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pupils between five and twenty years of age 

 enrolled, 71,402 ; average daily attendance, 45,- 

 705; number of male teacbers, 555; number 

 of female teachers, 3,644 ; average wages per 

 week of male tec cliers, $8.45 ; average wages 

 per week of female teachers, $5.22 ; total 

 revenue for school purposes, $607,382.37 ; to- 

 tal expenditure, not including supervision for 

 school purposes, $602,800.20; appropriations 

 to normal schools, $7,908. Not more than 

 seventy-five per cent, of children of school age 

 are enrolled in the public schools, and only 

 about bixty-five per cent, of thobe enrolled are 

 regularly in attendance. A recent writer re- 

 marks concerning the school system : 



The greatest obstacle to the improvement of 

 the public schools of Vermont is the district 

 system, which should give place to the more 

 efficient town system. The changed condition 

 of the population in the rural districts by West- 

 ern emigration of the old Puritan stock and the 

 immigration of foreigners from Canada and 

 other countries, has left the country districts 

 at the mercy of local mismanagement, which 

 has starved out the once flourishing district 

 school. To revive it under its old forms and 

 conditions is out of the question. The subject 

 of the adoption of the town system of schools 

 has been before the people of the State for 

 over twenty years. 



Banks. The savings-banks of Vermont, June 

 30, 1887, showed 53,810 depositors, credited 

 with $15,587,050, an increase of 4,357 deposi- 

 tors, and $1,333,087 over last year. The aver- 

 age amount to the credit of one individual was 

 $289.67, an increase of $1.44 over 1886. Three 

 banks paid five-per-cent. dividends to deposi- 

 tors; two, four and three fourths; eight, four 

 and one half; and four, four per cent. Of the 

 ten trust companies in the State, two have 

 passed dividends to stockholders ; one has paid 

 fourteen, two eight, three six, one five, and one 

 three per cent. The total accumulations, in- 

 cluding the surplus, undivided earnings, and 

 interest, amount to $106,665.43 more than last 

 year. New trust companies have organized 

 at St. Albans and St. Johnsbury and a savings- 

 bank at White River Junction. 



VICTORIAS JUBILEE. Victoria was proclaimed 

 Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, June 21, 

 1837. The occurrence of the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of her accession to the throne, June 21. 

 1887, \vas accordingly celebrated throughout 

 her kingdom and colonies, and by English peo- 

 ple the world over, as the "Queen's Jubilee." 

 The festival so named originated among the 

 Israelites, but was borrowed for the Eomnn 

 Catholic Church by Pope Boniface VIII, by 

 whom it was instituted as a centennial festival. 

 Clement VI abridged the period to fifty years, 

 and this time has been generally observed ever 

 since his celebration of it in 1350 as "the year 

 of jubilee." 



Great preparations were made throughout 

 the British Empire for an appropriate celebra- 

 tion *of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the most 



solemn and most notable ceremonies taking 

 place in London. The chief function in obser- 

 vance of the day was the great procession of 

 royal persons and others, which accompanied 

 the Queen in her state progress to Westmin- 

 ster Abbey on June 21. This procession was 

 guarded by nearly 10,000 troops, besides the 

 entire police force of London and its suburbs. 

 The royal cortege included a number of Indian 

 princes and the King of Denmark, King and 

 Qneen of the Belgians, King of Saxony, King 

 and Crown- Prince of Greece and Prince George 

 of Greece, Crown-Prince of Portugal, Crown- 

 Prince arid Crown-Princess of Austria, and the 

 Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The 

 princesses of the blood royal of England, with 

 their attendants, occupied five carriages, pre- 

 ceding the state coach, drawn by eight cream- 

 colored horses, in which were the Queen, the 

 Princess of Wales, and the Princess Royal, 

 Victoria, Crown-Princess of Germany. Accom- 

 panying the state coach as escort, on horse- 

 back, were the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, 

 Prince Albert Victor of Wales, Prince Willijim 

 of Prussia, Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince 

 George of Wales, the hereditary Prince of Saxe- 

 Meiningen, Prince Christian Victor of Schles- 

 wig-Holstein, Prince Louis of Battenberg, 

 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the 

 Crown-Prince of Germany, and the Grand Dnke 

 of Hesse. After them came Prince Henry of 

 Battenberg and the Marquis of Lome, the Prince 

 of Wales and the Duke of Connaught, and the 

 Duke of Edinburgh riding alone. The streets 

 through which the procession passed were 

 crowded with people, in number said to exceed 

 any similar occasion in the history of England, 

 excepting, perhaps, the funeral of the Duke of 

 Wellington. The ceremonies in Westminster 

 Abbey were solemn and impressive, and were 

 witnessed by the Queen, throned in state, 

 dressed in her royal robes, and surrounded by 

 the members of the royal family. London was 

 profusely decorated, and at night was generally 

 illuminated. On the 22d the Queen received 

 addresses and gifts at Buckingham Palace, the 

 latter being a vast number of articles of great 

 value, from all parts of the world, and includ- 

 ing the sum of 75,000 presented by " the 

 women of England." On the same day, her 

 Majesty, with the Prince and Princess of Wales, 

 was present at a grand fete in Hyde Park, 

 where she was received and welcomed by 30,- 

 000 children. The Queen on this occasion pre- 

 sented a memorial cup to a little girl chosen to 

 represent the children present. On the same 

 day her Majesty unveiled at Windsor, in the 

 presence of an enormous gathering of people, a 

 statue of herself. The day was celebrated in 

 Paris by a Jubilee garden-party at the British 

 Embassy, and in the cities of India, Australia, 

 New Zealand, and Canada, by appropriate and 

 enthusiastic ceremonies. Addresses, telegrams, 

 and letters of congratulation from potentates 

 and high officials of all the powers were re- 

 ceived at court, and British citizens in various 



