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Show Kdncailooai Extravagance. New York, 26. The board of education is out with a call for ?o,55S,-: 200 (?) lor pnbiic school purposes next year, with an accompanying warning that tue sum total in the j year succeeding will be a round mil-1 lion. Tax payers would not complain , of these heavy estimates if they had: some a-eurance that the money was economically applied. At present there is a widespread conviction, and we believe well founded, that half a million at least could be saved if the great army of 3.000 teachers (not a few whom are sid to owetneir places to political lavori'.m) were judiciously judici-ously rediiCF-i. |