ans during the past years. Upon long tables are ranged for
examination books in use, neatly bound, copy-books and
innumerable specimens of drawing, fancy work, knitting and plain
sewing, also agricultural and blacksmithing specimens from
various training schools.

Straight University, which has nearly 600 pupils, sends
examination pamphlets, a number of pictures and silk embroidery.

It is curious to note what most interests visitors in certain
departments. Straight University sends large numbers of
imaginary letters written by pupils from various parts of the
world. The visiting public read these letters with as much
avidity as if the innocent epistles were real letters, and the
neat manuscripts are already well thumbed. One of the best
letters, all things considered, is from a pupil from Honduras,
who has only been studying English two years. His letter, signed
Emilio Mazien, is first rate.

The display from the Indian School at Santee, Neb., consists of
school books printed in the Sioux Indian language, and these are
a first, second and third reader, a moderately advanced
geography, a hymn-book, and "Dakota Wowapi Wakan," or Bible in
the Sioux tongue. A little oblong crocheted tidy is made of
parti-colored stripes, each one the work of a young Pocahontas,
who has added her name, age and tribe to which she belongs. In
fact all the Indian work is thus marked--the young red men and
maidens seeming particularly careful to give their tribe. This
school also exhibits shoes, harness, tin cans, step ladders and
models of household furniture. The girls have sent long linen
bands full of buttonholes, aprons and undergarments finely
hemmed.

The Atlanta University sends silk-worms, cocoons, a neatly drawn
map of the city, and fine examples of free-hand drawings applied
with colors.

The kindergarten exhibits from Storrs Atlanta school are very
cunning, and the photograph of the ebony kindergarteners, taken
while at their tasks, is like a picture. The work of the
children, braided wraps, embroidered animals and paper
contrivances, will compare favorably with any kindergarten in
the country.

The exhibit from the Hampton Institute, Virginia, is placed upon
a pedestal. This school is properly a State Agricultural
University f