and districts may
have, if they SO desire. Township
Boards consist of six members. The
Common School Fund amounts to $780,
900. 1t CONSISTS of an annual State APP
preparation based upon the number of
taxables, fines in certain cases, and local
or special taxes. Teachers are examined
by the Superintendents, who grant two
grades of neutrality-suspicious., good
tor one year; and professional, good for
three years. The State Superintendent
grants permanent certificates, which are
good all over The State. Teachers are
engaged by the Boards of Directors.
Salaries are graded according to the fig.
ures in the certificate.
Scholastic age from 8 to 81 years. Uni
formity in text books extends to town.
ships only. The Branches taught are !:
orthography, reading, writing, mental
arithmetic, written arithmetic, geogra-
ply, grammar, history of the United
States, and the theory and practice OF
teaching; other branches may be added.
A school month consists of % days.
Teachers Institutes are held in the
school districts on two Saturdays in each
month. 1t is left discretionary with the
Boards of Districts. County Superin-
tendents may order Institutes to be held
five days each year.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
Had rather" is very common idi-
ON of the language. As commonly used
it will not bear analysis. There is no
safer and surcr rule of good language
than this: Always say just what YOU
mean, no more, no less.
in the use of adjectives that imply
number, such should be employed rs
agree in number with their nouns But
noun having two or more adjectives diff
fering in number, may agree in number
with the one placed next it.
The Goth meridian west and 160th
meridian east of Greenwich, form great
circle, which divides the earth into East
crn and Western HEM sphere.
The Eastern Continent is the largest.
1t contains more than half of all the
land on the globe. The Western Cont
nent is about half as large as the Eastern.
The Australian Continent is the smallest.
Ii contains less than one-tenth OF the
land or the earth's surface.
The three rivers that rise in the
Alps and flow in different directions are /:
The Rhine, the Rhone and the Inn.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
1t is generally supposed that the words
and air of God save the King" origina
ted with Handel, in the time Of George
the First. 1t is also attributed To John
Bull. musical professor, in Queen Eliza
beth's time, who it is said composed 1t
for dinner given at the Merchant Tai
lor's Hall in 1903, in honor of the occa-
sion of King James the First of Eng
land; and Others ascrbe it TO Henry Ca
rey, about l743. The French claim it.
| History tells us that certain words to that
air WIRE always sung by the midens of
ST. Cyr. when Louis the Fourteenth el-
tered the chapel of that establishment 70
hear he morning prayers. 1t is said that
DR.. Brigham was the author of the
words, and Lulli, (who had been a scuIl
ion in that mOnarch's kitchen), the father
of the French opera. composed the air.
Above broken imperfections, above
din. and jar and fret, there rises evermore
the something higher, toward which our
eyes may turn, our weary feet may press.
Ii it were not so we should be lingering
in the fields, in the shops, and in the
streets forever. But, when we have once
felt that other beauty, its desire can never
again go out of our souls. And there
are many ways by which we are led up
ward.
Help others when you can, but neve'
give what you cannot afford to; simply
because it is fashionable. Learn to say
no, learn to think and act for yourself
keep ahead rather than behind the times
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