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+Project Gutenberg's Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb, by W. R. Roe
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+Title: Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb
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+  ANECDOTES & INCIDENTS
+
+  OF THE
+
+  DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+  W. R. ROE, M. C. T. D. & D.,
+
+
+  Head Master Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution, Derby,
+  Author Of "Alice Gray: a True Story;" &c.
+
+
+  DERBY:
+  FRANCIS CARTER, IRON GATE.
+
+  1886.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+The Deaf and Dumb cannot help themselves as others can. From the cradle
+they are cut off from their fellow creatures. They can only cry, like
+the dumb brute, to make their pains and wishes known. God only can know
+the bitterness of heart, the desolation of the deaf and dumb child of
+the poor, as it grows up in a world without speech or sound--a lifelong
+silence! A mother's smile it may understand, but her soothing voice
+never comforts or delights it. While others grow in love, and life, and
+intelligence, its heart is chilled and its mind enfeebled. Only under
+suitable instruction, given at an early age, can the deaf mute become
+anything but a burden to others and to himself.
+
+The anecdotes in the following pages will doubtless be read with
+considerable curiosity, and it is hoped that the Midland Institution for
+the Deaf and Dumb at Derby will receive some pecuniary assistance by the
+publication of this little book.
+
+There are 1119 Deaf and Dumb in the Institution's district, which
+comprises six of the Midland Counties.
+
+The Institution is supported by voluntary contributions.
+
+     W. R. R.
+
+     _Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+     Friar Gate, Derby._
+
+
+
+
+  ANECDOTES
+
+  OF THE
+
+  DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ASK A BLESSING.
+
+A little boy was admitted as a pupil into the Institution for the Deaf
+and Dumb at Derby. Previous to his admission he had given his parents
+and friends a great deal of trouble, and fears were entertained that he
+would be none the less troublesome to those in charge of him at the
+Institution. Happily however, owing to the firmness and kindness of his
+teachers, he very soon yielded to the rules and became a good, obedient
+boy. At length the time came for the vacation, and, amongst others, this
+little fellow went home for his holiday. The dinner hour arrived, and
+sitting down with his parents, he looked up at his father and put his
+hands together. He wanted his father to ask a blessing. The father made
+the boy understand he did not know what to say, then the poor little
+fellow began to cry. At last he thought of a plan, he would ask the
+blessing himself; and so he spelt on his fingers the blessing he had
+learnt at the Institution, and got his friends to spell on their fingers
+after him letter by letter and word by word, and thus overcame the
+difficulty in which he was placed.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMEN.
+
+In America there are four deaf and dumb clergymen working in connection
+with the Church Missions to the Deaf and Dumb. There are also in
+connection with the same mission eight lay readers, all of whom are deaf
+and dumb.--_Deaf Mute World._
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO SAVE THE RATES.
+
+In a vast majority of cases where the deaf and dumb are allowed to grow
+up uneducated and uncared for they become inmates of Workhouses or
+Lunatic Asylums. Many years ago L---- K---- was taken from a workhouse
+in Derbyshire where he had been for a number of years, and educated and
+apprenticed to a suitable trade; he is now a steady, industrious man,
+married, and himself a _ratepayer_. This is only one of many similar
+instances that have come within our experience. In some other cases they
+are struggling to support widowed mothers and sisters.
+
+
+
+
+FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DEAF AND DUMB BRIDE ON THE DAY OF MARRIAGE.
+
+The following is taken from the _Manchester Mercury and Harrop's General
+Advertiser_, June 10, 1800:--"On the 12th ult., in the Island of
+Anglesea, Mr. Henry Ceclar, a gentleman well known for his pedestrian
+feats, to Miss Lucy Pencoch (the rich heiress of the late Mr. John
+Hughes, Bawgyddanhall), a lady of much beauty, but entirely deaf and
+dumb. This circumstance drew together an amazing concourse of people to
+witness the ceremony, which, on the bride's part, was literally
+performed by proxy. A splendid entertainment was given on the occasion
+by the bridegroom; but a dreadful catastrophe closed the scene, for the
+bride, in coming down stairs, made a false step, and fell with so much
+violence against a chair that she immediately expired."
+
+
+
+
+M. BERTHIER.
+
+This gentleman, who is now senior professor in the Paris Institution for
+the Deaf and Dumb, is described as a man of rare merit, probably
+superior in literary abilities and acquirements to any other deaf mute
+from birth that any country can produce. He is the author of several
+works that would do credit to a well-educated man whose knowledge of
+language had been acquired through the ear. On a recent occasion of a
+public exercise at the Institution he was decorated by the President of
+the Republic with the Cross of the Legion of Honour, the first time such
+a distinction had ever been conferred on a deaf and dumb person.
+
+
+
+
+"HIS RIGHT NAME."
+
+In a letter received by the head master at the Deaf and Dumb Institution
+at Derby, a lady writes about a little boy she had assisted in obtaining
+admission into the Institution, and said that "During the little time
+(18 months) that William has been in the Institution he has improved
+wonderfully." She writes--"You know he used to be so wild, dirty, and
+careless; he was always interfering with everybody, in fact he went in
+the village by the name of Troublesome Dummy. All is changed; he is a
+nice clean, well behaved boy, and people are beginning to call him by
+his right name, William. We shall never forget what you have done for
+him."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+AN INGENIOUS BOY.
+
+We were lately shown a curiosity in the shape of a sewing machine
+entirely of wood. It was whittled out of ordinary pine with an ordinary
+jack-knife by an ordinary boy--no, not an ordinary boy; it was the
+handiwork of a deaf and dumb boy who resides at Massachusetts. A machine
+was left at the house of the boy by an agent, and the lad, with
+considerable ingenuity, made a counterpart of the machine, and did it
+wholly with a jack-knife.
+
+
+
+
+"MIGHTY PROUD."
+
+At a meeting held in a country village in aid of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution, Derby, a number of the pupils were present on the platform.
+One of the speakers called attention to a bright looking little fellow,
+and asked the audience if they knew him? and amidst general laughter
+spoke of the boy's earlier years, how he had seen him running about
+barefooted and dirty, playing with the worst boys in the streets; but
+now completely changed in his habits and character. He went on to relate
+a little incident he had himself observed a few weeks previous, when the
+boy was home from the Institution for his holiday. The little deaf and
+dumb boy was coming along the road, looking clean and bright, and
+carrying a book in his hand, when four of his old gutter companions, all
+in dirt, and who ought to have been at school, saw him, and one of them
+shouted out, "Hello, here's owd dummy comin;" and all four went to meet
+him, and tried to make friends with him, but he thought they were
+scarcely clean enough for his company, and quietly passed on his way
+towards home. The boys were surprised, and stared at each other for some
+time; at last one of them said, "Oh, ain't he got mighty proud?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR AT BRUSSELS.
+
+A deaf and dumb sculptor named Van Louy de Canter has recently obtained
+two prizes, one a silver medal with a ribbon of Belgian colours, and a
+second class award for his best work in marble; the other a bronze
+medal; he has also an honourable certificate from the Belgian Exhibition
+of 1880. It is encouraging to hear of his success, and to know that from
+his devotion to the art, he will persevere in the right way to be a
+credit to his country and to his numerous friends among the deaf and
+dumb.
+
+
+
+
+MONOGRAPH of the COLLEONBOLA & THYSANURA.
+
+BY SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART, M.P., &C.
+
+This work is one of the many magnificent contributions to the literature
+of natural history issued by the Royal Society. It treats of curious
+animals which the author considers as more nearly allied to the Insecta
+than to the Crustacea or Arachnidę. It is magnificently illustrated with
+78 plates (31 being coloured), and the whole of the illustrations were
+executed by a painstaking deaf and dumb artist, Mr. Hollick. It will
+mark an era in the study of those neglected, but intensely curious
+animals, and we doubt not will repay both author, and artist, and the
+Society for the labour bestowed upon it.--_Daily Paper._
+
+
+
+
+THE COUNTESS OF ORKNEY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following curious anecdote is related of Mary, Countess of Orkney.
+She was deaf and dumb, and was married in 1753, by signs. She lived with
+her husband, who was also her first cousin, at his seat, Rostellan, on
+the harbour of Cork. Shortly after the birth of her first child, the
+nurse, with considerable astonishment, saw the mother cautiously
+approach the cradle in which the infant was sleeping, evidently full of
+some deep design. The Countess having perfectly assured herself that the
+child really slept, took a large stone, which she had concealed under
+her shawl, and to the horror of the nurse--who, like all persons of the
+lower order in her country, indeed in most countries, was fully
+impressed with an idea of the peculiar cunning and malignity of
+"dumbies"--raised it with an intent to fling it down vehemently. Before
+the nurse could interpose the Countess had flung the stone--not,
+however, as the servant had apprehended at the child, but on the floor,
+where of course it made a great noise. The child immediately awoke, and
+cried. The Countess, who had looked with maternal eagerness to the
+result of her experiment, fell on her knees in a transport of joy. She
+had discovered that her child possessed the sense which was wanting in
+herself.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+EPITAPH.
+
+In St. Modwen's Churchyard at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, the
+following inscription has been copied from the tombstone of a deaf and
+dumb man:--
+
+                        This Stone
+                Was raised by Subscription
+                     To the Memory of
+                      THOMAS STOKES,
+    An eccentric and much-respected deaf and dumb man,
+               Better known by the name of
+                        DUMB TOM,
+          Who departed this life Feb. 25th, 1837,
+                     Aged 57 years.
+
+    "What man can pause, and charge the senseless dust
+    With fraud, or subtlety, or aught unjust?
+    How few can conscientiously declare
+    Their acts have been as honourably fair?
+    No gilded bait, no heart ensnaring meed,
+    Could bribe poor Stokes to one dishonest deed:
+    Firm in attachment, to his friends most true--
+    Though deaf and dumb he was excell'd by few.
+    Go ye, by nature formed, without defect,
+    And copy Tom, and gain as much respect."
+
+
+
+
+A HAPPY DEATH BED.
+
+Not long ago there died in the county Wexford, in Ireland, a deaf and
+dumb shoemaker named Henry Plunkett. He had for many years been a true
+and sincere christian, and therefore when he came to die he was not
+afraid, but rejoiced at the thought of meeting his Saviour. During the
+last few hours of his life on earth he suffered much pain; but he was
+quite sensible, and made signs that if the house was piled up with gold
+he would not take it all and live, for, he said, pointing his hand
+upwards, "I wish to go up." To the woman who attended him he signed, "Do
+not fret, not never; I am going to Jesus." "The contrast between the
+white face--white as marble--and the long jet black hair and beard is
+striking," wrote the clergyman who sent this account, shortly after his
+death. But beautiful as he looked in death, he looks far more beautiful
+in heaven, where he now is, clothed in the white robe of Christ's
+righteousness, which he has provided for all who truly love and serve
+him.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMING MAYORALTY.
+
+The state coach for the Lord Mayor elect will be furnished by Mr. J.
+Offord, of Wells Street and Brook Street, who has also supplied the
+chariot for Mr. Sheriff Johnson. The coach for the new Lord Mayor is
+quite in harmony with modern ideas and taste. The side windows, instead
+of being rounded off in the corners as formerly, are cut nearly square,
+to follow the outlines of the body. This novelty renders the body of the
+carriage much lighter than usual, and more elegant in appearance.
+Another 'innovation' is the painting. It has hitherto been usual to
+paint the under part of the carriage white or drab, relieved by the same
+colour as the body, but in the present case the whole vehicle has been
+painted a dark green, the family colour of the Lord Mayor elect,
+relieved by large lines of gold upon the body, and gold and red upon the
+under carriage. The natural elegance of this arrangement of colouring is
+heightened by the beautiful heraldic paintings of the City arms and
+those of the Fishmongers' and Spectacle Makers' Companies, of which Mr.
+Alderman Lusk is a member. These have been executed by Mr. D. T. Baker,
+the celebrated deaf and dumb artist.--_The Times_, 1883.
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF AND DUMB IN TEXAS.
+
+Deaf and Dumb men have a poor chance in Texas. One of them went to a
+farmhouse, and, when asked what he wanted, put his hand in his pocket to
+get a pencil, and he was at once shot down by the farmer, who thought
+his visitor was feeling for a pistol.
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS AND DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We are quite sure the Indians were delighted by the reception tendered
+them by the children of the public schools and the inmates of the
+Institutions for the Blind and Deaf and Dumb last Friday, in the Academy
+of Music, but their happiness was made complete, on Sunday evening, at
+the La Pierre house, by a visit which they received from six of the
+pupils, all girls, of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, accompanied by the
+Principal, Mr. Foster, and one of the teachers. On their arrival at the
+hotel they were received by Mr. Welsh, the humane commissioner, and
+shown into a well furnished private parlour, when they were introduced,
+one by one, to General Smith and his Indians, whose faces plainly showed
+the delight which their hearts felt. They at once singled out the two
+girls who had taken part in the reception at the Academy, and bestowed
+upon them special marks of friendship.
+
+Tea being announced in a few minutes, the whole party proceeded to the
+dining room, where they were seated at well spread tables, three Indians
+and one mute at each. Here the striking similarity between the signs
+used by the Indians of the West and our deaf mutes was plainly
+observable in the spirited conversation which ensued. The merry laughter
+which broke forth from these usually quiet stolid men was sufficient to
+mark their keen appreciation of what was said. One old chief, slightly
+confused, sought to excuse his awkwardness with the knife and fork to
+one of the young ladies, by stating that at home he never used them,
+but ate with his fingers. They exchanged signs for butter, coffee, milk,
+meat, bread, salt, sugar, knife, fork, &c., which were remarkably
+similar.
+
+After tea the whole party assembled in the parlour, and then began a
+scene indescribable. The Indians, wild with delight, talked away to the
+mutes, who, equally happy, seemed to catch and understand everything
+they said. They described their homes, their hunting expeditions, their
+wives and children; how they lived and how they buried their dead. One
+of them gave a very graphic account of the great snowstorms which
+frequently occur among the mountains. One told about the wars he had
+engaged in, and the number of scalps he had taken, and then asked the
+teacher if he had ever killed a man, and on receiving a reply in the
+negative, seemed quite disgusted. Another, a great rider, said that with
+them the horses had plenty of grass to eat, and were fat, but here, in
+the city, they had none, and were consequently very poor. Another old
+chief, a very fine looking man, stated that he had a large family of
+children at home, and then asked the smallest of the girls if she
+wouldn't go home with him, promising to bring her back as soon as she
+had taught his little boys and girls how to make signs like the mutes.
+
+These wild men seemed thoroughly at home in the presence of the
+children, their habitual restlessness and reserve disappeared; they had
+met for once white persons with whom they could converse without the
+tedious process of interpreting, and the conversation, as Mr. Welsh
+expressed it, went directly to their hearts. In parting with their young
+visitors, the Indians freely expressed the pleasure which their visit
+had afforded them, then sorrow at the separation, and promised to relate
+all that had occurred to their friends and kindred in the West.
+
+When it is remembered that all this and much more took place between a
+delegation of wild Indians and six mute girls attending the Institution
+in our city, it certainly will be considered remarkable, and probably
+never before in the history of civilization has such a meeting occurred.
+As a means of communication with the wild tribes roaming over our
+western plains, the capacity of the sign-language of mutes can hardly be
+over estimated, and a few well-trained mute missionaries could, without
+doubt, be made the instruments for accomplishing much good among this
+down-trodden despised race.--_New York Herald._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+EXHIBITION, 1851.
+
+At the great Exhibition in 1851 there was exhibited a set of oak tables
+and cabinet of Stanton oak, combined with glass and ormolu, etc., made
+and carved by three deaf and dumb persons; the castings by Marsh, of
+Dudley.
+
+
+
+
+A MATE FOR LAURA BRIDGMAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Hetty Hutson lives in the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a girl
+seventeen years old, who has been deaf and dumb and blind from birth.
+She is active in her nature, and has a remarkably intelligent mind.
+Through the one medium of gestures, as perceived by the touch, she
+understands wonderfully well, and in turn makes herself understood. She
+will wipe dishes and put them away with scrupulous care and exactness;
+will go down the cellar alone at her mother's bidding and get apples;
+then, running up with astonishing rapidity, will give them to anyone she
+is bid, and put her own into her pocket. At a motion from her father she
+will go upstairs and get his best hat, deciding by touching his
+broadcloth suit which hat he wants. She knits and sews in a very
+creditable style, and manifests a desire to learn to do other kinds of
+work. She is neat and orderly in her habits, and ever acts in a ladylike
+manner, while in disposition she is cheerful as a sunbeam, and as
+playful as a kitten. For about one year, at irregular intervals, a young
+minister of the name of J. B. Howell, devoted one hour each week to her
+instruction, and she made some advancement, novel as his method was; but
+in June last he went to Brazil as a missionary, since which time she has
+been without instruction until recently. She is now receiving daily
+instruction by means of the manual alphabet. It is, however, to be
+regretted that her present teacher is an entire novice in the work she
+has undertaken, but as she has large sympathy for her, and individual
+experience as to the needs of her pupil, it seems safe to hope that she
+may lay a substantial foundation, upon which some more accomplished
+person may build an education which will make this greatly afflicted
+being equal to Laura Bridgman, of world wide fame.
+
+
+
+
+A THOUGHT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
+
+Among some of the islands of the South Sea the compound word for "hope"
+is beautifully expressive; it is "manaolona" or "swimming
+thought"--"faith" floating and keeping its head aloft above water, when
+all the waves and billows are going over it--a strikingly beautiful
+definition of "hope," worthy to be set down along with the answer which
+a deaf and dumb person wrote with his pencil, in reply to the question
+"What is your idea of forgiveness?" "It is the odour which flowers yield
+when trampled on."
+
+
+
+
+DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME.
+
+David Simons, of Boston, is deaf and dumb; he is also blind; likewise he
+is lame. Penniless he is, and houseless. Finally, he is black, which may
+or may not be considered a misfortune. No,--finally he was run over by a
+team and dreadfully bruised. Yet we suppose that John Simons still
+desires to live, for he consented to be carried to a hospital.--_Deaf
+Mute Advance._
+
+
+
+
+INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
+
+(From _The Graphic_, May, 1874.)
+
+Messrs. Doulton and Co., who have done so well with stoneware,
+dignifying the simplest material by giving even to the most ordinary and
+cheapest articles shapes of real beauty, exhibit in Room 9 a most
+praiseworthy set of examples (3719) of very remarkable art and
+character, demonstrating principally possibilities of wall decoration.
+On the floor at the base of the division are some noble pieces of
+graphite stoneware contributed by Mr. Frank A. Butler, who is deaf and
+dumb.
+
+
+
+
+A YOUNG GENIUS.
+
+(From the Journal of the Society of Arts, May 1, 1874.)
+
+Another artist who has made his mark on the ware by the originality of
+his forms is Frank A. Butler. He is quite deaf and almost dumb. He is
+one of many thus heavily afflicted who have passed through the school.
+He began his artistic life as a designer of stained glass, but his
+invention was not needed, nor, I dare say, discovered in the practice of
+an art which is almost traditional. I introduced him to the new work,
+and in a few months he brought out many new thoughts from the silent
+seclusion of his mind. A bold originality of treatment, and the gift of
+invention, are characteristic of his work. He has struck out many new
+paths. A certain massing together of floral forms, and ingenious
+treatment of discs, dots, and interlacing lines indicate his hand.
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE DEMERARIAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little coloured deaf and dumb girl in Demerara came to Mrs. H----'s
+school, and wished to learn to read. It was thought impossible to teach
+her; the missionary's wife therefore shook her head, and made signs for
+her to go home. But she would take no denial; so Mrs. H---- sent to
+England for the "Deaf and Dumb Alphabet." It was astonishing how quickly
+the child was taught to read the New Testament, from which she learned
+to know Jesus as her Saviour. One day she signed to her kind teacher,
+"Missie, me too happy. You would think when me walk out that there were
+two people in the road; but it is Jesus and me. He talk and me talk, and
+we two so happy together."
+
+
+
+
+DRAUGHTS.
+
+Mr. James Wyllie (the Herd Laddie), the greatest living draught player,
+has been in Aberdeen for a whole week, playing in public against all
+comers. He played altogether 98 games, of which he won 79, lost 3, and 6
+drawn. It is worthy of notice that three of the draws were secured by
+Mr. Benjamin Price, a deaf mute, and a well known local
+player.--_Scotsman._
+
+
+
+
+THE UNWELCOME TAP.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Isabella Green was a young woman who was completely blind and deaf, and
+she was brought before a number of eminent surgeons to see if anything
+could be done for her. Her sad condition had been produced by violent
+pain in the head. The only method of communicating with her was by
+tapping her hand, which signified no, and squeezing it, which signified
+yes. The surgeons concluded that her case was incurable, and in reply to
+her earnest inquiries she received the unwelcome tap. She immediately
+burst into tears, in all the bitterness of anguish. "What!" said she,
+"shall I never see the light of day, or hear a human voice? Must I
+remain shut up in darkness and silence as long as I live?" A friend who
+was present took up a Bible and placed it to her breast. She put her
+hands on it, and asked "Is this the Bible?" Her hand was squeezed in
+reply. She immediately clasped it in her hands, and held it to her
+bosom, and exclaimed, "This is the only comfort I have left. I shall
+never be able to look upon its blessed pages, but I can think of the
+promises I have learned from it." And she then began to repeat some of
+the promises--"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee;"
+"Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee;" "My grace
+is sufficient for thee," &c. She dried her tears, and became peacefully
+submissive to the will of God.
+
+
+
+
+COROT AND HIS PUPIL.
+
+Corot the Artist had a deaf and dumb pupil. The young fellow was
+employed in copying one of his master's beautiful pencil drawings, when
+he even tried to imitate a stain of glue which was on the paper. Corot,
+when he saw it, smiled, and said, or at least wrote, "Trčs bien, mon
+ami; mais quand vous serez devant la nature; vous ne verrez pas de
+taches." "(Very well, my friend; but when you are before nature you will
+not see any stains.)"
+
+M. Jean Baptist Corot, the great French landscape painter, died February
+23rd, 1875, aged 79.
+
+
+
+
+DUMB FOR TWO YEARS.
+
+Two years ago, says the _Auburn Advertizer_, George Scott, one of a gang
+of desperadoes in New York City, committed a robbery, for which he ought
+to have received ten years in prison. When he was arrested he feigned to
+be deaf and dumb. Upon his trial he made much of his infirmity, and the
+result was that he succeeded in escaping with a sentence of two years.
+Being transferred from Sing Sing to Auburn prison, he still kept up
+appearances, by means of which he escaped from doing heavy work, but was
+assigned to duty in shoe shop No. 1 as waiter, being supposed to be fit
+for no more valuable service. He was sharp, ready and intelligent, and
+generally well behaved, though hot tempered. Keeper Bacon, under whom
+he was placed, had him always under strict surveillance, but never was
+led to suspect by anything in his conduct that he was not deaf and dumb.
+Indeed, he says that he once saw Scott, who always went in the shop by
+the name of "Dummy," so roused up and maddened by something that had
+occurred, that he thought he would go crazy, yet he gave no sign that he
+was otherwise in respect to hearing and speaking than he seemed. About
+two months ago Dummy's time was up, and he was discharged. To give him a
+start in life again, keeper Bacon hired him to do some gardening.
+Principal keeper Gallup did the same thing. He worked in this way for
+two or three weeks. While at his work children would talk to him and
+play round him, yet he was always apparently oblivious to their
+presence. But Dummy had a tongue and could use it, and his hearing was
+as keen as anybody's. One day he fell in with a fellow convict who had
+just been discharged from prison, and they went off up the street
+together, talking gaily. Captain Russell, foreman in one of the
+departments of the prison shoe shop, who was in the street, overheard
+their conversation; and on another occasion it happened that one of the
+keepers met Dummy at Louis Schuch's and talked with him for a long time.
+
+
+
+
+THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
+
+A fact without precedent has just happened at the Sorbonne. A young deaf
+mute, M. Dusuzeau, underwent recently with success the examinations for
+the degree of "Bachelor of Science." This distinguished pupil has
+answered by writing all the questions which have been put to him. This
+success, unexpected a few years ago, greatly honours the Imperial
+Institution in Paris, and is due to the high standard which its learned
+director, M. Vaisse, maintains in the studies, and to the devotedness of
+the censor, M. Valade Reoni, head master of the instruction, and who has
+been the affectionate master of M. Dusuzeau.
+
+M. Dusuzeau was married on the third of March last, at the church of St.
+Germain, l'Auxerrois, Paris, to Miss Matilda Freeman, daughter of James
+B. Freeman, Esq., of Philadelphia, in the presence of a distinguished
+circle of friends. Miss Freeman stayed in England some months in 1882,
+and is therefore well known to many of our deaf and dumb friends.
+
+
+
+
+LIKE THE COPY.
+
+Florence B----, a little girl in the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Derby,
+was painting in water colours during her leisure hours. She had been
+told to be very careful with the card she was painting, and do it
+exactly the same as the copy, and to these instructions she strictly
+adhered. When the card was finished she took it to the head master, who
+at once noticed a black spot painted on a bright flower. On being told
+she had spoilt the card with doing this, she replied "But it's like the
+copy," and at once produced it, when it was found that by some means an
+ink spot had got on the copy.
+
+
+
+
+"DRUNKEN BILLY."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A poor deaf and dumb man, who might be said to be entirely friendless in
+the world until the Institution of the Deaf and Dumb was formed at
+Derby, was continually in trouble, owing to his intemperate habits.
+"Drunken Billy," as he was called by some, had however a tender place in
+his heart, and we frequently visited him at his lodgings and assisted
+him in various ways. After a time Billy was persuaded to sign the
+temperance pledge, and began to attend the lectures and services for the
+adult deaf and dumb. For a time all went well, but one hot summer day
+one of his fellow workmen, who ought to have known better, knowing that
+Billy had signed the temperance pledge, offered him a shilling if he
+would drink a glass of ale he held in his hand. The temptation was too
+strong for Billy to resist, and having taken one, it was not easy for
+him to resist a second, and in the end poor Billy got taken up by the
+police. The head master of the Institution at Derby appeared, by
+request, to interpret the evidence, and it transpired that Billy had
+been sent to prison in the same month, June, each year, for the seven
+previous years. The magistrates however expressed their reluctance at
+sending Billy to prison, and asked him, through the interpreter, if he
+would try and keep sober, and if he would again sign the pledge; this he
+promised to do, and the magistrates on the bench not only dismissed the
+case, but each became subscribers of one guinea annually to the Deaf and
+Dumb Institution. Billy, true to his promise kept sober, and again
+attended the services for the deaf and dumb, and when nearly 70 years of
+age gave a brief lecture of his "Life's Experiences" to the deaf and
+dumb, which caused considerable amusement, especially his remarks about
+Derby fifty years ago. Billy was always thankful for the help rendered
+him by the Institution, and frequently said "If he might have his way he
+would be glad to die and get to heaven where he could hear." Poor
+Billy's life was a hard one, for death took a good wife and four little
+ones during the first ten years of his wedded life, and one by one the
+whole of his relations passed away. Billy has now done with temptation,
+and recently passed away to the majority, his last remarks bearing
+testimony to the value of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
+
+
+
+
+RAPID BICYCLE TRAVELLING.
