The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-17
EDUCATIONAL.
Sweden Stands Behind No Country in
Popular Education.

OF 351 towns and cities in Massachu-
setts PAS have free public Libraries.
The average salaries of the mistresses
IN the London board schools is $3.50.
1t costs the teachers of Kansas $780,
600 year to attend the Normal Insti-
tutes.
There are 230 Normal Schools, with an
attendance of $4,000 students, in the
United States.
Philadelphia turns out more medical
students in year than any other city
in the country.
President Warfield Of Lafayette Col
lege, Pa, is taking vigorous measures to
stamp out hazing.
in the public schools, and their success
is reported to be marked.
Albert G. Lane has been chosen Su-
perintendent of the public schools OF
Chicago, vice Rowland resigned.
The Kansas University is a good deal
set up because a Harvard graduate is
sending his son to Lawrence this year.
The number of students registered
this year in Sibley College of Mechan-
ical Engineering, Cornell University. is
something like 450, including a consid-
erable number of graduates from other
colleges.
Superintendent Anderson of the Mil
waukee public schools is talking about
getting up a procession of children of
school age who are denied an education
! from the lack of school room in that city
They number about 1000.
1t is said that Miss Mary E. Holmes
of Rockford, Ill. proposes to invest from
$75 900 to 100000 in establishing in
Missouri colored women's literary and
industrial school to accommodate l5O
pupils as a memorial to her mother.
According to an educational journal
the number of illiterate persons in Rus
! sia, Siberia, Roumania and Bulgaria
form so per cent. of the population, in
Spain 63, Italy AZ, Hungary 43, Austria
| 80, Ireland 2l, France and Belgium 15,
Holland 10, United States s, Scotland Z.
! Switzerland 215 and in the greater part
Of Germany only 1 per cent.
Sweden stands behind no country
not even the United States-in popular
education. To this may perhaps be due
the superiority of the Swedish emigrant
to this country over emigrants from
7 other European countries. The number
fof school children per 900 inhabitants
is l40. Technical instruction, especially
of woman, is great feature The diff
culties in the way of school attendance
are very great, not only because of the
severe Northern winters, but also because
the people live to large extent on iso-
lated farms.
Prof. Michaelson has just returned tc
Boston from California, where he has
spent a large portion of the summer
He has been working at Lick Observa-
tory, experimenting there with his recent
invention-the refractometer. This he
attached to the smaller of the telescopes
at the observatory, and during the sum
mer he made numerous measurements
of the bodies of the solar system, partic
ularly of the satellites of Jupiter. The
results of this work were highly satisfac
tory, and the mean of the measurement
made varies from the maximum anC
minimum measurements by but l or
per cent.-a variation many times les
than is obtainable by other methods
The refractometer will be used by tn,
staff at Lick Observatory during the com
ing year, and in that time Prof. Michael
son hopes to perfect his invention still
: further. The refractometer bids fair t,
! be an instrument of great Importance il
future astronomical work.