Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-04-11
PRICE ONE CENT



oul public schools cost slSs, 00o. oo0 /
year. twice rs much as the cost IL fha
postal service.
The London Board Of Education has
appointed six women at q salary az ason
eaea 70 visit schools.
As president Of the Drexel Institute 81
Philadelphia at $40, 600 year Professor
MacA lister is the best paid teacher Ia the
United States.
Professor Harper, Of Yale, has accepted
the presidency Of Chicago University
(bantist) the institution to which Rookie.
Teller, the oil king, has contributed 81
largely.
Three thousand women In Greece have
petiuoiied their government for public
schools. IN which females may he elu.
Gated up to the level Of women Of other
nations,
The faculty OF Harvard University has
permitted Japanese student 70 enter tho
university. substituting Chinese and jap
ansse for the Latin and Greek ordinarily
required at entrance.
Merritt L. Fernald, though only ID
years old, has become assistant botanisE
NJ Harvard College. He is a son of the
president Of the Maine State College and
has, by his own researches, added to the
scientific knowledge OF the flora Ok
Maine. Merritt wiz tell.
The friends Of the Kansas State Normal
School note with regret disposition on
the part of the house at Topeka 10 cut
down the biennial appropriation asked
for by the regents of that institution.
The amount demanded is $3l, 875 and The
house proposes to reduce it SO, 900 OF
$40, 600.
In the United States three-fOurths 0k
the nations illiteracy il in the South
40 per cent of the whole population Of the
South can not read the New Testament;
Of the 2, 900, 600 illiterate voters In our
co lntry, 1 500, 600 are in the South; the
negro population, now about 8, 900, 900,
increases at the rate Of 500 per day.
The University Of Pennsylvania Is ne.
gotiating for the purchase of the late
George Bancroft's splendid collection Of
historical works. which is valued at
$40, 900. 1t is wanted for the Library of
American History recently established by
the university. Congress has the refusal
of the manuscripts in the collection for
three years.
One of the peculiar features of school
life in New York is the reading OF the
list of contagious diseases in the city. The
list is furnished to teachers by the Health
Board, and when it is read the pupils are
asked If any of them live in that vicinity.
When boy or girl stands up he or she Is
taken aside and crossquestioned. II
danger is suspected the youngster is sent
home.
The School Board in one OF the wards
of Des Moines, Iowa, resolved that 1t
is the sense of this board that teacher
Is neither competent nor fit to teach
school who attends balls or dancing
parties on who spends her evenings I'D
playing cards. We demand that all
teachers employed in the district must
either desist from the same or they must
consider their contract at an end. The
offending teachers will comply with tho
resolution.
There are 90 free law scholarships for
women in the University Of the City Of
4fCW AOAAs anu as 3cb UuaJ tfkE AE5
taken. Amy young woman IN America
who desires to study law and has not the
means to do SO has only to pass the ex-
animation prepared by DIR. Emily Kem-
pin, LID, and avail herself Of the OPP
portunities the university affords. The
law school has 20 pupils. Is of whom are
independentof the endowed scholarships.
An agricultural school has just been
erected in the peninsula of Jutland, to
which women are eligible. The course
of instruction includes the treatment OF
milk for cream, butter, and cheese, care
of cattle and poultry, chemistry and
agricultural bookkeeping, and the calcu-
iation of percentage and application of
weights and measurements in handling
milk, fat, feed, etc. Beside this tile
young women are taught kitchen garden
ing, cooking, needlework, and gym
nastics. A class is intended 10 last from
January to April, and during the sum-
mer the poorer pnpils viii be assisted III
getting profitable market for anything
they raise On produce.