EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.

(From report of W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, on pupils enrolled in schools and colleges, in June, 1895.)

Tota's

|14,201,752 | *396.327|1350,099 $118,347 13,544|8,050|a8,950|b22,287

*Of the teachers 267,951 are women and 128,376 men. †Includes such agricultural and mechanical colleges and other schools as do not confer the A. B. degree, but confer the B. S. or other scientific degree. Includes 206,022 girls. §Includes 60,993 girls. a Includes 65 women. b Includes 1,413 women.

Of the pupils enrolled in the 16 Southern States and the District of Columbia, 1,441,282 are colored and 3,845,414 are whites.

In addition to the above statistics there are 155 public normal schools, with an enrolled attendance of 26,138 female and 10,353 male pupils, and 201 private normal schools, with 10,571 female and 11,442 male pupils enrolled.

There are also 481 universities and colleges, in which there are 29,008 female and 84.765 male students. There are 163 colleges distinctly for women, with 19,224 students enrolled.

COLORED FREE MASONS.

The United Supreme Council A. A. S. Rite of the 33d degree for the Southern and Western jurisdiction held its annual session in Washington, D. C.. October 5, 1896, and elected the following officers: John G. Jones, Sovereign Gr. Com., Chicago, Il Richard T. Greener, Lieut.-Gr. Com., New-York City: E. A. Williams, Grand Prior, New-Orleans, La.: Rev. Dr. C. W. Newton, Grand Chancellor, Jacksonville, Ill.; D. F. Seville, Gr. Sec. Gen., Washington, D. C.; W. Morris, Gr. Treas. Gen., Minneapolis, Minn.

POPULATION, DATE OF SETTLEMENT, INDEBTEDNESS, ETC., OF STATES AND TERRITORIES.

*Of the thirteen original States. a. Purchased from Russia. b. According to nearest census. c. Less sinking fund.

There are ten different kinds of money
in circulation in the United States, name-
ly: Gold coins, standard silver dollare,
subsidiary silver, gold certificates, silver
certificates, Treasury notes issued under
the Act of July 14, 1890; United States
notes (also called greenbacks and legal
tenders), National bank notes, and nickel
and bronze coins. These forms of money
are all available as circulation.

Gold coin is legal tender at its nominal
or face value for all debts, public and pri-
vate, when not below the standard weight
and limit of tolerance prescribed by law;
and when below such standard of toler-
ance it is legal tender in proportion to
its weight.

Standard silver dollars are legal tender
at their nominal or face value in pay-
ment of all debts, public and private,
without regard to the amount, except
where otherwise expressly stipulated in
the contract.

VARIOUS MONEYS OF

CIRCULATION.
public and private, except where otherwise
expressly stipulated in the contract.

United States notes are legal tender for
all debts, public and private, except du-
ties on imports and interest on the public
debt.

Gold certificates, silver certificates, and
National bank notes are not legal tender,
but both classes of certificates are re-
ceivable for all public dues, while Na-
tional bank notes are receivable for all
public dues except duties on imports and
may be paid out by the Government for
all salaries and other debts and demands
owing by the United States to individuals,
corporations, and associations within the
United States, except interest on the pub-
lic debt, and in redemption of the Na-
tional currency. All National banks are
required by law to receive the notes of
other National banks at par.

The minor coins of nickel and copper
are legal tender to the extent of 25 cents.

