| Show wl territorial TEXT BOOKS I 11 t today to day the school superintendents of the tile various counties of utah territory met in the council house salt lake city in the capacity of a convention to determine on the 11 text books to be ile used in the public schools of the territory for the ensuing I I five years as provided by the school law there is no doubt that a change to the better could be made in ill borne some of the books in the I hands of the tile pupils pupil sf I of our common i tf schools thus an improvement on tho the readers and might bo be as possible as it is desirable nevertheless there is the question of expense which amounts to thousands of dollars annuala annually y and forms a heavy and often embarrassing item in a numerous household it beems to us therefore the most ad rd aa 71 41 I T I na viable mcburse course tomako to make what changes are r agreed g upon as gradual as possible il allowing lowing the bouks books in use to bo be utilized as far ag as it c can an be done without conflicting with those about to be introduced progress irm and improvement arc are commendable at tit all times but economy should always restrain to a a moderate gait the impetuosity of innovations with the constant advance of methods and scientific systems it is impossible tc to introduce many test text books which will answer to the for any protracted period but still the changes ought to t be made in a conservative spirit russus population increases acs moro more rapidly than that of any other european state except holland and denmark it doubles itself in fifty fiat y eight years the peri odin oth othes Cs countries is as is follows denmark 56 holland 57 I germany 68 austria 95 switzerland 99 italy france the births per 1000 inhabitants are in ill russia 49 40 in germany 43 in france F rance 26 the death rate is I s higher in russia russ sia 37 per 1000 than any european country excepting hungary the mortality is among b children thede the death ath ra rate to of infants one year old in russia is in in france I in in in prussia in ill and in england I in tho the most remarkable contrast between russia and the rest of E europe u is the comparative absence of illegitimacy a the rate per 1000 illegitimate births which in ii england is 61 in italy 66 in france 73 in germany 88 in sweden 96 in denmark and in austria is in russia only 30 thus the empire of odthe the autocrat to enjoy if not as much freedom as other countries more morality ES of longfellow are being written and at least two will be put forward as authorized thor ired zed prof george washington greene of providence says of his work isi six years ago mr longfellow f I low and I agreed to be each eacle others biographers and from that time to this have kept this intention in view the materials are abundant the family letters all of which have been put at tit my disposal REV jos COOK that unsavory polysyllabic p oly syllabic humbug has been making a tour on india and an ass us of himself going about lecturing to people his mental and moral superiors it is interesting to note that since his departure from calcutta a new now journal called the christian has been started in that cit city y mr cook with his meaningless di discourses scour acs is an antidote for any three foreign inis mission sion ary societies |
