Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-23

President Brown. of the State Normal
School of Rhode Island, gives the per
centage OF attendance as regards the
occupation of the scholars parents as
follows: Children of farmers. 10 per ct;
mechanics, 10 per ct; merchants, 1 p I
CT; professional men, & per Ct; labor
ers, eto., IL per Ct. The total school At
tendance last year Was 960.
Forty of the professors at Andover
Mass, with SIX of their wives and dnugh.
ters have published books with an ag-
ePate circulation of over ons million
copie'.
Prof. j. W. Clark resigns and goes
from the nj ass tchuse;ts Agricultural
College TO Il snperint sndency of : large
fruit farm in Colorado.
Normal people for ten years past have
of Lila. de Garmo. who died in Illinois
on March 2ith.
The Department of Sunerintendence
at It's aubu i meet II Z in Washington un
Feb. 1913. called together about one
hundred prominent iucators from W
rlons States. Manv important subjects
appear IN their published proceedi ~.
Hon. B. l.. Bnieuer WAS president.
The National Edneational ,ssociation
DIR L. w. Biekneil. has n program al
offers special excarsion Rates, such as
will surely convsu an immense body of
educators AT Madison, Wis. next July,
10th 10 18TH. Five hundred deleg ties
are expected from Ohio alone.
N. Z. Allen, April ~, 1894, completed
36 wears Of teaching lt the Normal school
of w. Newton. Mass.
Prof. Northrop, of Yale. accepts on a
sslary OF 5000. ths Presidency of Min
nesota University; but Prof. Garman,
OF Amherst. declines the Presidency of
Bowdoin.
the hsad of his class Ia the West Point
Military Academy. He is u son of Prof.
IL. nj. Hale, ex-State Superintendent.
Miss Mary Bartlett, daughter of Pres
ident II B.rilett, of Tennessee, died on
the 22d ult. She was an accepted con.
tributor to the Youths Companion and
author of number of worAs.
Between the ages of : and II years
there are 2l6,C00 school children IN Cali
foruia, of whom 14.000 are in the private
schools aud about 50. coo are absenteas.
Boston has 81 grammar schools.
st. Paul paid sissl for night schools,
with 30 pupils. last winter.
New York city has 1859 average
daily school attendance.
New Hampshire has 5000 less school
children than Is years ago.
Missouri has ss22 schools ard l0.617
teachers, and has more funds than an ]
ether State eycept Indiana.
Kentucky has a school -honse for each
six square miles.
Chicago has so principals; 81 teacher.
were added because of the increase 81
pupils the past year bv 1000. Sncerin.
teudents and teachers received STl.Nh
the past fiscal year.
New Bedford spends annually Ss9,osl
in educstina pupils at the rate per cap
ita of $40 81 grammar and $3a.4a hian
school grade.
On March 27th. 1884. the city treasurer
paid the 81. PAU teachers $i2,o0.
Superintendent, raine of Tennessee
gives the enrolment of white ohlldrer
a. I'll 2a7; of colored. 6s, ,a3t: tot Il num
ber Of school houses t5O6. and of teach
era 6T33, with Il dAAs a. the average da
ration of schools in the State.
BY the Blair bill. the total appropris.
tion for all six of til, New Eaeiai
st .tes will he $g,&i5.010, ahile Geo q 9
alone gets 90 2io,oo. No State secaa'
its portion without raising an sqna
amount for education within It's owr
borders.