Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-01
nearly half, became farmers. There are 2l2

nearly half, became farmers. There are 2l2
of the graduates now living.
School board visitor, while examining a
scholar: where is the north pole?" II don't
know, sir" Don't you? Are you not
ashamed that yon don't know where the north
pole /. ~ "Why, sir, il Sir John Franklin and
DIR. Kane, and Capt. Mares, and Markham
couldn't find IL, how should l know where it
is?"-IBuffalo Express.
At the school. meeting at Muskegon, Mich,
last week, a taxpayer moved to abolish the
teaching Of Latin and German in the high
school, on the ground that they we're dead
languages. On being asked why he had not
included Greek in the motion he explained
that he regarded It as identical with Latin.
His motion was lost.
According TO the Moscow Viedomoski only
twenty.one children out OF every hundred az.
tending the Russian schools are girls. The
proportion varies with the religion. Thus, Of
Protestsnts the number Is greatest, riz 45.4
per cent OF Hebrews, 94.1 per cent. and Of
Roman Catholics, 14.4 per cent. The mum.
Der is the lowest among the Greek Catholics,
49, per cent.
At the Lincoln Institute on South Eleventh
street, Philadelphia, are nearly 100 Indian
girls who are being instructed at the expense
of the government. They were given a holi.
day last week, and the Philadelphia Times
speaks Of them as follows: THE girls are SUI.
premely satisfied with their new existence
and have no desire to return t. the wild life
of the plains. Iron Owl. q pretty little Sioux
girl, who is Chief Sitting Bulls niece, hung her
head bashfully ut first when questioned, but
gathering courage raised her big black eyes
fearlessly and said: II dont no more like q
blanket. It is bad dress. Not nice and
pretty, like this and che smoothed out the
folds Of her checked calico apron with coquet-
fish complacency. When l 70 back to my
people say to oil, Indian way not good.
Live like white people," They take kindly
to religious instruction, and some of the
larger girls have been hired out to farmers,
who are well satisfied with them as servants.
A Salem letter TO the New York Tribune
gives o brief but interesting account of the
Bowditch Manual Training school there. In
this ms tuition technical instruction appears
to have been given o wider range than usual,
and it is not so evident that the pupils are
being prepared for the more important me-
chanical trades, though tbs kind of training
given lie certainly useful and calculated to in.
crease the Independence and earning capacity
of all who go through the course. Technical
education Is spreading rapidly through the
country at present, and 10 being gradually
grated on to the public school systems with
satisfactory results. The Manual Training
School of Philadelphia, which has attracted 80
much attention appears to have settled steadily
drawn from a long career of usefulness. The
education given here is eminently practical.
The course is of three yesra, The pupils
como by promotion from boys grammar, con.
solldated and combined schools. The tech
nical instruction embraces free hand, mechan.
zeal, geometrical, machine ard architectural
drawing, experimental work in the physical
laboratory; shop work carpentering and join
wood carving, wood turning, PATTERN
making, forging, welding, tempering, solder.
ing, brazlng, m%olding, and casting, bench.
work and fitting, turning, drilling, planning,
screw cutting, study of the steam engine, in.
Guiding management and care of steam en-
elnes and boilers, and elementary principals
of the textile and fertile arts, together will
in the properties of materials.