The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
Educational Notes.

o'clock.
The first semi-annual dividend of the
state school fund for 1888, amounting
to S4,079.S0, has been appOrtioned tt
the districts.
Mr.. q. B. Allen closed his school il
Fairview, district 81, last Friday, with
very good exhibition in the evening
He will now go to district So for a three
months term.
Ii. Z. Copper finished a six months
term in the Abbey district last Friday
and left on Sunday for the state uni
yersily at Lawrence, where he expects
to take a course.
The high school trustees met March
9th and ordered the secretary to adj
vertise for bids for the erection of a
high school building at Chapman.
Work will commence on the building
inst as soon as the contract can be
given.
NJ. A. Lemon writes that he is at
Olathe. Kansas, where he will teach a
spring term of school.
The next intercollegiate oratorical
contest will be held at EmpOria.
Quite a number of teachers listened
to Sam Jones at the opera house last
Saturday evening.
Russell begins right. Instead of
sticking forty acres of land, half the
town lots and a mortgage into fiimsy
college building, hiring faculty of
two or three worn out preachers, de-
moralizing the town high school, and
bartering out dozens of imitation sheep
skins which even the pedagOgues them
selves could not translate into modern
English, Russell has gathered nearly a
thousand dollars 10y subscription, and
founded a public library.-Industri-
alist.
is this table yours OF does it be-
long to the district - 1T belongs to
me-" 1t was neatly covered, and was
placed in a convenient corner of the
room On the table were several mag
azines Harper and the Century-an
Encyclopedia, Tom Brown at Rugby an
educational paper and the Youth s
Companion-this last named taken by
the school. All these, too, educating
the children just as surely as the
reader, arithmetic and speller. If an
annual meeting, usually in cOmatOse
(see Webster) condition, could be
aroused to see the Importance of a
political tax, what blessed results
might Observation-Disclosures John
Macdonald.
nf o, anrOlIpoapt Of eco yrbito hove
of the ages from seven to twenty in the
Topeka schools, thirty per cent. use to-
bacco Of an enrolment of 429 coored
boys of the same range of ages, twenty
four per cent. use tobacco. In the high
school, with an enrolment of eight-One
boys, twenty-five per cent. use tobacco.
In one school, fifth grade, out of All en-
rollment of twenty-siX boys, twenty
three use tobacco; and doubtless out
of the whole enrolment between the
ages of twelve and twenty, at least fifty
per cent. use or have used tobacco.
And large majority use it in the form
of cigarettes, the worst form in which
it can be used, for as a rule they are
made of the vilest stuff. with other
poisonous ingredients added to the to,
bacco.-Capital.
There was good attendance at the
institute in district 81. March 10Th,
and good work was done. Misses Rugh
McIntire, Parke. ElstOn, Anderson and
many gentlemen teachers were present
and took part in the discussions. Mr.
| Van DYKE led the class in pedagogy
and the south district institutes have
been studying literature. Let the good
work continue.
Miss Rugh read very carefully pre-
pared paper on teaching morality"
Uniformity of text books. developed
the fact that the teachers were heartily
in favor of it.
A most excellent dinner was fur
nished by the patrons of the district.
The following are the arithmetic
questions prepared by the state boarl
of education for the January examina
ton: F''''.'''
l. ca WHAT is definition? Cb' What is
demonstration
What Is = prOblem' What is solutiO
q. Prove and Illustrate that the sum @
difference of two numbers. divided by an
number, will equal the sum or difference G
the quotients found by dividing those tw
numbers by the same number?
4. A man has three large tracts OF land. col
tanning $40, LAB and ]. 40 acres respectively