+
+Yesterday week a young man named Sydney Cornwall, of Coventry, started
+at six o'clock in the morning for Salisbury (a distance of 128 miles) on
+a bicycle. On the morning following his friends received a letter from
+him, posted at Taunton, stating that he had reached that place and had
+yet fourteen miles to go that evening; and a subsequent letter on
+Wednesday morning informed them that he had arrived at his destination
+at six o'clock on Tuesday evening, having stopped the previous night at
+a hostelry some miles beyond Taunton. This young man is deaf and dumb,
+and his enquiries for the right road must have cost him some
+considerable time. The driving wheel of his machine is only forty inches
+in diameter.--_Bicycle News._
+
+
+
+
+HEROIC CONDUCT OF A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On Tuesday last an inquest was held by Mr. Michael Fullam, Coroner, at
+Aughaward, near Ballinale in this County, on the body of a respectable
+middle class farmer named James Prunty. It appears the deceased, a
+feeble old man of 76 years of age, went into an out-house occupied by
+his own bull for the purpose of cleaning it out, and while in the act of
+doing so, the bull broke its chain and turned on him. By the
+interposition of providence, his daughter, a deaf mute, happened to come
+that way, and looked into the bull-house, her attention having been
+attracted by seeing the door lying open; and there, at the instant her
+eyes rested on the interior, she saw her aged father tossed high in the
+air above the bull's head; when he fell on the ground the bull gored him
+with his horns, pawed him with his feet, and raged with fury. The daring
+girl--the poor deaf mute--did not hesitate for an instant, but with most
+surprising presence of mind rushed to the rescue. She caught up the old
+man's stick which she saw on the floor as she entered, and seizing the
+bull by a copper ring in his nose, she thrashed him soundly on the head.
+The struggle was terrific--it was one of life and death, both for
+herself and the old man who now lay helpless at her feet. The bull did
+not tamely submit to his chastisement, but directed his assault on the
+lone girl; he tore her from her ankle to her armpit, struck her on the
+breast, and dashed her against the wall: but still she clung with a
+death grasp to his nose, and belaboured him with the stick, until she
+finally conquered and forced the infuriated animal to yield to her
+command. She then threw away the stick, and changing the ring into her
+right hand, raised the disabled old man from the ground and carried him
+on her left arm outside the door, forced back the bull, and closed the
+door in his face. Such heroic conduct as this has seldom been manifested
+by the bravest of men, but it is almost beyond credence that the deaf
+mute who was examined before the jury through an interpreter could have
+performed such an extraordinary feat. Yet so it was, and the jurors one
+and all were thoroughly satisfied with the clear and intelligible
+description of the most minute particulars of the occurrence exhibited
+by this most wonderful girl. It is sad to say that after all her
+exertions, the poor old man died in an hour after his release from the
+bull-house. The jury handed to the coroner the following memorandum at
+the close of the proceedings:--
+
+     "We cannot separate without putting on record our entire
+     admiration of the heroic conduct of Bridget Prunty (an orphan
+     and deaf mute), who, at the risk of her life, relieved her aged
+     father, James Prunty, from the furious assault of his own bull,
+     (from the effects of which he died yesterday), by catching him
+     by a ring in his nose, and while holding him back, carried the
+     old man on her left arm out of the house in which he was
+     attacked: and we urgently recommend her to the notice of those
+     benevolent gentlemen who appreciate and reward such an act of
+     noble daring for the preservation of human life."
+
+     "Given at Aughaward, 22nd Jan., 1878,
+             BARTHOLOMEW QUINN, Foreman."
+         (For self and fellows),
+                 "M. FULLAM, Coroner."
+
+_Longford Journal._
+
+We are glad to say that on hearing of the bravery of this little deaf
+and dumb girl, Mr. Harman, M.P., at once sent £5, and many other friends
+also shewed their appreciation of the girl's conduct in a practical way.
+
+
+
+
+The following touching lines were composed by a _Deaf_ friend after
+seeing the account in the "Longford Journal":--
+
+     THE BRAVE DEAF MUTE.
+
+     The tale of bravery I tell,
+       Will your attention hold,
+     Though not performed on battle field,
+       Nor by a warrior bold.
+
+     An Irish girl, to whom the Lord
+       Nor speech nor hearing gave,
+     Tho' but a poor deaf mute was she,
+       Her heart was stout and brave.
+
+     Deaf, dumb, yes, poor and motherless,
+       Friendless and obscure;
+     Only her father left to her,
+       And he was old and poor.
+
+     A farmer he, and owned a bull,
+       That in a shed was chained,
+     For it was savage, but one day
+       Its liberty obtained.
+
+     The poor old man was unaware
+       The bull had broke its chain,
+     Until the beast upon him turned
+       Ere he the door could gain.
+
+     The dumb girl neared the open shed,
+       As she the threshold crossed;
+     Oh! dreadful sight, her father high
+       By savage bull was tossed.
+
+     She could not hear if help was nigh,
+       She could not call for aid;
+     So quick to rescue him she ran,
+       Too brave to feel afraid.
+
+     One hand she slipped within a ring,
+       That through its nose was placed;
+     And with her father's stick upraised,
+       The angry bull she faced.
+
+     Oh! then ensued a struggle, fit
+       To fill her heart with dread;
+     While at her feet her father lay,
+       To all appearance dead.
+
+     Long and fierce the battle raged
+       Between the bull and maid;
+     Nor would she yield, tho' by its horns
+       Her side was open laid.
+
+     Blow after blow upon its head,
+       With heavy stick she rained,
+     Until the savage beast was cowed,
+       And she the victory gained.
+
+     And then the stick away she threw,
+       (But held on as before,)
+     Her father with one arm she raised,
+       And slowly neared the door.
+
+     Then back into the shed she forced
+       The bull, and slammed the door,
+     While in her aching, bleeding arms,
+       Her father's form she bore.
+
+     But, sad to say, her father dear,
+       Whom thus to save she tried,
+     Had been so injured by the bull,
+       In one short hour he died.
+
+     An orphan now, alone and poor,
+       Homeless, and deaf and dumb;
+     Oh, who will help some christian friends,
+       To make for her a home?
+
+     If you who read these simple lines,
+       With speech and hearing blest,
+     And have it in your power to aid
+       And comfort the distressed,
+
+     Oh! think of this brave-hearted girl,
+       And help her in her need;--
+     With voice and pen on her behalf
+       For timely help I plead.
+
+
+
+
+A VICTORY.
+
+Peter Sims, a deaf and dumb boy, was walking past a large shop one day
+in winter, when he saw a beautiful pair of skates in the window. He had
+often wished for skates that he might skate upon the ice, and when he
+saw these he desired to have them. He looked; no one was watching; he
+thought, "I can take these skates easily, and no one will know."
+
+Before he had been sent to school this boy had been a very bad boy; he
+had often stolen little articles, but now he was learning about God, and
+he knew that God had said "Thou shalt not steal." As he stood looking at
+the skates this commandment came into his mind, and there was a struggle
+in his heart. His old bad nature said, "Take the skates;" his conscience
+answered, "No, for it is wrong to steal." At last he made the signs,
+"steal, bad, not" (he was seen, though he did not know it), and went on
+without taking them. He had gained a great victory over the temptation
+of the devil, and the next time he was so tempted the fight was not so
+severe, as sin had less power over him.
+
+
+
+
+THE QUEEN AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+Not far from Osborne House, Isle of Wight, there lives a poor man in a
+small cottage, who a few years ago had a deaf and dumb daughter, who
+used to do a great deal of knitting for the Queen. Her Majesty
+frequently visited this woman, and used to talk to her on her fingers.
+The deaf and dumb woman is now dead, and during her illness the Queen
+visited her and talked to her for her comfort. Her Majesty apologised
+that she could not now talk so fast as when she was young.
+
+
+
+
+EXAMPLE.
+
+Vauncey, a little deaf and dumb boy, was admitted to the Institution, at
+Derby, and night and morning he would watch with keen interest the other
+boys kneeling at the bed-side, and spelling on their fingers their
+prayers. In a few days the little boy learnt the alphabet, and the head
+master on going upstairs to look round, was surprised to see him
+kneeling reverently by his bed-side, eyes closed, and spelling on his
+fingers the alphabet right through. A strange prayer, the reader will
+think; but not so to our Heavenly Father, who doubtless would accept it
+as the poor boy's best offering.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE CONVERTED MUTE.
+
+During a revival of religion in one of the New England villages, a son
+of the clergyman returned home for a brief visit. The lad was a deaf
+mute, and had spent his first term in the Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+just then commencing its history. His parents having no knowledge of the
+language of signs, and the boy being an imperfect writer, it was almost
+impossible to interchange with him any but the most familiar ideas. He,
+therefore, heard nothing of the revival. But before he had been at home
+many days, he began to manifest signs of anxiety, and at length wrote
+with much labour upon his slate, "Father, what must I do to be saved?"
+His father wrote in reply, "My son, you must repent of sin, and believe
+in the Lord Jesus Christ." "How must I do this?" asked the boy again
+upon his slate. His father explained to him as well as he could, but the
+poor untaught boy could not understand. He became more than ever
+distressed; would leave the house in the morning for some retired place,
+and would be seen no more until his father went in search of him. One
+evening, at sunset, he was found upon the top of the hay, under the roof
+of the barn, on his knees, his hands uplifted and praying to God in the
+signs of the mutes. The distress of the parents was so intense, that
+they sent for one of the teachers of the Asylum, and then for another;
+but it seemed that the boy could not be guided to the Saviour of
+sinners. One afternoon the father was on his way to fulfil an engagement
+in a neighbouring town, and as he drove leisurely over the hills, the
+poor inquiring and helpless son was continually in his thoughts. In the
+midst of his supplications his heart became calm, and his long
+distracted spirit was serene in the one thought that God was able to do
+his own work. The speechless boy at length began to tell how he loved
+his Saviour, and that he first found peace on the very afternoon when
+the spirit of his father on the mountains was calmed and supported by
+the thought that what God had promised he was able to perform.
+
+
+
+
+"NOTHING BAD."
+
+On entering the school room one morning, one of the little deaf and dumb
+girls quickly turned over her slate, and colouring in the face. The
+teacher asked, "What have you been doing?" The girl signed, in reply,
+"Nothing bad, sir." On turning over the slate we found the girl had
+written "Drunkenness clothes a man with rags."
+
+
+
+
+A SAD CASE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+T---- L---- lived near Derby. Hers was a sad case--deaf, dumb, and so
+nearly blind that she had to be led about; moreover, she suffered from
+extreme weakness in the legs, and was delicate on the chest. Her father
+being dead, it was difficult for her to obtain the necessaries of life,
+and it was thought the workhouse must be her future home. The case was
+brought under the notice of the Committee of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution at Derby, who decided not to let her go into the workhouse
+without trying what could be done for her. Accordingly she came under
+their care, and gradually became stronger; but the difficulties in the
+way of her education, owing to her sight, were not easily overcome, in
+fact she had to be taught as one perfectly deaf, dumb, and blind. She
+however made good progress, and is now a good tempered, hard working
+girl, actually earning her own living. She can wash and scour and knit
+and sew quite as well as many persons blessed with the senses of sight
+and hearing. She frequently attends the meetings for the adult deaf and
+dumb, and always has something interesting to say, especially on
+religious subjects.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMAN.
+
+Among those who were ordained deacons on Trinity Sunday last year by the
+Bishop of Winchester was Mr. R. A. Pearce, who is deaf and dumb, and who
+is to devote himself specially to Missionary work among the deaf mutes
+in the diocese of Winchester. The Rev. C. M. Owen, Secretary to the
+Mission, believes that this is the first instance of a deaf and dumb man
+being ordained in the Church of England.--_Irish Ecclesiastical
+Gazette_.
+
+The Rev. R. A. Pearce has had the honour of being presented to the
+Queen. Mr. Pearce has visited the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at
+Derby.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S BEAUTIFUL ANSWER.
+
+The Rev. R. Stewart says: "I knew of a gentleman who went to a Deaf and
+Dumb Asylum to make known to the inmates the way of salvation through
+Jesus Christ. He asked questions by means of writing them on a
+blackboard. One day he wrote the question, 'What does God do with the
+sins of the people who believe in Him?' One of the lads wrote below the
+question, 'All our sins were written in God's book, but Jesus came and
+drew His bleeding hand across the pages where the sins of the people
+were entered who believe in Him; thus covering over with His own blood
+the transgressions of His people.' Was this poor deaf and dumb lad
+right? Yes, indeed, for 'The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth
+us from _all_ sin.'"
+
+
+
+
+"I MUST HELP."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following little incident will show how interested the deaf and dumb
+are in trying to help Institutions struggling to obtain monetary support
+in order to admit the numerous cases pressing for admission. A number of
+the pupils from the Institution at Derby were present at a meeting, when
+the head master was advocating its claims for support. At the close of
+the meeting a deaf and dumb young man came up and said, "I have been
+very pleased with what I saw the children do, they will soon be very
+clever. I hope the people will all help you; other people helped me to
+get a good education, now _I must help_ others who are deaf and dumb to
+go to school. I will try and collect £5 for you." True to his promise he
+did collect £5, and sent it saying, "Next year I must try and collect
+£10." A little time since he called at the Institution with the handsome
+sum of £10, which he had collected in pence from 371 persons. Several
+other deaf mutes have shown their interest by collecting £1 to £3 from
+time to time.
+
+
+
+
+CANON FARRAR WITH THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The _Washington Post_ gives an account of Canon Farrar's visit to that
+city. He was interviewed by one of their reporters as to what he thought
+of the place, and he replied that he was greatly pleased, but what
+interested him most was the Deaf Mute College. He was of opinion there
+was nothing of its kind in the world. The Canon was conducted through
+the College by Dr. Gallaudet, the president, who explained to him the
+various arrangements, after which Mr. Olof Hanson, a Swede, who has
+mastered English since the loss of his hearing, delivered orally the
+following address:--Two and a half centuries ago the Pilgrim Fathers
+laid the foundation of the nation. America may in a sense be called the
+child of England--and a well-grown child, of which she need not be
+ashamed. In visiting this country, therefore, you do not, we trust, feel
+like a stranger, but, as it were, among relatives and friends.
+Archdeacon Farrar is no stranger to us; his beautiful "Life of Christ"
+is a well-known volume in many a public and private American library,
+and there are few who have not read his noble eulogy on our departed
+hero, General Grant. As a friend then, we bid him welcome. Permit me now
+to say a few words about the instruction of the deaf in this country. In
+1817 the first deaf mute school in America was founded at Hartford,
+Connecticut; there are now upwards of sixty schools for the deaf and
+dumb in the United States, and to day more than 7000 pupils receiving
+instruction. The minds of the deaf are just like those of other people,
+and only need to be developed. Although the avenue of the ear is
+closed, through the other senses information is imparted, and sight,
+being the most convenient, is chiefly made use of in instructing the
+deaf; but to teach them persons of experience and intelligence are
+required, and to obtain such teachers money is necessary. Our Government
+has wisely recognised this, and it accordingly makes liberal provision
+for educating the deaf, as well as the hearing, all our institutions
+being supported mainly by the Government. It was long doubted that the
+deaf could master the higher branches of study, and it has been reserved
+for this college to see if they can. In this country we have the deaf as
+teachers, lawyers, chemists, artists, clergymen, editors, &c. Many take
+a most creditable rank among the hearing persons in their professions.
+Among the graduates of this college will be found some of the most
+intelligent and best educated deaf mutes in the world. The college is
+the only one of its kind in existence. Two young men from the old world
+have come all the way here to obtain an education which they could not
+get at home. They are cordially welcomed, and we hope many more will
+come until the time arrives when they have a college of their own, where
+they may acquire the advantages of a high and liberal education. Mr.
+Francis Maginn, son of the Rev. C. A. Maginn, county Cork, was then
+introduced to Canon Farrar, and his address read by Dr. Gallaudet. "As
+one of the two students from Europe just alluded to by my friend, I have
+the pleasure of welcoming my distinguished countryman, Archdeacon
+Farrar, to Washington. Having acquired the rudiments of my education in
+the metropolis of Great Britain, where you from Sunday to Sunday expound
+the unsearchable riches of Christ, and being a native of Ireland, where
+my father ministers in the Church of Ireland, it is but natural I should
+express my deep gratification that you should have come amongst my
+American brethren in affliction. I am sure, sir, that you have felt as I
+have done when coming to the great and prosperous United States, that
+the American people is one of which we may well be proud--a great and
+highly civilised people, with whom we are connected by every tie of
+blood, and every relation of business--they are a people who bear our
+civilisation, in many things improved, our language, literature, laws,
+and religion. In an educational point of view the nation is prominent,
+and her silent children have the advantages of spacious institutions,
+supported by her revenues. It is greatly to be regretted that our
+brethren in Great Britain enjoy none of these elaborate advantages of
+intellectual culture. Whilst Mr. Foster's Act benefits thousands, and
+while $15,000,000 are annually voted for the masses, one third of the
+mutes of right school age are being left uneducated. What that means,
+the English have no conception, or they would not be apathetic or
+unconcerned; no class when uneducated is more entirely cut off from all
+human intercourse than the deaf and dumb." The Canon, in reply,
+expressed his thanks for the cordial reception given him, and concluded
+with a short prayer, which was interpreted by Dr. Gallaudet, President
+of the Deaf and Dumb College.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB SOLDIERS.
+
+During the Franco-German War, an army corps of 400 deaf and dumb
+Frances-Tireurs were led to battle against the Germans.--_Paris
+Journal._
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT S. LYONS.
+
+Robert S. Lyons went about Ireland last summer visiting the deaf and
+dumb, and talking to them about Jesus. He was then home for vacation
+from America, where he had gone to study, in order to fit himself to be
+a missionary to the deaf and dumb. We all hoped that he would have
+entered on his duties as such this summer, and that many of his deaf
+country men and women would have been helped by him on the way to
+heaven. But God has ordered it otherwise. He died at his father's
+residence, near Newtownstewart, after a long and painful illness, on the
+evening of Friday, the 5th of June last.
+
+Mr. Francis Maginn, who is also deaf and dumb, went with Robert Lyons to
+America last autumn, and left his studies in the College that he might
+take care of him on the journey home, has written some reminiscences of
+his friend, of which the following is a part:--
+
+     "It was my privilege to be his companion on his return to
+     Washington, and to share the same rooms. He spent much time in
+     Bible reading and prayer. He was attacked in February last with
+     a serious illness, which he bore with wonderful patience. At
+     one time his death was expected. We sat up one night watching
+     for his last breath, but life was lengthened.
+
+     He seemed to improve for a while, and was able to go out for a
+     drive in the President's carriage. Every comfort was his,
+     supplied by the kind ladies of Dr. Gallaudet's family. Flowers,
+     books, pictures; every delicacy possible constantly sent to
+     tempt the appetite; but his strength scarcely increased.
+     Prayers were daily offered on his behalf. Even a little girl
+     prayed daily for him, and said, 'I know God will hear my
+     prayers, and he will recover.' But such was not the will of
+     God. He was sent home, and given up to my care. The voyage was
+     fine four days, when a gale arose which lasted five days, and
+     tried his strength terribly. He seemed sinking, and said, 'I
+     will not live to see my parents again.' I said, 'You will, if
+     you trust in God, and if it is His will.' When we came to see
+     lights of the Irish coast we felt joy and comfort. Arrived in
+     Londonderry he had scarcely any strength to stand. When
+     Newtownstewart was reached his relations and I knew each other
+     by our troubled and anxious faces."
+
+His sister wrote that on the last two occasions that his mother talked
+to him of his sufferings his reply each time was, "If we suffer with Him
+(Jesus), we shall reign with Him." Again, he said he left himself in the
+hands of his Lord, to take him or leave him as He pleased. He breathed
+his last in the arms of his brother John, on Friday, the 5th of June, at
+10.30 p.m. The end was so peaceful that they could not tell when the
+last breath was drawn.
+
+The funeral took place on Monday, the 8th, when the long procession of
+vehicles, some forty or fifty in number, bore testimony to the love and
+respect with which he was regarded in his own neighbourhood. Next after
+the chief mourners walked Samuel Carrigan and young M'Causland, two deaf
+mutes who loved and honoured him. Many others would have been present
+also, had it been in their power, for Robert had the love and regard of
+all the deaf and dumb who knew him.
+
+
+_Copy of a letter given to R. S. Lyons on leaving America, by Dr.
+Gallaudet, President of the College:--_
+
+     National Deaf Mute College, Kendal Green,
+         Near Washington.
+
+     MY DEAR ROBERT,--I want to give you more than a mere "good-bye"
+     in words, as you take your leave of us. I want to tell you how
+     much I have been pleased with your course here as a student,
+     how gratified I have been to see your pleasantness in your
+     work, and how thoroughly you have won my respect and esteem;
+     and then want to add that your patience and cheerfulness under
+     the heavy cross of extreme illness has made you seem a real
+     hero. It is an added pleasure to think that this heroism is of
+     that sort which those sons of men alone exhibit who are filled
+     with the spirit of our good and glorious leader, Christ. I
+     believe, dear Robert, that you have that spirit, truly and
+     fully, and I am sure it will sustain you in all future work. As
+     you go far away over the ocean to your home, to your loved
+     ones, and to that work which God will give you to do, my
+     prayers will follow you daily that God will give you health and
+     strength to do His will, and, above all, that the "peace of
+     God" which passeth knowledge may fill your soul. Wishing you
+     every blessing that earth and heaven can bestow,--I am, yours
+     in loving friendship,
+
+     E. M. GALLAUDET.
+
+
+
+
+HELEN SILVIE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Helen Silvie was a Scotch girl. She was born in the village of Dunblane,
+situated on the beautiful banks of the river Allan.
+
+She lost her hearing by fever when about five years of age, and two
+years after she was sent to the Edinburgh Institution for the Education
+of the Deaf and Dumb.
+
+She was a very shy child, and would not speak any words after she became
+deaf, so she soon forgot how to do so, and when her education was begun,
+she was nearly like a child born deaf.
+
+For a time she was peevish and discontented; her mind was dark. But so
+soon as she began to understand, it was as if light shone into her mind,
+and she became cheerful and happy like her companions.
+
+At first she did not seem very clever. But after two years she began to
+improve fast, and soon was one of the best pupils in the Institution.
+She was very amiable and affectionate, and a great favourite with her
+companions.
+
+When she grew up she became an assistant in the school, she taught one
+of the junior classes in the early part of the day, and instructed the
+girls in sewing in the evenings. For some years she was thus usefully
+employed. But her brother wished her to go and live with him, and keep
+house for him at Bannockburn, and she consented and left the
+Institution.
+
+After a time Helen wished to return to the Institution. So she wrote a
+letter to a friend and asked her to find out if she would be allowed to
+become a teacher again. But the Superintendent of the Institution was
+ill, and no answer was sent to her letter. Then Helen thought she would
+go herself to the Institution and see if they would employ her. It was
+winter. She set out from Stirling in a steamer on the last day of the
+year 1845, and arrived at Granton Pier at night. It was dark. A
+gentleman offered to conduct her up the pier, but he did not know the
+way. He should have turned to go towards the town, but he led her
+straight on. They came to the edge of the pier, and in an instant both
+were plunged into the sea. They were soon picked up, and carried to the
+hotel. Helen soon seemed quite well, and she was sent on to the
+Institution. She felt so happy at being again among her old friends that
+she did not soon go to bed. She thought herself much better than she
+was. She caught a very bad cold. In a few days inflammation of the lungs
+came on. Her sufferings were very great, but, she bore them patiently;
+and on Sabbath morning, the 18th of January, 1846, her spirit took its
+flight to her Saviour's bosom.
+
+Her pastor, who visited her on her death-bed, was much pleased to see
+how fully she trusted in Jesus. He said of her after she died "I think
+of her as one of the spirits of the just made perfect."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A CAT ASSISTING A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN.
+
+The chill wind was moaning, the rain falling drearily, and day darkening
+rapidly, when a lady might have been seen walking along quickly through
+Eccles Street. She was thinking of home, with its bright warm fire, and
+how soon she could get in out of the cold and wet.
+
+Suddenly she stopped, as a feeble cry arrested her footsteps, and
+looking round, she perceived a cat crouched against some steps. The
+storm was beating on the poor harmless creature, and night coming on.
+
+The lady did not turn away and hurry on, as some selfish people would
+have done, but pitied and called the poor cat. It looked so forlorn, and
+gave a frightened glance in her face. Gaining courage from what it saw
+there, it trusted her, and jumped up, curled its tail over its back, and
+trotted contentedly after her. The lady went on. When she looked back
+now and then, there was pussy trotting steadily behind.
+
+Presently the lady knocked at a hall door, and when it was opened they
+passed into a bright room, and pussy sat down to dry before a warm fire,
+where two other cats, sleek and well fed, kept her company. Well, our
+puss, whose name was "Gipsy," very soon was lapping a saucer of warm
+milk. After that she looked at the fire, and winked her eyes until she
+fell asleep.
+
+Sarah Darby, who is deaf and dumb, was at that time living in this
+house. Pussy became very fond of Sarah, and liked to sit in her lap
+because she was kind to it. Now Sarah did not think a cat could help
+her, but she knew that God commands us to be kind to helpless creatures,
+and He always rewards us when we obey Him.
+
+You will wonder how a cat could help anyone, so I will tell you.
+Sometimes Sarah was alone in the house, and when a knock came to the
+hall door there was no one to tell her but puss, and puss did so. How?
+She jumped down off Sarah's lap, and looked up in her face every time a
+knock came, and after the door had been opened got on her lap again, and
+waited for the next one. So this is how the cat helped the deaf and dumb
+woman.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.
+
+At a meeting in aid of the deaf and dumb held in Dundee, at which Lord
+Panmure presided, a number of deaf and dumb children were present and
+put through an examination. The question was put on the blackboard, "Who
+is the greatest living statesman of Great Britain?" One of the boys
+instantly wrote, "The Earl of Shaftesbury." The chairman patted the boy
+on the head, and asked, "Why do you think the Earl of Shaftesbury is the
+greatest living statesman?" The boy answered, "Because he cares a great
+deal for the like of us deaf mutes."
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB LADY'S IDEA OF MUSIC.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A lady who graduated from the Institution at New York some years ago,
+was questioned as to the capacity of the deaf to enjoy music; she wrote:
+"I think all deaf persons have an idea more or less vague of musical
+sounds. It comes to all who cannot hear through the sense of touch. The
+vibrations of the chords of a piano, when strongly played, are
+sufficient to produce real enjoyment by means of feeling to one who can
+touch the case merely. The soft, tremulous notes, even convey an
+impression through the nerves, similar, I fancy, to that which others
+obtain through the ear. But the real music for us comes through the eye.
+The rippling of waves, the tremulous vibration of leaf and blossom and
+twig, all these sights make for us a harmony perhaps as perfect as the
+most finished orchestra."
+
+
+
+
+HALF A SCORE DEAF MUTES.
+
+On Tuesday evening last the Stamford Corn Exchange was crowded with
+people eager to see half a score little deaf mutes from the Institution
+at Derby. The children--six boys and four girls--caused considerable
+amusement, and also pain to think they should be so afflicted. The
+youngsters can draw, read, and write in a way that is surprising, and
+some of the faces were marked by unusual brightness and
+intelligence.--_Stamford Mercury_, Sep. 18th, 1884.
+
+
+
+
+A DUMB DOG.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A deaf and dumb lady living in a German city, had, as a companion, a
+younger woman, who was also deaf and dumb. They lived in a small set of
+rooms opening on the public corridor of the house. Somebody gave the
+elder lady a dog as a present. For some time, whenever anybody rang the
+bell at the door, the dog barked to call the attention of his mistress.
+The dog soon discovered, however, that neither the bell nor the barking
+made any impression on the women, and he took to the practice of merely
+pulling one of them by the dress with his teeth, in order to explain
+that some one was at the door. Gradually the dog ceased to bark
+altogether, and for more than seven years before his death he remained
+as mute as his two companions.
+
+
+
+
+"CLEANSING FROM SIN."
+
+Matthew Jones, a poor deaf and dumb boy, once wrote the meaning of Jesus
+Christ's blood washing away sin. Being asked if he was afraid God would
+punish him for his sins, he wrote this answer, "No, for when God sees my
+name down in His book, and all the things I have done wrong, and all
+that I have left undone, there will be a long account; but He won't be
+able to read it, because Jesus Christ's bleeding hand will have blotted
+all the account out, and He would see nothing on that page but the
+Saviour's blood, for I have asked Him to wash all my sins away."
