Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-14

The salaries of the public school teachers
In New York state, exclusive of teachers in
colleges, high schools, academies private
schools, night, technical and mission schools,
amount to $l6000,O00
Burris A. jenkins a professor in Butler
college, indianapolis, has been chosen as
the first president of the University of In
dlanapolis, which has been constituted by a
union of Butler college, the Medical College
OF Indiana the Indiana Law school and the
Indiana Dental college.
1t is announced at Cornell that Charles J.
Bullock, who has been an instructor in
political economy here since 1895 and who
is also the author of Bullock's Introduce
tion to the Study of Political Economy" has
been appointed to the professorship of the
same subject at Williams college He Will
take his ndw place at the beginning of the
next college year.
The chair of ancient history, which is to
be founded in the University of Edinburgh
through the generosity of the late Sir Will
liam Fraser, the distinguished archaeologist
VIII place the university in a unique posi-
tion among British universities, inasmuch
as it, will be able to boast now of havini4
-FOUR chairs of history, the other three being
those of constitutional history, church his
tory and modern history
The Atlanta Constitution says that Rev.
sam Small. the evangelist, who is chap
lain of regiment of engineers, has been put
in general charge of public instruction Of
Santa Clara province. He will be RESPONSE
Bile for the direction OF the reorganization
of the entire public school system of this
province, which has a population of 300 900
people and is one Of the richest provinces
on the island of Cuba. How Sam" will
astonish them when he gets agoing!
The New York City school budget for 1899
is to include $4OS3 900 for additional schools
and school sites in New York county,
S2,S73OOO for additional schools and school
nj
sites and buildings in Queens county and
$3.50, 900 for schools and school sites in Rich
mond Seven of the eleven items of addi-
tional expense in Queens county are in Long
Island City and the additions in New York
county are intended to provide, it is said,
| for $4,000 additional pupils.
Fraulein Elsa Neumann was promoted
to her degree OF doctor of philosophy in
Berlin university the other day the first
woman to be SO honored. She obtained it in
the studies of chemistry and mathematics
which she had pursued at Gottingen and fin
| ished in Berlin. The hall where he cere
tnony took place was crowded to suifOCation
| and the young woman received great ap-
| plause from the general public and the stu
dents present. Fraulein Neumann FDpeared
| in black and read her thesis and was ex-
tremey pale, though she became flushed as
| the frendliness of her reception became evi.
dent.
| Seeking some answer to the question
| 'Wlefe Is the cOlleSe-Gnade man = ii. IL
Kraft superintendent of schools in Sioua
| City, la, has found, by investigation
through correspondents, that in fifteer
| towns in the state of Iowa 80 per cent o
the ministers were college bred So per cen
OF the teachers, 6S per cent of the lawyers
| so per cent of the doctors. 40 per cent o
the bankers. 80 per cent of the editors anC
&c per cent of the merchants and manufac
| turers. All of the cases recorded were o
men successful in their calling. In all, Ou
of 533 such men the percentage of college
| bred men was 80.
Among the recent purchases by the Cor
nell university library is the last book writ
| ten to prove the medieval theory OF fla
| earth. II was written by a Spanish bishol
in l496, four years after Columbus voyage
and twenty-five years only before Vase
Ia Cana reached India via the Cape o
Good Hope. 1t is one Of the first books Il
mention America, but rdicules the idea tina
the discoveries of Columbus can have an,
bearings on the shape of the earth, saying
that his voyage was quite similar in kin'
TO those sent out by Romans and Phoeni
clans. The worthy bishop urges that III
twelve apostles were sent to all nations o
the earth, but they did not go TO the antip
odes therefore 1t is as clear as light tina
| there are no antipodes.