Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — The Number of Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

The Number of Public Schools.

According to the last report of the United States Commissioner of Education, General Eaton, Pennsylvania him the greatest number of public schools of any State in the Union. The following { table is of interest. The reader’s attention is invited to the letters opposite the names of States; “a,” where the nnm- I ber of schools is indicated ; “ b,” nnm- ' ber of school-houses: (jj Alabama ~, 4.071 (a) Mississippi ,83 ! (*>) Arkansas'... ‘ ... 70s 'fa) Missouri 8,09 S i (a) CalUuruia. 2,743 (a) Nebraska.... 2,776 , (*>} Od<‘i-mlo , ... 2»y ;a) Nevada. 173'' <a) Cbrrmtftictit ... I,$L (a) N. Hampshire.. 2,3.35 ; <») He la ware......... u,., | ,b> New Jeraov. ... 1,558 j (a) Florida.— ! ;i>) New York.., 11,862 I (a) Georgia 5,73.. j fa) X. Carolina 5,503 (a) Illinois...; 12.324 (b) 0hi0..... 12,14:1 | (b) Indiana 0,345 (a) Oregon 865 ; ■(b) Ijv/a 10, 75 U (a) Pennsylvania... 18,386 ' lb) Kansas 4,032 (a) Rhode Island... . 81!) 1 (a) Kentucky 6,450 (a) S. Carolina 2,901 (a) Louisiana........ 1.494 (a) Tennessee 3,612 ! (b) Maine. 4 263 (a) Texas;.... 5,804 (a) Maryland 2,:): :> (ai Vermont ... 2,573 (a) Massachusetts.. 0:5 .i a j Virginia .... 2,491 (b) Michigan .... ... 6:3:7 , a ) \V<- ( YVginia... 3,727 (a) Minnesota 3,9.7 ,b) Wi.v:njj.,in, 5,626 Massachusetts Las 8$ evening jici.ooht and „Rhode Island 33, r. .liuh' are .not . | counted in the*above env mei atioq. Jiy ' rssissippi, it is e-rv'h, (' ■ o*;hobl district.* hi-e tn- •?»..' ■. f. sUeh cities of 1,100 wno. i:.-, v. kh U as may choose to organize separate dis 1 tricts. The figures given for Virginia | count each grade of one teacher in the ! graded schools as one school. Two lambs recently presented them- : flelvea at the door of a fancy hall, and 1 being asked by the usher, what 1 characters they personated, they re- ! P ll( ? d that the 7 were without any special costume, whereupon the stupid fello w i bawled out, “ Two ladies without any ' character I” J *■ ■ - h ■ . !