Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-14

should be gratuitous and compulsory, and that manual labor should be taught in all primary schools. The Frcebel method of teaching was recommended for use ln all in fant schools, but resolution in favor of al- lowing women to become candidates for teachers in the higher schools WAS rejected. Spain is still long way behind most other European countries in regard to education but it appears from some statistics referred to during the Congress that the number of primary schools has increased from 24 ,OOO to 29, 900 within the last twenty two years but there are still many villages without 6 school of any kind, and others in which the school buildings are unsuitable for the purpose. The teachers are badly and unpunctually paid, and the consequence is that they are as rule very unfit for the1r posts. The Minister of Public Works intends to bring in bill en- abling the gov ernment to take the primary schools and provide the funds.
 M. Floquet and commission of the radi- cal Municipal Council of Paris have just rec commended the creation at the public expense of 8 common ''Labor Exchange" It is to be 8 fine building costing several millions, just ! as imposing as any of the other Exchanges for corn, wine or stores, and it is to enable buyers and sellers of labor to meet one an- other. The workman out of job will go l there and meet the master in want of hand | and make bargain with him, instead of do- ing it, as he does now, through a host of | small agencies that rob him, through no agency at all. At the Labor Exchange he will hov oil of i,,fo to iIo | reports from all parts of France and even from abroad as to the state of the labor mar
 ket in his particular trade quotations of the ruling prices and so on. A necessary part of the scheme will consist in the publication of & new kind of trade circular for labor giving all such information day by day in the mi nutest form. It is thought that the Council will accept the recommendation.
 One of the bulletins of the Census bureau gives the statistics of the fisheries Of Con necticut, and the figures will surprise me St readers. It appears that there are in the State 3, 131 persons engaged in the business, upon an invested capital of $1 421 ,O2O They use 291 vessels and l, 173 boats. Most of the boats are engaged in ''shore fisheries" Of the vessels, 1O5 are occupied in food fish and lobster fisheries, seventy two in the men haden fishery, one hundred in oyster fish ing, five as whalers and nine seal catchers. There are ill use in the State sixty-seven gill nets, fifty eight purse seipes, forty, eight haul-seines, fifty tight pounds and weirs, 255 fykes and 3,9O0 lob- ster and eel pots. The total catch in the l census year was 83, 5O9 1867 pounds, fresh, valued at $l, ,456. .86O. But 65, O92 ,OOO pounds were in menhaden. which yielded 25G, 300 gallons of oil and 5000 tons of scrap. The | years product of whale oil was 22, IA gal Ions; of sea elephant oil 42, 900 gallons of whalebone 10, 400 pounds. The fur seals killed returned 9,275 skins. The fresh fish caught fer food aggrc. gated 1884, ,9s2 pounds, proportioned,
 by estimate, as follows: Alewives, 27O,
 900 pounds; sea bass, 351 300 pounds
 striped bass, 36,9OO pounds blsskfsh o1
 tautog, 173,55O pounds; bluedsh 5l4, 50t
 pounds; cod, ?, 73S ,Ooo pounds eels, 80, 25t
 pounds; founders and 1atfsh, 142, 6Ot
 pounds halibut, $50, 900 pounds mackerel
 37,0OO pounds; pollock, 20, GOO pounds scul
 or porgy, 93o, OoO pounds; shad, 1,31S, ,o3
 pounds smelts, 1000 pounds squeteague
 1O2, 75O pounds sword fish, 73, 500 pounds
 mixed fish, 239, 900 pounds.