Show BRAZILIAN SCHOOLS alie to by alio of alio school system h very meager but ii improving tharo anro two thousand public schools in the empire for a population of people aisil alio llio stalo capo dun daliy for public instruction A bill for compulsory education has been into parliament at nearly every session by alio government luring alio last fow years but has not yet bacomo n law h a taste and inclination for education tho upper cli asca but nothing is over ilono for tho slaves in this respect beyond alio little attention they receive freiti tho tharo ilac several institutions for higher education several schools of medicine of law civil engineering and mining A normal school for tho education of teacher a conservatory 0 music a school of alno for tho blind arid another for tho deaf and several reformatory schools fand also an imperial industrial school founded by dom padro upon tho plan of tho cr institute of now york iho suggestion for it being derived from lua visit to that place while in the united state there tilso A bureau of colonization anil in the department of and as an inducement to settlor government offers them free subsistence and shelter at the boardinghouse boarding house in rio do janeiro during the timo that it is necessary for them to wait tho settler Is also given frao transportation with his baggage from rio to any part of tho country and can purchase land on credit tho first payment to bo mado at tho end of tho second year and four payments during the succeeding four years with a discount of twenty per cent for cash A donation of necessary implements and Is given by the agricultural department for the firt teason tea son and an allowance of twenty five canta a day for each adult and ten cents for cadi child luring tho first six montha after settlement until tho land they occupy can be mado to produce tho cost of the land is now eight to sixteen dollars au acre there aru now twelve colonies under tho caro of the department of agriculture comprising a population of sixty two thousand pomplo mostly german tho of immigrants arriving in the country amount to from forty to fifty thousand is slowly in creasing oar |