+
+
+
+
+THE BIBLE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+The following is taken from the British and Foreign Bible Society's
+Report for 1885, being an extract from one of their agents in Belgium
+named Gazan:--"For the last fourteen years Gazan has been in the habit
+of getting shaved by a barber who also keeps a drinking saloon. Though
+not a member of a temperance society Gazan is an abstainer, and is none
+the less welcome, and he occasionally is able to sell to persons who
+frequent the place. One day last year when the barber's shop was full, a
+man was there who had often prevented people buying, and when Gazan left
+began to say all the harm he could of him. This he heard from the
+barber's wife, who expressed great annoyance at it. Some time after a
+young man, deaf and dumb, called upon Gazan and gave him to understand
+he wanted a Bible. With the aid of a pencil they carried on a
+conversation, in the course of which Gazan showed him several passages
+marked in the Bible. This was on a Sunday morning, and in the afternoon
+the deaf and dumb young man came back to attend the service, for which
+Gazan lends his room; and he continued to come Sunday after Sunday, when
+by signs and giving him passages to read he was interested in the
+service. He was introduced to the deaf and dumb evangelist in Brussels,
+and having found work as a printer, is living there now, lodging at the
+house of M. Crispells, who holds the service at Louvain. On Christmas
+Day he went to Louvain to see Gazan, and showed him a number of texts
+which had been pointed out to him during his former visits, and showed
+remarkable familiarity with the Scriptures. This deaf and dumb young man
+is no other than the son of the man above referred to, who had spoken
+against him in the barber's shop. The conversion of his son has had a
+remarkable effect upon him; he is now quite a changed man, and does all
+he can to assist Gazan and to induce people to buy his books."
+
+
+
+
+CORK TEMPERANCE EXHIBITION.
+
+The following were won by deaf mutes:--Both certificate and prize, E.
+Morgan, for painted album; A. Corkey, doll's dress; B. Henderson, same;
+J. Giveen, stitching; J. O'Sullivan, knitting; G. Seabury, laundry work.
+Also, prizes were won by J. Armstrong, handwriting; L. Corkey, texts in
+Bible album; E. Phibbs, doll's suit; E. Gray, knitting. A Bible album
+made by deaf mutes at Cork was much admired. Each page has a picture
+with a great many texts written round it.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD INFLUENCE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A few years since an aged man, who had long been a sincere and devoted
+christian, was placed in the same ward in the Infirmary of N----with a
+deaf and dumb youth. The former received and enjoyed the visits of the
+chaplain, whilst the latter was considered inaccessible to instruction.
+An arrangement was at length made for the good old man to partake of the
+sacrament of the Lord's Supper, when he made, as it appeared to the
+chaplain and matron, the singular request that the young mute might
+partake of it with him. A secret was then divulged which had been known
+only to the two patients themselves. Having spent a long period of time
+together, the old man had improved the opportunity thus afforded to
+effect intercourse with the youth by signs, and had been enabled, by the
+Divine blessing, to convey to him a knowledge of salvation through a
+crucified Redeemer. There appeared every reason to believe that the
+poor fellow possessed an enlightened understanding and a renewed mind,
+and he was allowed to participate in the desired privilege.
+
+Shortly after this the old man died, and when the youth was made
+sensible of the event, his countenance brightened with joy; he waved his
+hand and pointed up to the sky to intimate that he was gone into heaven.
+After a time the mute followed his kind friend and instructor. When he
+felt himself dying, he first put his fingers in his ears and took them
+out again, to show that his ears would be unstopped; he then put out his
+tongue and pointed to heaven, to show that that would be unloosed.
+
+These facts were communicated to a friend by the matron of the
+Infirmary--herself an eminent christian, who has since died, and who did
+not doubt that the youth had obtained a correct and experimental
+knowledge of the gospel of salvation.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB MAN IN THE REVISION COURT.
+
+On Thursday afternoon a singular scene was witnessed during the
+proceedings of the Revision Court, at Ashton-under-Lyne. A man named
+James Booth, of 3, Dog Dungeon, Hurst polling district, was objected to
+by the Conservatives, and Mr. Booth, their solicitor, announced that the
+man was deaf and dumb, but just able to utter a monosyllable now and
+then. Mr. Chorlton, the Liberal solicitor: What can I do (laughter)? Mr.
+Booth first by writing asked what the man's name was, and then began to
+talk to him with his fingers, but being an indifferent chirologist he
+made very poor progress. He had merely elicited that the man was the
+owner when Mr. Chorlton began to grow impatient, and inquired, Why
+don't they both go to the Isle of Man for a week (laughter)? Nothing
+more could be got out of the man except a "yes" or "no" after questions
+had been patiently propounded by Mr. Booth in the dactyologic alphabet.
+At length the Barrister spied a rent book, and this was pounced upon and
+the vote allowed very joyfully, to save further trouble. The dumb man
+then spake, stuttering, and with great effort, I claim my expenses. Mr.
+Chorlton: He's got those words all right, at any rate (laughter.) Mr.
+Booth: He can talk a little but hear nothing. Recourse was again had by
+Mr. Booth to his digits, and he interpreted to the court that the man
+was a hat body maker, and wanted 5s. 6d. The Barrister: I will allow 5s.
+The money was handed to the man, and he went away smiling.--_Newcastle
+Journal._
+
+
+
+
+JULIA BRACE.
+
+Julia Brace, a deaf, dumb, and blind woman, who died in August, 1884, in
+her seventy-eighth year, was well known all over America, at least
+wherever attention has been paid to the education of deaf mutes. In the
+year 1810, when about four years old, she lost her sight and hearing
+from malignant sickness. At that time there was no school for deaf
+mutes. It was not until after she was turned nineteen years that she
+entered school, and she remained there between twenty and twenty-five
+years. During her long stay at the school her case always attracted
+particularly interesting attention on the part of visitors. In many ways
+she could render much service in the daily work of the Institution. She
+could even distinguish clothes belonging to different pupils, and was
+therefore employed in sorting and putting them away. She had a good many
+curious and amusing ways. For instance, when girl-pupils, dressing, took
+their turns before the looking glass to comb up their hair, she always
+insisted on having her turn, and would stand there to comb hers like any
+one else. But one thing was noticeable. She had a very clear notion of
+her own rights, and would not allow any interference with them.
+Sometimes her idea of a personal right was rather out of a common
+course, but she had no question about it, and probably could not see how
+any one should have.
+
+Her case is not to be compared with that of Laura Bridgman, who
+possessed mental powers of a higher order. She had not got the benefit
+of early, assiduous, and special care that was given to the latter, and
+probably she had a much less acute mental constitution at the outset of
+her education. Her education began late, and at a time when very little
+was known of the proper way of education for a case like hers; and she
+consequently did not make much progress in language. However, it has
+been found quite easy to communicate with her as to all the common
+events of her daily life.
+
+
+
+
+"AN AMUSING STORY."
+
+Here is an amusing story hailing from Munich. During the past year the
+professor of Aesthetics in the University, whose lectures are
+proverbially wearisome, delivered his lectures (as usual) to a scanty
+audience. There were five students in all, who, week by week, melted and
+grew "beautifully less," until at last but one was left. This solitary
+individual, however, seemed to concentrate in his own person all the
+diligence, application, and punctuality of his frivolous fellows. At the
+conclusion of the last lecture of the course the professor approached
+him and praised him for these admirable qualities, and proceeded to
+inquire of him, "What is your name, my young friend?" No answer. "What
+country are you from?" Absolute silence. The matter was soon elucidated,
+for it was discovered that the patient and persevering disciple was a
+poor deaf mute, who had taken refuge from the severe cold of winter in
+the warm lecture rooms of the University.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following is extracted from "The Christian Leader":--At a Christmas
+competition of blind readers which took place on Friday and Saturday,
+21st and 22nd December, 1883, in the Mission Hall in Bath Street,
+Glasgow, was found a blind deaf mute among the blind hearing
+competitors. Educated when young in the Institution for the Deaf and
+Dumb, he was able to do for himself until he lost his sight two or three
+years ago. He had then to make use of his fingers in reading as well as
+speaking; and in spite of the formidable difficulties in the way of his
+learning the embossed type, he made a most creditable appearance on
+Saturday and gained a special prize. The remark made by one of the
+examiners when this man was reading will, we are sure, express the
+thought of all who peruse these lines--"How thankful to God we ought to
+be for the use of our faculties, and especially for this precious
+blessing of sight!" This blind deaf mute is Mr. Daniel Hunter Ardrossan,
+one of the members of the Ayrshire Deaf and Dumb Mission.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S HEROISM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon several gentlemen standing on
+Vine Street Wharf witnessed an act which was highly commendable. Thomas
+Hall, a lad of nine years, having strayed from his parents, was at play
+upon the wharf mentioned, when his foot slipped and he was precipitated
+into the strong tide of the Delaware. A deaf mute named Argus Cornish,
+an eccentric genius, who does odd jobs along the wharves, and who, an
+outcast himself, seems to take pleasurable pride in protecting others,
+and has already saved several lives, although standing with his back to
+the scene of accident, seemed, as his name implied, to have a hundred
+eyes. Without any hesitation he stripped off his coat and shoes, and
+plunging into the water, in a short time brought the boy safe to land.
+Argus' heroism should not be overlooked.--_American Paper._
+
+
+
+
+THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+Mr. Gladstone, on being presented with the freedom of the Worshipful
+Company of Turners, gave an address from which the following is an
+abstract:--
+
+I went a few days ago to examine the collection of works prepared at
+Messrs. Doulton's Pottery to be sent to the Exhibition at Philadelphia.
+Those works were delightful for the eye to behold. They were also highly
+satisfactory on the distinct ground that the price of production
+appeared to be so moderate; but, most of all were they delightful to me,
+because they were true products of the soil. There was a high faculty of
+art as it seemed to me developed in the production of those works, and
+that faculty of art had grown up in Lambeth. It was the Lambeth School
+of Art from which Messrs. Doulton derived an abundant supply of workers
+to whom they could intrust the preparation of those admirable objects.
+Among the works I would mention one. It was a beautiful piece of work
+produced by a youth who from his birth was both deaf and dumb. Now,
+consider what it is to be deaf and dumb; what a cutting off of
+resources; what a stinting of the means of training and improvement; and
+then consider, notwithstanding this, how it was through an inborn
+resolution in the centre of his being it was in the power of this lad to
+make himself a producer of works that could command admiration on the
+score of beauty, again showing how the energies, if rightly directed,
+can be forthcoming when required.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL'S DREAM.
+
+(WRITTEN BY HERSELF.)
+
+I had a dream on the 26th of January. I was going for rolls, and going
+back I met Gracie, a friend of mine, and she and I spoke quite well--we
+were not deaf and dumb. A poor boy, very ragged, carried a basket with
+some coloured glasses and stones, very bright, and some curious musical
+instruments that I had never seen before. He walked behind us, and he
+called to Gracie, and she turned to him, and he said to her that he
+wanted her to buy many of them; that they were a penny each. We took
+them up and looked at them, and they were very curious. She chose a
+bright red one for a brooch, and bought it for a penny. Then he said to
+me "Will you buy some?" But I did not want to be tempted to buy, and he
+told me a great deal about its very beautiful sounds; that it was more
+beautiful than all the others, and nothing could be more beautiful to
+hear in this world, and he showed me how to play on it, and we heard
+beautiful sounds. So I changed my mind, and wanted it very much, because
+I could hear it. Then I saw a policeman come up to us because he heard
+the beautiful music; and he laughed very much, and looked so very happy.
+I said to the poor boy, "Thank you very much for your showing me how to
+play on it." And he was very glad as he went away. Gracie went home, and
+I went home, carrying my glass organ with me.
+
+The above appears to us specially interesting; it is a curious
+circumstance that a deaf and dumb girl should seem to hear sound in her
+sleep.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB COUNCILLOR.
+
+Kapotrine Moller, a Russian Councillor of State, son of General Moller,
+and nephew of the tutor to the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, has
+just died at the age of eighty-three. He himself, his brother, and
+sister were all born deaf and dumb. He was educated in the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution in St. Petersburg, rapidly learnt to read, and showed such
+ability that he was first admitted into the Imperial Chancery and
+afterwards into the Council of State.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS MOTHER.
+
+Zachariah was a deaf and dumb boy, thirteen years of age, who was being
+educated in an Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, after an absence of
+four years he went home to see his mother. When he entered her house, in
+company with his benefactor, she was sitting in a state of intoxication,
+which greatly affected him. He took his pencil, and thus attempted to
+show her the evil and danger of such conduct, and gave her much good
+advice. After retiring with his friend, at whose house he went to lodge,
+his countenance became very sorrowful, and the tears trickled down his
+cheeks. His friend asked him the occasion of all this, when he wrote
+"that he was thinking if he got to heaven how sorry he should be not to
+find his mother there."
+
+
+
+
+SPEED OF MANUAL SPELLING.
+
+[Illustration: The Manual Alphabet]
+
+In reply to a question "What is the number of words a good hand speaker
+can make or say in one minute?" A deaf mute says, "Take the average
+number of letters per word of the English language as five; this is the
+number decided upon by the Postal Telegraph department. The average of
+the Bible is about 4-1/8."
+
+A good hand speaker can go through the alphabet ten times in one minute.
+I have proved this by personally testing several deaf mutes.
+
+The pauses between words occupy the space of one letter each, so we must
+deduct one sixth of the whole thus:--
+
+     Letters in alphabet                       26
+     Number of times spelt                     10
+                                              ___
+     Total letters per minute                 260
+     Deduct about one sixth for pauses         45
+                                              ___
+     Average letters per minute               215÷5
+                                              ---
+         Result        43 words per minute.
+
+
+
+
+PORTOBELLO SWIMMING CLUB.
+
+On the mornings of Wednesday and Thursday the deep-diving medal of this
+club was competed for by five members. The depth of water varied from 13
+to 18 feet. Mr. Robert Smith was very successful in recovering the
+plates from the bottom, bringing up six on the first and two on the
+second morning, with which number he secures first honours. The second
+place was taken by Mr. J. Wallace James. Mr. Smith, the medallist, is
+deaf and dumb.--_Scotsman_, Aug. 29th.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+"DEAR TAMMAS."
+
+A poor old deaf man resided in Fife; he was visited by his minister
+shortly after coming to his pulpit. The minister said he would often
+call and see him; but time went on, and he did not visit him again until
+two years after, when, happening to go through the street where the deaf
+man was living, he saw his wife at the door, and could therefore do no
+other than inquire for her husband. "Weel, Margaret, how is Tammas?"
+"None the better o'you," was the curt reply. "How, how, Margaret,"
+inquired the minister. "Oh, ye promised twa years syne tae ca' and pray
+once a fortnight wi' him, and hae ne'er darkened the door sin' syne."
+"Weel, weel, Margaret, don't be so short! I thought it was not so very
+necessary to call and pray with Tammas, for he is so deaf ye ken he
+canna hear me." "But, sir," said the woman, with a rising dignity of
+manner, "the Lord's no deaf!" And it is to be supposed the minister felt
+the power of her reproach.
+
+
+
+
+ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY EXHIBITION FOR 1880.
+
+John S. Rennie Reid, a young Aberdeen lad, now resident in Edinburgh,
+who, though labouring under the great disability of being deaf and dumb,
+has for some years back been an enthusiastic art student, has succeeded
+in procuring admission for three oil paintings, each of which gives good
+indication of his deftness and skill in the delineation of nature, and
+the ardour with which he has followed up his studies. "Hide and Seek"
+represents some children playing at that game in a hay field. "Largo,
+the Beach at Low Water" gives us a pretty coast scene, with figures on
+the beach. "Baiting the Line" is a very effective study of a common
+incident in fisher life.
+
+
+
+
+IN DERBY POLICE COURT.
+
+[Illustration: PUPIL AS TAKEN FROM THE POLICE COURT.]
+
+A few years since the Head Master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
+Derby was sent for, with a request that he would hasten to the police
+court to see what could be done with a little deaf and dumb boy. The
+sketch is a faithful picture of the little fellow as he stood in the
+dock charged with stealing. The police, in giving their evidence, said
+that many complaints had been made of the boy's conduct. One lady
+complained of his illusing her dog, another a cat, and another killing
+her bird; others that he was always throwing stones or stealing, and
+that he had actually tried to upset a railway train. It appeared that
+twice previously the boy had been taken up by the police, but owing to
+his tender age nothing could be done with him. The Mayor, addressing the
+Head Master of the Institution, said something must be done with the
+boy; unfortunately he was getting worse and worse; the case was a very
+sad one, the boy being deaf and dumb, but the public must be protected.
+The other magistrates present concurred with the Mayor's remarks, and
+after consulting with Mr. Bailey, J.P., Chairman of the Committee of the
+Institution, who was on the bench at the time, the boy was sent direct
+to the Institution, where food was given to him, after which his
+photograph was taken. The sketch given on the previous page is copied
+from it. The boy settled down, but not without giving considerable
+trouble; it was not to be expected that a boy, though so tender in years
+yet hardened in bad habits, should at once conform to the rules of the
+Institution. The teachers were not, therefore, greatly surprised to find
+him early one morning prowling in a quarter of the Institution to which
+he had no proper means of access. From time to time his teachers had
+difficulties to contend with not easy to describe. There has, however,
+been a gradual improvement in the boy's life and character. The sketch
+given above is from a photograph taken when the boy had been in the
+Institution one year.
+
+[Illustration: THE SAME PUPIL AFTER ONE YEAR'S TRAINING.]
+
+
+
+
+AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA BRIDGMAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We presume most of our readers will have read of Laura Bridgman, who is
+without any perfect sense except that of touch. A correspondent of the
+"Christian Union" gives an interesting account of an afternoon spent
+with her, from which we make the following abstract:--
+
+If any one supposes that by reason of her deprivation she is queer or
+awkward in person or manners, he is altogether in error. There is
+nothing at all singular in her appearance. When I entered the parlour, a
+member of the family with whom she lives was playing on the piano, and
+close behind her, on a low seat, there was a very slight, very erect,
+quiet, self-possessed looking person, who seemed to be listening to the
+music, while her hands were busy over some crocheting or some similar
+work. She would have been taken for a guest who was fashioning some
+pretty article whilst being entertained with music. The expression of
+her face was bright and interested; and one watching her satisfied look
+would have been slow to believe that she did not hear. The green shade
+over her eyes indicated that she was one of the blind. She had on a
+brown dress, a blue ribbon at the neck, a gold ring and chain, and a
+watch or locket in her belt--a neatly attired, genteel, lady-like
+person, looking about thirty-five (though her age is not far from
+forty-four), with soft, brown hair, smooth and fine, a well shaped head,
+fair complexion, and handsome features. That was Laura. As soon as she
+learned that she had a visitor who knew people in the town where her
+nearest kindred live, she came swiftly across the room, leaving her work
+on the centre table as she passed it, and grasped my hand, laughing with
+the eagerness of a child. Then she sat down face to face with the lady
+who has charge of her, and commenced an animated conversation, by the
+manual alphabet, easily understood by one who has practised it; but the
+slight-of-hand by which the fingers of the friendly hostess,
+manipulating on Laura's slender wrists, communicated with that living
+consciousness shut in there without one perfect sense except of taste
+and touch, was something mysterious, inscrutable to my duller sense. Yet
+that the communication was definite, quick, missive, so to speak,
+manifest enough, for Laura's face beamed, and she was all alert. Partly
+by the letters and partly by signs she said a great deal to me. She
+"ought to be at home to be company for mother," she said; and, once or
+twice, she fashioned the word "Mamma" very distinctly with her lips. She
+asked if I knew a member of her family now dead, and said "that was a
+long year after Carl died." She seemed brimming over once with things to
+tell me, and wanted me to know about her teaching some of the blind
+girls to sew, which she takes great pride in, threading the needle, and
+making her pupils pick out their work if it is not done nicely. She is a
+good seamstress herself, does fancy work, and can run a sewing machine.
+Next, she caught hold of my hand and led me up two flights of stairs to
+her room to shew me her things; but the first movement was to take me to
+the window, where she patted on the glass and signified that I should
+see what a pleasant prospect there was from it. And there she, who had
+never seen or heard, waited by my side in great content while I looked
+and listened. Yet her face was radiant, and she stood there as if she
+both saw and heard. I wish I could bring before all those who are
+discontented with their lot, repining because God has withheld something
+from them or taken something away, the cheerful face of this lady, who
+has so little, but who accepts it as though she had all, who has never
+seen a human countenance or heard a human voice, who in the infinite
+glory and beauty of this outward world has no part, shut in by herself
+in that silent, dark, unchanging, awful loneliness. Next she showed me
+how springy her bed was. Then she took off my shawl, and showed me all
+the pretty things and conveniences she had in her room, opening every
+box and drawer, and displaying the contents. Her jet chain she laid
+against her neck, her bows and collars and embroidered hand-kerchiefs
+were taken up one by one, and deftly replaced in their proper
+receptacles. Her writing materials, sewing implements, little
+statuettes, trinkets, large Bible--I had to see them all. Lastly she
+took out a sheet of paper, pressed it down on a French writing-board,
+examined the point of the pencil, and wrote her autograph, "God is love
+and truth. S. N. Bridgman." And then from her needle-case and spool-box
+produced a cambric needle and fine cotton, and showed me how to thread a
+needle, which was done by holding the eye against the tip of her tongue,
+the exquisite nicety of touch in it guiding her to pass the thread
+through. It was done in an instant, though it seemed impossible to do it
+at all, and then she presented me the threaded needle triumphantly,
+having secured it by slipping a knot. Going down to the parlour again,
+she told me how kind it was in Dr. Howe to fit her up such a pretty
+room; and then I must go into the school room, whither she led me by the
+hand, and introduced me to several of her friends among the pupils, and
+when I took my departure she would have the teacher go with me to the
+door to tell me which car to take.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY'S DEVOTION.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Under the trees standing by the left bank of the Thames, and sheltered
+from its waters by a mound of earth, is an old but comfortable
+boathouse. A few roughly-hewn steps lead from the mound to the water's
+edge, where some six or seven boats rock idly on the surface. Over the
+door of this tottering mansion hangs a wooden board, with the words
+"Timothy Gainsad" inscribed in large letters upon a black ground. A gush
+of light and warmth issuing from the door guides the weary traveller to
+a haven worthy of his choicest desires. Well can I remember the dark
+outline of St. Paul's Cathedral, lifting its rounded dome in massive
+grandeur to the skies, and the faint outline of the opposite bank
+shining dimly in the distance. I remember, when a lad of seven, a rich
+and influential lady coming down from Yorkshire to spend the winter
+months in London. She brought with her a dumb boy attendant, whom she
+had adopted and treated with the greatest kindness. One dark night she
+hired a boat, and rowed out upon the river. Scarcely was she lost in the
+river mist ere the flood gates of heaven were opened, the rain came down
+in torrents, the waves dashed against our rude pier and threatened to
+dislodge it, while now and then an occasional streak of lightning,
+accompanied by a clap of thunder, lit up the dark surface of the river.
+My friends had gone off in a boat in search of the lady, and I was alone
+in the room. Seated on a stool by the side of a blazing fire, I was
+reading an interesting novel, when the door was violently pushed, and
+the dumb attendant of the young lady rushed in, seized a life belt from
+the wall, and made for the door. I ran to intercept him; but guessing my
+purpose, he raised the stool and brought it down with a crash upon my
+head. I staggered back to the wall and fell, and he disappeared through
+the door. With a reeling head I tottered to the door, and looked out
+upon the river. "Great heavens!" I exclaimed, "he will be dashed to
+pieces!" For there, revealed by a flash of lightning, was the dumb boy,
+standing on the rail of the bridge, preparing to plunge into the surging
+waters below. A short distance from the bridge was the boat occupied by
+the terrified lady. It was fast sinking, and as he plunged from the
+bridge it sank. I saw him come to the surface, stunned and bleeding; I
+saw him raise the life-belt in his hand, and throw it to his mistress.
+She caught it, and his face lit up with joy; then--he sank! His mistress
+was saved, and some time after the dumb boy's lifeless body was washed
+to the shore, and laid in an honourable grave. Over it stands a
+beautiful angel of white marble, holding a scroll inscribed with these
+words:--"Here lies Gustavus Arisild, who died in the surging waters of
+the Thames to save his mistress."
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF MUTE'S FAITH.
+
+One day a minister's servant brought a subscription book and laid it on
+his study table, saying, "A dumb man brought it, sir." On looking at the
+book, a thought struck the minister that he should not let that dumb
+man out of his house without seeking his soul's good. He invited the man
+in, and after kneeling in prayer before the man, and putting a
+subscription into his hand, the following conversation took place in
+writing. The minister wrote: "My dear friend, have you found the Lord
+Jesus Christ to be precious to your soul? Are you born again?" The dumb
+man answered, "Yes, I understand what is meant by 'born of the Spirit,'
+it means a 'new creature' in Jesus." The minister was not quite
+satisfied with the answer, and therefore he asked, "When were you made a
+'new creature,' and how?" He answered, "I was under the impression of
+sin six years ago, but I prayed to God for Christ's sake to give me a
+new heart, and I felt joy and peace in my mind. I prayed O Lord, have
+mercy on me a poor sinner. I also read the Psalms of David." In order to
+bring out distinctly whether he really arrived at scriptural peace, for
+he feared that, after all, the dumb man's faith might turn out to be
+only a vague and wavering confidence, the minister asked him again "If
+God were to call you away this night, would your sins be brought against
+you, and would you have to answer for them all?" He answered, "I trust
+in God for Christ's sake, because Jesus died for me. All those who trust
+in Jesus' precious blood are cleansed from all sin. He is mighty to
+save." The minister then asked, "Was it through the instruction you got
+at the Deaf and Dumb Institution that these good impressions were made
+upon your mind?" He answered, "My teacher used to teach the Bible to all
+deaf and dumb pupils, but I did not feel any grace from God till I was
+afraid to meet God for sins; then I looked to Christ by faith and got
+peace." The minister then asked, "Will you write a sentence for me to
+read to poor sinners, from a dumb man that cannot speak?" He then wrote
+as follows--words which he meant to be used by the reader:--
+
+     "O Lord, have mercy upon me a poor sinner!"
+     "O Jesus, save me from death and hell!"
+     "O Jesus, take me away to heaven and eternal bliss!"
+     "O Jesus, take care of me every day!"
+
+"Will you sign your name to all this?" then asked the minister. He
+immediately complied with the request. We only give the initials J----
+G----.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.
+
+An examination of students who were deaf, dumb, and blind took place on
+Washington Heights. The principal, Dr. Isaac L. Peet, gave various
+interesting exhibitions of their skill and accomplishments. A blind,
+deaf, and dumb boy, about fourteen years old, who had had less than a
+year's instruction, was given an order to count out twenty crayons and
+put them under a mat. The order was given by means of the sign language,
+transmitted by feeling the motion of the hands of the person who
+communicated with him. The order was correctly performed amid the
+applause of the audience. A blind deaf mute also wrote several sentences
+on a type-writer, and on another type-writer a deaf mute without hands
+wrote by means of a stick inserted in his coat sleeve.
+
+
+
+
+ORDINATION OF DEAF MUTES IN PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
+
+Nearly all the deaf mutes connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church
+in this city assembled yesterday morning in the church of the Covenant,
+to witness the ordination into the priesthood of two deaf and dumb men.
+The ceremony had been long talked of among the deaf mutes, and as none
+of this class of persons had ever before been ordained to this order in
+the church in this country, there was a widespread desire among the
+Episcopal community to be present at the ceremony. The church was well
+filled when the exercises began. Owing to the length of the services,
+the regular morning prayer was omitted, and after hymn 153 had been
+sung, Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D.D., Principal of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution in New York, who was to preach the sermon, was introduced.
+Dr. Gallaudet prefaced his sermon by saying that when a deaf mute was
+addressed, the words were not spelled out, but that the ideas were
+represented by signs. Ideas about the intellect were conveyed by a sign
+about the head, those relating to the sensibility by a motion near the
+heart; in short, the sign language was as distinct and individual as the
+English language. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of Iowa, stood up in the chancel
+as Dr. Gallaudet began his sermon, and interpreted the sermon to the
+deaf mutes who sat in a body near the front of the chancel. Dr.
