Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-27
vensd and the nrst free public school

sOAoA oAo sAo AAos 4AOO PUullC BcQOOl
gathered.
Speaking of ideals, President Thomas W,
Polmer of the worlds fair commission,
says he will devote the rest Of his life to
assisting woman in her battle for equal
Justice with man, the enlargement of the
work of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals and the securing of
better country roads. t.---.
Gloucester, Massachusetts,, has lost eley-
en- vessels so far this winter. This Is q
heavy burden for the town to bear, but a.
the loss of life has been small the fisher
men are more fortunate than they usually
are when large number of .caooners are
lost. A gale in 1878 wrecked nine scboon-
ers and caused the loss of 1913 lives, and
that of February, 1879, destroyed is ves-
sells and 157 lives. On the latter occasion
81 widows and 140 fatherless children
mourned the men lost. For this winter
only one crew of 10 men has been lost.
Mississippi is perhaps generally consid-
cred rather behindhand in educational
progress, but the Hon ]. r. Preston, State
superintendent of education, reports that
Mississippi is now expending yearly
81, ,321 900 on her public schools; that (sak-
ing the total property valuation into &C.
count) no State in the South and only seven
States In the whole Union are expending
more; and that out of every 100 white chill
dren in the State 73 are at school. The
showing for the negro children is not 80
good, but nearly 90 out of every 100 of
them are at school, too.
Massachusetts, Is q great State for read
ing. 1t appears that seven towns have
been supplied with books during the year
under the provisions of the free public II.
brary act, and that only forty-fou towns
in the State are now without free public
libraries. These towns contain an aggrs-
gate population of s0, ,929, or less than 2t
per cent. of the entire population. Thirty
six OF them have population of less than
1900, and II population under 1000
eight are in Hampdsu county, seven in
Berkshire and one in Hampshire. While
the State hiss been lending helping haad,
private giving has been greatly stimulated,
so that over thirty towns have in the last
year been remembered more or less genel-
ously, and over $500, 900 has been given by
individuals for the purchase of books and
the erection of library buildings.
Tho monument which has been erected
upon the battlefield of Solfsrino is one of
the largest, If not the largest, of It's kind
in Europe. 1t consists of tower seventy
four meters high, surmountsd by an cleo
trio lamp, and rises in seven stories, each
a campaign in the struggle
for the Independence of Italy. Each seps-
rate story contains all the names of the
generals and other officers, as we'll as the
men who fought in that campaign. No
fewer than 700, 900 names are thus in
scribed on the inner walls of the monu-
ment. On the ground floor are the busts
and portraits of the leading generals, and
the chief ornament in the center of the
ground floor Is the colossal monument in
bronze of Victor Emmanuel, by the Ven-
etian sculptor Dsl lotto. The tower stands
In grounds beautifully laid out, and con-
stitutes magnificent memorial of italian
unity. Beneath the structure repose 1000
skulls and other remains of soldiers of the
three nations who fell on the field of
So.ferino.