Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — Those Curious Japan [ARTICLE]

Those Curious Japan

A letter from General Grant, Japan, August 7, to Admiral Ammen, says: I do not feel half so anxious to get home as I did eighteen months ago. There is no country which I have visited, this side of Europe, except Japan, where I would care to stay longer than* to see the points of greatest interest Japan is a most interesting country and the people are quite as much so The changes that have taken place her are more like a dream than a reality They have a public school system ex tending over the entire empire, and as fording facilities for a common schoo education to every child, male and fe male. They have military and nava academies which compare well with ours in the course taught, discipline and attainments of the students. They have colleges at several places in ths empire, on the same basis of instruction as our best institutions. They have schools of science which I do not believe carr be surpassed in any country. Already a neat majority of their professors, even those engaged in teaching European languages, are natives, most of them educated in the very institutions wheretheyare now teaching. Wells County* is to have a new 0,000 jail.