+Gallaudet sketched the progress of deaf mute education from the
+establishment of the first school in Hartford by his father in 1817. As
+illustrating the individuality of the sign language, he mentioned that
+while he was in Brussels in August last he preached to a congregation of
+about twenty deaf mutes, English, French, Belgian, and his sign language
+was comprehended perfectly by all. "Sounds," he said, "are only outward
+symbols of ideas, just as signs are." At the conclusion of the sermon,
+Rev. Henry W. Syle and Rev. Arthur M. Mann were presented for
+ordination, the former by Rev. Dr. Miller, and the latter by the Rev.
+Dr. Atwell, of Toledo. Sitting within the chancel, one at each end of
+the communion table, were Bishop Stevens and Bishop Bedwell, of Ohio,
+while nine other clergymen surrounded them. Among them the placid
+countenance and venerable form of Rev. W. H. Syle, father of one of the
+candidates, was especially noticeable. Bishop Stevens then read the
+exhortation, and it was interpreted by Dr. Gallaudet to the two
+candidates, who stood in their robes at the chancel rail. Eagerly did
+they watch the motions of the reverend gentleman as he conveyed to them
+the words the Bishop was speaking. The Bishop then asked Mr. Syle the
+questions laid down in the prayer book. As Dr. Gallaudet finished
+interpreting each question, Mr. Syle handed a slip of paper on which was
+written his answers, to Rev. Mr. Clere, of Phillipsburg, who read it
+aloud. Rev. Mr. Mann then arose, and Bishop Bedwell stated that the
+questions and answers would be interpreted. He asked the same questions
+asked by Bishop Stevens, and Mr. Mann slowly communicated his answers,
+using only his right hand in replying. The ceremony of laying on of
+hands was then performed, Bishop Stevens and several others laying their
+hands on Mr. Syle's head, and Bishop Bedwell performing that office for
+Mr. Mann. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was then administered to
+the newly ordained priests, and they were welcomed within the chancel
+rail. A special invitation was given to the deaf mutes to commune
+immediately after the clergy, and there were enough present to occupy
+the long chancel rail twice. The sacrament was then administered to the
+congregation, and the audience was dismissed with the benediction by
+Bishop Bedwell. On Saturday, the second biennial session of workers
+among the deaf mutes in the Episcopal Church was begun in St. Stephen's
+Church. Rev. Dr. F. J. Clere, of Phillipsburg, was elected President,
+and Rev. Mr. Syle secretary and treasurer of the conference. An address
+of Bishop Howe, and papers by Messrs. Clere and Syle were interpreted to
+the conference by Dr. Gallaudet.--_Philadelphia Inquirer_, 15th Oct.,
+1883.
+
+
+
+
+PICTURES BY DEAF AND DUMB ARTISTS IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, 1876.
+
+     No. 1301.  "Despatches." T. Davidson.
+      "    30.  "Elter Water, Langdale." C. E. Emerson.
+      "  1235.  "The late W. A. Langdale, Esq.
+      "  1247.  "Portrait of a Lady." Mrs. North, deaf from girlhood.
+
+
+WHAITE'S WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION, MANCHESTER.
+
+"The Staff of Life," by F. T. Tavarč, is a drawing worthy of Hunt for
+its literal truth.--_Manchester Courier._
+
+March 25th, 1876.
+
+
+
+
+FAIRLY DONE.
+
+A good story is told of ex-governor Magottin, of Kentucky, who is a good
+talker and likes to do most of the talking himself. Recently, in making
+the journey from Cincinnati to Lexington, he shared his seat in the car
+with a bright-eyed, pleasant-faced gentleman. The Governor, after a few
+common-place remarks, to which his companion smiled and nodded assent,
+branched into a description of the scenes that he had witnessed in
+different parts of the country, grew eloquent over the war, described
+with glowing speech the numerous horse races he had witnessed, talked
+learnedly of breeding, and told thrilling stories of his battles with
+the Indians in the North-West. The hours slipped rapidly away, and when
+the train was nearing Lexington the two exchanged cards and parted with
+a cordial shake of hands. The Governor drove to an inn, and to a number
+of friends he remarked that the ride had never seemed so short before.
+"Then you must have had pleasant company aboard." "You are right. I met
+a gentleman of unusual intelligence. We conversed all the way over. I
+never was brought in contact with a more agreeable man." "Indeed! Who
+was he?" asked his friends. "Wait a minute; I have his card," and the
+Governor felt in his pockets and produced the bit of pasteboard. "His
+name is King." "Not Bob King?" shouted a dozen in one breath. "Yes,
+gentlemen; Robert King--that is the way the card reads," was the proud
+reply. A roar of laughter followed. "Why, Governor, Bob King is as deaf
+as a post; he was born deaf and dumb!"
+
+
+
+
+A NOVEL SITUATION.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+During the past year a gentleman had occasion to visit a certain city in
+New England. He arrived at night, went directly to his accustomed hotel,
+and to bed, slept soundly throughout the night, and in the morning
+discovered his watch had stopped. When he opened the door of his room
+another gentleman was taking in his boots on the other side of the
+corridor, and of him our friend asked if he could tell him what time it
+was. To his surprise, the gentleman took no notice whatever of the
+question. He asked again, "Sir, will you be good enough to tell me what
+time it is? My watch has stopped." No answer. The gentleman, without
+looking up, shut his door and disappeared. At that moment two other
+gentlemen came walking down the corridor, and Mr. X. asked of them the
+same question. The two gentlemen, without looking to the right or left,
+continued their walk without an answer or sign. "Well," thought Mr. X,
+"this is very curious." However, he went back to his room. Presently the
+bell rang for breakfast, and immediately a waiter entered the room,
+seized him by the arm, and began a series of gesticulations. Mr. X. lost
+his temper, and burst forth with "What in the name of goodness is the
+matter?" when the waiter cried "Oh," and vanished, laughing. Mr. X.
+began to think something was very wrong, but went down to breakfast.
+When he entered the _salle a manger_, which commonly had a dozen or
+twenty people at the tables, he found the hall filled with gentlemen in
+black coats, all feeding gravely, and in silence. A waiter silently
+beckoned him to a place, and when he was seated he said to his
+neighbour--"Sir, will you be kind enough to tell what all this is
+about?" No answer. The person, like Charlotte in Werter, went on eating
+bread and butter. Our friend began to feel decidedly queer, and getting
+out of his seat, went to the nearest waiter and piteously besought him,
+for heaven's sake, to tell him what was the matter with the house. "Oh,"
+said the waiter, "don't you know? Why this is the Deaf and Dumb
+Convention, which meets to-day at Hartford."
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF AND DUMB BOTH HEARD AND SPOKE.
+
+Vincent Ogden was recently charged with begging, under the pretence of
+being deaf and dumb, at Launceston. P. C. Barrett said that he saw the
+prisoner in the butcher's market. He was making signs, and pretending to
+be deaf and dumb. He took him into custody, and after they arrived at
+the police station asked him his name; he made no reply at first, but
+subsequently said he was called William Ogden, that he was a native of
+Manchester, and had just come out of Bodmin Gaol. Committed for two
+months, with hard labour.
+
+
+
+
+ENTERTAINMENT BY DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+The inhabitants of Mansfield had some most enjoyable meetings on Monday
+last, when a number of the pupils from the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
+Derby gave some very interesting illustrations of blackboard sketching,
+including animals, birds, fishes, &c. In reply to the question asked by
+one of the audience, "What have you come to Mansfield for?" A little
+girl, amidst considerable laughter, wrote "To get money." The gentleman
+then asked her what work she would like to do on leaving school? The
+reply was "I would like to be a lady's servant."--_Mansfield Paper_,
+1885.
+
+
+
+
+LORD SEAFORTH.
+
+Lord Seaforth, who was born deaf and dumb, was to dine one day with Lord
+Melville. Just before the time of the company's arrival, Lady Melville
+sent into the drawing-room a lady of her acquaintance who could talk
+with her fingers, that she might receive Lord Seaforth. Presently Lord
+Guildford entered the room, and the lady, believing him to be Lord
+Seaforth, began to spell on her fingers quickly. Lord Guildford did the
+same, and they had been carrying on a conversation in this manner for
+about ten minutes, when Lady Melville joined them. Her female friend
+said, "Well, I have been talking away to this dumb man." "Dumb!"
+exclaimed Lord Guildford, "Bless me, I thought you were dumb."
+
+
+
+
+A "SUPPOSED" LUNATIC IN DERBY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At the Borough Police Court this morning, a man, who said his name was
+"Jim," but from whom no further information could be obtained, was
+charged with being a wandering lunatic. Sergeant Parker said that, at a
+quarter-past one o'clock on Monday afternoon, his attention was called
+to the prisoner, who was on the Midland Railway platform. He noticed
+that the prisoner was wandering about in a strange manner. After making
+enquiries, he had telegrams sent to Bath, the replies to which were to
+the effect that the prisoner had been found wandering about the line
+there greatly excited, that they did not consider he was right in his
+mind, and that they had given him written directions to enable him to
+obtain a ticket for Derby, which he succeeded in doing. He spoke to the
+man, and thought he wanted to go to London; but when the London train
+came in he could not prevail upon him to take a ticket. He had £1 8s. in
+his possession, and also some tea, a razor, basket, and other articles;
+but no letters or anything from which they could find out his address.
+He took him to the police station, where the police surgeon examined him
+on Monday night, and pronounced him to be of unsound mind. The doctor
+promised to call again this morning, but had not yet done so. The Bench
+remanded the man until the following morning, so that the police surgeon
+might attend and give evidence.--_Derby Daily Telegraph._
+
+The alleged lunatic,--the deaf and dumb man, whose only name was Jim,
+and who had been charged with being a wandering lunatic, was again
+brought up. Mr. W. R. Roe, head master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+said that he had been sent for, and that he had been communicating with
+the prisoner by means of signs, and found that he was deaf and dumb, and
+totally uneducated, but certainly of _sound_ mind. The police surgeon
+again appeared, and said he had examined the man, and had come to the
+conclusion that there was no indication of insanity about him. The
+prisoner was discharged and handed over to Mr. Roe, who promised to take
+care of him till something was heard from his friends.--_Derby Daily
+Telegraph._
+
+The man was kept at the Deaf and Dumb Institution for a few days, when
+it was found that his friends were residing on the other side of Bath.
+It transpired that the man had been on a visit to some friends at Bath
+and could not make the authorities understand where he wanted to go,
+hence the error in sending him to Derby.--W. R. R.
+
+
+
+
+A CLEVER GYMNAST.
+
+Walter Stevens, a member of the British Mission to the Deaf and Dumb,
+last year won the first prize for "all round performances" at the
+Gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association. The prize consisted
+of a very handsome gold and silver medals with silver buckle and strap.
+He was successful in 1883 and 1884 in winning second prizes, but this
+year he carried off in grand style the much-coveted first prize. His
+performance on the horizontal bar was truly marvellous.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WILLIAM DE COURCY.
+
+This boy was educated at a Deaf and Dumb School. He was fond of
+learning, and soon had many companions. One of the delights of his life
+was visiting the farmyard which was attached to the Institution. William
+had been taught to be kind to dumb animals. He watched the little birds
+with much interest, and liked to feed them. There was one bird which
+came daily to be fed which he used to call his own. He was eager for
+religious instruction, and soon knew God made him, and that Jesus was
+his best friend, and that sin was displeasing to God. He loved Jesus
+much, and often signed about Him to his school fellows. After William
+had been at school for some years he was taken seriously ill, and he was
+asked if he were afraid to die? His reply was, "No, I know that God sent
+His Son to save me." Shortly before he died his school mates signed to
+him that Jesus was kind. William smiled, and then signed in answer,
+"Yes, Jesus is kind," and shortly after fell asleep, his happy spirit
+took its flight to that world where there are no deaf and dumb.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR.
+
+There has just been placed outside St. Saviour's Church, for the Deaf
+and Dumb, Oxford Street, London, a statue of "The Good Shepherd," which
+has been entirely modelled and carved by Mr. Joseph Gawen, a deaf mute,
+who was a pupil of the late Mr. Behnes, and an assistant of the late Mr.
+Foley, R.A. The statue is pronounced by competent judges to be an
+admirable work of art. He also executed a marble bust of the wife of Sir
+G. E. Hodgkinson. Some years ago he produced a splendid model in
+competition for the Wellington Memorial.
+
+
+
+
+BUXTON.
+
+The Entertainments given on Tuesday in the Pavilion by Deaf and Dumb
+children from the Institution at Derby drew large audiences. The
+children looked bright and happy, and their personal appearance was a
+sufficient indication that they were taken good care of at the
+Institution. Mr. Roe gave some interesting illustrations of teaching the
+dumb to speak on the oral system by placing the youngest girl on a chair
+and explaining how sounds were produced. Mr. Roe asked various questions
+as to names and objects orally, to which answers were instantly given in
+the same way. The Institution at Derby is an excellent one, and the
+Committee of management deserve the warmest thanks for what has already
+been achieved, and we hope will be materially assisted in north
+Derbyshire by all christian people who have at heart the welfare of an
+afflicted class of society.--_Buxton Advertiser_, Sept., 1884.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools recently visited the
+Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Derby, and says the children wrote
+some texts which pertinently answered some questions on religion which
+were given to them. In answer to the question "Who made the world?" a
+little girl at once wrote on the blackboard "In the beginning God
+created the heaven and earth." The second question was "Who are
+sinners?" One of the boys wrote "All are sinners and have come short of
+the glory of God." A little Irish girl was then asked "How do you hope
+to be saved?" The child wrote "This is a faithful saying and worthy of
+all acceptation that Christ came into the world to save sinners." In
+answer to the question "What does the Bible say about the righteous?" a
+little girl wrote "The righteous are as bold as a lion." The last
+question proposed was "How can you show your love to Jesus?" when one of
+the pupils at once wrote "He says if ye love me keep my commandments."
+
+
+
+
+HER LATEST AND BEST.
+
+A little girl was admitted to a Deaf and Dumb Institution, and in due
+course, before she had obtained a thorough knowledge of language,
+learned "Little Jack Horner." Two nights afterwards, when the deaf and
+dumb pupils were kneeling at prayer, they were surprised to see this
+little girl kneel down and earnestly repeat "Little Jack Horner." It
+might be said she was offering the latest and best thing she had.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE DEAF AND DUMB PREACHER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In a small town in Germany lived a locksmith and his wife, to whom God
+had given one child, a girl, who rejoiced the hearts of her parents as
+she grew up strong and happy. But the father longed for a son, and God
+heard his prayer, and a boy was born to him. Now indeed there was joy in
+the home; but their happiness was soon saddened, for the child was found
+to be deaf and dumb. He was otherwise a beautiful boy, with large blue
+eyes. What could they do for him but pray?
+
+"Ah, if only the Lord Jesus was here now," spoke the father once, "how
+would I seek Him, and bring our child to Him; how would I pray Him to
+lay His hand on our dear child, too, and give him hearing."
+
+"And I know He certainly would," the mother answered.
+
+"But the Lord Jesus is with us, though we see Him not; let us entreat
+Him for our child."
+
+At length the boy was three years old. His eyes were full of
+intelligence, and he seemed to understand everything around him. The
+God-fearing habits of his parents had a great influence over him. At
+family prayer the mother held the little one on her lap, his hands
+clasped together, and when the father asked a blessing on their frugal
+meal, the little child would also stand behind his stool, and would
+never taste a morsel before it was asked.
+
+It was advised that the boy be placed under the care of a famous
+physician in a neighbouring town. The father would leave untried nothing
+possible for the welfare of his boy, and so very soon set out on his
+journey. The sun was already set when they reached their destination.
+
+Then the father took the boy's hand, and they went together to a
+relative's who lived in the town. But what a different home from that
+which the boy had left: the relative did not believe in the Word of God,
+but only thought of pleasure and doing according to his own wisdom. So
+long as the father was with him the child was content. He would not move
+from his side, and at night slept locked in his arms. But the father
+could not stay long; pressing business compelled his return home. His
+departure was very sorrowful for the child, and the father felt it no
+less.
+
+At length the dinner time came. All was prepared, and the family
+gathered round the table, and with a good appetite began the meal. But
+the dumb child sat not; he stood behind his chair and waited. The others
+told him to sit and eat, but he understood not. His lips were
+speechless, but he made signs that they should pray. The people
+understood him, but would not show they did. Then the child ran to each,
+and, with a supplicating look, tried to clasp their hands together. A
+feeling of shame came over them. They wished to quiet him, but dared
+not try. Should they pray? They had never done it, but the child waited.
+At length the wife stood up, then the husband, and then all the others,
+for they did not know what else to do, and the wife prayed, with
+trembling voice, "Lord Jesus, come to our meal and bless it, and grant
+us Thy mercy."
+
+Thus did the dumb child become a holy messenger, and, though he was
+speechless, witness for God where He was entirely forgotten.
+
+But how was it with the child? Was his coming so far any use? Was he
+cured? No; the doctor could do nothing for him, and he remains
+speechless still. But later he attended a deaf and dumb institution,
+where he learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, and many other useful
+things. Above all, he has learnt to know for himself the Lord Jesus, and
+to be resigned to the affliction God has laid upon him. He still lives,
+and is a God-fearing young man, and the joy of his old parents. He has
+learnt the trade of bookbinding, and can well support himself. Speaking
+with his sister of the old times, he said in the deaf and dumb language,
+smiling, "Ah, God has made me deaf and dumb that I should preach of the
+holy Jesus."
+
+
+
+
+A NAVAL CHEF D'EUVRE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Gervase Murray, a deaf and dumb young man, the son of a poor widow
+living at Balbriggan, has just completed a miniature merchant ship,
+which in mechanical structure, symmetrical build, and neatness of
+finish, is not probably surpassed by anything of the kind to be seen in
+Ireland. It has been minutely inspected by competent judges, who assert
+that its _tout ensemble_ a more perfect piece of ingenious workmanship
+they have never seen; nor could the most experienced ship carpenter do
+more justice to the various compartments, appendages, and riggings than
+has its mute architect, with but very indifferent apparatus--a penknife,
+a file, and a bradawl being the principal instruments employed in the
+work. It measures exactly six feet from the figure head to the helm, and
+is precisely the same extent in height from the top of the mainmast to
+the keel, the width being of proportional dimensions. The materials are
+all of the best description, are tastefully polished or painted where
+necessary, and are so exactly fitted in every part as to baffle the
+detection of any conspicuous fault whatever. It is fully manned with a
+crew of little wooden men, and officers in uniform, and completely
+equipped with boats, capstan, blocks, hawsers, cables, davits,
+cat-heads, bars, bolts, buckets, chocks, compasses, and even three brass
+cannons; in short with everything that may be seen in a large ship. She
+bears the significant name of "The Star of the Sea." Had he been able to
+exhibit it, as he intended, at the late Dublin Exhibition, there is no
+doubt that it would have attracted considerable attention, which perhaps
+might have led to a substantial recognition of merit having been awarded
+to a poor dumb youth, the chief support of his widowed mother, as a
+well-deserved recompense for the patience and native talent displayed in
+the construction of this tiny chef d'euvre of naval art, which must have
+given him an immense amount of trouble and anxiety during the two years
+he has been engaged in building it.--_Irish Journal._
+
+
+
+
+ALEXANDER FERGUSON, THE FAMOUS DEAF AND DUMB SWIMMER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alexander Ferguson, a dock mason of Dundee, (though now in employment at
+Irvine), has rescued forty-seven persons from drowning--one paper says
+fifty-one--in the Tay, Forth, Clyde, Dee, Tyne, Mersey, Wear, Ayr,
+Irwell, Calder, Humber, and other rivers in England, Scotland, and
+Ireland. He is thirty-nine years of age, and made his first rescue when
+about ten years old. We have before us accounts cut from the newspapers
+and other publications, from which we give the following particulars of
+some of the rescues and swimming feats:--
+
+At Troon Dock. One Sunday a boy, who was playing with his companions at
+the quay, missed his footing, and fell into the harbour. Alexander
+Ferguson, observing the occurrence, pulled him out in a very exhausted
+condition. A purse of £15 was presented to him.
+
+At Ayr Harbour. A boy named William M'Lean, aged 12 years, fell into the
+water and was just disappearing when A. F. leaped into the water and
+rescued him.
+
+At Androsan Harbour. A boy named Robert Bodman, aged 10 years. He was
+rewarded with the sum of £16 by merchants and gentlemen.
+
+At Llanelly Harbour. A boy named Francis Cornwall, 10 years old.
+
+At Towey Dock. Richard Pearce, 11 years of age.
+
+In the Camperdown Dock, Dundee. Alexander Yule, 10 years of age.
+
+At King William Dock, Dundee. James Anderson, a bricklayer.
+
+At Devonport Dock. A girl named Victoria Napier, 10 years of age.
+
+At Dundee Pier. A boy named Alexander Robertson, 10 years old, for which
+he received the rescue medal of the Forth Swimming Club and Humane
+Society (1864.)
+
+At Falmouth Dock. Sarah Armstrong, 11 years of age.
+
+At Lime Dock. Oliver Markham, 7 years old.
+
+At Maldon Dock. A girl named Jessie Brown, 12 years of age.
+
+At Camperdown Dock. Mr. Alexander Doig, merchant of Forfar.
+
+At Swanage Dock. A girl named Catherine Bruce, aged 14 years.
+
+At Portcawl Dock. A boy named Albert Jones.
+
+At Exmouth Dock. A girl named Alexandrina Nelson, 14 years old.
+
+At Victoria Dock. A boy named Charles Blair, 8 years of age.
+
+At Alexandra Dock. Richard Harrison, 8 years old.
+
+At Earl Grey's Dock, Dundee. Peter Band, 8 years of age.
+
+At Teignmouth Dock. Edgar Thorpe, 8 years of age.
+
+At Alnwick Dock. Cęsar Franklin, 10 years old.
+
+A brave man. The last official act of the late Mayor of Great Yarmouth
+was to present the silver medal of the Humane Society to Alexander
+Ferguson, mason, of Dundee, for having saved the life of Charles Cullen,
+a private in the 55th Regiment, who fell overboard the steamer "Juno" on
+returning to Inverness. Ferguson dived and saved him, but ran great risk
+of being drowned, Cullen having fallen under the paddle wheel, which was
+in motion.
+
+Gallant rescue from drowning in the River Mersey, off Garston, near
+Liverpool. On Thursday afternoon four young lads had an exceedingly
+narrow escape from drowning in the ferry harbour; they were amusing
+themselves with a boat, when they overbalanced and fell into the water;
+this was noticed by Alexander Ferguson, mason, who was standing on the
+jetty, and he, without divesting himself of any of his clothes, swam to
+their rescue. Having succeeded in getting hold of three lads, he landed
+them ashore, and then struck out for the other, who by this time had
+almost disappeared, his hands only being visible above the water.
+Ferguson landed him ashore also. After some time all the four were able
+to walk home to Liverpool. A large crowd was on the jetty at the time,
+and great excitement prevailed. Ferguson deserves great credit for the
+courage and presence of mind he displayed, and it is believed that but
+for his efforts the lads would have been drowned.--_Liverpool Mercury_,
+1872.
+
+
+GREAT SWIMMING FEATS.
+
+1. Fourteen miles down the river with the rapid ebb tide, from the
+middle buoys opposite the Tay ferries to far buoy at the mouth of the
+river Tay, in 5-1/2 hours (1859.)
+
+2. Across the Frith of Clyde from Carrought, Ayrshire, to Ailsa Rock; 8
+miles in 3 hours, through strong currents.
+
+3. Across the Frith of Forth, from Buckhaven, in Fifeshire, to North
+Berwick; 18 miles in 7 hours (1862.)
+
+4. Across the Bay of Leece, from the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse to
+Barrowhead; 10 miles in 4 hours.
+
+5. Across the mouth of Loch Ryan, from Ronmach, in Ayrshire, to Kirkcolm
+Point in Gallowayshire; 4 miles in 2 hours.
+
+6. From John O'Groat's House to Stoma; 8 miles in 2-1/2 hours, through
+dangerous currents (1873.)
+
+7. Across the strong-currented river to Cardell Point, on the east of
+Cantyre, from Penrioch, on the coast of Arran; 11 miles in 3-1/2 hours
+(1874.)
+
+8. Across the Frith of Clyde from West Kilbride, in Ayrshire, to Grombe,
+on the east coast of Arran, a distance of 12-1/2 miles in 4-1/2 hours
+(1874.)
+
+9. Across the Frith of the Clyde from Port Glasgow to Cardross; 9 miles
+in 2-1/2 hours (1874.)
+
+In all these instances he was followed by persons in boats.
+
+We are informed that he has received presents for rescuing lives of the
+value of £300, besides twenty suits of clothes, and has also won many
+cups and other prizes in swimming and diving matches, and has also
+received several gold and silver medals.
+
+Alexander Ferguson has on several occasions been present at the services
+for the adult deaf and dumb held at the Institution at Derby.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S GRATITUDE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+M. Felix Martin, an artist, deaf and dumb from his birth, has just
+executed a group representing the Abbé de L'Epče teaching a deaf and
+dumb youth. He desires it to be placed in the Court of the Sourds et
+Muets Institution at Paris, to which he gives it in recognition of the
+debt of gratitude which he and his deaf mute brethren in misfortune owe
+to the Abbé for their moral and intellectual emancipation.
+
+
+
+
+SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE DEAF & DUMB.
+
+Sir Walter Scott in his novel "Peveril of the Peak," uses the following
+language as to the deaf and dumb of his day:--"All knowledge is gained
+by communication, either with the dead through books, or more pleasingly
+through the conversation of the living. The deaf and dumb above are
+excluded from improvement, and surely their institution is not enviable
+that we should imitate them." Aristotle considered the deaf and dumb as
+incapable of acquiring knowledge; while St. Augustine insisted that they
+could not be instructed in the holy faith of the Catholic Church. Could
+the worthies come back to this world they would be slightly amazed at
+the practical refutation of their prophecies.
+
+
+
+
+UNEDUCATED.
+
+What would any of us be without education? By education, I mean not
+book-learning only, but the training in good habits which is given in
+well-ordered homes and schools.
+
+Can any one read the following true story of a deaf and dumb man without
+feelings of the deepest pity for the poor fellow left untaught and
+untrained, to wander at will over the wild though beautiful country of
+his birth. Was he happy? Read the story, and judge for yourselves.
+
+A few years since an artist visited Ireland to sketch the wild and rocky
+scenery for which parts of the coast are celebrated. One of the places
+he went to was so poor and uncivilized that there was no house better
+than a cabin to be found in the whole district. In a cabin, therefore,
+he took up his abode.
+
+One day he was busily engaged sketching some high cliffs, at the bottom
+of which the wild waves dashed in fury. His seat was in a position as
+perilous as it was grand.
+
+Presently he observed a creature approach, whose appearance at first
+puzzled him exceedingly. A nearer view showed him that it was a man
+clothed in a goatskin, but with the gait and manners of one wholly
+unused to civilized society.
+
+The artist thought that he was about to encounter an escaped lunatic,
+and, although no coward, he confessed to a feeling somewhat akin to fear
+passing through him as he looked down at the depths below, and
+calculated how small a push might launch him into eternity. Then he
+remembered something about the advantage of being civil to madmen, and
+determined to try and ward off his impending fate by a show of
+civility. Beckoning the poor creature to him, he commenced to talk to
+him, to show him his drawings, and to offer him a share of his lunch.
+The man made no reply, but apparently assured by the artist's manner
+came up close, sat down beside him, and was soon deeply absorbed in
+devouring his portion of the lunch and in admiring the pictures. Still
+he never spoke, only uttered some unintelligible sounds.
+
+The artist congratulated himself on the success of his experiments; but,
+nevertheless, he thought that on the whole "discretion was the better
+part of valour," and after a little he got up and returned to his
+lodging, the man following him at a distance.
