The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-19
Exhibition Echoes.
The Educational Dispiay-Pennsylvani
and OhIo-The Swedish Sch ooI Hoase.

Even the casual observer who pays a visit to
the International Exhibition can scarcely fail
TO notice bow well represented in different sec
!ions are the educational departments both of
our own and other countries.
Pennsylvania has erected a payiIion exnrass-
ly for the display of systems of schools, and
plans of school buildings and school
ornamentation. Sweden gives us the
gratihcation OF looking into school-house of
her country, while Canada, Ohio. Massacbu-
setts and other parts of the world devote con-
siderable space in their exhibits to this inter-
est.
Ihe pennsylvania building is an octaeon
with two wings surmounted by dome. Among
Its college representations that of Lafayette at
trScted my particular attention, with its case
of books graded for the college course, the like
nesses OF its faculty, view of the building and
GROUNDS, while there is even on exhibj:
ton case of insects collected near the grounds
by the scholars. Like the stones in a great
temple, each article helps to its completeness,
vet now much time and thought has been ex-
pended in this department, making it seem of
great Importance to the person who has pre-
pared 1t, and yet perhaps scarcely noticed by
multitudes in the teeming crowd of objects
that assall the eye at every turn. And asked
myself the question, of the hundreds and thous-
ands who enter this building how many will
notice this little case or give it half the atten
ton it might under other circumstances well
deserve.
ihe Moravlans commend themselves so warm
iy 10 US that paused to look at the models of
their seminaries at Bethlehem and specimens of
their paintings Considerable space was al
lotted to the display of work by the pupils
from the soldiers orphans schools; there was
even shown to us book containing samples of
button-holes made by young girls of fifteen
and under. But the various attachments te
machines in all branches of needle-work do
not stimulate to very high attainments in hand
sewing
ohio's exhibit signalizes itself by peculiarly
excellent maps, giving a multun in paryo
amount of information concerning school nat
ronage, attendance, value of property. Sc.
while at the same time there are many speci-
mems OF the actual work done by her pupils.
Canada, however, appears to have outdope all
Others in the representation of its educational
court. Here are not only cases of textbooks
and maps to illustrate every branch of natural
science, but cabinets of metals minerals, shells
and Chemical apparatus. We also find here
models of flowers and plants, for the aid of
botanists. and busts of celebrities for such as
fancy to dip into the study of races, while as
tronomy exhibits new instrument called the
Hello Concentric Expostor of Terrestrial Mo-
tion, which is much lauded.
Sweden in the main building calls attention
to superior map of the country which shows
high attainment in the map-making art, and
had fine exhibit from its technical art schools
The law of the land requires children to at
tend school from the age of seven to fifteen,
but in many cases this law is not enforced.
Refractory persons are first admonshed BY the
clergyman, then by board of instruction,
and even by the police before any summary
proceeding is carried out against them.
Within the fanciful school-house are come
admirable instruments for the study of arith-
metic; blackboard with pegs in it, and little
blocks beside it for the student in geography
who is required to outline any given country
and arrange the blocks which are labelled with
the names of towns and counties on the right
pegs.
The structure itself has been sold for five
thousand dollars, but it will not be removed
from the grounds. VISITOR.