Show FT 71 I REPORT ON EDUCATION lion ilon john commissioner lioner of education at washington has our thanks for a copy of his official report for 1880 just issued from the government printing ar office we believe this thia ia is tho the hea volume yet published of this useful and instructive series it opens with a ver very Y extensive and interesting te report by tho the commissioner himself hiu in which on pages page oro are treated all tho the live issues of education from kindergarten schools up ull to the highest colleges and other seats of learning it embraces the results of a mature judgment and a painstaking experience extended over long years and wide fields of cloo cloeo observation and no teacher should bs be ns as it will deepen ills his respect fur for and widen liis lis comprehension of the various duties responsibilities and possibilities of his vocation this synopsis of tho the educational theory and mid practice of the day is followed by abstracts of the official reports of the school off omeera leers of states territories and cities with additional information from various sources pages a veritable compendium corn in ni of though well digested and carefully diagrammed information in this summary utah territory occupies a creditable place considering the difficulties of her development about COO pages Z are devoted to an appendix of statistical tables relating latin to education in tho the united states a bewildering array of figures which to tho iho knowing eye tell many a tale for fruitful contemplation thus we are pained to seo see that utah is reported as paying her te teachers an average monthly mont lily sala salary ry of only 22 which we liopo hope will appear much larger in the next report in connection with the bound volume we received an abstract of the report printed on two heavy and large adapted for framin framing and hanging hangin kg in in file I he teachers tea cherB room for convenient and speedy reference to the main mints points JOSEPH sprightly 41 and generally well informed new york correspondent for several leading journals of the country in a letter to the chicago news has tho the blues he ile thinks that F olger will be tile nest next governor of new york ho he ways tho the necessities of tho caso will force a coin oom pact between athur I Folge rJay gould and john kelly strong team I should decide but then this team is BO so lica heavily vily handicapped with administration coercion nomination forgery monopoly despotism and arid political treachery that they will have a hard bard and heavy pull while whilo the tile democrats cr ts can run tho the race with light hearts and fleet feet THE N Y herald is lighted from top to bottom and its bottom is three stories underground under ground by edi ed i son sons electric light the difre difference rence between the new style of illumination and the previous lighting ofgus of gas in temperature as delfas walf as light is said to bo be marvelous marv clous and enjoyable and the t great marble building shines like I polished at a distance all the leading pre pres s establishments in tho the metropolis have either anticipated or arc are following the example of the hudson THE N Y san has fins declared 70 per cen cent t dividend eo so aarfor this year and it has five months of its fiscal year to run yet A k leading stock hol holder derin in the concern so ably conducted by mr dana says they e expect to divide per cent this tills year |