PROFESSOR and Mrs. Lemmon, the well-known botanists, are preparing for publication a book on the cone-bearers of the Pacific Coast. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE of the 199 teachers employed in the public schools of Santa Clara county are graduates of the State Normal School. FRESNO has an enrollment of 1,257 pupils in the public schools. A fine new microscope has been added to the apparatus for the use of the High School. THE Trinity County Board of Education has passed a resolution that in future no teachers' certificates will be granted upon certificates from other counties. THE Sacramento City Board of Education contemplates the introduction of the Swedish system of physical culture in the public schools of the capital city. Ar a meeting of the Paso Robles people it was unanimously agreed to call an election for the purpose of voting $25,000 bonds for a new High school building. THE Throop University at Pasadena was formally opened during November. This institution was founded recently by Hon. A. G. Throop, a philanthropic citizen of Pasadena. E. C. GARDNER, of the firm of Gardner & Meeker, publishers of "California Teachers' Examination Questions," has had charge of the Suisun School since Professor Metzler's resignation. THE Kern County Teachers' Institute will be in session January 4, 5 and 6, 1892. State Superintendent Anderson will be present one day, and John P. Irish will deliver two evening lectures. DR. J. H. HOOSE, for more than twenty years the Principal of the New York State Normal School at Cortland, has purchased an orange grove at Pasadena and taken up his residence there. OLIVER WEBB has charge of Manual Training in the grammar schools of San Diego. The three upper grades have done bench work similar to that done in the Coggswell School of San Francisco. THE Trustees of the Pacific Theological Seminary, of Oakland, have received a gift of $50,000 from Edward Coleman, of Grass Valley. The money was given to enable them to endow a chair in the Seminary. THE granite and concrete steps and landing to the second story of the Chico State Normal School building is nearly completed. New cases have been put in the museum for the display of the specimens and exhibits. MRS. C. M. OSTROM, teaching at Lake City, Modoc county, writing December 10th, says: "We have been skating to-day on Upper Lake. I skated three miles. I wish you conld drive through Cedar Pass now; it is beautiful; good road, but enough snow to change the landscape." ALEXANDER CRAW, entomologist of the State Board of Horticulture, has prepared a valuable pamphlet concerning "Destructive Insects, Their Natural Enemies, Remedies, and Recommendations." Copies can be obtained by addressing B. M. Lelong, Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, 220 Sutter street, San Francisco. SAN DIEGO COUNTY now has one hundred and thirty-four districts outside the City of San Diego, aud the increase in population in undeveloped portions of the county will necessitate the organization of at least fifteen more. County Superintendent Wagner has organized Local Institutes, and ten have been successfully held, the teachers showing great interest in them. AT the Eighth Annual Commencement exercises of the Hahnemann Hospital College, San Francisco, diplomas were delivered to the following graduates: Harvey Saburo Hayashi, Huldah Spencer, Jane Mason Bowen, Herbert Nevins, Ella Gertrude Pease, Mary Hathe Telson, Milton Harris Atkins, Clara Hill Case, Rachel Alice Jaffa, Alice Bush and George W. Pleasants. FROM the report of Principal G. W. Warren we glean the following information regarding the public school of Eureka: One thousand, two hundred aud sixty pupils were enrolled, 617 boys and 643 girls. The average daily attendance was 1090.84, fifty-one higher than the average for the previous school year. Twenty-six teachers besides Principal Warren are employed, and their aggregate monthly salary is $1,945. THE Teacher's Institute in session December 31st, at Eugene, Or., thus summarizes the objects of these annual gatherings of the teaching profession: "To acquaint teachers with the best and latest methods of instruction; to secure a uniformity of work in methods of organization in school records, in school government, in school recita tions; to gain inspiration in teaching; to gain professional information; to learn to avoid 'ruts,' and to correct prevailing faults." AN insect new to science has been lately discovered by Edward Hyatt, Principal of the public schools in San Jacinto, San Diego county. The insect in question is an ant, of shiny, jet-black color, and peculiar, flattened form. It has made a trip to Europe and back, and has been decided by both European and American entomologists to be a new species; its name is Camponotus Hyatti. Its formiciary was found in the hollow stalk of a yucca, in a deep cañon near the Laguna de San Jacinto. MRS. MARY W. KINCAID, Principal of the Girls' High School and of the Normal class of San Francisco, has resigned her position, after an honorable service of twenty-five years. For fourteen years she instructed the pupils in the Normal class. During the summer of 1889, while she was away in Europe, she was elected Principal of the Girls' High School, as successor to John Swett. Under her instruction more attention has been paid to the proper development of the mind and the formation of character in the scholar than to the acquirement of Heald's Business College 24 Post Street, San Francisco. The Model School of the Pacific. EDUCATES PRACTICALLY FOR BUSINESS. 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ABOUT thirty-five years ago a school Principal in Elbing, Prussia, was pensioned with one-third of his salary, and he still draws that pension. His successor retired on the 1st of October, 1891, also, but according to the present pension law, with three-fourths of his salary. Hence the position costs the Government not only the salary of the present incumbent but also thirteen-twelfths of the salary in form of pensions. In other words, one-twelfth more is paid for pensions than for salary. PROFESSOR-Remember that eight-tenths of the blood is water, and seven-tenths of the whole body is water; so you can see how necessary liquid is to the body. De Booze-Is that the reason a fellow feels so "all gone" when he is awful dry and can't get a drink? AMONG the passengers on a train to Fitchburg was an old lady and her handsome niece, also a young man. The train had passed through three tunnels, when the auntie said: "My, dear, we are coming to a long tunnel; you had better sit on the inside of the seat.” Handsome niece --No, auntie; just let me stay where I am. more tunnel and I am engaged." One Stanford University. FRED M. FLING, PROF. OF HISTORY, NEBRASKA STATE UNIVERSITY: "History is something to be studied, and in the construction of this book the authors have never lost sight of this fact. May the book meet with the success it deserves." J. B. MCCHESNEY, PRIN. HIGH SCHOOL, OAKLAND, CAL.: "I am pleased with the book. The plan is novel and I think will be found satisfactory." MARY A. EDWARDS, COLLEGE FOR TRAINING OF TEACHERS, NEW YORK: "Accurate in statement, spicy in narrative, attractive in presentation. The pupil who gains his knowledge of American History from this book will feel that he has actually lived in the times he is studying and the lasting impressions which came from experience rather than from reading will be his." Introduction price, $1.12. Send for sample copy and full circulars. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, and Chicago. The Bancroft Co., San Francisco, carry our books in stock. GENERAL EDUCATIONAL NOTES. MILWAUKEE maintains, as a part of its public school system, a cooking school at an expense of $1,400 a year. Miss., Torrey is at its head. THERE are 12,728,417 pupils enrolled in the public schools of our country, and about 1,500,000 in the private schools and parochial institutions. DR. SEAVER, the physician and the professor of athletics of Yale college, says that tobacco-using students are inferior to the others in physical ability and mental vigor. WHEREVER the Germans set foot in Africa they establish schools. In Cameroonland three teachers from Würtemberg; in Zanzibar, two from the Prussian Province Silesia, are teaching the natives. All these schools are public, not mission schools. MR. GRASBY, an English educator, writing of the schools of this country, says: "I came to the conclusion that there is more system and less education in New York than in any other city in the Union I had visited." Are not the two things often found in this relation? The census shows the number of persons of school age in Oklahoma territory to be 17,933. The Federal appropriation for school purposes is $50,000. The scale of wages is based on a term of three and a half months' school, and on the grade of the certificate held by the teacher. 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