. Book of the Royal blue . -niversity. Prattlnstitute. Poly-technic Institute and others. In the De-partment of Higher Education of Women,Xassar, Wellesl, y. Bryn Mawr, Smith andMount will be represented. A special feature will be the exhibits ofleading art schools of the country, and anew feature will be an illustration of theini].roved methods of teaching the deaf,dumb and blind. Another will bea lecture hall with a seating .apaeity , fitted out for stereopticon andlantern lectures. The National Educational Associationwill hold their annual conventi
. Book of the Royal blue . -niversity. Prattlnstitute. Poly-technic Institute and others. In the De-partment of Higher Education of Women,Xassar, Wellesl, y. Bryn Mawr, Smith andMount will be represented. A special feature will be the exhibits ofleading art schools of the country, and anew feature will be an illustration of theini].roved methods of teaching the deaf,dumb and blind. Another will bea lecture hall with a seating .apaeity , fitted out for stereopticon andlantern lectures. The National Educational Associationwill hold their annual convention at this sunniier, and the value of thisexhibit to teachers and instructors from allparts of till cannot be Palace of ion will be the veritableMecca which their feet will turn,and the knowledge gained there will bewidely disseminated. In the language ofthe Kaiser of Germany, when the generalplan of the Exposition was laid before him,it will be a •World-s Iniversitv. ^. EDUCATION milLUING. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE BALTIMORE & OHIORAILROAD TO ST. LOUIS. EnrCATIONAL fVL-uts of thf mag-nitude of a Worlds Fair create adesire for knowledge, hence theminds of the people are i)repared inadvance .and placed in a receptive mood, tolearn by contact, where heretofore the waysof the world became known to them onlythrough the press. rhe distant traveler begins this self tutor-ing by selecting first the ways and oftravel, in studying the route and the |)er-sonal comforts afforded. Most apropos of a Worlds Fair at therefore, is the exhibit offered bythe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a meansof reaching so .a The Baltimore \ Ohio , the firstrailroad in America, was also the first rail-road opened from the seaboard to theMississipi)i River. St. Louis, the tradingcenter and distributing point of tiic West,was the coveted When thethrough line was completed a grand cele-bration was held i
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