The daily gazette., 1876-06-07

masters sleeping room and store room.
On the lower floor two rooms are
given up to him as a dwelling. and
outside q space of ground fer garden,
so that he may practically instruct the
pupils in gardening The schoolmas-
ters receives minimum stipend of SAY
$3.50 per annum, besides fuel, and fod-
der for his COW. This is, Of course,
only In the poor country Districts; in
the higher schools the teachers are, Of
course, far better paid. The lowest
class of schools in Sweden is the infant,
or small school. originally introduced
in districts where the population was
much scattered. Here the teachers
are usually females, and they instruct
the children in reading. writing.
arithmetic, history, singing and relig-
ion, thus preparing them for the pri-
mary schools we have just spoken of
and whore, in addition to the above,
natural history, geography, drawing,
chemistry, physics, grammar, geome-
tIy,gymnastics and drilling are taught.
The teachers here must have frequen-
ted at least three years the higher
(NormaD school. and have obtained a
certificate from the same, and these
schools are un9e. rigid periodical
superintendent. Next come the
higher primary schools, where super
ior instruction in the branches already
named is impaired to those who have
distinguished themselves by their
capacity and diligence.
We must now say word or two on the
national high schools, which arose be-
tween twenty and thirty years ago, when
the vast educational strides made by Ger.
many excited feeling of patriotic riv.
airy among the Swedes. Hence these
schools, where grown persons of twenty.
thirty, and forty years Of age are educa-
ted to become good citizens, instructed
in the laws. municipal institutions and
general administration of their country,
Taught surveying, chemistry, physics,
and bookkeeping, and where, once q
council is held, simply in order to train
the mind for administrative work. To
These schools, established by private
benefactors, Sweden owes much of her
independence and purity OF spirit. More
than one half Of the lower house is here
composed of intelligent workingmen,
who are not ashamed to appear in the
House in their everyday attire, such as
is exhibited in the Swedish section in the
main building. In the upper house labor
is less directly represented, the members
being unpaid there, which is not the case
IN the lower chamber. Next in order
come the grammar or high schools, divi-
ded into the REALISTIC and the human.
astic branches. In!the former are taught
German, French and English, algebra
physics and chemistry. In the latter
the pupils are also instructed in Latin
Greek and Hebrew, and thus prepared
for entering either of the two unlversi
ties, Upsalg or Lund. Ere engaging IL
the thirty years. war Gustavus Adol
phus bequeathed m his property to tn,
university of Upsalg, SO that at his death
at Lutzen in 1882, the university became
possessed of considerable wealth. Be
sides all these there are seven higher
technical schools. Samples of the at
tainments of the pupils in drawing anc
other branches will be found in the
Swedish sect on in the main building
and finally there are schools of naviga
tion, agriculture and forestry, so that nc
class is neglected in the little country
we have been speaking of.