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CLIPPINGS. State School for the Blind Valuable Geographical Comparisons. 1. California is the second largest state. 2.

Nebraska is more than twice the This Page of The Star Is Devoted to the Interests of the Institution for the Blind, at Eleventh and State Streets, Kansas City, Kansas. Willitt Rankin JEWELERS and OPTICIANS Watch, Clock and Jewerly Repairing a Specialty. LATHE, KANSAS. size of Indiana. 3.

Texas is four times as large as the New England states. 4. North and South Dakota are larger than England, Scotland, and Ireland together. 5. Kentucky and Portugal are about the same size.

6. California is nearly five times as ill lal large as Ireland. The school year commences the second Wednesday In September. All letters to the pupils should be addressed In care of the school In sending express, postoftlce money order, be sure and send to Kansas City. Kansas, and not to Kansas City.

Missouri. The school Is non-sectarian. Its pupils are required, however. t(. attend all services held in chapel.

All children residing in Kansas, whose sight Is so defective as not to be able to be educated In the public schools, with sound mind, good health and good moral characters, are entitled to admission. Applicants under nine or over twenty-one years of age are not admitted. Tuition, board and washing are furnished by the state. Clothing, traveling and incidental expenses must be furnished by parents or friends. When parents are unable to supply pupils with ticket, clothing, the county from which they come must furnish the same.

Persons bringing pupils to the school or visiting them or teachers or employees cannot bo accommodated with board and lodging during their stay In the city. The visiting of pupils on Sunday will not be permitted. It Is positively required that all pupils shall be taken from school at the close of the school term.no pupils being kept at the school during the annual vacation. The use of tobacco and Intoxicants Is strictly forbidden, and the violation of this rule Is deemed sufficient cause for suspension or expulsion. Parents are requested to assist in breaking up this habit.

People desiring the admission of a pupil shall fill out the required form of application and forward the sameio the Superintendent of the school, acknowledging the same before a person having authority to administer an oath; the applicant must in no case be sent until the application shall have been received find favorably responded to by the Superintendent. 7. If all the people of Canada and the United States were placed in Texas, the number of people to the sqaure mile would be fewer than at present in China. Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of any invention will promptly receive our opinion free concerning the patentability of same.

How to Obtain a Patent" sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents taken out through us receive special nolice, without charge, in The Patent Record, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, VICTOR J.

EVANS CO. (Patent Attorneys,) Evans Building, WASHINGTON. D. C- 8. Colorado is as large as New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to gether.

9. It would take ten states as large as Massachusetts to make a state as large as Kansas. PERSONALS. 10. There are twenty-seven states Theboard held its regular meeting and territories each larger than New for acceptable Ideas.

State If patented. THE PATENT RECORD, York. here on Thursday. 11. Massachusetts is smaller than suipuSfpriSHr the Patent record Flora Gray has been on tne sick list per annum, samples iree.

either JNew Hampshire or Vermont. for the past week. 12. Minnesota is twice the size of May Waddell, fifth gnide pupil, Ohio. came in on Thursday night.

kKM 50 YEARS' VV EXPERIENCE 13. The three states bordering on ur. ivicivee paid tne institution a the Pacific are larger than thirteen professional visit on Thursday. bordering on the Atlantic. i ymm SCHOOL NOTES.

At the weekly teachers' meetings a change has been made and Shakespeare's comedy. "As You Like It," will be studied. Christian Endeavor meeting was led Sunday evening by Winnie Mc-Clure. The meetings this year have been very pleasant as. well as beneficial, and we trust the interest will continue to increase.

Rev. Fox, pastor of the Congregational church, gave us a splendid talk Sunday afternoon, on "True Manhood." Each one, who followed Rev. Fox for the twenty minutes he spoke, felt his need of improving present opportunities. Prof. Rohrer and his class are becoming quite interested in the study Mae Blaine, former pupil, visited 14.

Montana is thirty times as large friends at the Institution Saturday. as Connecticut. 15. Iowa is five times as large as Mr. Mapes, head carpenter of the Trade Marks Designs State Hospital atusawatomie, visited ueigium, ana iour times as large as I Copyrights Ac.

the Institution on Tuesday of this Den mark, week. 16. Maryland and Switzerland are about the same size. Mr TVrto So tiHi-w xjr ixr rn 17. Texas is as large as France, Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Inrention is probably patentable.

Communlca tlons strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents lent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn Co. receive tpeeial notice, without charge, in the Scientific American.

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The Kansas University Bible chair, Miss Ada '00, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Institution. Miss Co.36,Brodw-- New York II under the direction of the Christian woman's board of missions of the Branch Office. 625 St Washington. I). C.

Christian church, will open the work of its second year October 1 under the mmediate direction of Professor Wal of "The Prince of India." The seventh and eighth grades are listening to the reading of "Ivanhoe by Scott." Following the reading of "Alfred the Great," which gave us so many of the Anglo-Saxton characteristics, and with class recitations in early English literature, we hope to know much of the early English people. The fifth and sixth grades are reading "Alice of Old Vincennes," by Maurice BOYS! GTRES! lace C. Payne, A. B. Yalellni versity.

The Bible chair had no organic affiliation with the university. It, however, stands vitally related to the best educational advantage of the institution and to the deepest in Rose has spent a year in Indiana visiting friends and is now with her parents in Armourdale. Elizabeth Johns, of Emporia reentered school this week. Elizabeth has been at home since last December. Milus Corlew has left school and is working in Kansas City, Mo.

A. O. Wilson, of Battle Creek, graduate of the Nebraska Blind School and present editor of the Christian Record, visited the school Friday. Mr. Wilson is working for the advancement of manual training for the blind.

terests of the student body. All work Thompson. The good man will not commit sin, even though he feels sure that he will offered is optional and is to be taken at hours arranged so as not to conflict with regular University work. The courses offered the first quarter are in not be seen by man or God. He will not sin though assured of divine pardon or that he may escape the evil con the Acts and Epistles, Prophecy and Miss Sheets, '84, of Silverdale, the Prophets of the Old Testament, Parables of Jesus, Growth of the New spent two days visiting classes of the school.

Miss Sheets has spent some Any boy or girl who will secure for us Ten Subscriptions for The Kansas City Weekly Journal at the rate of 25 "cents each, making a total of $2 .50, and send the money to us with a List of the Names, will be sent postage prepaid, a Beautiful Watch Called the Eclipse Send money by P. O. order or draft and mail all to The Weekly Journal, Kansas City, Mo. Boys and girls, here is your chance! HHgTSend for samples to be used in canvassing. time in the Blind School of Texas since completing the course here and is very much interested in the work.

She is now in Kansas City, where she hopes to obtain employment. Frank Bartel, eighth grade pupil Testament Canon, and Studies in the Life of Christ. To those who desire, courses are offered in the Hebrew language. Mrs. W.

C. Payne offers -a special course of in missions. The Bible chair had a large number of students last year and the prospect is bright for the work during the present year. sequences of his act. He simply does right for its own not because he may forgiven.

It is his nature to avoid the evil and shun the bad. For him to labor for a prize in doing good, is like saying to theear, ear, hear, and I will hang a brillant jewel in love or heart, beat and I will cover you with a beautiful and costly breastplate. The upright man practises good naturally. His works are the spontaneous acts of a pure heart which needs no reward. He is like, the venerable apple tree that bears its last year, has opened a broom shop at his home, Hillsboro, and re ports that he is finding ready sale for his brooms.

Frank did excellent work while a pupil here, and while we are sorry to lose him from school, we are glad to hear of his success. Subscribe for The Star. asks crop of fruit year after year and for nothing in return..