+
+On arriving at the cabin he related his adventure, when the people
+exclaimed, "Ah! it's only poor dummy!" and assured him the poor fellow
+was perfectly harmless, but he was wholly untaught, had received no
+training in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, and lived in this wild
+neglected manner. He was never asked to work, but roamed about at will,
+being fed by the neighbours, who would give bits to him as they would to
+a dog.
+
+The artist was greatly touched by what he heard, and continued to be
+kind to the poor deaf and dumb man, who, on his part, attached himself
+to his patron in the most docile manner. Every morning he went to carry
+the artist's drawing materials, waited on him during the day, and only
+seemed too delighted if he could perform any little service for him. In
+return the artist could only reward him by kind looks and a share of his
+sandwiches. Once he offered him money, but it was received in such a
+manner that showed plainly he did not understand its value. And the
+neighbours said it was no use to give him money: _food_ was the only
+thing he seemed to care for.
+
+At last the time came for the artist to return home. When it dawned upon
+the poor deaf mute he was about to lose his friend, he set up the most
+piteous wailing, and refused to be comforted, not even by the choicest
+morsels of food.
+
+The artist, when relating it afterwards, said "that he was never more
+moved in his life than to see this unfeigned sorrow, and to feel himself
+unable (owing to the man not having been trained in a Deaf and Dumb
+Institution) to convey one single idea of suggestive consolation."
+
+
+
+
+TRADES OF THE DEAF & DUMB IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
+
+The following particulars showing the trades of the Deaf and Dumb are
+taken from the last Government Census of 1883:--
+
+     FEMALES:--
+
+315 domestic servants, 12 teachers of the deaf and dumb, 74 charwomen,
+158 washing and bathing service, 22 bookbinders, 21 cloth manufacturers,
+146 manufacturers of silk and cotton goods, 62 making lace, carpets or
+trimmings, 580 milliners and dressmakers, 75 tailoresses, 28 straw hat
+and bonnet makers, 99 seamstresses, 12 glove makers, 19 baby shoe
+makers, 6 brush makers, 15 paper bag makers, 9 workers of porcelain,
+&c., &c.
+
+     MALES:--
+
+24 artists (painters), 24 artists (engravers), 5 sculptors, 18 indoor
+domestic servants, 37 gardeners, 28 commercial clerks, 28 messengers, 47
+engaged in harbour and dock service, 37 farming on own account, 3 farm
+bailiffs, 463 agricultural labourers, 15 nurserymen, 13 grooms, 2
+veterinary surgeons, 2 gamekeepers, 40 bookbinders, 55 printers, 26
+lithographic printers, 26 engine fitters and machinists, 11 watch and
+clock makers, 41 bricklayers, 137 carpenters and joiners, 61 masons, 99
+painters and paperhangers, 75 cabinet makers, 21 French polishers, 22
+wood carvers, 12 carvers and gilders, 12 coach-makers, 15 wheelwrights,
+43 saddlers, 42 shipwrights and carpenters ashore, 5 innkeepers,
+1 maltster, 5 brewers, 17 butchers, 19 bakers, 4 confectioners, 44
+worsted stuff and cloth makers, 344 tailors, 507 shoemakers, 23 pattern
+makers, 10 hair dressers, 10 brush makers, 29 basket makers, 18 wood
+turners, 23 coopers, 71 coal miners, 22 brickmakers, 22 workers of
+porcelain, 29 glass makers, 11 jewellers, 55 blacksmiths, 65 iron and
+steel manufacturers, 14 tin plate workers, 360 general labourers, 11
+engine drivers, stokers, &c., &c.
+
+There are in Great Britain and Ireland about 20,000 deaf mutes.
+
+
+
+
+A WILL MADE BY PANTOMIME.
+
+The Supreme Court of Maine recently, after a six days trial, sustained
+the will of Horatio N. Foster, who was deaf and dumb, seventy-six years
+old, who could neither read, write, nor use the manual alphabet. The
+will, which was made by pantomime, devised 7000 dols. Only one similar
+case it is said was ever tried in the United States, and that was in
+North Carolina.
+
+
+
+
+A BRAVE DEFENDER.
+
+After reaching our encampment (at Jenin in Palestine) our dragoman told
+us that the people of the village were so quarrelsome and thievish that
+it was never safe to stop a night there without an extra guard, and he
+had engaged the brother of the sheik of the village to occupy this
+responsible post. This man was a great, tall, athletic-looking fellow,
+but a deaf mute. While we were taking our dinner he came into our tent,
+brandishing a revolver. He expressed to us by signs how safely we might
+lie down and rest, because he (brave fellow as he was) by the aid of
+that revolver would protect us from all harm. Directly after our
+waiter--Dominicho--came in and informed us that the guard had borrowed
+this revolver from our dragoman, Ali Solomon, but that he stood in
+mortal dread of the weapon he had flourished before us so heroically;
+that he refused to touch it till all the charges were withdrawn from it.
+With such a champion for our defender what cause could there be for
+fear?--_In Bible Lands._
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB LAWYER.
+
+Mr. Lowe, a gentleman who has been deaf and dumb from his infancy, will,
+we understand, be called to the Bar by the Society of the Middle Temple
+on Saturday next. He has had a good legal education, and is considered
+very clever as a conveyancer.--_Brighton Gazette_, Nov., 1829.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB MAN ON THE BIBLE.
+
+The following remarks on the Bible were written by a deaf and dumb young
+man 26 years of age:--"The Bible is more valuable than all other books
+in the world. It is divided into two parts, the one called the Old
+Testament and the other the New Testament. The former was written by
+inspired men, directed by the Spirit of God; the latter contains the
+news of the Gospel, written by the witnessing disciples while Christ was
+on the earth. The Bible informs us of the guilt of sin, of the
+punishment of the wicked, of the Saviour who died to save men from
+dangerous destruction, of the way of forgiveness by Christ, of the
+condescension of Him, of the mercy and love of Him, and of the happiness
+which Christ has promised to His disciples.
+
+The Bible teaches us how to do good to others, how to help them in
+distress, how to avoid temptation, how to love and obey God, how to pray
+to God to keep us out of dangerous things, and pray to God for our
+parents, for their children, and for our other friends.
+
+The Bible is a very precious gift from heaven, and contains many
+precious truths, therefore we should reverence it.
+
+
+
+
+UNEDUCATED DEAF MUTE'S IGNORANCE OF GOD.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Vauncey Thompson wrote after having been under instruction in the Deaf
+and Dumb School for six years:--"When I was at home, I knew one word,
+'God,' but I did not know what it meant, nor how the world was made, and
+my mind was very hard and uncultivated, resembling the ground that is
+not ploughed, and I was perfectly ignorant. I thought then that my mind
+would open when I was a man: but I was mistaken, it would not have
+opened if I had not come to school to be taught; I would have been
+ignorant and have known nothing that is proper, and no religion would
+have come toward me. I must study my Bible till my life is departed, and
+I hope God will please never forsake me."
+
+
+
+
+DO THE DEAF & DUMB THINK THEMSELVES UNHAPPY?
+
+Two deaf and dumb scholars of the late Abbé Siccard were asked--Do the
+deaf and dumb think themselves unhappy? The following is the answer of
+Massien:--"No; because we seldom lament that which we never possessed,
+or know we can never be in possession of; but should the deaf and dumb
+become blind, they would think themselves very unhappy, because sight is
+the finest, the most useful, and the most agreeable of all the senses.
+Besides, we are amply indemnified for our misfortune by the signal
+favour of expressing by gestures and by writing our ideas, our thoughts,
+and our feelings, and likewise by being able to read books and
+manuscripts."
+
+The following is the answer of Clerc, the other pupil, to the same
+question:--"He who never had anything has never lost anything, and he
+who never lost anything has nothing to regret; consequently, the deaf
+and dumb who never heard or spoke, have never lost either hearing or
+speech, therefore cannot lament either the one or the other. And he who
+has nothing to lament cannot be unhappy; consequently the deaf and dumb
+are not unhappy. Besides, it is a great consolation for them to be able
+to replace hearing by writing, and speech by signs."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S IDEAS BEFORE INSTRUCTION.
+
+The following extract from the correspondence of a deaf and dumb pupil
+with his teacher is a fair specimen of the natural condition of the deaf
+and dumb before receiving instruction:--
+
+"Before I came to school I thought that the stars were placed in the
+firmament like grates of fire, and that the moon at night was like a
+great furnace of fire; I did not know how the stars and moon and heavens
+were made; but I supposed that the people, like us above the firmament,
+kindled the moon and stars; and I did not know whether the heavens was
+made by art or not. I thought the world little and round like a table,
+and was always intending to go to the end of it."
+
+
+
+
+OBSERVATIONS OF DEAF & DUMB CHILDREN.
+
+A gentleman called to see some little deaf and dumb girls who had been
+present at a large meeting in aid of the Institution on the previous
+day, when the gentleman asked, "What did you think of the great meeting
+yesterday?" "I thought," replied a little girl of ten summers, "people
+would give great money for deaf and dumb school." To another little girl
+the question put was, "Did you observe any difference in the behaviour
+of the people present at the meeting?" "I saw some smile, and I believe
+some were fretting." "What do you think was the reason that some
+fretted?" "I thought they fretted about the deaf and dumb and about
+God."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF & DUMB BOY'S REMARKABLE DREAM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+William Brennen, aged about fourteen and a-half years, having been
+awakened from sleep, his first words were that he had been dreaming; and
+when he got into the school-room he commenced writing upon his slate as
+follows, assuring his teachers that he described exactly as he thought
+he saw and heard in his dream, and from his character for truth there
+was no doubt he did so:
+
+I was dreaming about God; that he sent Jesus Christ, who came into the
+world from heaven. He was present with twelve men; they saw Him, and
+were frightened. He said, "Will you love God, and why?" They said, "He
+is the creator of all things; He saved us from our sin; He was walking
+on the water; He made them to live on the water and on the land. He
+spoke unto them, whose names are Disciples. I saw them by dreaming.
+
+He said unto me, "Will you love God, and why?" I said unto Him, "Because
+He made me in a happy state and holy; he brought me to heaven from this
+world." His face was luminous and beautiful; he had a long beard, his
+hair was short and shining--I could not look at him. He wrote judgments
+of mankind--some were very good. When they died he took some to heaven,
+and some were sent to hell. His robe was very bright, like a cloud round
+the sun.
+
+I could hear more than all the people in the world. I was more obedient
+to God. There was not the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars. I saw
+Addington--(one of his friends who had died lately)--who was in heaven.
+He shook hands with me. He was more tall than you.
+
+I saw Adam and Eve: God made him by His word. He made him of the dust of
+the earth. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. God said,
+"Thy name is Adam." He took a rib of the man whilst he slept; he made
+woman by taking the rib from a man. Her name was Eve. He made them in a
+happy state and holy. He made a garden of Eden. He sent them to live in
+the garden. God said, "Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of the tree of
+knowledge."
+
+I saw God making the world and all things. First the world, firmament,
+sun, moon, stars, land and water. God made the water with His breath, He
+gave it into the world. He made the sun, moon, stars very quickly with
+his word. He made the sun of part of the earth, from the world, and the
+moon of a little part from the sun, and the stars of a very little part
+from the moon. He did not make anything with His hands, but by His word.
+
+I saw the world before the sun was made--it was all earth. He made
+Europe, Africa--all! and with His breath He made the sea. (Here his
+action was remarkable. He drew on his slate the continent and islands,
+blew with his breath with scarce any motion of his lips, and showed that
+the waters instantaneously flowed through their channels, and the seas
+were formed.) God made the firmament by His word; it is like silk paper,
+it is all round the world: there is water over it and clouds under it,
+and the sun shines through it, and the moon, and the stars. (Here he
+described by gestures the motions of the earth, the sun, and moon, and
+that there were countless stars, larger much than the sun; that there
+was no axle on which the world moved, nor anything to keep it up like a
+cord, but that it was moved and upheld by the breath of the Almighty.)
+
+There were many angels with him.
+
+He had not a loud voice, and his eyes see the sun before him and behind
+him.
+
+He spoke very kindly to me; I saw many spirits in heaven; they were
+worshipping God and obedient to God; they did not speak; they listened
+to God and were obedient to Him; and God was often speaking to them; and
+they loved Him. He was commanding them to look at evil and right things
+in the world, and they were very bright like clouds; thou couldst not
+see them, because they were invisible.
+
+Angels are often in the world; they are always present with us, and in
+every place, separating the people's hearts, good from bad. God tells
+them to separate the good from the bad; and they are always soaring with
+their wings. Their wings have not feathers; they are like the clouds.
+The angels are soaring always, and standing on the air and the clouds;
+they never are flapping with their wings; they are never tired, nor
+sleepy, nor hungry, nor thirsty, nor eating, nor laughing, nor smiling;
+I saw some more crying a little, because the people have sin _from
+them_. They are very beautiful like the sun. God is more bright than an
+angel. They can walk on everything in heaven and in the world, and in
+hell they are not burned. God was sitting on the clouds, and on the air,
+and on the water. He is still, quiet; He never laughs. (His gestures
+here were striking in an astonishing degree, and his whole mind seemed
+overcome, with a sense of the Divine greatness and glory.) God was very
+kind to the angels, more than all the world.
+
+
+
+
+THE SCRIPTURES AND THE STATE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed
+to destruction.
+
+"Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and
+needy."--Prov. xxxi. 8, 9.
+
+"Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what
+thou shalt say.
+
+"And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh
+the dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or the blind? have not I the
+Lord?"--Exodus iv. 12, 11.
+
+"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
+shall be done away."--I Cor. xiii. 10.
+
+"But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth
+not his mouth."--Psalm xxxviii. 13.
+
+"All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not
+satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing."--Ecclesiastes i. 8.
+
+"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel
+to every creature."--Mark xvi. 15.
+
+"And how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, how
+beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and
+bring glad tidings of good things."--Romans x. 15.
+
+"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
+of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."--Isaiah
+xxix. 18.
+
+"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
+shall be unstopped.
+
+"Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
+sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
+desert."--Isaiah xxxv. 5, 6.
+
+"But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see; and
+they that have not heard shall understand."--Romans xv. 21.
+
+"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
+Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief."--I
+Timothy i. 15.
+
+"As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with
+a devil.
+
+"And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake; and the multitudes
+marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel."--Matt. ix. 32, 33.
+
+"Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two
+of his disciples,
+
+"And said unto him, Art thou he that should come or look we for another?
+
+"Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things
+which ye do hear and see:
+
+"The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are
+cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have
+the gospel preached to them.
+
+"And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me."--Matt. xi.
+2-6.
+
+"Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb;
+and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and
+saw."--Matt. xii. 22, 23.
+
+"And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were
+lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus
+feet; and he healed them; insomuch that the multitude wondered, when
+they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,
+and the blind to see; and they glorified the God of Israel."--Matt. xv.
+30, 31.
+
+"And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto
+thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit:
+
+"And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth, and
+gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples
+that they should cast him out, and they could not.
+
+"He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I
+be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
+
+"And they brought him unto him; and when he saw him, straightway the
+spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
+
+"And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him?
+And he said, Of a child.
+
+"And often it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters to
+destroy him; but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and
+help us.
+
+"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to
+him that believeth.
+
+"And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
+Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
+
+"When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the
+foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I charge thee,
+come out of him, and enter no more into him.
+
+"And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him; and he
+was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
+
+"But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose."--Mark
+ix. 17-27.
+
+"And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his
+speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
+
+"And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his
+ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
+
+"And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha,
+that is, be opened.
+
+"And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was
+loosed, and he spake plain.
+
+"And he charged them that they should tell no man; but the more he
+charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
+
+"And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things
+well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak."--Mark
+vii. 32-37.
+
+
+
+
+UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
+
+The Tenth Census Report of the U. S. of America for 1880 contains some
+interesting statistics of the deaf and dumb, and apparently show a
+considerable increase as compared with the whole population.
+
+                            1850.       1860.       1870.       1880.
+
+  Total population       23,191,876  31,443,321  38,558,371  50,155,783
+
+  Deaf Mutes                  9,803      12,821      16,205      38,878
+
+  No. of Deaf Mutes in each
+  million of population         423         408         420         675
+
+Out of 33,878 there were 18,567 males and 15,311 females. The number of
+native deaf mutes was 30,507, and foreign 3,721. White, 30,661;
+coloured, 3,217, including 3 Chinese and 37 Indians.
+
+
+
+
+CAUSES OF DEAF-MUTISM.
+
+The intermarriage of blood-relations is doubtless one cause. In one
+school for the deaf and dumb 25 per cent., in another 20 per cent., and
+in others 15 per cent. of the pupils are said to be the off-spring of
+marriages between blood-relations.
+
+Davy mentions the following case observed by Meničre:--A married couple,
+being cousins, who enjoyed excellent health, had eight children, of whom
+four were born deaf mutes, another was idiotic, another died when five
+years of age, and two others suffered from absolute deafness, which only
+made its appearance later on.
+
+In the Institution at Derby there are three sisters, and also a younger
+sister at home, all born deaf and dumb, the parents being own cousins.
+On the other hand, there are at the same Institution several children
+having deaf and dumb brothers or sisters, where no relationship exists
+between the parents, notably one family, in which both parents are
+healthy, and in which there are four deaf and dumb children. In the same
+county there are other cases of three, four, and even six in a family,
+yet there has been no relationship between the parents. In addition to
+the born deaf, measles, bronchitis, typhus, scarletina, and other
+diseases are the causes of deafness, and consequently dumbness.
+
+Cases are known to have resulted from lightning, fright, boxing on the
+ears, and where young children have been allowed to fall on the head,
+etc.
+
+Damp houses are said to be a cause of deafness. In Paris among eight
+children born in a family, five were born deaf, and these had all been
+born in a damp house. The family who had previously lived in the same
+house had three children, among whom were two born deaf and dumb. It is
+sometimes said that certain unhealthy trades in which the parent or
+parents are engaged are responsible for some of these cases, but the
+only complete statistics are those of Nassau, the results of which are
+as follows:--
+
+  Among   27 Pipe-makers        3 deaf mute children,
+                                            therefore 1 deaf mute to 9.0
+   "     146 Stonemasons        4      "         "          "       36.5
+   "     186 Brass-founders     5      "         "          "       37.2
+   "     106 Potters            2      "         "          "       53.0
+   "     590 Carpenters         8      "         "          "       73.7
+   "     176 Earthenware-makers 2      "         "          "       88.0
+   "     381 Sailors            3      "         "          "      127.0
+   "   1,716 Bricklayers       11      "         "          "      156.0
+   "   1,309 Smiths             7      "         "          "      187.0
+   "     374 Vat-coopers        2      "         "          "      187.0
+   "   1,894 Tailors           10      "         "          "      189.4
+   "   2,911 Shoemakers        15      "         "          "      194.0
+   "   1,614 Joiners            8      "         "          "      201.7
+   "   2,006 Vinters            9      "         "          "      222.8
+   "     514 Coopers            2      "         "          "      257.0
+   "   1,380 Bakers             5      "         "          "      276.0
+   "  49,201 Farmers          104      "         "          "      473.1
+   "  18,211 Labourers         24      "         "          "      758.8
+
+Meckel says that in the families of tradespeople, who are constantly
+exposed to a damp unhealthy atmosphere or other injurious influences,
+deaf-mutism occurs most frequently. Moreover, Meckel has found that
+deaf-mutism is more frequently met with in flour-mills than elsewhere.
+Among 990 millers in Nassau, there were found eight deaf mutes, or one
+deaf mute to 123.7.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY NOT AFRAID TO DIE.
+
+Bernard Grimshaw, a little deaf and dumb boy, lay seriously ill in the
+sick ward of an Institution, and was asked, "Would you be afraid to
+die?" "No! because Christ has taken away the sting of death, if we
+believe in Him that He died for us; and we should not be afraid of
+death, if we believe in Him that He died for us; and we should not be
+afraid of death because He has promised to give eternal life to all
+believers."
+
+"What do you consider the best thing you have been taught, since coming
+to the Deaf and Dumb Institution?" "I have learned about God and His
+beloved Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible. That is best."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SEXTON ROBBED.
+
+George E. Fischer, the deaf and dumb sexton of the St. Mary's Avenue
+Congregational Church, put out the lights and started for his boarding
+house at 10 o'clock at night. He had gone but a short distance from the
+church when he was pounced upon by unknown persons, who approached from
+behind and knocked him down. After striking him another blow the fellow
+went through his pockets, taking every cent he had. Fischer is a
+hard-working man, but is in poor health, and will feel the loss
+heavily.--_Omaha World, May 24th, 1886._
+
+
+
+
+ACUTENESS OF EDUCATED DEAF MUTES.
+
+One evening the senior class of girls and boys in a School for the deaf
+and dumb were invited to put any questions they wished to the Teacher;
+amongst others, the following (which show considerable acuteness and
+reflection) were proposed to him:--Who made God? Were there any angels
+before the world was made? Before the world was made, how was God
+eternal? Do you know, are there houses in the moon which people inhabit?
+Do you think the dwellers in the moon have got the sin as well as
+ourselves? Will there be a new world when this is burnt up? How do you
+know the scriptures to be the word of God? Do the angels know when the
+last day will come?
+
+
+
+
+A RUSSIAN DEAF AND DUMB YOUTH'S REPLY.
+
+A young Russian, of great talents, though deaf and dumb, who had been to
+a Deaf and Dumb Institution to be taught, with a view to become the
+master of a similar Institution in Russia, was asked the difference
+between intelligence and discernment? He said "Intelligence is a
+faculty, by which we distinguish good and evil, what is useful and what
+hurtful. I think discernment is the faculty of distinguishing the
+greater and less degrees of good and evil."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE AGE OF DEAF MUTES.
+
+The question is frequently asked, "Is there a greater mortality among
+the deaf mutes than there is among the total population?"
+
+The statistics so far published, on the whole, show a somewhat greater
+mortality among the deaf and dumb than that among the total population.
+
+It may, however, be stated that the deaf and dumb having to labour under
+greater difficulties, generally succumb more easily in the struggle for
+existence than their more favoured fellow-creatures.
+
+In Bavaria, in 1871, there were 4,348 deaf mutes; 557 of these were
+between 31 and 40 years of age; 556 between 41 and 50; and 852 were 50
+years and upwards. In Prussia there were 23,579; of these 3,057 were
+between 31 and 40 years of age; 2,540 between 41 and 50; and 3,609 were
+50 years and upwards. In 1883, the North Midland Counties of England had
+705 deaf and dumb: 148 of these were under 5 years of age; 83 were 15
+years; 81 were 20 years; 227 were 25 years; 127 were 45 years; and 39
+were 65 years and upwards.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF MUTES IN THE TOWN AND COUNTRY.
+
+Wilhelmi tried to ascertain by means of his statistics in what
+proportion deaf mutism occurred in towns and in the country, and found
+that it preponderated in the country.
+
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+                                  | Deaf Mutes.| Deaf Mutes among
+                                  |            | 10,000 Inhabitants.
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+  In Magdeburgh  { In the Towns   |     181    |      5.2
+                 { In the Country |     338    |      6.7
+  In Erfurt      { In the Towns   |      81    |      5.4
+                 { In the Country |     186    |      8.5
+  In Pomerania   { In the Towns   |     378    |      8.3
+                 { In the Country |    1259    |     12.8
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+
+
+
+
+COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF THE SEXES OF DEAF MUTES.
+
+In all countries where statistics have been compiled, the number of male
+deaf mutes exceeds that of the female. In 1871 there were in Prussia
+12,736 male and 10,843 female deaf mutes. In England and Wales in 1883
+there were 4,408 male and 3,280 female deaf mutes. In Staffordshire 264
+males and 217 females. In Leicestershire 64 males and 50 females. In
+Lincolnshire 112 males and 93 females. In Nottinghamshire 96 males and
+75 females; and in Derbyshire 121 males and 88 females.
+
+
+
+
+PROBABLE NUMBERS OF THE DEAF & DUMB.
+
+There is an increasing desire on the part of the various Governments of
+the world to give information likely to be useful to the instructors of
+the deaf and dumb, but it has been proved beyond doubt that the Census
+returns in many cases are not altogether reliable, the numbers being
+considerably understated. The following Table by Hartman, compiled from
+the various census returns, shows the per centage to the population:--
+
+                              EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+                         | Date of | Total      | No. of  | Deaf Mutes
+                         | Statis- | Population.|  Deaf   | among 10,000
+                         | tics.   |            | Mutes.  | Inhabitants.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+   1  Germany            |  1877   | 39,862,133 |  38,489 |    9.66
+   2  France             |  1872   | 36,102,921 |  22,610 |    6.26
+   3  Great Britain      |         |            |         |
+       and Ireland       |  1871   | 31,631,212 |  18,152 |    5.70
+   4  Italy              |  1871   | 26,413,132 |  19,385 |    7.34
+   5  Austria            |  1869   | 20,394,980 |  19,701 |    9.66
+   6  Hungary            |  1870   | 15,417,327 |  20,699 |   13.43
+   7  Spain              |  1860   | 15,658,531 |  10,905 |    6.96
+   8  Belgium            |  1858   |  4,529,560 |   1,989 |    4.39
+   9  Netherlands        |  1869   |  3,575,080 |   1,119 |    3.35
+  10  Sweden             |  1870   |  4,168,525 |   4,266 |   10.23
+  11  Norway             |  1865   |  1,701,756 |   1,569 |    9.22
+  12  Switzerland        |  1870   |  2,669,147 |   6,544 |   24.52
+  13  Denmark            |  1870   |  1,864,496 |   1,156 |    6.20
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+
+                              NON EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+   1  United States of   |         |            |         |
+      America            |  1870   | 38,558,371 |  16,205 |    4.20
+   2  Argentine Republic |  1870   |  1,743,199 |   6,626 |   38.07
+   3  British Colonies   |         |            |         |
+      in N. America      |  1871   |    583,535 |     470 |    8.05
+   4  In the West Indies |  1871   |    905,730 |     690 |    7.62
+   5  In Africa          |  1871   |    330,460 |     529 |   16.01
+   6  In Australia       |  1871   |    305,730 |      56 |    1.83
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+
+In Prussia (1875) the Census showed a population of 24,604,351, the
+number of the deaf and dumb being 24,315, or 9.9 to 10,000 of the
+population. In India there are, it is said, over 200,000 deaf mutes. The
+total number in the world is supposed to be over 700,000.
+
+
+
+
+KING GEORGE IV. & THE DEAF & DUMB BOY.
+
+When King George IV. visited Ireland a deaf and dumb boy determined to
+send a letter to His Majesty. The following extracts taken from this
+characteristic letter will be interesting:
+
+     "Wednesday, 4th July, 1821.
+
+     "My dear George,--I hope I will see you when you come here to
+     see the deaf and dumb boys and girls; I am very sorry that you
+     never did come here to see them.
+
+     "I will be very glad to see you, if you will come here often to
+     see me. Did you ever see the deaf and dumb in London? You must
+     write a letter to me soon. Would you like to see me at
+     Claremont? I could not go to London, because there is too much
+     money to pay to the captain of a ship for me.
+
+     "Do you know Grammar, Geography, Bible, Arithmetic, Astronomy,
+     and Dictionary? I know them very little. I am very delighted
+     that I am improving much. Perhaps I will be an assistant of the
+     Deaf and Dumb School. Where were you born? Would you like to
+     correspond with me? I would be very fond of you. You ought to
+     write a long letter to me soon. What profession are you of? I
+     never saw you; I am very, very anxious to see you indeed, and
+     would like to see the King of England very much.
+
+     "Will you send us some deaf and dumb children, and give us
+     money to pay for educating them.
+
+     "I am, your affectionate friend,
+         "THOMAS COLLINS."
+
+The answer was as follows:--
+
+     "To Thomas Collins, Deaf and Dumb Institution, Claremont,
+     Glasnevin, near Dublin.
+
+     "Sir Benjamin Bloomfield is commanded by the King to present to
+     Thomas Collins ten pounds for being a good boy."
