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THE ANTHROPOID APES..

.J. J. Stevenson. 1 Characteristics of the Anthropoid Ape.-The Development Theory.Objections to the Development Theory.-Improbability.-Contrary to Nature. The Facial Angle. PEDAGOGICAL LAW... .M. McN. Walsh, Esq.

The Schoolmaster and the King.-The Schoolmaster's House is his Castle The Right to Dictate to Teachers.-Statutory Law as to Disturbing of Schools.-When Parents may not Dictate to Teachers.-Composi tion.-Reading the Bible.-Truancy.-Vaccination.-Character on Trial. ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY...

THE SCHOOL-MAN'S FIRST VOYAGE.

Theory and Practice at War.

BACKWOODS GEOGRAPHY.....
THIER'S HISTORY OF FRANCE..

CURIOUS ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS..
Speculation in Gold.

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH: A Dialogue...

THE PROS AND CONS OF OBJECT-TEACHING

ANECDOTE OF TALLEYRAND..........

JULIAN GURDON: STUDENT AND SCHOOLMASTER.

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.Miss Electa McCullough. 13

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Chapter I. The Undergraduate.-Chapter II. The Teacher.

EDITORIAL.

Eminent Educators Deceased in 1865.

Street Children.

"The Ignorance of Teachers."

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE..

Letter from Germany. Prof. William L. Gage.

How to Teach the Alphabet. J. J. S.

"Our Young Folks" and "the other side." A. J. M. A.

NOTES AND QUERIES..

Notes Petroleum.-Queries-Origin of Lights; Steam Power in Earth quakes; Gold.-Replies-West Virginia.

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State of Illinois.

The rapid development of Illinois, its steady increase in population and wealth, and its capacity to produce cheap food, are matters for wonder and admiration. The United States Commissioner of Agriculture estimates the amounts of the principal crops of 1864, for the whole country, as follows: Indian corn, 530,581,403 bushels; wheat, 160,695,823 bushels; oats, 176,690,061 bushels; of which the farms of Illinois yielded 138,356,135 bushels of Indian corn; 33,371,173 bushels of wheat; and 24,273,751 bushels of oats-in reality more than one-fourth of the corn, more than one-fifth of the wheat, and almost one-seventh of the oats produced in all the United States.

Grain-Stock Raising.

Pre-eminently the first in the list of grain-exporting States, Illinois is also the great cattle State of the Union. Its fertile prairies are well adapted by nature to the raising of cattle, sheep, horses and mules; and in the important interest of pork packing, it is far in advance of every other State. The seeding of these prairie lands to tame grasses for pasturage or hay, offers to farmers with capital the most profitable results. The hay crop of Illinois in 1864 is cstimated at 2,166,725 tons, which is more than half a million tons larger than the crop of any other State, excepting only New York.

Inducements to Settlers.

The attention of persons, whose limited means forbid the purchase of a homestead in the older States, is particularly invited to these lands. Within ten years the Illinois Central Railroad Company has sold 1,400,000 acres, to more than 20,000 actual settlers: and during the last year 264,422 acres—a larger aggregate of sales than in any one year since the opening of the road. The farms are sold in tracts of forty or eighty acres, suited to the settler with limited capital, or in larger tracts, as may be required by the capitalist and stock raiser. The soil is of unsurpassed fertility; the climate is healthy; taxes are low; churches and schools are becoming abundant throughout the length and breadth of the State; and communication with all the great markets is made easy through railroads, canals and rivers.

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