-Mr. RICHARDS, author of the Compulsory Education Act, has intro duced into the General Assembly a permissive bill allowing Boards of Education, in cities of the first and second classes, to establish kindergarten schools for children between four and six years of age. No additional school levy is allowed by the bill for their support. The schools are to be kept in session only three hours a day, and the statistics of these schools must be reported to the State School Commissioner. We hope and expect that this bill will be passed.

-Ir would be well for every member of the Ohio General Assembly to study the Constitution, and thus be saved the disgrace of presenting and having printed bills that are in direct conflict with the organic law of the State. Mr. Money has presented House Bill No. 624, allowing ladies to be appointed as school examiners. No person by the Constitution can be appointed school examiner who is not an elector. It is true, however, that an excellent lady has been serving in Lucas County contrary to law. Whether she is still serving we do not know.

-WE call especial attention to Prof. Ridge's card in this number. Prof. Ridge has made the elementary sounds of the English language a particular subject of study. Such a study of English ought to be made by every teacher whether he shall teach by precept or example.

-THE College at Marietta, Ohio, has always ranked among the best Ohio Colleges. The President, Dr. I. W. Andrews, author of the Manual of the Constitution, is widely known to the educational men of Ohio from his active participation in the promotion of public education. We visited this college several years ago and know that it is well supplied with the material appliances of education, as well as with an able corps of professors. If we had a son to send to college we should have no hesitation in sending him to such a college as Marietta. The two colleges advertised in this issue of the Monthly, Marietta and Western-Reserve, deservedly rank among the best colleges in the United States. They have not assumed the name of universities, although they are very far superior to scores of institutions that are so called.

EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

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-THE use of the metric system will be compulsory in Sweden after

-A GOVERNMENT School of Navigation was opened February 1, in Quebec.

-A NEW school building is to be erected at Findlay, Ohio, next

summer.

-Or the 4,888 books published in England in 1876, 470 are classed as educational.

-THE Eastern Question is discussed by A. H. Guernsey, in the March Galaxy.

-THE attendance now at Antioch College is larger than it has been for several years.

-THE sixth article in the March Scribner is an illustrated one on Princeton College.

-THERE are now in Michigan University Teachers' Classes in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics.

-THERE is now a Signal-Service Station at Earlham College (Friends') west of Richmond, Indiana.

-PUPILS are now admitted by examination in both June and December to the Chicago High School.

-J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. have now become publishers of Worcester's series of dictionaries, seven in all.

-BOARD in the Club of Wm. Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., is $1.18 a week. What do the students eat?

-MECHANICAL drawing and projections are now taught in the evening drawing school of Cleveland, Ohio.

-THE Toledo Blade is a first-class family newspaper, and has a wide circulation throughout the United States.

-THE Chronicle of Ann Arbor discusses the lack of sociability between professors and students in colleges.

"THE Mathematician' is the title of a new periodical published in Washington, and edited by Royal Cooper.

-THE next meeting of the American Institute of Instruction will be held in Mentpelier, Vt., July 10th, 11th, and 12th.

-IT is said that 60 of the 65 students attending the University of South Carolina College at Columbia, are negroes.

-THE calling of a convention of local school directors has been suggested by a local director in Summit County, Ohio.

-WE expect to publish in our April number a short educational historical paper by Dr. I. W. Andrews, of Marietta.

-THE next meeting of the Nebraska State Teachers' Association will be held at Fremont the 27th, 28th, and 29th of March.

-THE editors of the Indiana School Journal and the New-England Journal of Education oppose the pensioning of teachers.

-THE National Repository for March contains four articles selected from British periodicals. The editorial miscellany is varied.

-THE Library of Congress now contains 311,097 bound volumes besides nearly 100,000 pamphlets. It contains 37,727 works on jurisprudence.

-THERE are four Creek Indians from Indian Territory attending Wooster University. The new telescope from York, England, has been received.

-IN the St. Nicholas for March J. T. Trowbridge gives chapters XII. to XV. of "His Own Master," and Richard A. Proctor has an article on the "Stars in March."

-HAVERFORD College (Friends'), Pa., has received a bequest of $10,000, the income of which is to support free scholarships. The new College Hall cost $80,000.

"SCHOOL and Home" is a 3-columned uncovered periodical published at 132 Nassau Street, New York, every other Saturday, by Lawrence G. Goulding, at $2 a year.

-IN the Spring term of the Normal Department at Antioch College, the work will be arranged especially for those students who have been teaching during the fall and winter.

A HUNDRED dollars were appropriated January 22, by the Cleveland Board of Education for an articulated skeleton and a complete set of physiological charts to be used in the Central High School.

-THE Public Schools of Hillsboro, Ohio, have always been noted for their thoroughness. The labors of such men as Isaac Sams, H. S. Doggett, and Ed. G. Smith, sufficiently account for their good reputation.

-HARPER'S Magazine for March contains two entertaining articles entitled "A Summer Cruise among the Atlantic Islands" and "Popular Exposition of some Scientific Experiments," both illustrated.

-THE paper read December 29, 1876, before the Illinois Teachers' Association by S. H. White, on the Centennial Exhibit of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, has been published in pamphlet form.

-AT the Convention of School Superintendents held in Madison, Wisconsin, December 27, only four city superintendents were reported as present. There were, however, twenty-one county superintendents present.

-THE Missouri Intercollegiate Contest took place at Liberty, Mo., December 23, 1876. The prize oration was that of W. D. Christian, of Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. The next contest is to take place at Fulton, December 20, 1877.

-THE Wayne-County Democrat of January 24, speaks in strong terms of the Public Schools of Wooster, Ohio, under the Superintendency of W. S. Eversole. The High School had reached an attendance of 129, the Grammar Schools, of 340, and the lower grades, 600.

