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emulation of the students. They, as well as the professors, 
wear a ibs fa which has been fixed by an pepene) de- 
cree.—ldem 
16. Rural School.—Iln the month of March, 1822, a school 
was founded near Berlin in Prussia, by C.de Treskow, a be- 
nevolent gentlemen, for the purpose of educating twenty 
poor children. In their instruction, domestic economy, &c. 
the founder has adopted the Principles De Fellenbers’s 
ecole des pauvres. The experiment has been very successful, 
and the founder thinks that the whole annual deficit for the 
twenty scholars will not exceed five hundred crowns (about 
three hundred and fifty dollars).—/dem. 
17. Lisson.—Elementary Instruction.—-M. J. J. Le Cocq, 
who had been sent by his government to Paris, to study the 
method of mutual instruction, has been, since his return 
schools. The government has assigned for this object a 
large hall in the Foundling Hospital, capable of accommo- 
dating four hundred children, and has ordered to be printed 
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the collections of tables adopted in France for reading, | 
writing, religious instruction, calculation, &c. It is in view 
to introduce this beneficent method into the different parts 
of the kingdom.—Jdem. 
18. France.—Charity.—The amount of donations and 
legacies which the 7a AE establishments of France 
received from 1802 to 1823 is 15,300,714 francs, equal to 
$3,060,000, nearly ; and the valuations of the charities be- 
stowed upon the poor, and upon houses for the aged and 
infirm, from 1814 to 1823, is stated at 27, ,505,256 francs, 
equal to about $5,500,000. Idem 
19. Litte.—The Society of the Amateurs of science, 
agriculture, and the arts of this city, in its programme o 
prizes for 1824 and 1825, offers on the subject of pustio 
HEALTH a gold medal of the value of sixty dollars for the 
best dissertation on the means of ameliorating the health of 
a Photometer, that shall be sensible, comparable, and of easy 
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