THE LADIES' HOME.

The ladies' home, finished during the early fall of 1885, is an invaluable adjunct to the school. It affords the best accommodations to seventy five young ladies, and can furnish day board to fifty more ladies or gentlemen. It offers board at the low rate of $3 a week.

STATE APPROPRIATION FOR CURRENT EXPENSES.

The first appropriation for 1869 was $3,000, the average for ten years was $6,600. The appropriation for current expenses was made permanent at $9,000 per annum in 1877. Since that time, the annual appropriations have been increased, until they are now $18,000.

THE NORMAL SCHOOL AT MOORHEAD.

The first three normal schools of Minnesota were located in the southeastern quarter of the state, hence the legislature of 1885 located a fourth normal school at Moorhead provided that the citizens of the town would donate a suitable location for the building. The site, a beautiful tract of six acres, is the gift of Hon. S. G. Comstock. The legislature of 1887 appropriated $60,000 for a building and $5,000 for running expenses. The building was commenced in the summer of 1887 and completed in the early autumn of 1888. It is one hundred and eighty feet in length by seventy feet in width, built of brick and stone. heated, ventilated and lighted by the most approved methods, and is the most commodious and handsome structure in the Northwest. The legislature of 1889 appropriated $9,500 additional for improving the grounds and heating plant.

The school was opened August 29, 1888, with a membership of 42, of which 32 were enrolled the second year. The total enrollment for 1890 was 102, of which eight were graduated at the close of the school year.

In addition to the original appropriation of $5,000 for running expenses, the last legislature made an annual appropriation of $6,000, giving a total of $11,000. This sum total, it is claimed should be increased to $13,000, annually, for the years 1891 and 1892.