The Daily Cairo Bulletin

We clip the following notice of the Cairo public schools from the Illinois School Journal, published at Bloomington:

"There are four schools in all, and twenty teachers, four of them colored. All are anxious to make their work so excellent that it will bear close inspection and disarm unfriendly criticism.

The schools opened on Monday, Oct. 2, with an enrollment of one thousand. The readiness with which all the minor details were adjusted under the new administration, the good order of the pupils, and the skillful work of the teachers, gave proof of careful and systematic habits formed during previous years. Such men as Burlington, Alvord and Bigley, have left a decided impress here, and there has been some fine work done. These schools have received from somebody an impetus in the right direction. We propose to take no steps backward, but intend to continue in the line of progress, and we shall be heard of at the educational centers of the state.

The high-school building is one of the best and neatest school houses in the State. On the third floor is the high school proper, with two recitation rooms, and an office for the superintendent. The large room is a handsome apartment, beautifully and tastefully ornamented with the busts, in bronze, of four authors, two plaster casts of famous statuary, and several oil paintings. For musical purposes, we have a fine piano, and a large supply of Loomis' Progressive Chorus Book. The entire building is furnished with gas fixtures, and on every floor are wash-rooms, towel-racks, looking-glasses, etc. The high school has a fair apparatus, a cabinet of mineral specimens, and a very well selected library, containing the American Cyclopedia, Ure's Dictionary, and other standard reference works, besides nearly all the prominent English and American history and belles-lettres.

Literature work in the high school this year begins with Irving. The class will prepare a dialogue on each author studied, and will read at least one of his works. The senior class will pass the county examination in the common branches before they graduate."