The coinage of legal-tender gold was
authorized by the first coinage act, passed
by Congress April 2, 1792. The gold unit
of value is the dollar, which contains 25.8

1,647,381
$1,135,210.442

grains of standard gold 900 fine.
amount of fine gold in the dollar is 23.22
grains, and the remainder of the weight
is an alloy of copper. The total coinage
of gold by the mints of the United States
from 1792 to June 30, 1896, was $1,814.-
692,253, of which it is estimated that
$567,931,823 is still in existence as coin in
the United States, while the remainder
has been exported or consumed in the

The silver unit is the dollar, which con-
tains 4121⁄2 grains of standard silver 900
fine. The amount of fine silver in the dol-
lar is 3714 grains, and there are 41%
grains of copper alloy. The standard sil-
ver dollar was first authorized by the Act
of April 2, 1792. The coinage of the
standard silver dollar was discontinued by
the Act of February 12, 1873, and it was
restored by the Act of February 28, 1878.
The total amount coined from 1792 to 1873
was $8,031,238, and the amount coined
from 1878 to June 30, 1896, was $430,790,-
041. The coinage ratio between gold and
silver under the Act of 1792 was 15 to 1,
but by the Act of 1837 it was changed to
15.988 to 1 (commonly called 16 to 1).

PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL AND DIPLOMATIC

OFFICERS.

THE EXECUTIVE.

GROVER CLEVELAND, of New-York. President of the U. S....
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Illinois, Vice-President of the U. S..
THE CABINET.

RICHARD OLNEY, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State......
JOHN G. CARLISLE, of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury.
DANIEL S. LAMONT, of New-York, Secretary of War.....
JUDSON HARMON, of Ohio, Attorney-General.......
WILLIAM L. WILSON, of West Virginia, Postmaster-General..
HILARY A. HERBERT, of Alabama, Secretary of the Navy
DAVID R. FRANCIS, of Missouri, Secretary of the Interior..
JULIUS STERLING MORTON, of Nebraska, Secretary of Agriculture...

(The figures after each name indicate the year of appointment or assignment, and the figures with $ sign indicate the annual salary.

PRINCIPAL DEPARTMENTAL OFFICERS-Continued.

Superintendent of Dead Letter OfficeBernard Goode (1893), Michigan, $2,500. Chief Postoffice Inspector-M. D. Wheeler (1893), New-York, $3,000.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Solicitor - General (1895), Virginia, $7,000.

Doane, Illinois; J. Nelson H. Patrick,
William J. Coombs, New-
Nebraska:
York; John Sheridan, West Virginia.
HOME COMMISSIONERS.
SOLDIERS'
Major-General Nelson A. Miles, presi-
dent; Adjutant-General George D. Rug-
R.
gles, Quartermaster-General R. N. Batch-
Michael
elder, Commissary-General
George

Morgan, Surgeon-General

Sternberg, Judge-Advocate-General G. N. Lieber, Brig.-Gen. David S, Stanley, Governor of Soldiers' Home.

Officers of the Home-Brig.-Gen. D. S.
Stanley, governor; Captain D. A. Irwin,
lieut.-gov.; Major R. C. Parker, secre-
Lieut.-Col. W. H.
tary
and treasurer;
Forwood, surgeon.

BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
Clinton Furbish, director, No. 2 Jackson
Place, Washington; translators, John C.
Redman, Portuguese, and Jose I. Rodrí-
guez, Spanish; editor, H. H. Marmaduke.
INDIAN COMMISSION.

Chairman, Merrill E. Gates, Amherst.
Mass.; secretary, E. Whittlesey, Washing-
ton, D. C.; Albert K. Smiley, Lake Mo-
honk, N. Y.; William D. Walker, Fargo,
Ja-
N. D.; William H. Lyon and Darwin R.
James, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Joseph T.
cobs, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Philip C. Gar-
rett, Philadelphia; Bishop Henry B. Whip-
ple, Faribault, Minn.
U. S. BOARD

Chairman, Henry Gannett; secretary,
Marcus Baker, Geological Survey; Andrew
H. Allen, State Department; Capt. G. W.
B. Johnson,
Goethals, War Dep't.; A.
Lighthouse Board; Commander

C. D.
vacant, Postoffice
Sigsbee,
Dep't.; Prof. O. T. Mason, Smithsonian
Institution; Herbert G. Ogden, Coast Sur-
vey; Harry King, Interior Dep't.
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