This may be readily found by dividing the average daily absence by the average number of the quarter, and taking the first two decimal places for the required per cent.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 1854.

R.

Meteorological.

ABSTRACT FROM THE METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, KEPT AT GRANVILLE FEMALE SEMINARY, BY S. N. SANFORD.

The design of the following abstract is to show the depth of rain and melted snow which has fallen during each month for the five years last past. The depth of rain is given in inches and hundredths. In the last column is placed the average depth of rain in the months written on the same horizontal line respectively; and in the last horizontal line the total depth of rain in the years 1850, 1851, 1852 and 1853.

A number of interesting facts are exhibited by this table: e. g., it shows that but little more rain fell during the four months, June, July, August and September, of the present year, than fell during the month of October alone; and nearly twice as much fell during the month of October, as during the three preceding months, July, August and September.

And yet, notwithstanding the protracted drouth of three months, during the present year, more rain has already fallen this year, than has fallen during the first ten months of any one of the four preceding years:

DEPTH OF RAIN AND MELTED SNOW.

To County Auditors.

CIRCULAR OF THE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.

The Commissioner of Common Schools is in the almost daily reception of letters from county auditors, in regard to the proper manner of distributing the library books and articles of school apparatus recently forwarded to them.

SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE.-In regard to the School Architecture, it may be well to state, that only nine thousand and twenty-six volumes were ordered; for that was supposed, at the time, to be the number of school districts in the State,being the number reported to the Secretary of State.

It has been since ascertained that the whole number of districts was not reported. Under the circumstances, then, one copy of the above work may be distributed to the board of education of each city, town, and incorporated village in the county, and the balance to the township boards of education in proportion to the number of sub-districts in each township. The volumes may then be distributed to, or circulated among the sub-districts, as the township boards may deem proper, or as they may be needed.

SCHOOL APPARATUS.-The whole sets are designed for the schools in the large towns, the half sets for those incorporated villages, which by the school law, are created separate school districts. The globes on stands, the hemispher. ical globes, etc., may be distributed to the township boards of education as nearly according to the enumeration of scholars as possible. Additional articles will be ordered in due time, if desired.

SCHOOL LIBRARIES.-As the volumes contained in the second, third and fourth sets or series of the school libraries, will be forwarded to the county auditors between this and the first of March next, it is not necessary that the distribution of the volumes already forwarded should be in the exact proportion to the amouut of library and apparatus funds belonging to each city, town, in. corporated village, and township; for a slight deviation from such proportion may be adjusted as new distributions shall be made from time to time.

The late report of the Secretary of State, on common schools, contains a tab. ular statement of the amount of library fund belonging to each county. This fund being divided according to the number of youth in each city, town, incorporated village, and township in the county, will determine the amount with which their respective boards of education are to be credited in a book provided for the purpose. And then, as articles of apparatus or books are distributed to these boards of education, they can be charged with the cost of the same. Invoi ces or schedules, showing the price of each volume and each article of apparatus already forwarded, as well as of those to be hereafter forwarded, will be sent by mail to the county auditors, that they may know the precise amount with which to charge the several boards of education in their respective counties. As other boxes of books will soon follow those already sent, it is respectfully suggested, that in the distribution of the first, second, third, and fourth series of volumes to the several boards as aforesaid, county auditors need not break the first four series, for the proper apportionment can be effected by means of a few volumes, selected from the supplementary series.

In answer to the question, whether township boards of education are authorized by the school law to keep all the volumes at some central point in their respec

tive townships, until there shall be a sufficient number of books to constitute a library for each sub-district, it is proper to state, that the language contained in sections 17, 58, 60, and 62, contemplates the establishment of a library in every sub-district in the township. Still, where the inhabitants of a township are disposed to agree that the books may be kept for a few years at one or more central points, it may be done without impropriety. At present, I would recommend such an arrangement. H. H. BARNEY,

School Commissioner.

CIRCULATION OF THE JOURNAL.

The first and second columns in the following Table, exhibit the circulation of the Journal, in the several counties in Ohio, at the close of those volumes, and the third, the present circulation of the current volume. In addition to these, we have more than 200 subscribers in other States, making the whole number 2,575.

To TOWNSHIP BOARDS OF EDUCATION. -If any Township Boards are desirous to secure the Journal, but have not the money in hand to remit, they can order it, and forward the subscription price, one dollar per copy, when they receive the funds, in February next.

Those who wish the direction of the Journal changed, must be careful to name the Post-office, County and State to which it has been sent, as well as that to which they wish it directed, or their requests can not receive attention.

Seneca...

44 58

58

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44 47 44

Shelby

2

3

2

Stark

80 75

26

Summit..

30

Trumbull

10

Tuscarawas

5

21

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The Resident Editor desires to tender his thanks to all who have contributed for the pages of this volume; and would solicit the continuance of their favors. The Editors feel confident that the arrangements contemplated will make the fourth volume more interesting and useful than any one of its predecessors.

