The Country School Champion from New Albany, Kansas • 1

Cbe Coiitrtry wool Champion. Volume 3. Number 10. New Albany, Kansas, June, 1900. There are 67 institutes in session in Kansas this month, the greatest number yet held in June.

John Clark Ridpath, who is so ill in New York that the doctors hold out no hope of his recovery, is sixty years old. He began his career as an author with the publication in 1874 of his American History of -the United States, and is best known for his History of the World and his Life and Work of of Garfield. The State Superintendent's report will show that there has been an in-. crease in the rate of pay received by school teachers in the past year, but the average could still be pushed sev eral notches more and then not be out of proportion to the value of services rendered. Topeka Capital The June institutes will close the 29th of the month; the teachers' examinations will be held Monday and Tuesday July 2 and 3.

Ex-State Superintendent William Stryker is conducting the Wabaunsee County Normal this month at Eskridge The Normal choral class give an entertainment at the Hudson opera house, Fredonia, Thursday evening, During the last fiscal year it cost the people of Kansas $462,840 to maintain the unfortunates in the eight state charitable institutions. This is 32.2 cents per capita. It also cost the people of the state $345,131 to care for the paupers in the various poor-houses and for outside rerief. This is 24.2 per capita. The total per capita for caring for all classes of poor by the people aggregates 56.6 cents.

How the Earth Grows. earth is growing heavier at the average rate of 500 tons a year. The meteors, or shooting stars, in passing through the earth's atmosphere, are burned up and fall to the earth's surface, occassionally in a heavy mass, but most usually in small meteoric dust. Professor Nordtnskjold from his June 28. The proceeds resulting from same, will go to the institute fund.

Ex-County Superintendent Brun-didge has returned to this county and will have charge of the Congregation-alist church at Altoona. Mr. Brundidge was the first to publish an educational paper in Wilson county. It was called the Wilson County Tecchr, and published one year, we think, at Fredonia. Ormsby M.

Frazier, a Montgomery county teacher of ten years' experience, died Monday, June 20 at his home at Independence. He was thirty-three years of age. A FREE PATTERN (her own selection) to every subscriber. Beautiful ool-ored lithographed plates and illustrations. Original, latest, artistic, exquisite and strictly up-to-date designs.

great experience, estimated that, from the cause named, 500 tons fall uniformly and steadily over the whole globe in each year, and the observations of Russian scientists yield a similar result. These meteoric streams, says another astronomer, are really small planetary bodies, revolving around the sun in fixed orbits by the force of gravity. The earth revolves on its axis at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, and speeds through space in its orbit around the sun at the rate of 1,000 miles every minute, and in August and November plunges in the very opposite President Swennson, of Bethany College, Lindsborg, has been elected president of a theological seminary, at Rock Island, Illinois. ESGftlES Dressmaking economies, fancy work, household hints, short stories, current topics, etc. Subscribe to-day.

Only 50c. yearly. Lady agents wanted. Send for terms. The present faculty of the State agricultural college, were re-employed at a recent meeting of the board of regents, with the exception of Miss Mary Winston, who resigned, and Miss Se-crest, whose place will be filled next year by Miss Ora Yenawine, of Manhattan.

The professors of mathematics and physics have not yet been employed, the appointment being left in the hands of a committee. direction. The rapidity with whish they enter our atmosphere and the friction thus generated are so numerous that they are set fire to, th3 smaller ones being consumed and falling in dust, while the larger ones occasionly reach the earth in the shape of meteoric stone or iron. For ladles, misses, girls and littls children. That certain stylish chic effect not attained by the use of any other patterns Have no equal for style and perfect fit.

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