+
+     "Phoenix Park, 3rd Sep., 1821."
+
+With these ten pounds the boy was afterwards apprenticed to a printer.
+
+
+
+
+POOR SAM TRANTER.
+
+The lot of the _uneducated_ deaf and dumb in this world is a pitiable
+one, and their isolation is keenly felt. Often have we seen some of this
+portion of suffering humanity unable to plead for themselves, or tell
+their tale of woe or hardship. Such was the condition of poor Sam
+Tranter. Though Sam was never in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, his skill
+and plans for worldly prospects were extraordinary. In his boyhood he
+was left friendless and uncared for, but persuaded a shoemaker to give
+him work, at which poor Sam was fairly successful; owing, however, to
+the man's ill treatment he had to leave, and, to save himself from
+starving, went in the workhouse. After a brief stay he again went forth
+to try his hand as a shoeblack, and after various attempts to shift for
+himself, he began to master difficulties by wonderful energy and
+perseverance, and there is no doubt had the poor fellow been properly
+taught in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, he would have risen in life.
+After a time Sam commenced selling cockles, mussels, and oysters.
+
+From a small beginning he increased, and in course of time he took a
+shop, and employed five women, at which he said he had made as much as
+£20 some weeks. Owing, however, to his lack of education, the poor
+fellow was continually robbed, and eventually got into trouble through
+debt, and was worried with summonses; hence his failure as a cockle and
+oyster merchant. He then took a stall, and afterwards a shop for the
+sale of gingerbread, &c.; this was also doomed to failure. He then tried
+street-hawking with a barrow, to keep himself from the workhouse; but
+this also failed, and his barrow was seized for debt.
+
+Poor Sam was again penniless, friendless, and homeless, which compelled
+him once more to seek refuge in the Union, where he afterwards died
+after great suffering, at the age of 60 years. His remains were followed
+to the grave by a few deaf and dumb friends. Poor Sam might have said
+with David "Whilst I would do good evil is present with me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FAITH COMETH BY HEARING.
+
+A deaf and dumb Lady said that the first time she went to church after
+she was impressed with the truths of christianity, she saw over the
+pulpit the words "Faith cometh by hearing," which caused her great
+unhappiness; for, she thought, that as she had no hearing she could
+never have faith. Shortly after, however, she saw this text in the
+Bible, and observed that it was followed by "and hearing by the Word of
+God," which gave her so much delight, as shewing her a way in which it
+was possible for faith to come even to her, that she clasped the Bible
+to her heart.
+
+
+
+
+MASSIEU.
+
+One of the best educated and most distinguished deaf mutes was Massieu,
+who gave the following remarkable replies to questions put to him by
+various friends:--
+
+"What is hearing?" "Hearing," said he, "is auricular sight." Another
+party asked him whether he made any distinction between a conqueror and
+a hero? "Arms and soldiers made a conqueror; courage of heart a hero.
+Julius Caesar was the hero of the Romans; Napoleon the hero of Europe,"
+was the answer he wrote on the blackboard, without hesitation.
+
+In reply to the following questions, he instantly wrote answers. "What
+is hope?" "Hope is the blossom of happiness." "What is happiness?"
+"Happiness is pleasure that ceaseth not; and misfortune is grief that
+endeth not." "What is the difference between hope and desire?" "Desire
+is a tree in leaf; hope is a tree in flower; and enjoyment is a tree in
+fruit." Another pupil standing by wrote, in reply to the same question,
+"Desire is the inclination of the heart; hope is a confidence of the
+mind." A stranger asked Massieu, "What difference do you think there is
+between God and nature?" His reply was "God is the first maker, the
+Creator of all things. The first beings all came out of His divine
+breast; He has said to the first beings, ye shall make the second; to
+the second ye shall make the third beings; His wills are laws; His laws
+are nature."
+
+"What is time?" "A line that has two ends, a path that begins in the
+cradle and ends in the tomb." "What is eternity?" "A day without
+yesterday or to-morrow, a line that has no end." "What is God?" "The
+necessary being, the sun of eternity, the mechanist of nature, the eye
+of justice, the watch-maker of the universe, the soul of the world." The
+deceptive and acute question, "Does God reason?" was put to him, it is
+said, by Sir James Macintosh, Massieu at once wrote, "Man reasons
+because he doubts; he deliberates, he decides; God is omniscient; He
+knows all things; He never doubts; He therefore never reasons."
+
+Lucien Buonaparte once asked Massieu, "What is laziness or idleness?"
+"It is a disgust from useful occupation; a disinclination to do
+anything; from which result indigence, want of cleanliness and misery,
+disease of body and the contempt of others." In writing this answer the
+gestures and looks of Massieu were in perfect accordance with the ideas
+that might be supposed to exist with him and the words he was writing.
+When he had finished the last word he turned round, and then his whole
+person, with his countenance and his eyes, exhibited one of the justest
+pantomimic representations of laziness which it is possible to conceive.
+After he had a moment dwelt upon this personification, which his fancy
+suggested to him, he made an expressive transition to the looks and
+manners of a person filled with that dread and abhorrence which the idea
+of laziness should ever inspire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+GRACE ANNABLE.
+
+Grace Annable was deaf, dumb, and blind, and although her form and
+features were well proportioned, she was a great sufferer from
+constitutional weakness; yet her temper was mild and affectionate.
+Strange to say, Grace was a capital nurse, and was much attached to
+several very young children, some being mere babies; in order to
+ascertain whether they were crying, she would pass her hand most
+carefully over the mouth and eyes, and soothe their little distresses
+with all the care and success of a talkative nurse. Grace was fond of
+fruit, and would beat the pears and apples from the trees, and could
+select the best with as much judgment as if she had been possessed with
+the sense of sight.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She frequently went in a field to gather wild flowers, to which she was
+directed by the pleasantness of their odour. Her sense of smelling was
+remarkably exquisite, and appeared to be an additional guide to her
+fingers. Grace would feel and admire ornaments, etc., and would never
+break or injure the most brittle things even in a strange room.
+
+A gentleman once made several experiments with her in order to test for
+himself her reported abilities, and expressed great surprise that one
+thus afflicted should be able to accomplish so much. Grace has, after a
+patient life, passed away into that land where deafness and dumbness is
+for ever unknown.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS BROTHER.
+
+Brownlow Harrison, a bright little boy who had spent a few years in the
+school for the deaf and dumb, was watching with great earnestness for
+his father, who was to fetch him home for the summer vacation.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Brownlow had made unusual progress during the last half-year; this he
+himself knew, and made him intensely anxious that his younger brother,
+who was also deaf and dumb, should be admitted as a pupil in the
+Institution. Brownlow himself at once wrote to the Committee as
+follows:--"When I was at home I was ignorant, and I don't know about
+God; but I am now taught about religion, and it is wonderful; I will be
+taught before I leave school. My dear brother cannot read, and he cannot
+understand; I wish he will come to school, for he don't know about God
+and angels, and all things good or bad. I am afraid he will grow wicked
+if he is not taught. I will feel thankful to the gentlemen to send my
+deaf brother to school."
+
+
+
+
+  FRANCIS CARTER, PRINTER,
+  IRON GATE WORKS,
+  DERBY.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+In the anecdote entitled "DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME," the character is
+named once as David and once as John in the original text. This
+discrepancy has not been changed.
+
+Punctuation and alternative spellings have been retained as they appear
+in the original text.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 374px;">
+<img src="images/ill-000cover.jpg" width="374" height="559" alt="" title="" /><br /><br /><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<h1>ANECDOTES &amp; INCIDENTS</h1>
+
+<h2>OF THE</h2>
+
+<h1>DEAF AND DUMB.</h1>
+
+<p class="center"><br /><br />W. R. ROE, M. C. T. D. &amp; D.,</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">Head Master Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution, Derby,<br />
+Author Of "Alice Gray: a True Story;" &amp;c.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><br /><br />DERBY:
+FRANCIS CARTER, IRON GATE.</p>
+
+<p class="center">1886.<br /><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;">
+<img src="images/ill-003.jpg" width="395" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3><br /><br /><br />PREFACE.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The Deaf and Dumb cannot help themselves as others
+can. From the cradle they are cut off from their fellow
+creatures. They can only cry, like the dumb brute, to make
+their pains and wishes known. God only can know the bitterness
+of heart, the desolation of the deaf and dumb child of the
+poor, as it grows up in a world without speech or sound&mdash;a
+lifelong silence! A mother's smile it may understand, but her
+soothing voice never comforts or delights it. While others
+grow in love, and life, and intelligence, its heart is chilled and
+its mind enfeebled. Only under suitable instruction, given at
+an early age, can the deaf mute become anything but a burden
+to others and to himself.</p>
+
+<p>The anecdotes in the following pages will doubtless be read
+with considerable curiosity, and it is hoped that the Midland
+Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Derby will receive some
+pecuniary assistance by the publication of this little book.</p>
+
+<p>There are 1119 Deaf and Dumb in the Institution's district,
+which comprises six of the Midland Counties.</p>
+
+<p>The Institution is supported by voluntary contributions.</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">
+<span class="center">W. R. R.</span></p>
+<p><i>Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Friar Gate, Derby.</span></i><br />
+</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1><a name="ANECDOTES" id="ANECDOTES"></a>ANECDOTES</h1>
+
+<h2>OF THE</h2>
+
+<h1>DEAF AND DUMB.</h1>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 436px;">
+<img src="images/ill-005.jpg" width="436" height="256" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>ASK A BLESSING.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 63px;">
+<img src="images/a-veryornate.jpg" width="63" height="144" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>
+<br />&nbsp;little boy was admitted as a pupil into the
+Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Derby.
+Previous to his admission he had given his
+parents and friends a great deal of trouble, and
+fears were entertained that he would be none
+the less troublesome to those in charge of him at
+the Institution. Happily however, owing to the firmness and
+kindness of his teachers, he very soon yielded to the rules and
+became a good, obedient boy. At length the time came for
+the vacation, and, amongst others, this little fellow went home
+for his holiday. The dinner hour arrived, and sitting down
+with his parents, he looked up at his father and put his hands
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>together. He wanted his father to ask a blessing. The father
+made the boy understand he did not know what to say, then
+the poor little fellow began to cry. At last he thought of a
+plan, he would ask the blessing himself; and so he spelt on
+his fingers the blessing he had learnt at the Institution, and
+got his friends to spell on their fingers after him letter by letter
+and word by word, and thus overcame the difficulty in which
+he was placed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_AND_DUMB_CLERGYMEN" id="DEAF_AND_DUMB_CLERGYMEN"></a>DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMEN.</h2>
+
+<p>In America there are four deaf and dumb clergymen working
+in connection with the Church Missions to the Deaf and
+Dumb. There are also in connection with the same mission
+eight lay readers, all of whom are deaf and dumb.&mdash;<i>Deaf
+Mute World.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HOW_TO_SAVE_THE_RATES" id="HOW_TO_SAVE_THE_RATES"></a>HOW TO SAVE THE RATES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 56px;">
+<img src="images/i-veryornate.jpg" width="56" height="144" alt="I" title="I" />
+</span>
+<br />n a vast majority of cases where the deaf and dumb
+are allowed to grow up uneducated and uncared
+for they become inmates of Workhouses or Lunatic
+Asylums. Many years ago L&mdash;&mdash; K&mdash;&mdash; was taken
+from a workhouse in Derbyshire where he had been
+for a number of years, and educated and apprenticed
+to a suitable trade; he is now a steady, industrious man, married,
+and himself a <i>ratepayer</i>. This is only one of many similar
+instances that have come within our experience. In some
+other cases they are struggling to support widowed mothers
+and sisters.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FATAL_ACCIDENT_TO_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BRIDE" id="FATAL_ACCIDENT_TO_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BRIDE"></a>FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DEAF AND DUMB BRIDE ON THE DAY OF MARRIAGE.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The following is taken from the <i>Manchester Mercury and
+Harrop's General Advertiser</i>, June 10, 1800:&mdash;"On
+the 12th ult., in the Island of Anglesea, Mr. Henry Ceclar, a
+gentleman well known for his pedestrian feats, to Miss Lucy
+Pencoch (the rich heiress of the late Mr. John Hughes,
+Bawgyddanhall), a lady of much beauty, but entirely deaf and
+dumb. This circumstance drew together an amazing concourse
+of people to witness the ceremony, which, on the bride's
+part, was literally performed by proxy. A splendid entertainment
+was given on the occasion by the bridegroom; but a
+dreadful catastrophe closed the scene, for the bride, in coming
+down stairs, made a false step, and fell with so much violence
+against a chair that she immediately expired."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="M_BERTHIER" id="M_BERTHIER"></a>M. BERTHIER.</h2>
+
+<p>This gentleman, who is now senior professor in the Paris
+Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, is described as a
+man of rare merit, probably superior in literary abilities and
+acquirements to any other deaf mute from birth that any
+country can produce. He is the author of several works that
+would do credit to a well-educated man whose knowledge of
+language had been acquired through the ear. On a recent
+occasion of a public exercise at the Institution he was decorated
+by the President of the Republic with the Cross of the
+Legion of Honour, the first time such a distinction had ever
+been conferred on a deaf and dumb person.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HIS_RIGHT_NAME" id="HIS_RIGHT_NAME"></a>"HIS RIGHT NAME."</h2>
+
+<p>In a letter received by the head master at the Deaf and
+Dumb Institution at Derby, a lady writes about a little
+boy she had assisted in obtaining admission into the Institution,
+and said that "During the little time (18 months) that
+William has been in the Institution he has improved wonderfully."
+She writes&mdash;"You know he used to be so wild, dirty,
+and careless; he was always interfering with everybody, in fact
+he went in the village by the name of Troublesome Dummy.
+All is changed; he is a nice clean, well behaved boy, and
+people are beginning to call him by his right name, William.
+We shall never forget what you have done for him."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 512px;">
+<img src="images/ill-008.jpg" width="512" height="160" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="AN_INGENIOUS_BOY" id="AN_INGENIOUS_BOY"></a>AN INGENIOUS BOY.</h2>
+
+<p>We were lately shown a curiosity in the shape of a sewing
+machine entirely of wood. It was whittled out of
+ordinary pine with an ordinary jack-knife by an ordinary boy&mdash;no,
+not an ordinary boy; it was the handiwork of a deaf and
+dumb boy who resides at Massachusetts. A machine was left
+at the house of the boy by an agent, and the lad, with considerable
+ingenuity, made a counterpart of the machine, and
+did it wholly with a jack-knife.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="MIGHTY_PROUD" id="MIGHTY_PROUD"></a>"MIGHTY PROUD."</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figright"><img src="images/ill-009.jpg" width="281" height="286" alt="" title="" /></span>
+<br />
+At a meeting held in a country village in aid of the Deaf
+and Dumb Institution, Derby, a number of the pupils
+were present on the platform. One of the speakers called attention
+to a bright looking little fellow, and asked the audience if
+they knew him? and amidst general laughter spoke of the
+boy's earlier
+years, how
+he had seen
+him running
+about barefooted
+and
+dirty, playing
+with the
+worst boys in
+the streets;
+but now
+completely
+changed in
+his habits
+and character.
+He went
+on to relate
+a little incident
+he had
+himself observed
+a few
+weeks previous,
+when
+the boy was
+home from the Institution for his holiday. The little deaf and
+dumb boy was coming along the road, looking clean and bright,
+and carrying a book in his hand, when four of his old gutter
+companions, all in dirt, and who ought to have been at school,
+saw him, and one of them shouted out, "Hello, here's owd
+dummy comin;" and all four went to meet him, and tried to
+make friends with him, but he thought they were scarcely clean
+enough for his company, and quietly passed on his way towards
+home. The boys were surprised, and stared at each other for
+some time; at last one of them said, "Oh, ain't he got mighty
+proud?"</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 335px;">
+<img src="images/ill-121.jpg" width="335" height="72" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SCULPTOR_AT_BRUSSELS" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SCULPTOR_AT_BRUSSELS"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR AT BRUSSELS.</h2>
+
+<p>A deaf and dumb sculptor named Van Louy de Canter
+has recently obtained two prizes, one a silver medal with
+a ribbon of Belgian colours, and a second class award for his
+best work in marble; the other a bronze medal; he has also
+an honourable certificate from the Belgian Exhibition of 1880.
+It is encouraging to hear of his success, and to know that from
+his devotion to the art, he will persevere in the right way to be
+a credit to his country and to his numerous friends among the
+deaf and dumb.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="MONOGRAPH_of_the_COLLEONBOLA_THYSANURA" id="MONOGRAPH_of_the_COLLEONBOLA_THYSANURA"></a>MONOGRAPH of the COLLEONBOLA &amp; THYSANURA.</h2>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">By Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M.P., &amp;c.</span></p>
+
+<p>This work is one of the many magnificent contributions to
+the literature of natural history issued by the Royal Society.
+It treats of curious animals which the author considers
+as more nearly allied to the Insecta than to the Crustacea or
+Arachnidę. It is magnificently illustrated with 78 plates (31
+being coloured), and the whole of the illustrations were executed
+by a painstaking deaf and dumb artist, Mr. Hollick. It
+will mark an era in the study of those neglected, but intensely
+curious animals, and we doubt not will repay both author, and
+artist, and the Society for the labour bestowed upon it.&mdash;<i>Daily
+Paper.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_COUNTESS_OF_ORKNEY" id="THE_COUNTESS_OF_ORKNEY"></a>THE COUNTESS OF ORKNEY.</h2>
+
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-011.jpg" width="265" height="322" alt="" title="" /></span>
+<br /><br />The following curious
+anecdote is related
+of Mary, Countess
+of Orkney. She was deaf
+and dumb, and was married
+in 1753, by signs.
+She lived with her husband,
+who was also her
+first cousin, at his seat,
+Rostellan, on the harbour
+of Cork. Shortly
+after the birth of her first
+child, the nurse, with considerable
+astonishment,
+saw the mother cautiously approach the cradle in which the
+infant was sleeping, evidently full of some deep design. The
+Countess having perfectly assured herself that the child really
+slept, took a large stone, which she had concealed under her
+shawl, and to the horror of the nurse&mdash;who, like all persons of
+the lower order in her country, indeed in most countries, was
+fully impressed with an idea of the peculiar cunning and malignity
+of "dumbies"&mdash;raised it with an intent to fling it down
+vehemently. Before the nurse could interpose the Countess
+had flung the stone&mdash;not, however, as the servant had apprehended
+at the child, but on the floor, where of course it made
+a great noise. The child immediately awoke, and cried. The
+Countess, who had looked with maternal eagerness to the
+result of her experiment, fell on her knees in a transport of
+joy. She had discovered that her child possessed the sense
+which was wanting in herself.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="EPITAPH" id="EPITAPH"></a>EPITAPH</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 404px;">
+<img src="images/ill-012.jpg" width="404" height="384" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>In St. Modwen's Churchyard at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire,
+the following inscription has been copied from
+the tombstone of a deaf and dumb man:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+This Stone<br />
+Was raised by Subscription<br />
+To the Memory of<br />
+<span class="smcap">Thomas Stokes</span>,<br />
+An eccentric and much-respected deaf and dumb man,<br />
+Better known by the name of<br />
+<span class="smcap">Dumb Tom</span>,<br />
+Who departed this life Feb. 25th, 1837,<br />
+Aged 57 years.<br /><br />
+</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">"What man can pause, and charge the senseless dust<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">With fraud, or subtlety, or aught unjust?<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">How few can conscientiously declare<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Their acts have been as honourably fair?<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">No gilded bait, no heart ensnaring meed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Could bribe poor Stokes to one dishonest deed:<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Firm in attachment, to his friends most true&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Though deaf and dumb he was excell'd by few.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Go ye, by nature formed, without defect,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">And copy Tom, and gain as much respect."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_HAPPY_DEATH_BED" id="A_HAPPY_DEATH_BED"></a>A HAPPY DEATH BED.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 60px;">
+<img src="images/n-veryornate.jpg" width="60" height="144" alt="N" title="N" />
+</span>
+<br />ot long ago there died in the county Wexford, in
+Ireland, a deaf and dumb shoemaker named Henry
+Plunkett. He had for many years been a true
+and sincere christian, and therefore when he came
+to die he was not afraid, but rejoiced at the thought
+of meeting his Saviour. During the last few hours
+of his life on earth he suffered much pain; but he was quite
+sensible, and made signs that if the house was piled up with
+gold he would not take it all and live, for, he said, pointing his
+hand upwards, "I wish to go up." To the woman who attended
+him he signed, "Do not fret, not never; I am going to
+Jesus." "The contrast between the white face&mdash;white as marble&mdash;and
+the long jet black hair and beard is striking," wrote
+the clergyman who sent this account, shortly after his death.
+But beautiful as he looked in death, he looks far more beautiful
+in heaven, where he now is, clothed in the white robe of
+Christ's righteousness, which he has provided for all who truly
+love and serve him.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_COMING_MAYORALTY" id="THE_COMING_MAYORALTY"></a>THE COMING MAYORALTY.</h2>
+
+<p>The state coach for the Lord Mayor elect will be furnished
+by Mr. J. Offord, of Wells Street and Brook Street, who
+has also supplied the chariot for Mr. Sheriff Johnson. The
+coach for the new Lord Mayor is quite in harmony with
+modern ideas and taste. The side windows, instead of being
+rounded off in the corners as formerly, are cut nearly square,
+to follow the outlines of the body. This novelty renders the
+body of the carriage much lighter than usual, and more elegant
+in appearance. Another 'innovation' is the painting. It
+has hitherto been usual to paint the under part of the carriage
+white or drab, relieved by the same colour as the body, but
+in the present case the whole vehicle has been painted a dark
+green, the family colour of the Lord Mayor elect, relieved by
+large lines of gold upon the body, and gold and red upon the
+under carriage. The natural elegance of this arrangement of
+colouring is heightened by the beautiful heraldic paintings of
+the City arms and those of the Fishmongers' and Spectacle
+Makers' Companies, of which Mr. Alderman Lusk is a member.
+These have been executed by Mr. D. T. Baker, the
+celebrated deaf and dumb artist.&mdash;<i>The Times</i>, 1883.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_IN_TEXAS" id="THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_IN_TEXAS"></a>THE DEAF AND DUMB IN TEXAS.</h2>
+
+<p>Deaf and Dumb men have a poor chance in Texas. One
+of them went to a farmhouse, and, when asked what he
+wanted, put his hand in his pocket to get a pencil, and he was
+at once shot down by the farmer, who thought his visitor was
+feeling for a pistol.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_INDIANS_AND_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="THE_INDIANS_AND_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>THE INDIANS AND DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-015.jpg" width="229" height="348" alt="W" title="W" /></span>
+<br />
+e are quite sure the Indians were
+delighted by the reception tendered
+them by the children of the public
+schools and the inmates of the Institutions
+for the Blind and Deaf and
+Dumb last Friday, in the Academy
+of Music, but their happiness was made
+complete, on Sunday evening, at the La
+Pierre house, by a visit which they received
+from six of the pupils, all girls, of the Deaf
+and Dumb Institute, accompanied by the
+Principal, Mr. Foster, and one of the teachers.
+On their arrival at the hotel they were
+received by Mr. Welsh, the humane commissioner, and shown
+into a well furnished private parlour, when they were introduced,
+one by one, to General Smith and his Indians, whose
+faces plainly showed the delight which their hearts felt. They
+at once singled out the two girls who had taken part in the
+reception at the Academy, and bestowed upon them special
+marks of friendship.</p>
+
+<p>Tea being announced in a few minutes, the whole party
+proceeded to the dining room, where they were seated at well
+spread tables, three Indians and one mute at each. Here the
+striking similarity between the signs used by the Indians of the
+West and our deaf mutes was plainly observable in the spirited
+conversation which ensued. The merry laughter which broke
+forth from these usually quiet stolid men was sufficient to
+mark their keen appreciation of what was said. One old chief,
+slightly confused, sought to excuse his awkwardness with the
+knife and fork to one of the young ladies, by stating that at
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>home he never used them, but ate with his fingers. They exchanged
+signs for butter, coffee, milk, meat, bread, salt, sugar,
+knife, fork, &amp;c., which were remarkably similar.</p>
+
+<p>After tea the whole party assembled in the parlour, and
+then began a scene indescribable. The Indians, wild with delight,
+talked away to the mutes, who, equally happy, seemed to
+catch and understand everything they said. They described
+their homes, their hunting expeditions, their wives and children;
+how they lived and how they buried their dead. One of
+them gave a very graphic account of the great snowstorms
+which frequently occur among the mountains. One told about
+the wars he had engaged in, and the number of scalps he had
+taken, and then asked the teacher if he had ever killed a man,
+and on receiving a reply in the negative, seemed quite disgusted.
+Another, a great rider, said that with them the horses
+had plenty of grass to eat, and were fat, but here, in the city,
+they had none, and were consequently very poor. Another
+old chief, a very fine looking man, stated that he had a large
+family of children at home, and then asked the smallest of the
+girls if she wouldn't go home with him, promising to bring her
+back as soon as she had taught his little boys and girls how to
+make signs like the mutes.</p>
+
+<p>These wild men seemed thoroughly at home in the presence
+of the children, their habitual restlessness and reserve disappeared;
+they had met for once white persons with whom they
+could converse without the tedious process of interpreting, and
+the conversation, as Mr. Welsh expressed it, went directly to
+their hearts. In parting with their young visitors, the Indians
+freely expressed the pleasure which their visit had afforded
+them, then sorrow at the separation, and promised to relate all
+that had occurred to their friends and kindred in the West.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<p>When it is remembered that all this and much more took
+place between a delegation of wild Indians and six mute girls
+attending the Institution in our city, it certainly will be considered
+remarkable, and probably never before in the history
+of civilization has such a meeting occurred. As a means of
+communication with the wild tribes roaming over our western
+plains, the capacity of the sign-language of mutes can hardly be
+over estimated, and a few well-trained mute missionaries could,
+without doubt, be made the instruments for accomplishing
+much good among this down-trodden despised race.&mdash;<i>New
+York Herald.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 411px;">
+<img src="images/ill-017.jpg" width="411" height="302" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="EXHIBITION_1851" id="EXHIBITION_1851"></a>EXHIBITION, 1851.</h2>
+
+<p>At the great Exhibition in 1851 there was exhibited a set
+of oak tables and cabinet of Stanton oak, combined with
+glass and ormolu, etc., made and carved by three deaf and
+dumb persons; the castings by Marsh, of Dudley.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_MATE_FOR_LAURA_BRIDGMAN" id="A_MATE_FOR_LAURA_BRIDGMAN"></a>A MATE FOR LAURA BRIDGMAN.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-018-small.jpg" width="237" height="327" alt="H" title="H" /></span>
+<br />etty Hutson lives in the
+city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
+a girl seventeen
+years old, who has been
+deaf and dumb and blind
+from birth. She is active in her
+nature, and has a remarkably intelligent
+mind. Through the one
+medium of gestures, as perceived
+by the touch, she understands
+wonderfully well, and in turn
+makes herself understood. She
+will wipe dishes and put them
+away with scrupulous care and exactness; will go down the
+cellar alone at her mother's bidding and get apples; then,
+running up with astonishing rapidity, will give them to anyone
+she is bid, and put her own into her pocket. At a motion from
+her father she will go upstairs and get his best hat, deciding
+by touching his broadcloth suit which hat he wants. She knits
+and sews in a very creditable style, and manifests a desire to
+learn to do other kinds of work. She is neat and orderly in
+her habits, and ever acts in a ladylike manner, while in disposition
+she is cheerful as a sunbeam, and as playful as a kitten.