"THE New Education" is the title of a monthly tract for parents and teachers, edited by W. H. Hailman, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is devoted to kindergarten culture and educational hygiene in home and school. No. 1 of the first series was issued in January.

-THE Freedman's Monitor formerly published by Yardley Warner, in Philadelphia, is now published in Penybont, Wales, by the same person.

-JUDGING from the accounts of the meetings of township Associations which we see in our exchanges we feel warranted in saying that the great educational activity which was exhibited last year in Ohio has received an additional impetus.

--THE Contributors to the March Atlantic are Constance Fenimore Woolson, H. H., J. H. A. Bone, H. B. K., Longfellow, Henry James, Jr., Chas. H. Noyes, E. S. Nadal, Howells, A. R. Grote, S. G. W. Benjamin, Frances Anne Kemble, and Whipple.

-IN the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College tuition is free to 132 state students, and is $40 a year to other students. There are now in attendance 255 students. Boarding is only $6.50 a month in messes, and $10 a month at Boarding-houses.

-THE Educational Weekly is making marked improvement since its first issue. This was to be expected. We now have in full operation three weekly educational periodicals in the United States, the oldest in New-York City and the youngest in Chicago.

-A TEACHER was prosecuted in Iowa for punishing with a rod a young lady of twenty-one. The case went against the teacher before a Justice of the Peace and the District Court, but the Supreme Court reversed their decision and decided in favor of the teacher.

-THE Truancy Agents of New-York City investigated last year 14,719 cases, 4,620 of which were decided to be real cases of truancy; 3,966 were returned to school; 401 street loafers were placed in school, and 253 children were put in reformatory institutions.

-AT the meeting of the Clinton-County Teachers' Association, held in Clarksville, papers were read by Messrs. R. Higgins of Sabina, W. H. Grove of Wilmington, and D. W. Keever of Clarksville. Mr. Grove's paper was on "Language," and Mr. Keever's on "Thought."

-THE adjourned session of the Kansas Teachers' Association met in Topeka, in holiday week; attendance over 140. The chief topic of discussion was the Normal-School question. The next meeting will be held at Emporia in June, with L. B. Kellogg of Emporia, as President.

-AT the commencement Exercises on January 30, at the Oswego Normal and Training School there were two graduates in the Classical Course, one lady and one gentleman, five (ladies) in the Advanced English Course, and fifteen (ladies) in the Elementary English Course.

-THERE is a township High School in German Township, Clark Co., Ohio, taught by J. A. James. The enrolment in January was 22 boys and 12 girls. Branches taught, Physical Geography, U. S. History, Algebra, Geometry, or Trigonometry, in addition to the common branches.

-AN interesting historical article by Dr. I. W. Andrews on counting the electoral vote appeared in the College Olio for last month, the final sentence of which is "The whole examination shows that the President of the Senate has never decided any disputed point touching the votes, but has obeyed the instruction of the two Houses."

-THE Popular-Science Monthly for March contains the second and concluding artiele by Alex. Bain, on Education as a science. These articles are exceedingly valuable and should be read by every teacher. Mr. Steiger ought to put them in one of his educational tracts. Another noticeable article is "How the Earth was regarded in Old Times."

THE average daily attendance last year in the Public Schools of Chicago was nearly 36,000, and the enrolment 51,128. There were associated with the 51 Principals 711 teachers. Of the 67 school buildings used 12 were not the property of the city. There were suspended for misconduct 155 pupils, and for absence 2100. Of the 762 teachers employed 420 had graduated from the High and Normal Schools.

-THERE were only 142 paying members at the Holiday meeting of the Illnois State Teachers' Association at Champaign. Chicago sent only 15, book agents making up part of this number. We have frequently noticed that large cities have very few teachers whose educational public spirit reaches beyond their home schools.

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-THE programme of the Trumbull-County Teacher' Association held in Warren, February 17, was 'Purpose and Method in Teaching Reading," W. N. Wright, Kinsman, Ohio, "Report of Committee on Uniformity of Text-Books," Wayne Kennedy, Ch. Com., and "Elements of Teaching Power," Sam. Findley, Akron.

-THE programme of the Hamilton-County Teachers' Association held in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10, was "The Cincinnati Schools," by Geo. W. Harper, "The Health of the Teacher," C. L. Jackson, of Mt. Washington, a paper by T. W. Pyle, of College Hill, Select Readings Avondale Pupils, music by pupils from the Cleves Public Schools, and a discussion on "The Elements of Strength and Weakness in Teachers' Associations."

-WE learn from the report of the Clerk (Alston Ellis) of School Examiners of Butler County, Ohio, to the School Commissioner, that in Madison Township the average wages paid male teachers were $58 a month, and female teachers $51 a month. This being so much above the wages paid in other townships we suspect the township clerk has made some mistake in his calculation.

-THE following are the heights of the first-class mountain peaks of Colorado:- Blanca Peak, 14,464; Mt. Harvard, 14,384; Gray's Peak, 14,341; Mt. Lincoln, 14,296; Mt. Wilson, 14,280; Long's Peak, 14,271; Uncompahgre Peak, 14,235; Pike's Peak, 14,146. If Blanca Peak is not the highest mountain yet known in the United States, it is at least the second in rank.

-THE Toledo Blade of January 30th, contains the report of Chas. W. Hill, President of the Board of Education for the first term of this school year. It shows an increase in the enrolment in the schools, notwithstanding the school census of the city in September 1876 was 358 less than in 1875. We learn from this report that the Superintendent A. A. McDonald, lost by fire, early in the last summer vacation, his house, library, household furniture, and wearing apparel, which misfortune was followed by prolonged sickness of himself and family, continuing nearly through September.