Arkansas Has 10,175 School-teachers.
State Superintendent George B. Cook, of Arkansas, gave out a statement showing the condition of Arkansas schools, from which the following extracts are taken:
Number of teachers—white, 8,227; colored, 1,948. Total, 10,175. Increase over last year, 341.
Average length of term, 117.9 days; increase over last year, 4 days.
Number of schoolhouses erected in the year, 282; total value, $1,014,100; average value, $3,596. Total number of schoolhouses in the State, 6,338; total value, $10,131,828.
Total receipts from all sources, $5,275,653.37. Total expenditures, $3,387,349.08.
Would Compel Girls to Join German Army.
Professor Doctor Witzel, of Dusseldorf, advocates compulsory military service for German girls. An army of nurses should,[{64}] in his opinion, follow each army of male combatants, not only to care for the wounded, but to attend to everything connected with food and clothing. Every healthy German girl, says the professor, should look on training for this object as a patriotic duty, and the knowledge acquired will be useful in the home if it is not utilized in the battlefield.
Prisoner Blows Up Police Auto.
Exploding with a match the fumes of gasoline rising from an open tank, a prisoner on the way to jail blew up an automobile patrol in the downtown section of Los Angeles, Cal., recently. The vehicle was destroyed, and one prisoner was fatally burned and two others, with Patrolman Louis Canto, seriously injured.