+For about one year, at irregular intervals, a young minister of
+the name of J. B. Howell, devoted one hour each week to her
+instruction, and she made some advancement, novel as his
+method was; but in June last he went to Brazil as a missionary,
+since which time she has been without instruction until
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>recently. She is now receiving daily instruction by means of
+the manual alphabet. It is, however, to be regretted that her
+present teacher is an entire novice in the work she has undertaken,
+but as she has large sympathy for her, and individual
+experience as to the needs of her pupil, it seems safe to hope
+that she may lay a substantial foundation, upon which some
+more accomplished person may build an education which will
+make this greatly afflicted being equal to Laura Bridgman, of
+world wide fame.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_THOUGHT_OF_THE_SOUTH_SEA_ISLANDERS" id="A_THOUGHT_OF_THE_SOUTH_SEA_ISLANDERS"></a>A THOUGHT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.</h2>
+
+<p>Among some of the islands of the South Sea the compound
+word for "hope" is beautifully expressive; it is
+"manaolona" or "swimming thought"&mdash;"faith" floating and
+keeping its head aloft above water, when all the waves and
+billows are going over it&mdash;a strikingly beautiful definition of
+"hope," worthy to be set down along with the answer which a
+deaf and dumb person wrote with his pencil, in reply to the
+question "What is your idea of forgiveness?" "It is the
+odour which flowers yield when trampled on."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_DUMB_BLIND_AND_LAME" id="DEAF_DUMB_BLIND_AND_LAME"></a>DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 60px;">
+<img src="images/d-veryornate.jpg" width="60" height="144" alt="D" title="D" />
+</span>
+<br />avid Simons, of Boston, is deaf and dumb; he is
+also blind; likewise he is lame. Penniless he is,
+and houseless. Finally, he is black, which may or
+may not be considered a misfortune. No,&mdash;finally
+he was run over by a team and dreadfully bruised.
+Yet we suppose that John Simons still desires to live, for he
+consented to be carried to a hospital.&mdash;<i>Deaf Mute Advance.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="INTERNATIONAL_EXHIBITION" id="INTERNATIONAL_EXHIBITION"></a>INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.</h2>
+
+<p class="center">(From <i>The Graphic</i>, May, 1874.)</p>
+
+<p>Messrs. Doulton and Co., who have done so well with
+stoneware, dignifying the simplest material by giving
+even to the most ordinary and cheapest articles shapes of real
+beauty, exhibit in Room 9 a most praiseworthy set of examples
+(3719) of very remarkable art and character, demonstrating
+principally possibilities of wall decoration. On the floor at the
+base of the division are some noble pieces of graphite stoneware
+contributed by Mr. Frank A. Butler, who is deaf and
+dumb.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_YOUNG_GENIUS" id="A_YOUNG_GENIUS"></a>A YOUNG GENIUS.</h2>
+
+<p class="center">(From the Journal of the Society of Arts, May 1, 1874.)</p>
+
+<p>Another artist who has made his mark on the ware
+by the originality of his forms is Frank A. Butler. He
+is quite deaf and almost dumb. He is one of many thus
+heavily afflicted who have passed through the school. He
+began his artistic life as a designer of stained glass, but his
+invention was not needed, nor, I dare say, discovered in the
+practice of an art which is almost traditional. I introduced
+him to the new work, and in a few months he brought out
+many new thoughts from the silent seclusion of his mind. A
+bold originality of treatment, and the gift of invention, are
+characteristic of his work. He has struck out many new paths.
+A certain massing together of floral forms, and ingenious treatment
+of discs, dots, and interlacing lines indicate his hand.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_LITTLE_DEMERARIAN" id="THE_LITTLE_DEMERARIAN"></a>THE LITTLE DEMERARIAN.</h2>
+
+<div class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-021.jpg" width="240" height="320" alt="" title="" /></div>
+<p>
+<br />A little coloured
+deaf and dumb girl in
+Demerara came to Mrs.
+H&mdash;&mdash;'s school, and wished
+to learn to read. It was
+thought impossible to teach
+her; the missionary's wife
+therefore shook her head,
+and made signs for her to
+go home. But she would
+take no denial; so Mrs.
+H&mdash;&mdash; sent to England for
+the "Deaf and Dumb Alphabet."
+It was astonishing
+how quickly the child
+was taught to read the New Testament, from which she learned
+to know Jesus as her Saviour. One day she signed to her kind
+teacher, "Missie, me too happy. You would think when me
+walk out that there were two people in the road; but it is
+Jesus and me. He talk and me talk, and we two so happy
+together."</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DRAUGHTS" id="DRAUGHTS"></a>DRAUGHTS.</h2>
+
+<p>Mr. James Wyllie (the Herd Laddie), the greatest living
+draught player, has been in Aberdeen for a whole week,
+playing in public against all comers. He played altogether 98
+games, of which he won 79, lost 3, and 6 drawn. It is worthy
+of notice that three of the draws were secured by Mr. Benjamin
+Price, a deaf mute, and a well known local player.&mdash;<i>Scotsman.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_UNWELCOME_TAP" id="THE_UNWELCOME_TAP"></a>THE UNWELCOME TAP.</h2>
+
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-022.jpg" width="128" height="323" alt="I" title="I" /></span>
+<br />sabella Green was a young woman
+who was completely blind and deaf, and
+she was brought before a number of
+eminent surgeons to see if anything
+could be done for her. Her sad condition
+had been produced by violent
+pain in the head. The only method
+of communicating with her was by tapping
+her hand, which signified no, and
+squeezing it, which signified yes. The
+surgeons concluded that her case was
+incurable, and in reply to her earnest
+inquiries she received the unwelcome
+tap. She immediately burst into tears,
+in all the bitterness of anguish. "What!" said she, "shall I
+never see the light of day, or hear a human voice? Must I
+remain shut up in darkness and silence as long as I live?" A
+friend who was present took up a Bible and placed it to her
+breast. She put her hands on it, and asked "Is this the
+Bible?" Her hand was squeezed in reply. She immediately
+clasped it in her hands, and held it to her bosom, and exclaimed,
+"This is the only comfort I have left. I shall never
+be able to look upon its blessed pages, but I can think of the
+promises I have learned from it." And she then began to
+repeat some of the promises&mdash;"Cast thy burden upon the
+Lord, and He will sustain thee;" "Call upon me in the day
+of trouble, and I will deliver thee;" "My grace is sufficient
+for thee," &amp;c. She dried her tears, and became peacefully
+submissive to the will of God.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="COROT_AND_HIS_PUPIL" id="COROT_AND_HIS_PUPIL"></a>COROT AND HIS PUPIL.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 61px;">
+<img src="images/c-veryornate.jpg" width="61" height="144" alt="C" title="C" />
+</span>
+<br />orot the Artist had a deaf and dumb pupil. The
+young fellow was employed in copying one of his
+master's beautiful pencil drawings, when he even
+tried to imitate a stain of glue which was on the
+paper. Corot, when he saw it, smiled, and said, or
+at least wrote, "Trčs bien, mon ami; mais quand vous serez
+devant la nature; vous ne verrez pas de taches." "(Very well,
+my friend; but when you are before nature you will not see
+any stains.)"</p>
+
+<p>M. Jean Baptist Corot, the great French landscape painter,
+died February 23rd, 1875, aged 79.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;">
+<img src="images/ill-023.jpg" width="368" height="90" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="DUMB_FOR_TWO_YEARS" id="DUMB_FOR_TWO_YEARS"></a>DUMB FOR TWO YEARS.</h2>
+
+<p>Two years ago, says the <i>Auburn Advertizer</i>, George Scott,
+one of a gang of desperadoes in New York City, committed
+a robbery, for which he ought to have received ten years
+in prison. When he was arrested he feigned to be deaf and
+dumb. Upon his trial he made much of his infirmity, and the
+result was that he succeeded in escaping with a sentence of two
+years. Being transferred from Sing Sing to Auburn prison, he
+still kept up appearances, by means of which he escaped from
+doing heavy work, but was assigned to duty in shoe shop No. 1
+as waiter, being supposed to be fit for no more valuable service.
+He was sharp, ready and intelligent, and generally well
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>behaved, though hot tempered. Keeper Bacon, under whom
+he was placed, had him always under strict surveillance, but
+never was led to suspect by anything in his conduct that he
+was not deaf and dumb. Indeed, he says that he once saw
+Scott, who always went in the shop by the name of "Dummy,"
+so roused up and maddened by something that had occurred,
+that he thought he would go crazy, yet he gave no sign that
+he was otherwise in respect to hearing and speaking than he
+seemed. About two months ago Dummy's time was up, and
+he was discharged. To give him a start in life again, keeper
+Bacon hired him to do some gardening. Principal keeper
+Gallup did the same thing. He worked in this way for two or
+three weeks. While at his work children would talk to him
+and play round him, yet he was always apparently oblivious to
+their presence. But Dummy had a tongue and could use it,
+and his hearing was as keen as anybody's. One day he fell in
+with a fellow convict who had just been discharged from prison,
+and they went off up the street together, talking gaily. Captain
+Russell, foreman in one of the departments of the prison shoe
+shop, who was in the street, overheard their conversation; and
+on another occasion it happened that one of the keepers met
+Dummy at Louis Schuch's and talked with him for a long time.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
+<img src="images/ill-024.jpg" width="412" height="88" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_BACHELOR_OF_SCIENCE" id="THE_BACHELOR_OF_SCIENCE"></a>THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.</h2>
+
+<p>A fact without precedent has just happened at the Sorbonne.
+A young deaf mute, M. Dusuzeau, underwent
+recently with success the examinations for the degree of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>"Bachelor of Science." This distinguished pupil has answered
+by writing all the questions which have been put to him. This
+success, unexpected a few years ago, greatly honours the Imperial
+Institution in Paris, and is due to the high standard
+which its learned director, M. Vaisse, maintains in the studies,
+and to the devotedness of the censor, M. Valade Reoni, head
+master of the instruction, and who has been the affectionate
+master of M. Dusuzeau.</p>
+
+<p>M. Dusuzeau was married on the third of March last, at
+the church of St. Germain, l'Auxerrois, Paris, to Miss Matilda
+Freeman, daughter of James B. Freeman, Esq., of Philadelphia,
+in the presence of a distinguished circle of friends. Miss Freeman
+stayed in England some months in 1882, and is therefore
+well known to many of our deaf and dumb friends.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="LIKE_THE_COPY" id="LIKE_THE_COPY"></a>LIKE THE COPY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 64px;">
+<img src="images/f-veryornate.jpg" width="64" height="144" alt="F" title="F" />
+</span>
+<br />lorence B&mdash;&mdash;, a little girl in the Deaf and
+Dumb Institution at Derby, was painting in water
+colours during her leisure hours. She had been
+told to be very careful with the card she was
+painting, and do it exactly the same as the copy,
+and to these instructions she strictly adhered.
+When the card was finished she took it to the head master,
+who at once noticed a black spot painted on a bright flower.
+On being told she had spoilt the card with doing this, she
+replied "But it's like the copy," and at once produced it, when
+it was found that by some means an ink spot had got on the
+copy.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DRUNKEN_BILLY" id="DRUNKEN_BILLY"></a>"DRUNKEN BILLY."</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-026.jpg" width="230" height="239" alt="A" title="A" /></span>
+<br />&nbsp;poor deaf and dumb man,
+who might be said to be entirely
+friendless in the world
+until the Institution of the
+Deaf and Dumb was formed
+at Derby, was continually in
+trouble, owing to his intemperate
+habits. "Drunken
+Billy," as he was called by
+some, had however a tender
+place in his heart, and we frequently visited him at his lodgings
+and assisted him in various ways. After a time Billy was persuaded
+to sign the temperance pledge, and began to attend the
+lectures and services for the adult deaf and dumb. For a time
+all went well, but one hot summer day one of his fellow workmen,
+who ought to have known better, knowing that Billy had
+signed the temperance pledge, offered him a shilling if he would
+drink a glass of ale he held in his hand. The temptation was
+too strong for Billy to resist, and having taken one, it was
+not easy for him to resist a second, and in the end poor Billy
+got taken up by the police. The head master of the Institution
+at Derby appeared, by request, to interpret the evidence,
+and it transpired that Billy had been sent to prison in the
+same month, June, each year, for the seven previous years.
+The magistrates however expressed their reluctance at sending
+Billy to prison, and asked him, through the interpreter, if he
+would try and keep sober, and if he would again sign the pledge;
+this he promised to do, and the magistrates on the bench not
+only dismissed the case, but each became subscribers of one
+guinea annually to the Deaf and Dumb Institution. Billy,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>true to his promise kept sober, and again attended the services
+for the deaf and dumb, and when nearly 70 years of age gave a
+brief lecture of his "Life's Experiences" to the deaf and dumb,
+which caused considerable amusement, especially his remarks
+about Derby fifty years ago. Billy was always thankful for
+the help rendered him by the Institution, and frequently said
+"If he might have his way he would be glad to die and get to
+heaven where he could hear." Poor Billy's life was a hard
+one, for death took a good wife and four little ones during the
+first ten years of his wedded life, and one by one the whole of
+his relations passed away. Billy has now done with temptation,
+and recently passed away to the majority, his last remarks
+bearing testimony to the value of the Institution for the Deaf
+and Dumb.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="RAPID_BICYCLE_TRAVELLING" id="RAPID_BICYCLE_TRAVELLING"></a>RAPID BICYCLE TRAVELLING.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 72px;">
+<img src="images/y-veryornate.jpg" width="72" height="144" alt="Y" title="Y" />
+</span>
+<br />esterday week a young man named Sydney
+Cornwall, of Coventry, started at six o'clock in
+the morning for Salisbury (a distance of 128
+miles) on a bicycle. On the morning following
+his friends received a letter from him, posted at
+Taunton, stating that he had reached that place
+and had yet fourteen miles to go that evening; and a subsequent
+letter on Wednesday morning informed them that he
+had arrived at his destination at six o'clock on Tuesday evening,
+having stopped the previous night at a hostelry some miles
+beyond Taunton. This young man is deaf and dumb, and
+his enquiries for the right road must have cost him some considerable
+time. The driving wheel of his machine is only forty
+inches in diameter.&mdash;<i>Bicycle News.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HEROIC_CONDUCT_OF_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_GIRL" id="HEROIC_CONDUCT_OF_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_GIRL"></a>HEROIC CONDUCT OF A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL.</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;">
+<img src="images/ill-028.jpg" width="299" height="349" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>On Tuesday last an inquest was held by Mr. Michael
+Fullam, Coroner, at Aughaward, near Ballinale in this
+County, on the body of a respectable middle class farmer
+named James Prunty. It appears the deceased, a feeble old
+man of 76 years of age, went into an out-house occupied by his
+own bull for the purpose of cleaning it out, and while in the
+act of doing so, the bull broke its chain and turned on him.
+By the interposition of providence, his daughter, a deaf mute,
+happened to come that way, and looked into the bull-house, her
+attention having been attracted by seeing the door lying open;
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>and there, at the instant her eyes rested on the interior, she
+saw her aged father tossed high in the air above the bull's head;
+when he fell on the ground the bull gored him with his horns,
+pawed him with his feet, and raged with fury. The daring
+girl&mdash;the poor deaf mute&mdash;did not hesitate for an instant, but
+with most surprising presence of mind rushed to the rescue.
+She caught up the old man's stick which she saw on the floor
+as she entered, and seizing the bull by a copper ring in his
+nose, she thrashed him soundly on the head. The struggle was
+terrific&mdash;it was one of life and death, both for herself and the
+old man who now lay helpless at her feet. The bull did not
+tamely submit to his chastisement, but directed his assault on
+the lone girl; he tore her from her ankle to her armpit, struck
+her on the breast, and dashed her against the wall: but still
+she clung with a death grasp to his nose, and belaboured him
+with the stick, until she finally conquered and forced the infuriated
+animal to yield to her command. She then threw
+away the stick, and changing the ring into her right hand,
+raised the disabled old man from the ground and carried him
+on her left arm outside the door, forced back the bull, and
+closed the door in his face. Such heroic conduct as this has
+seldom been manifested by the bravest of men, but it is almost
+beyond credence that the deaf mute who was examined before
+the jury through an interpreter could have performed such an
+extraordinary feat. Yet so it was, and the jurors one and all
+were thoroughly satisfied with the clear and intelligible description
+of the most minute particulars of the occurrence exhibited
+by this most wonderful girl. It is sad to say that after all her
+exertions, the poor old man died in an hour after his release
+from the bull-house. The jury handed to the coroner the
+following memorandum at the close of the proceedings:&mdash;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<blockquote><p>"We cannot separate without putting on record our entire
+admiration of the heroic conduct of Bridget Prunty (an orphan
+and deaf mute), who, at the risk of her life, relieved her aged
+father, James Prunty, from the furious assault of his own bull,
+(from the effects of which he died yesterday), by catching him
+by a ring in his nose, and while holding him back, carried the
+old man on her left arm out of the house in which he was
+attacked: and we urgently recommend her to the notice of
+those benevolent gentlemen who appreciate and reward such
+an act of noble daring for the preservation of human life."</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Given at Aughaward, 22nd Jan., 1878,<br /></span>
+
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Bartholomew Quinn</span>, Foreman."<br /></span>
+
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(For self and fellows),<br /></span>
+
+<span style="margin-left: 8em;">"<span class="smcap">M. Fullam</span>, Coroner."<br /></span>
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p><i>Longford Journal.</i></p>
+
+<p>We are glad to say that on hearing of the bravery of this
+little deaf and dumb girl, Mr. Harman, M.P., at once sent £5,
+and many other friends also shewed their appreciation of the
+girl's conduct in a practical way.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
+<img src="images/ill-083-2.jpg" width="367" height="58" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The following touching lines were composed by a <i>Deaf</i>
+friend after seeing the account in the "Longford Journal":&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote><p style="margin-left: 2em;">THE BRAVE DEAF MUTE.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left: 2em;">
+The tale of bravery I tell,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will your attention hold,</span><br />
+Though not performed on battle field,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor by a warrior bold.</span><br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span><br />
+An Irish girl, to whom the Lord<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor speech nor hearing gave,</span><br />
+Tho' but a poor deaf mute was she,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her heart was stout and brave.</span><br />
+<br />
+Deaf, dumb, yes, poor and motherless,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Friendless and obscure;</span><br />
+Only her father left to her,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he was old and poor.</span><br />
+<br />
+A farmer he, and owned a bull,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That in a shed was chained,</span><br />
+For it was savage, but one day<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Its liberty obtained.</span><br />
+<br />
+The poor old man was unaware<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The bull had broke its chain,</span><br />
+Until the beast upon him turned<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ere he the door could gain.</span><br />
+<br />
+The dumb girl neared the open shed,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As she the threshold crossed;</span><br />
+Oh! dreadful sight, her father high<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By savage bull was tossed.</span><br />
+<br />
+She could not hear if help was nigh,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She could not call for aid;</span><br />
+So quick to rescue him she ran,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Too brave to feel afraid.</span><br />
+<br />
+One hand she slipped within a ring,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That through its nose was placed;</span><br />
+And with her father's stick upraised,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The angry bull she faced.</span><br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span><br />
+Oh! then ensued a struggle, fit<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To fill her heart with dread;</span><br />
+While at her feet her father lay,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To all appearance dead.</span><br />
+<br />
+Long and fierce the battle raged<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Between the bull and maid;</span><br />
+Nor would she yield, tho' by its horns<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her side was open laid.</span><br />
+<br />
+Blow after blow upon its head,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With heavy stick she rained,</span><br />
+Until the savage beast was cowed,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And she the victory gained.</span><br />
+<br />
+And then the stick away she threw,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(But held on as before,)</span><br />
+Her father with one arm she raised,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And slowly neared the door.</span><br />
+<br />
+Then back into the shed she forced<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The bull, and slammed the door,</span><br />
+While in her aching, bleeding arms,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her father's form she bore.</span><br />
+<br />
+But, sad to say, her father dear,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Whom thus to save she tried,</span><br />
+Had been so injured by the bull,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In one short hour he died.</span><br />
+<br />
+An orphan now, alone and poor,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Homeless, and deaf and dumb;</span><br />
+Oh, who will help some christian friends,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To make for her a home?</span><br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span><br />
+
+If you who read these simple lines,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With speech and hearing blest,</span><br />
+And have it in your power to aid<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And comfort the distressed,</span><br />
+<br />
+Oh! think of this brave-hearted girl,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And help her in her need;&mdash;</span><br />
+With voice and pen on her behalf<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For timely help I plead.</span><br />
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/ill-103-2.jpg" width="391" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_VICTORY" id="A_VICTORY"></a>A VICTORY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 64px;">
+<img src="images/p-veryornate.jpg" width="64" height="144" alt="P" title="P" />
+</span>
+<br />eter Sims, a deaf and dumb boy, was walking past
+a large shop one day in winter, when he saw a
+beautiful pair of skates in the window. He had
+often wished for skates that he might skate upon
+the ice, and when he saw these he desired to have
+them. He looked; no one was watching; he
+thought, "I can take these skates easily, and no one will
+know."</p>
+
+<p>Before he had been sent to school this boy had been a very
+bad boy; he had often stolen little articles, but now he was
+learning about God, and he knew that God had said "Thou
+shalt not steal." As he stood looking at the skates this commandment
+came into his mind, and there was a struggle in his
+heart. His old bad nature said, "Take the skates;" his conscience
+answered, "No, for it is wrong to steal." At last he
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>made the signs, "steal, bad, not" (he was seen, though he did
+not know it), and went on without taking them. He had
+gained a great victory over the temptation of the devil, and
+the next time he was so tempted the fight was not so severe, as
+sin had less power over him.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_QUEEN_AND_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="THE_QUEEN_AND_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>THE QUEEN AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p>Not far from Osborne House, Isle of Wight, there lives a
+poor man in a small cottage, who a few years ago had
+a deaf and dumb daughter, who used to do a great deal of
+knitting for the Queen. Her Majesty frequently visited this
+woman, and used to talk to her on her fingers. The deaf and
+dumb woman is now dead, and during her illness the Queen
+visited her and talked to her for her comfort. Her Majesty
+apologised that she could not now talk so fast as when she was
+young.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="EXAMPLE" id="EXAMPLE"></a>EXAMPLE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/v-veryornate.jpg" width="66" height="144" alt="V" title="V" />
+</span>
+<br />auncey, a little deaf and dumb boy, was admitted
+to the Institution, at Derby, and night and morning
+he would watch with keen interest the other
+boys kneeling at the bed-side, and spelling on their
+fingers their prayers. In a few days the little boy
+learnt the alphabet, and the head master on going
+upstairs to look round, was surprised to see him kneeling reverently
+by his bed-side, eyes closed, and spelling on his fingers
+the alphabet right through. A strange prayer, the reader will
+think; but not so to our Heavenly Father, who doubtless
+would accept it as the poor boy's best offering.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 437px;">
+<img src="images/ill-035.jpg" width="437" height="204" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_CONVERTED_MUTE" id="THE_CONVERTED_MUTE"></a>THE CONVERTED MUTE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 60px;">
+<img src="images/d-veryornate.jpg" width="60" height="144" alt="D" title="D" />
+</span>
+<br />uring a revival of religion in one of the New
+England villages, a son of the clergyman returned
+home for a brief visit. The lad was a deaf mute,
+and had spent his first term in the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution, just then commencing its history.
+His parents having no knowledge of the language of signs, and
+the boy being an imperfect writer, it was almost impossible to
+interchange with him any but the most familiar ideas. He,
+therefore, heard nothing of the revival. But before he had
+been at home many days, he began to manifest signs of
+anxiety, and at length wrote with much labour upon his slate,
+"Father, what must I do to be saved?" His father wrote in
+reply, "My son, you must repent of sin, and believe in the
+Lord Jesus Christ." "How must I do this?" asked the boy
+again upon his slate. His father explained to him as well as
+he could, but the poor untaught boy could not understand.
+He became more than ever distressed; would leave the house
+in the morning for some retired place, and would be seen no
+more until his father went in search of him. One evening, at
+sunset, he was found upon the top of the hay, under the roof
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>of the barn, on his knees, his hands uplifted and praying to
+God in the signs of the mutes. The distress of the parents
+was so intense, that they sent for one of the teachers of the
+Asylum, and then for another; but it seemed that the boy
+could not be guided to the Saviour of sinners. One afternoon
+the father was on his way to fulfil an engagement in a
+neighbouring town, and as he drove leisurely over the hills, the
+poor inquiring and helpless son was continually in his thoughts.
+In the midst of his supplications his heart became calm, and
+his long distracted spirit was serene in the one thought that
+God was able to do his own work. The speechless boy at
+length began to tell how he loved his Saviour, and that he first
+found peace on the very afternoon when the spirit of his father
+on the mountains was calmed and supported by the thought
+that what God had promised he was able to perform.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;">
+<img src="images/ill-099.jpg" width="342" height="94" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="NOTHING_BAD" id="NOTHING_BAD"></a>"NOTHING BAD."</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 57px;">
+<img src="images/o-veryornate.jpg" width="57" height="144" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>
+<br />n entering the school room one morning, one of the
+little deaf and dumb girls quickly turned over her
+slate, and colouring in the face. The teacher asked,
+"What have you been doing?" The girl signed,
+in reply, "Nothing bad, sir." On turning over the
+slate we found the girl had written "Drunkenness
+clothes a man with rags."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_SAD_CASE" id="A_SAD_CASE"></a>A SAD CASE.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-037.jpg" width="216" height="332" alt="T" title="T" /></span><br />
+&mdash;&mdash; L&mdash;&mdash; lived near
+Derby. Hers was a sad
+case&mdash;deaf, dumb, and so
+nearly blind that she had
+to be led about; moreover,
+she suffered from
+extreme weakness in the
+legs, and was delicate on
+the chest. Her father
+being dead, it was difficult for her
+to obtain the necessaries of life, and
+it was thought the workhouse must
+be her future home. The case was
+brought under the notice of the
+Committee of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution at Derby, who decided
+not to let her go into the workhouse
+without trying what could be done for her. Accordingly she
+came under their care, and gradually became stronger; but
+the difficulties in the way of her education, owing to her sight,
+were not easily overcome, in fact she had to be taught as one
+perfectly deaf, dumb, and blind. She however made good progress,
+and is now a good tempered, hard working girl, actually
+earning her own living. She can wash and scour and knit and
+sew quite as well as many persons blessed with the senses of
+sight and hearing. She frequently attends the meetings for the
+adult deaf and dumb, and always has something interesting to
+say, especially on religious subjects.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_CLERGYMAN" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_CLERGYMAN"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMAN.</h2>
+
+<p>Among those who were ordained deacons on Trinity
+Sunday last year by the Bishop of Winchester was Mr.
+R. A. Pearce, who is deaf and dumb, and who is to devote
+himself specially to Missionary work among the deaf mutes in
+the diocese of Winchester. The Rev. C. M. Owen, Secretary
+to the Mission, believes that this is the first instance of a deaf
+and dumb man being ordained in the Church of England.&mdash;<i>Irish
+Ecclesiastical Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The Rev. R. A. Pearce has had the honour of being presented
+to the Queen. Mr. Pearce has visited the Institution
+for the Deaf and Dumb at Derby.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_MUTES_BEAUTIFUL_ANSWER" id="A_DEAF_MUTES_BEAUTIFUL_ANSWER"></a>A DEAF MUTE'S BEAUTIFUL ANSWER.</h2>
+
+<p>The Rev. R. Stewart says: "I knew of a gentleman who
+went to a Deaf and Dumb Asylum to make known to
+the inmates the way of salvation through Jesus Christ. He
+asked questions by means of writing them on a blackboard.
+One day he wrote the question, 'What does God do with the
+sins of the people who believe in Him?' One of the lads
+wrote below the question, 'All our sins were written in God's
+book, but Jesus came and drew His bleeding hand across the
+pages where the sins of the people were entered who believe in
+Him; thus covering over with His own blood the transgressions
+of His people.' Was this poor deaf and dumb lad right?
+Yes, indeed, for 'The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son,
+cleanseth us from <i>all</i> sin.'"</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="I_MUST_HELP" id="I_MUST_HELP"></a>"I MUST HELP."</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-039.jpg" width="261" height="311" alt="T" title="T" /></span><br />
+he following little incident
+will show how interested
+the deaf and dumb are
+in trying to help Institutions
+struggling to obtain
+monetary support in order
+to admit the numerous
+cases pressing for admission.
