Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-01-21

TEXAS will shortly hold its first State
Convention Uf teachers.
TnE colored schools of Washington are
said 10 be- the best schools Of the sort IN
the country. They are taught almost
exclusively by colored teachers.
4 DISTINGUISHED teacher in Germany
writes 10 Professor Adrian Scott that
spelling all over Germany has been
crowded out by tho sOund-meth0d,
which teaches the sounds represented
by the different letters and pays no at
teutiOn whatever To- their names. only
"A lew quite aged teachers still admit
spelling.
MAINE has now 4,l2j schOol-houses,
and her school property l. valued at
81, O63l Is. There are !, "a male teachers
and jy29 female teachers employed IN
the State The average wages OF the
former are now So IS per month; of the
latter 3 o. per week. In the past ten
years the male teachers wages have
been increased only 81 Is, and those oi
the female teachers Il o.. The amount
expended for the schools last year was
sy.i6, GlS. The school population mum
bers 2l4,797.
Leaving cut the statistics from three
counties which 10 not report, the school
population of Tennessee Is estimated at
lS32l4 The average attendance during
the IaSt wear WIS lSS,2Il, the number
II schools, 5,3l7 the number II teachers,
j.j2S. the number Ot pupils enrolled,
-, SsH There were l,621 private
,rhuol- with an average Attendance at
1877. The receipts ut school money
last year amounted 10 SSS4,O36 -, the
expenditures to S173, ~ IL.
TIE French Minister OF Public In
-tructiun reports that at the end Ot 1876
there were in France 4, 100000 children
between the ages of six aud thirteen,
and n. Il5 schools, public and private,
Tor their instruction. About G21,Un at
these children attended ne school, but,
upuu the other hand, nearly million
more children either under the aye oi
~iN on above the age at thirteen were
receiving elementary education. The
number ui masters AMI miStrrsSeS was
Ilu.7O ui whom about 6I,UO were lay
TEACHERS, the rest being members at the
various religious congregations. The
report also mentions the Tact that nearly
lIUOO ul the teachers, lay AMI religious,
are uurcTtliiCutcd
TuE ten ladies who are County school
Supuriutrudcuts i'm Illinois have man
a-ud the financial part ct their business
particularly well. Not ollie cent oi the
large sums over over which they have
had supervision has been lost, either
through dishonesty or ignorance oi bus
L.. 4 ls
school finances were in state ut CON
fusion when the ladies came into office.
They have Strengthened everything, ami
Put All school affairs un the most pros
I rrnu4 basis Several at these lady
superiutcndcnts regularly hold meetings
al their school officers, and talk about
school work, with very useful results.
Thrs,. SupcrintcudcntS have also sue
r,.,,l,.d eNrrllrntly iu the legal part ut
their work, in school visitation, and IA
influencing and iuStruCtiug teachers.
Even those male educators who opposed
the law making women eligible Ia tins
ullirr now pronounce her work a
SUCCESS, alter the five years eNpcrI-
enCe.
NEARIN all the lrg'cies recently left To-
lNAllIllbNlI Alf's anu wv bAAtif ''''''
remain. uuprudurtiye, and the cellegc ~
sail 10 need money very much. The
deficit iu last ycArs's receipts MAS 81
6.Il ~ and the indebtedness from sue
ra~siye annual Deficiencies amounted,
MAY 10, 1873, to SlOS, PSI -. Only two
proiessorships are fully endowed -Four
others have a partial endowment, and a
special fund pays about halt the salary
oithe president. Otherwise, the salaries
of the iaculty, and contingent expenses,
ar t,r rspairs. insurance, care at build
upS. etc. must almost wholly hemrt 10y
current receipts from students. Since
Ma, IA. IS7S, the college las received
i-.nO hut 80 restricted a. not Ia nc
applicable to the payment ct debt. The
iIumui have been asked Ia relieve the
college from debt, and t. enable Il to "i-
Ter increased advantages, 10y raising a
nud ui StiO,OOO