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The regular annual appropriation for the nor- 

 mal schools is 2-1,000, and for the training 

 school sjsl.lilMl; tin- latter had a special appropria- 

 tion of $5.000 for a building. 



..loin College has been especially fortunate 

 of late. .Mrs. Catherine Garcelon, of California, 

 who died in MI- the close of 1891, left it a bequest 

 "J>on ; tlic Kayerweather l)e(|iiest. aiiKiiinted 

 to $100,000; the Walker art building is under 

 way : and last June the college received from Mr. 

 Searh's, of New York, a laboratory which will 

 lie. it is said, superior to any other building of 

 the kind in the country. 



Kev. B. L. Whitman, in May. was elected 

 President of Colby University, at Waterville, to 

 succeed Dr. A. W. Small, resigned. A chair of 

 Biblical Literature was created at the last com- 

 menei ineiit, meeting of trustees, and Kev. Dr. (I. 

 D. H. I'epper, an ex-president of the university, 

 was elected to the professorship. 



Fryeburg Academy celebrated its hundredth 

 anniversary on Aug. 17, in the presence of an 

 immense gathering. The academy was founded 

 l>y Kev. William Fessenden, a graduate of Har- 

 vard College. The first teacher of the school 

 was Paul Langdon, also a Harvard graduate, a 

 son of President Langdon, of Harvard University. 

 In 1792 the Massachusetts Legislature Maine 

 being then a part of the old Bay State granted a 

 charter to the academy. 



Charities. During the year ending Nov. 30, 

 1 S !M. the number of patients under treatment 

 at the State Insane Hospital was 871. Of this 

 number, 128 recovered or were discharged for 

 other reasons, and 70 died. The total amount 

 of expenditures was $187,387.21. The farm and 

 garden earned during the year $3,352.51, and the 

 profits from the board of patients and other 

 sources were $11.561.50. The total net profits 

 were $14,913.01. This amount increases the sur- 

 plus of the capital stock of the hospital. 



The report rendered in 1892 gives the follow- 

 ing statistics: 



At the beginning of the year, Dec. 1, 1891, 

 there were resident in the hospital <?:! patients 

 I!.") men, 318 women. Two hundred and sixty- 

 nine have been admitted since 167 men, 102 

 women ; making the whole number under treat- 

 ment 942, of which 522 are men and 420 women. 

 Of these, there have been discharged 257 165 

 men and 92 women; leaving at close of year 085 

 327 men and 328 women. 



There has been expended the past year, on re- 

 pairs and sanitary outlays, $16,510.29. 



Prisons. The number of convicts at the State 

 Prison. Deo. 1, 1890, was 174; during the follow- 

 ing year 50 were committed, 47 discharged by- 

 expiration of sentence, 7 pardoned, and 2 died", 

 leaving 168 in custody Dec. 1, 1891. Special an- 

 propriations to the amount of $11,500 were made 

 for buildings and repairs, steam heating, and si \\ - 

 rage. 



The average number of convicts in 1892 was 

 115 I'ewer than in 1891. The total expen-e f,,r 

 the year ending" Dec. 1, 1892, was $22.524.11, of 

 whi.'li $8,836.97 was for officers' salaries, and 

 $5,188.79 for subsistence. In regard to the labor 

 of the convicts the report of inspectors says : 



After a careful study of the existing Inw restricting 

 the employment of convict labor to 20 per cent of the 

 convicts in any given industry, we arc fully prepared 



to recommend it* repeal. With our present 



manlier of convicts it i* im|iohMli|e i,, obtain il 

 n-Milts in employing them in MI man\ divci>iticd in 



dtMtrlttwitfa to urge* avaibaotixutmotontod di*- 



ciplinariaim. No num. however ^n-ut lie mity lie. can 

 lie t<'imd tor a warden who can attain tli. 

 proficiency that will enalilc him to MI niicccMfully 

 manual! r> dim-rent kinds of bumnew* as to obtain the 

 maximum result-, in each; and in thcHC time* of clone 

 competition maximum results are nece-.-ary in order 

 to run a liusim-.^s without Ions. If our manufacturing 

 could be reduced to 2 good industries, they to be KC- 

 lected by the inspectors and warden, .ar better n-ult* 

 would be obtained and at far less expense to the Mate. 



The average number of inmates at the Indus- 

 trial School for Girls, at JIallowell, was 65, who 

 were maintained at a cost of $9.438.30. The re- 

 port for 1892 gives the following figures: 



The average number during the year has been 

 62 ; returned, 75 ; sent to homes, 15 ; married, 7 ; 

 died, 3 ; positively bad record since leaving school, 

 85. The whole number received since January, 

 1875, has been 359. Of these, the number mar- 

 ried before majority is 56; after majority, 43; 

 now in home, 85 ; returned to friends, 25 ; dis- 

 missed as incorrigible, 8t unsuitable, 6; escaped 

 and recovered, 4. The present number in the 

 school is 62. 



An inspection of the Boys' Reform School, at 

 Cape Elizabeth, in October,' furnished the follow- 

 ing information : 



There were 96 boys belonging to the school, 

 all in good health and apparently enjoying them- 

 selves. At present there are 3 schoolrooms, well 

 equipped with books, maps, charts, blackboards, 

 and all theother paraphernaliaof a modern school- 

 room. In the mechanical school 12 boys are taught 

 at one time. Their skill in the use. of tools and 

 machinery is shown in the repairs on the build- 

 ings they have assisted in making, and in the 

 construction of many useful articles needed about 

 the buildings. The library contains 2,000 vol- 

 umes. The boys are also taught to be farmers 

 as well as mechanics. The farm contains 184 

 acres. 



State Board of Health. The seventh an- 

 nual report of this board contains a treatise by 

 the secretary on school hygiene and the construc- 

 tion of schoolhouses. During the year 134 analy- 

 ses of water have been made, 75 of them samples 

 from wells, 32 from springs, 18 from public water 

 supplies, 6 from proposed water supplies, and 3 

 from other sources. The circulars published by 

 the board have been issued again and again in 

 editions of from 10,000 to 20,000. 



With the beginning of the year 1892, an act 

 to provide for the registration of vital statistics 

 went into effect. 



Board of Trade. At t lie meeting of the State 

 Board of Trade, in October, it was reported that 

 the State has 37 organized boards of trade, with 

 an aggregate of 2,664 members, and 19 of these 

 organizations belong to the State board. The 

 total resources of the savings banks amounted. 

 in December, 1891, to $53,550,871.47: of this, 

 only $22,471,445.27 was invested in Maine se- 

 curities and loaned upon Maine collaterals and 

 mortgages; and it is probable that a still larger 

 proportion of private investments are placed out- 

 side the State. 



Fisheries. The report of Dr. E. W. Gould, 

 Commissioners of Sea and Shore Fisheries, gives 