The Mathematical Department will be greeted with pleasure by a large number of our readers. To meet the wishes of many who are earnestly desirous to adopt the practice of relating striking narratives and incidents for the purpose of advancing the social and moral culture of their pupils, a page or two of such anec dotes will be given monthly. Will Teachers who have such narratives, etc, which they have used with good effect, please forward them for insertion? We wish to be able to present some of the best which can be found.

Notices of Colleges, Schools, etc.

Kenyon College.-We are informed that there are now 110 students in attendance, exclusive of the Theological and Preparatory departments. The Mt. Vernon Banner says: "Since LORIN ANDREWs accepted the presidency, new life and vigor have been infused into this classical retreat. Every thing goes on swimmingly; new students are coming in daily, and "Old Kenyon" seems to be itself again."

Denison University. This institution, formerly known as Granville College, has been reorganized since the donation of $10,000 to its funds, by Mr. WM. S. DENISON. Rev. Jeremiah Hall, D. D., the President, is aided by four Professors and one Tutor. The Catalogue just issued contains the names of 21 stu. dents in the college classes, 32 in the classical, and 54 in the English academic course. Total, 108.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.-Dayton.-There are eight schools in Dayton, under the control of the School Board and sustained by the school fund,-viz: North Western, North Eastern, Eastern, South Eastern, South Western, 1st German, 2d German, and Colored. The whole number enumerated in these eight Schools in October was 1939. The average daily attendance only 1436. The School Board at its last meeting made provision for a Night School for the benefit of those minors who are not able to attend the day schools.

A private school is kept by Mr. Coons, in the Fifth Ward, and one by Mrs. L E. Birge, in the Third Ward. The average attendance at these is 80.

The Catholics of the city are mainly doing their own work of educating in their own way. Near their church in the Fourth Ward a school is kept for boys. Average attendance 130. The Sisters of Notre Dame keep a school for girls divided thus:-High School 70, Common 130. Total 200. Total in Catholic schools 330. Total average attendance at all the schools in the city 1846.Religious Telescope, Nov. 8th.

Gallipolis.-The Corporation Free Schools will be opened next Monday. Four teachers will occupy the two school houses, and two Maxon's building, on Second street. It would be well for all scholars who intend attending these schools to be promptly on hand at the commencement, so that a proper classification may be made.-Gallia Courier, Nov. 8th.

Cincinnati. By reference to the proceedings of the School Board, it will be seen that an important change in the public schools is contemplated. It is the establishment of Intermediate or Grammar Schools. The causes which induce the change, and the contemplated improvements, are as follows: In the present arrangement of the District Schools there is a vast difference in the number of scholars to a teacher in the different grades, owing to the fact that many children are forced to leave school and seek employment before they reach the higher departments. Therefore, while some of the upper grades are comparatively slimly attended, the lower, or primary, departments are crowded to excess. To remedy this evil, the proposed plan is to unite the two upper grades of three districts, thus constituting an Intermediate School between the District and High Schools. The friends of the measure contend that by this separation the pupils of the upper grades can be better classified and more thoroughly taught, and the primary departments thoroughly improved. The Board has had the matter under consideration for several months, and the members appear to have thoroughly considered its importance; and after a discussion last evening, which lasted until after twelve o'clock, the proposition was only adopted as an experiment, the vote standing yeas 17, nays 8. The change is to be tested in the western part of the city. A large and elegant school-house is now being completed on Baymiller street, and there an Intermediate school is to be established.Cin. Times, Nov. 18th.

Toledo. While at Toledo my attention was drawn to a very large, new, statelylooking building standing on a rise of ground in the western part of the town; and on inquiry, I learned that it was a Union School house. On going to it, and, by the politeness of Rev. Anson Smyth, Superintendent, passing through its several departments, I found it not only the largest but the best arranged building of the kind I have ever seen. Its cost is about forty thousand dollars, and it is said to be the best school house in the Buckeye State. In the basement, aside from the two large furnaces and rooms for the janitor, are two spacious apartments for play grounds on rainy or other disagreeable days. They have a well laid brick floor, are free from dampness, and most admirably answer the purpose for which they are designed. On the next floor are recitation rooms, and at either end is a wash room, as well arranged as anything of the kind in our best steamboats and at first class hotels. On the next floor above, is a hall capable of seating comfortably a thousand persons. Though designed exclusively for the use of the school, it would be an excellent place for public lectures. Still higher up is a bell which weighs 4,300 pounds. All the rooms are very high, studded, and of ample size, and the arrangements for warming and ventilating them are seemingly perfect. The play grounds without are large and well arranged, though not finished.-Cor. Buffalo Commercial.

Warren. The first term of the Union Schools, for the current year, closed on Friday last. The progress of the pupils, as manifested in their examinations, is highly creditable to Mr. Marvin, the Superintendent, and his able corps of teachers. Some of the examinations which we attended were interesting in the extreme, and we greatly regret that it was not in our power to attend them all. We hear good reports from all the lower grades also, but were personally unable to attend their examinations; and there can be no question that a little encouragement from the citizens and parents, by visiting the schools for themselves, would excite an emulation which would raise them to the hight of excellence.-W. R. Chronicle, Nov. 8th.