Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19

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Vii ustribute these pictures among inc
primary and intermediate schools IN the
snIage. Mrs. Jones has been very gen
. ho., 70 the schools, having already sem en-
SiApe or statuary and books.
me Bangor Wing & Courier says that
ne department of physics in the Bangor
IhSn sschOol is at present ahead or tnat
m many any high school of the State In eleu-
.rlcity ana physical geography the stu
ueiits are doing unusual work, on par
with the freshman college classes, minus
tne mathematics. They are at present
studying the sun by means of the spec
,roScope. a thing very remarkable Tor
nigh school classes
Washington Academy, East Machias,
having outgrown its present ptlidlnGs
winch were erected in 1923, hundreds OF
circulars We're sent out during the month
of September by the executive COMMITTEES
10 the alumni stating the needs ana re-
auesting contributions to ASSIST IN puii ~,
ing much better accommodations. 10
this appeal the alumni have pledged up 10
the present time $500 j is proposed py
the trustees to begin work as soon as the
arrangements can be made.
Truant officer Burns of Portland, in a
recent conversation said that there was
remarkable decrease in the percentage OF
truancy. He attributed the fact largely
to the kindergartens which are estab-
lished in different parts or the city. ABOUT
400 tots between the ages OF four ana SIN
there, lessons which they remember ana
respect when they are advanced TO hlgher
classes. If the punctuality or the pupils
continue to improve t as mas ac zone ,n
lose his job.
The botany class of the Rockland
high school has been awarded a first
prize of SIS for it's display of herbarium
at the State fair in Lewiston. The
lob n
terest in botany and the assortment OF
10 books sent to the State fair in COM
petition with other schools was an in
teresting as well as meritorious one.
The money will go toward buying
books for the library.
A. F. Caldwell. recently elected pro-
fessor Of Belles-Lettres in Illinois Wes-
leyan University, Bloomington, ILL.,. has
been Invited to speak at the meeting Of
the college association of Illinois. on
The Teaching of English Outside Its
Own Department" The association is
under the direction of President Harper
of Chicago University, Professor Cald-
we'll formerly lived in Oxford.
Eighteen pupils of the eighth grade
of the Webster Grammar school, Au-
burn, have been placed in special
grade, where they will do the work OF
both the eighth and nineth grades-the
work of two years-this year and be
ready to enter the high school next fall.
These Is pupils were selected by the
committee because of exceptional
brightness and ability.
A French club, known as "Cercle
Francais," was organized in Portland
recently by a number of we'll known
citizens. Monsieur Henri Dupalet is
the promoter The object of the club
is to afford the members an opportu-
nifty TO practice speaking the French
language The club will be open every
evening and members will meet there
at their convenience. All the converse
ton will be carried on in French. thus
affording an excellent drill for those
desiring it. The club is to be incor-
porated under the laws of Mainc.
The Spanish-American war has pro-
NOTED the study of language. both in
America and in the former Spanish col
onies a writer from Porto Rico says
the universal effort to learn Englisn there
is almost pathetic. The same is true IN
the Philippines. And as for America. col
leges where last year single student. at
most, wanted to study Spanish. large
classes are now learning the language of
branch are legion The war has started
linguistic revival 1t is noted else1
where. Especially noticeable is the effort
to revive tongues that were becoming al
most obsolete. In Poland the natives are
reviving their ancient tongue: The. same
is true in Wales and Ireland. And the
revival of the study of Gaelic has extend
ed to America. Boston now having free
o.. Inr- aft
An exchange says that county su-
perintendent of schools in neighhor-
ing state asked every teacher at the
county institute. who took their local
paper to hold up their hands, and out
of about 100 only six responded. The
superintendent expressed great sur
prise and said: You don't spend a
dollar year with these papers yet you
expect them to print your notices of
Institutes, reports, programmes, etc.
all free of charge and expect them to
advertise you assisting you to climb
the ladder to better positions and bet
ter salaries without a cent of postage
in return"
In the interim of his missionary labors,
or rather his evangeliStic work, Father
Barnum has devoted himself with schol-
arly taste and aptitude TO the preparation
of a dictionary and grammar OF the rs
quimau language. which bids fair to be
accepted as the standard work in that
branch of etymology. Already he has
catalogued and defined more than sou
words, yet he says that his task is only
begun inasmuch as the language has q
rich vocabulary. He has the great task
before him of writing a grammar upon
bases which do not exist at all in our
language. For instance. in English there
are but two numbers. In the mutt. OF
Esquimau, as in the Hebrew, there are
three numbers, singular, dual. and plu-
raj. In the conjugation of the verb there
are also radical differences, and in ar
had been necessary for Father Barnunl
to create new forms and schemes which
are not to be found in the English para
digms.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Good progress is being made towards
the opening of the Thomaston public
library. The trustees of the library
have quite respectable number OF
volumes to commence on, some 310i
books having been received from the
Ladies' library and several volumes
from the Belfast library and other
parties. About 300 new books will be
added soon. The rooms are well
adapted to this purpose, library being
about 35 feet by 80 feet each, of good
height and well-lighted. They will be
heated by hot water and lighted by
electricity, thus being fully up-to-date.
Four cases designed to hold about 5000
volumes are in fhe east room The