The Phoenix herald., 1879-07-26
Intelligence Items.
Kansas has 5,131 school districts, and

Kansas has ,, 13l school districts, and employs {, ,359 teachers.
 The English and Austrian courts go into mourning for the Prince Napoleon.
 Botany. zoology and physiology, hy- giene, astronomy, physical geography and natural philosophy are taught oral iy in the St. Louis schools.
 A number of humane ladies and gen tlemen of Pittsburg have undertaken the work of providing free excursions to the country for the children of the poor of Pittsburg.
 The French Government is develop ing the carrier pigeon service in earnest, for in Paris aud twelve other fortified towns, no fewer than 6 900 birds are now fed at the public expense.
 A surveying party is working on a proposed railroad line from Pierre to Deadwood, Dakota, which will be an extension of the Tracy Branch of the Chicago and North western Railroad.
 The Medical aud S,trgical Journal ex- presses the opinion that the effort to open the Harvard medical school to women was intended as the thin end ot the wedge which Is to admit women to she entire privileges of the university.
 The French newspapers uniformly express regret at the sad end of the Prince Louis. It is regarded as effec tually extinguishing whatever faint hope the BOnapartists may have enter tained of the restoration Of the Empire.
 Queen Victoria has just instituted a new Order. It is to be bestoWe upon those trained female nurses who, by their skill and conduct, deserve high recognition, and they will be called, from the Order, St. Katharlne's s Nurses"
 A Philadelphia man who attempted to start mail service rivalling that of the United States, has been arrested, Uncle Sam claiming monopoly of that kind of business. If exacted, the of fender will have to pay heavy fines for his enterprise.
 For the year ending with March, 1879, the Church Missionary Society of England secured the enormous sum ot S2S7 ,93O from the children alone, by means of little collecting books, cards and boxes, that 1t sends out te be used in gathering money for this purpose.
 A guest at the Christmas dinner of the United States Consul in Bangkok, Siam, states that the edibIes were al most entirely canned food from Amer ica, including turkey, chicken, corned beef, salmon, Holsters, mackerel, clans, potatoes and other vegetables, fruits and pumpkin..h aol oa= 9ls
 The toilet of the Town of Paris costs more than that of any other city in the world, but, on the other hand, tSere Is no waste. The blossoms of the orange trees in the different public gardens, and the grass around the water reser- voirs and on other communal property, are all sold.
 All the railroads running from New York to Coney Island, N. r., do brisk business on warm Sabbaths. That is the day when the beach Is crowded, when the gayety of the seashore Is at its height, and when the '' working man " and his family enjoy the '' benef- lcent rest of the one day in seven. '- EdSter7s Puper.
 The electric light is going West at a rate that would have delighted the heart of Horace Greeley. 1t Is going under ground, too. It Is now used to light up mine at StraitesvilIe, Nev. The miners are delighted with 1t, as they can work as well as they could in day light. Other mines are being fitted up for its introduction. This looks like running the electric light into the ground.-Detroit Press.
 Great Britain has coast line of 9 ,392 nautical miles, and has fifty-eight light ships and 456 Lighthouses, for whose maintenance tolls are levied on the ship ping. The United States has t, ,5O0 miles of coast line on the Atlantic and Pacific, and 5000 miles on the great lakes. Last year there was provided 655 lights. There are in the United States 5, 800 miles of river navigation, and on this there are 50S lights and 5000 buoys. The cost of keeping up this is g. .5OO, 900 year, and is paid by the whole people, instead of by the shipping interests alone as in Eng land.-DetroH Free Press.