How The Indian Pupils Think

Nothin can be more instructive toa teacher than to sit in one of the room at Hampton, Va., and watch the movement of mind in the Indian children thero being taughk Tliey all think aloud, and go over the repetitions of every now fact in words, as childreu accustomed to civilized discipline do in their thonghts. Wliatever may come to the Indians themselves as the result of this new experiment in education, the work will pay for itself in the light shed upon soine of the most interesting points of primary eduoation. Could the association of Boston pcdagogues wlio aregrappling ■vrith the conundniiu - "TIow muoh does a 5-year-olcl child know?" - sit out a week in one of these Imiten school-rooms at Hampton, new tlght might breuk in iroin unexpected points. The wildest drcnui nevcr surpassed the romance of the widow of the third Napoleon sailing from England to touch at St. Helena o her way to look upon the spot iu Ziiluland where feil the fourth and last Napoleon. Tlie Empresa is said, as she left, to have looked sadly broken, and her hair lias turued gray. Fisk university, at JN'asliville, has been presen ted with a bell vreighinff 2,000 pouiids. New Ofleans lias slupped to l'rance ind Italy MrUliin a yonr ,100,000 gallouü of cottou-bccd oil. i