+A number of the
+pupils from the Institution
+at Derby were present
+at a meeting, when
+the head master was advocating
+its claims for
+support. At the close of the meeting a deaf and dumb young
+man came up and said, "I have been very pleased with what
+I saw the children do, they will soon be very clever. I hope
+the people will all help you; other people helped me to get a
+good education, now <i>I must help</i> others who are deaf and
+dumb to go to school. I will try and collect £5 for you."
+True to his promise he did collect £5, and sent it saying,
+"Next year I must try and collect £10." A little time since
+he called at the Institution with the handsome sum of £10,
+which he had collected in pence from 371 persons. Several
+other deaf mutes have shown their interest by collecting
+£1 to £3 from time to time.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CANON_FARRAR_WITH_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="CANON_FARRAR_WITH_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>CANON FARRAR WITH THE DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p>The <i>Washington Post</i> gives an account of
+Canon Farrar's visit to that city. He was
+interviewed by one of their reporters as to
+what he thought of the place, and he replied
+that he was greatly pleased, but what
+interested him most was the Deaf Mute
+College. He was of opinion there was nothing of
+its kind in the world. The Canon was conducted
+through the College by Dr. Gallaudet, the president,
+who explained to him the various arrangements,
+after which Mr. Olof Hanson, a Swede, who has mastered
+English since the loss of his hearing, delivered orally the
+following address:&mdash;Two and a half centuries ago the Pilgrim
+Fathers laid the foundation of the nation. America may in a
+sense be called the child of England&mdash;and a well-grown child,
+of which she need not be ashamed. In visiting this country,
+therefore, you do not, we trust, feel like a stranger, but, as it
+were, among relatives and friends. Archdeacon Farrar is no
+stranger to us; his beautiful "Life of Christ" is a well-known
+volume in many a public and private American library, and
+there are few who have not read his noble eulogy on our departed
+hero, General Grant. As a friend then, we bid him welcome.
+Permit me now to say a few words about the instruction
+of the deaf in this country. In 1817 the first deaf mute school
+in America was founded at Hartford, Connecticut; there are
+now upwards of sixty schools for the deaf and dumb in the
+United States, and to day more than 7000 pupils receiving instruction.
+The minds of the deaf are just like those of other
+people, and only need to be developed. Although the avenue
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>of the ear is closed, through the other senses information is imparted,
+and sight, being the most convenient, is chiefly made use
+of in instructing the deaf; but to teach them persons of experience
+and intelligence are required, and to obtain such teachers
+money is necessary. Our Government has wisely recognised
+this, and it accordingly makes liberal provision for educating
+the deaf, as well as the hearing, all our institutions being supported
+mainly by the Government. It was long doubted that
+the deaf could master the higher branches of study, and it has
+been reserved for this college to see if they can. In this country
+we have the deaf as teachers, lawyers, chemists, artists, clergymen,
+editors, &amp;c. Many take a most creditable rank among
+the hearing persons in their professions. Among the graduates
+of this college will be found some of the most intelligent and
+best educated deaf mutes in the world. The college is the
+only one of its kind in existence. Two young men from the
+old world have come all the way here to obtain an education
+which they could not get at home. They are cordially welcomed,
+and we hope many more will come until the time
+arrives when they have a college of their own, where they may
+acquire the advantages of a high and liberal education. Mr.
+Francis Maginn, son of the Rev. C. A. Maginn, county Cork,
+was then introduced to Canon Farrar, and his address read by
+Dr. Gallaudet. "As one of the two students from Europe
+just alluded to by my friend, I have the pleasure of welcoming
+my distinguished countryman, Archdeacon Farrar, to Washington.
+Having acquired the rudiments of my education in
+the metropolis of Great Britain, where you from Sunday to
+Sunday expound the unsearchable riches of Christ, and being
+a native of Ireland, where my father ministers in the Church
+of Ireland, it is but natural I should express my deep gratifica<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>tion
+that you should have come amongst my American brethren
+in affliction. I am sure, sir, that you have felt as I have
+done when coming to the great and prosperous United States,
+that the American people is one of which we may well be proud&mdash;a
+great and highly civilised people, with whom we are connected
+by every tie of blood, and every relation of business&mdash;they
+are a people who bear our civilisation, in many things
+improved, our language, literature, laws, and religion. In an
+educational point of view the nation is prominent, and her
+silent children have the advantages of spacious institutions,
+supported by her revenues. It is greatly to be regretted that
+our brethren in Great Britain enjoy none of these elaborate
+advantages of intellectual culture. Whilst Mr. Foster's Act
+benefits thousands, and while $15,000,000 are annually voted
+for the masses, one third of the mutes of right school age are
+being left uneducated. What that means, the English have no
+conception, or they would not be apathetic or unconcerned;
+no class when uneducated is more entirely cut off from all
+human intercourse than the deaf and dumb." The Canon, in
+reply, expressed his thanks for the cordial reception given him,
+and concluded with a short prayer, which was interpreted by
+Dr. Gallaudet, President of the Deaf and Dumb College.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_AND_DUMB_SOLDIERS" id="DEAF_AND_DUMB_SOLDIERS"></a>DEAF AND DUMB SOLDIERS.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/d-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="D" title="D" />
+</span>uring the Franco-German War, an army corps of
+400 deaf and dumb Frances-Tireurs were led to battle
+against the Germans.&mdash;<i>Paris Journal.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;">
+<img src="images/ill-104.jpg" width="339" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="ROBERT_S_LYONS" id="ROBERT_S_LYONS"></a>ROBERT S. LYONS.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/r-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="R" title="R" />
+</span>obert S. Lyons went about Ireland last summer visiting
+the deaf and dumb, and talking to them about
+Jesus. He was then home for vacation from America, where he
+had gone to study, in order to fit himself to be a missionary to
+the deaf and dumb. We all hoped that he would have entered
+on his duties as such this summer, and that many of his deaf
+country men and women would have been helped by him on
+the way to heaven. But God has ordered it otherwise. He
+died at his father's residence, near Newtownstewart, after a
+long and painful illness, on the evening of Friday, the 5th of
+June last.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Francis Maginn, who is also deaf and dumb, went with
+Robert Lyons to America last autumn, and left his studies in
+the College that he might take care of him on the journey
+home, has written some reminiscences of his friend, of which
+the following is a part:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>"It was my privilege to be his companion on his return to Washington,
+and to share the same rooms. He spent much time in Bible reading and
+prayer. He was attacked in February last with a serious illness, which he
+bore with wonderful patience. At one time his death was expected. We
+sat up one night watching for his last breath, but life was lengthened.</p>
+
+<p>He seemed to improve for a while, and was able to go out for a drive in
+the President's carriage. Every comfort was his, supplied by the kind ladies
+of Dr. Gallaudet's family. Flowers, books, pictures; every delicacy possible
+constantly sent to tempt the appetite; but his strength scarcely increased.
+Prayers were daily offered on his behalf. Even a little girl prayed daily for
+him, and said, 'I know God will hear my prayers, and he will recover.' But
+such was not the will of God. He was sent home, and given up to my
+care. The voyage was fine four days, when a gale arose which lasted five
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>days, and tried his strength terribly. He seemed sinking, and said, 'I will
+not live to see my parents again.' I said, 'You will, if you trust in God,
+and if it is His will.' When we came to see lights of the Irish coast we felt
+joy and comfort. Arrived in Londonderry he had scarcely any strength to
+stand. When Newtownstewart was reached his relations and I knew each
+other by our troubled and anxious faces."</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>His sister wrote that on the last two occasions that his
+mother talked to him of his sufferings his reply each time was,
+"If we suffer with Him (Jesus), we shall reign with Him."
+Again, he said he left himself in the hands of his Lord, to take
+him or leave him as He pleased. He breathed his last in the
+arms of his brother John, on Friday, the 5th of June, at
+10.30 p.m. The end was so peaceful that they could not tell
+when the last breath was drawn.</p>
+
+<p>The funeral took place on Monday, the 8th, when the long
+procession of vehicles, some forty or fifty in number, bore testimony
+to the love and respect with which he was regarded in
+his own neighbourhood. Next after the chief mourners walked
+Samuel Carrigan and young M'Causland, two deaf mutes who
+loved and honoured him. Many others would have been present
+also, had it been in their power, for Robert had the love
+and regard of all the deaf and dumb who knew him.</p>
+
+
+<p><i>Copy of a letter given to R. S. Lyons on leaving America, by Dr.
+Gallaudet, President of the College:&mdash;</i></p>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+
+National Deaf Mute College, Kendal Green,<br />
+Near Washington.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Robert</span>,&mdash;I want to give you more than a mere "good-bye"
+in words, as you take your leave of us. I want to tell you how much I
+have been pleased with your course here as a student, how gratified I have
+been to see your pleasantness in your work, and how thoroughly you have
+won my respect and esteem; and then want to add that your patience and
+cheerfulness under the heavy cross of extreme illness has made you seem a
+real hero. It is an added pleasure to think that this heroism is of that sort
+which those sons of men alone exhibit who are filled with the spirit of our
+good and glorious leader, Christ. I believe, dear Robert, that you have
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>that spirit, truly and fully, and I am sure it will sustain you in all future
+work. As you go far away over the ocean to your home, to your loved
+ones, and to that work which God will give you to do, my prayers will
+follow you daily that God will give you health and strength to do His will,
+and, above all, that the "peace of God" which passeth knowledge may fill
+your soul. Wishing you every blessing that earth and heaven can bestow,&mdash;I
+am, yours in loving friendship,</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">E. M. Gallaudet.</span><br />
+</p></blockquote>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HELEN_SILVIE" id="HELEN_SILVIE"></a>HELEN SILVIE.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-045.jpg" width="235" height="300" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+Helen Silvie was a Scotch
+girl. She was born in the
+village of Dunblane, situated
+on the beautiful banks of the
+river Allan.</p>
+
+<p>She lost her hearing by
+fever when about five years of
+age, and two years after she was
+sent to the Edinburgh Institution
+for the Education of the
+Deaf and Dumb.</p>
+
+<p>She was a very shy child,
+and would not speak any words after she became deaf, so she
+soon forgot how to do so, and when her education was begun,
+she was nearly like a child born deaf.</p>
+
+<p>For a time she was peevish and discontented; her mind
+was dark. But so soon as she began to understand, it was as if
+light shone into her mind, and she became cheerful and happy
+like her companions.</p>
+
+<p>At first she did not seem very clever. But after two years
+she began to improve fast, and soon was one of the best pupils
+in the Institution. She was very amiable and affectionate, and
+a great favourite with her companions.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+<p>When she grew up she became an assistant in the school,
+she taught one of the junior classes in the early part of the day,
+and instructed the girls in sewing in the evenings. For some
+years she was thus usefully employed. But her brother wished
+her to go and live with him, and keep house for him at Bannockburn,
+and she consented and left the Institution.</p>
+
+<p>After a time Helen wished to return to the Institution.
+So she wrote a letter to a friend and asked her to find out if she
+would be allowed to become a teacher again. But the Superintendent
+of the Institution was ill, and no answer was sent to
+her letter. Then Helen thought she would go herself to the
+Institution and see if they would employ her. It was winter.
+She set out from Stirling in a steamer on the last day of the
+year 1845, and arrived at Granton Pier at night. It was dark.
+A gentleman offered to conduct her up the pier, but he did
+not know the way. He should have turned to go towards the
+town, but he led her straight on. They came to the edge of
+the pier, and in an instant both were plunged into the sea.
+They were soon picked up, and carried to the hotel. Helen
+soon seemed quite well, and she was sent on to the Institution.
+She felt so happy at being again among her old friends that
+she did not soon go to bed. She thought herself much better
+than she was. She caught a very bad cold. In a few days
+inflammation of the lungs came on. Her sufferings were very
+great, but, she bore them patiently; and on Sabbath morning,
+the 18th of January, 1846, her spirit took its flight to her
+Saviour's bosom.</p>
+
+<p>Her pastor, who visited her on her death-bed, was much
+pleased to see how fully she trusted in Jesus. He said of her
+after she died "I think of her as one of the spirits of the just
+made perfect."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 430px;">
+<img src="images/ill-047.jpg" width="430" height="157" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="A_CAT_ASSISTING_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_WOMAN" id="A_CAT_ASSISTING_A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_WOMAN"></a>A CAT ASSISTING A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN.</h2>
+
+<p>The chill wind was moaning, the rain falling drearily, and
+day darkening rapidly, when a lady might have been seen
+walking along quickly through Eccles Street. She was thinking
+of home, with its bright warm fire, and how soon she could get
+in out of the cold and wet.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly she stopped, as a feeble cry arrested her footsteps,
+and looking round, she perceived a cat crouched against
+some steps. The storm was beating on the poor harmless
+creature, and night coming on.</p>
+
+<p>The lady did not turn away and hurry on, as some selfish
+people would have done, but pitied and called the poor cat.
+It looked so forlorn, and gave a frightened glance in her face.
+Gaining courage from what it saw there, it trusted her, and
+jumped up, curled its tail over its back, and trotted contentedly
+after her. The lady went on. When she looked back
+now and then, there was pussy trotting steadily behind.</p>
+
+<p>Presently the lady knocked at a hall door, and when it was
+opened they passed into a bright room, and pussy sat down to
+dry before a warm fire, where two other cats, sleek and well
+fed, kept her company. Well, our puss, whose name was
+"Gipsy," very soon was lapping a saucer of warm milk. After
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>that she looked at the fire, and winked her eyes until she fell
+asleep.</p>
+
+<p>Sarah Darby, who is deaf and dumb, was at that time living
+in this house. Pussy became very fond of Sarah, and liked to
+sit in her lap because she was kind to it. Now Sarah did not
+think a cat could help her, but she knew that God commands
+us to be kind to helpless creatures, and He always rewards us
+when we obey Him.</p>
+
+<p>You will wonder how a cat could help anyone, so I will tell
+you. Sometimes Sarah was alone in the house, and when a
+knock came to the hall door there was no one to tell her but
+puss, and puss did so. How? She jumped down off Sarah's
+lap, and looked up in her face every time a knock came, and
+after the door had been opened got on her lap again, and
+waited for the next one. So this is how the cat helped the
+deaf and dumb woman.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_EARL_OF_SHAFTESBURY" id="THE_EARL_OF_SHAFTESBURY"></a>THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>t a meeting in aid of the deaf and dumb held in Dundee,
+at which Lord Panmure presided, a number of deaf and
+dumb children were present and put through an examination.
+The question was put on the blackboard, "Who is the greatest
+living statesman of Great Britain?" One of the boys instantly
+wrote, "The Earl of Shaftesbury." The chairman patted the
+boy on the head, and asked, "Why do you think the Earl of
+Shaftesbury is the greatest living statesman?" The boy answered,
+"Because he cares a great deal for the like of us deaf
+mutes."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_AND_DUMB_LADYS_IDEA_OF_MUSIC" id="DEAF_AND_DUMB_LADYS_IDEA_OF_MUSIC"></a>DEAF AND DUMB LADY'S IDEA OF MUSIC.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-049.jpg" width="220" height="289" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;lady who graduated from
+the Institution at New
+York some years ago, was questioned
+as to the capacity of the
+deaf to enjoy music; she wrote:
+"I think all deaf persons have an
+idea more or less vague of musical
+sounds. It comes to all who
+cannot hear through the sense of
+touch. The vibrations of the
+chords of a piano, when strongly
+played, are sufficient to produce
+real enjoyment by means of feeling to one who can touch the
+case merely. The soft, tremulous notes, even convey an impression
+through the nerves, similar, I fancy, to that which
+others obtain through the ear. But the real music for us
+comes through the eye. The rippling of waves, the tremulous
+vibration of leaf and blossom and twig, all these sights make
+for us a harmony perhaps as perfect as the most finished
+orchestra."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HALF_A_SCORE_DEAF_MUTES" id="HALF_A_SCORE_DEAF_MUTES"></a>HALF A SCORE DEAF MUTES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 34px;">
+<img src="images/o-simple.jpg" width="34" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>n Tuesday evening last the Stamford Corn Exchange was
+crowded with people eager to see half a score little deaf
+mutes from the Institution at Derby. The children&mdash;six boys
+and four girls&mdash;caused considerable amusement, and also pain
+to think they should be so afflicted. The youngsters can draw,
+read, and write in a way that is surprising, and some of the
+faces were marked by unusual brightness and intelligence.&mdash;<i>Stamford
+Mercury</i>, Sep. 18th, 1884.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DUMB_DOG" id="A_DUMB_DOG"></a>A DUMB DOG.</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;">
+<img src="images/ill-050.jpg" width="285" height="329" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/a-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;deaf and dumb lady living in a German city, had,
+as a companion, a younger woman, who was also
+deaf and dumb. They lived in a small set of rooms opening
+on the public corridor of the house. Somebody gave the elder
+lady a dog as a present. For some time, whenever anybody
+rang the bell at the door, the dog barked to call the attention
+of his mistress. The dog soon discovered, however, that
+neither the bell nor the barking made any impression on the
+women, and he took to the practice of merely pulling one of
+them by the dress with his teeth, in order to explain that some
+one was at the door. Gradually the dog ceased to bark altogether,
+and for more than seven years before his death he
+remained as mute as his two companions.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CLEANSING_FROM_SIN" id="CLEANSING_FROM_SIN"></a>"CLEANSING FROM SIN."</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 89px;">
+<img src="images/m-veryornate.jpg" width="89" height="144" alt="M" title="M" />
+</span>
+<br />atthew Jones, a poor deaf and dumb boy,
+once wrote the meaning of Jesus Christ's blood
+washing away sin. Being asked if he was afraid
+God would punish him for his sins, he wrote
+this answer, "No, for when God sees my name
+down in His book, and all the things I have done wrong, and
+all that I have left undone, there will be a long account; but
+He won't be able to read it, because Jesus Christ's bleeding
+hand will have blotted all the account out, and He would see
+nothing on that page but the Saviour's blood, for I have asked
+Him to wash all my sins away."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_BIBLE_AND_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="THE_BIBLE_AND_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>THE BIBLE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/t-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he following is taken from the British and Foreign
+Bible Society's Report for 1885, being an extract from
+one of their agents in Belgium named Gazan:&mdash;"For the last
+fourteen years Gazan has been in the habit of getting shaved by
+a barber who also keeps a drinking saloon. Though not a member
+of a temperance society Gazan is an abstainer, and is none
+the less welcome, and he occasionally is able to sell to persons
+who frequent the place. One day last year when the barber's
+shop was full, a man was there who had often prevented people
+buying, and when Gazan left began to say all the harm he could
+of him. This he heard from the barber's wife, who expressed
+great annoyance at it. Some time after a young man, deaf and
+dumb, called upon Gazan and gave him to understand he
+wanted a Bible. With the aid of a pencil they carried on a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>conversation, in the course of which Gazan showed him several
+passages marked in the Bible. This was on a Sunday morning,
+and in the afternoon the deaf and dumb young man came
+back to attend the service, for which Gazan lends his room;
+and he continued to come Sunday after Sunday, when by signs
+and giving him passages to read he was interested in the service.
+He was introduced to the deaf and dumb evangelist in
+Brussels, and having found work as a printer, is living there
+now, lodging at the house of M. Crispells, who holds the
+service at Louvain. On Christmas Day he went to Louvain
+to see Gazan, and showed him a number of texts which had
+been pointed out to him during his former visits, and showed
+remarkable familiarity with the Scriptures. This deaf and
+dumb young man is no other than the son of the man above
+referred to, who had spoken against him in the barber's shop.
+The conversion of his son has had a remarkable effect upon
+him; he is now quite a changed man, and does all he can to
+assist Gazan and to induce people to buy his books."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CORK_TEMPERANCE_EXHIBITION" id="CORK_TEMPERANCE_EXHIBITION"></a>CORK TEMPERANCE EXHIBITION.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he following were won by deaf mutes:&mdash;Both certificate
+and prize, E. Morgan, for painted album; A. Corkey,
+doll's dress; B. Henderson, same; J. Giveen, stitching;
+J. O'Sullivan, knitting; G. Seabury, laundry work. Also,
+prizes were won by J. Armstrong, handwriting; L. Corkey,
+texts in Bible album; E. Phibbs, doll's suit; E. Gray, knitting.
+A Bible album made by deaf mutes at Cork was much
+admired. Each page has a picture with a great many texts
+written round it.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="GOOD_INFLUENCE" id="GOOD_INFLUENCE"></a>GOOD INFLUENCE.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-053.jpg" width="183" height="466" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;few years since
+an aged man,
+who had long been a
+sincere and devoted
+christian, was placed in
+the same ward in the
+Infirmary of N&mdash;&mdash;
+with a deaf and dumb
+youth. The former received
+and enjoyed the
+visits of the chaplain,
+whilst the latter was
+considered inaccessible
+to instruction. An arrangement
+was at length
+made for the good old man to
+partake of the sacrament of the
+Lord's Supper, when he made,
+as it appeared to the chaplain and
+matron, the singular request that
+the young mute might partake of
+it with him. A secret was then
+divulged which had been known only to
+the two patients themselves. Having
+spent a long period of time together, the
+old man had improved the opportunity
+thus afforded to effect intercourse with the
+youth by signs, and had been enabled, by the
+Divine blessing, to convey to him a knowledge
+of salvation through a crucified Redeemer.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>There appeared every reason to believe that the poor fellow
+possessed an enlightened understanding and a renewed mind,
+and he was allowed to participate in the desired privilege.</p>
+
+<p>Shortly after this the old man died, and when the youth
+was made sensible of the event, his countenance brightened
+with joy; he waved his hand and pointed up to the sky to
+intimate that he was gone into heaven. After a time the mute
+followed his kind friend and instructor. When he felt himself
+dying, he first put his fingers in his ears and took them out
+again, to show that his ears would be unstopped; he then put
+out his tongue and pointed to heaven, to show that that would
+be unloosed.</p>
+
+<p>These facts were communicated to a friend by the matron
+of the Infirmary&mdash;herself an eminent christian, who has since
+died, and who did not doubt that the youth had obtained a
+correct and experimental knowledge of the gospel of salvation.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_MAN_IN_THE_REVISION" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_MAN_IN_THE_REVISION"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB MAN IN THE REVISION COURT.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/o-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>n Thursday afternoon a singular scene was witnessed
+during the proceedings of the Revision Court, at
+Ashton-under-Lyne. A man named James Booth, of 3, Dog
+Dungeon, Hurst polling district, was objected to by the Conservatives,
+and Mr. Booth, their solicitor, announced that the
+man was deaf and dumb, but just able to utter a monosyllable
+now and then. Mr. Chorlton, the Liberal solicitor: What can
+I do (laughter)? Mr. Booth first by writing asked what the
+man's name was, and then began to talk to him with his
+fingers, but being an indifferent chirologist he made very poor
+progress. He had merely elicited that the man was the owner
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>when Mr. Chorlton began to grow impatient, and inquired,
+Why don't they both go to the Isle of Man for a week (laughter)?
+Nothing more could be got out of the man except a
+"yes" or "no" after questions had been patiently propounded
+by Mr. Booth in the dactyologic alphabet. At length the
+Barrister spied a rent book, and this was pounced upon and
+the vote allowed very joyfully, to save further trouble. The
+dumb man then spake, stuttering, and with great effort, I claim
+my expenses. Mr. Chorlton: He's got those words all right,
+at any rate (laughter.) Mr. Booth: He can talk a little but
+hear nothing. Recourse was again had by Mr. Booth to his
+digits, and he interpreted to the court that the man was a hat
+body maker, and wanted 5s. 6d. The Barrister: I will allow
+5s. The money was handed to the man, and he went away
+smiling.&mdash;<i>Newcastle Journal.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="JULIA_BRACE" id="JULIA_BRACE"></a>JULIA BRACE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 59px;">
+<img src="images/j-veryornate.jpg" width="59" height="144" alt="J" title="J" />
+</span>
+<br />ulia Brace, a deaf, dumb, and blind woman,
+who died in August, 1884, in her seventy-eighth
+year, was well known all over America, at least
+wherever attention has been paid to the education
+of deaf mutes. In the year 1810, when about four
+years old, she lost her sight and hearing from malignant
+sickness. At that time there was no school for deaf
+mutes. It was not until after she was turned nineteen years
+that she entered school, and she remained there between twenty
+and twenty-five years. During her long stay at the school her
+case always attracted particularly interesting attention on the
+part of visitors. In many ways she could render much service
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>in the daily work of the Institution. She could even distinguish
+clothes belonging to different pupils, and was therefore
+employed in sorting and putting them away. She had a good
+many curious and amusing ways. For instance, when girl-pupils,
+dressing, took their turns before the looking glass to
+comb up their hair, she always insisted on having her turn, and
+would stand there to comb hers like any one else. But one
+thing was noticeable. She had a very clear notion of her own
+rights, and would not allow any interference with them. Sometimes
+her idea of a personal right was rather out of a common
+course, but she had no question about it, and probably could
+not see how any one should have.</p>
+
+<p>Her case is not to be compared with that of Laura Bridgman,
+who possessed mental powers of a higher order. She had
+not got the benefit of early, assiduous, and special care that was
+given to the latter, and probably she had a much less acute
+mental constitution at the outset of her education. Her education
+began late, and at a time when very little was known of the
+proper way of education for a case like hers; and she consequently
+did not make much progress in language. However,
+it has been found quite easy to communicate with her as to all
+the common events of her daily life.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="AN_AMUSING_STORY" id="AN_AMUSING_STORY"></a>"AN AMUSING STORY."</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 62px;">
+<img src="images/h-veryornate.jpg" width="62" height="144" alt="H" title="H" />
+</span>
+<br />ere is an amusing story hailing from Munich.
+During the past year the professor of Aesthetics
+in the University, whose lectures are proverbially
+wearisome, delivered his lectures (as usual) to a
+scanty audience. There were five students in all,
+who, week by week, melted and grew "beautifully
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>less," until at last but one was left. This solitary individual,
+however, seemed to concentrate in his own person all the diligence,
+application, and punctuality of his frivolous fellows. At
+the conclusion of the last lecture of the course the professor
+approached him and praised him for these admirable qualities,
+and proceeded to inquire of him, "What is your name, my
+young friend?" No answer. "What country are you from?"
+Absolute silence. The matter was soon elucidated, for it was
+discovered that the patient and persevering disciple was a poor
+deaf mute, who had taken refuge from the severe cold of winter
+in the warm lecture rooms of the University.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+<p><a name="Christian_Leader" id="Christian_Leader"></a>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-057.jpg" width="233" height="273" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he following is extracted
+from "The Christian
+Leader":&mdash;At a Christmas
+competition of blind readers
+which took place on Friday
+and Saturday, 21st and 22nd
+December, 1883, in the Mission
+Hall in Bath Street,
+Glasgow, was found a blind
+deaf mute among the blind
+hearing competitors. Educated
+when young in the Institution
+for the Deaf and Dumb, he was able to do for himself
+until he lost his sight two or three years ago. He had then
+to make use of his fingers in reading as well as speaking; and
+in spite of the formidable difficulties in the way of his learning
+the embossed type, he made a most creditable appearance on
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>Saturday and gained a special prize. The remark made by
+one of the examiners when this man was reading will, we are
+sure, express the thought of all who peruse these lines&mdash;"How
+thankful to God we ought to be for the use of our faculties,
+and especially for this precious blessing of sight!" This blind
+deaf mute is Mr. Daniel Hunter Ardrossan, one of the members
+of the Ayrshire Deaf and Dumb Mission.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_MUTES_HEROISM" id="A_DEAF_MUTES_HEROISM"></a>A DEAF MUTE'S HEROISM.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-058.jpg" width="240" height="237" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+About five o'clock on
+Sunday afternoon several
+gentlemen standing on
+Vine Street Wharf witnessed
+an act which was highly commendable.
+Thomas Hall, a
+lad of nine years, having
+strayed from his parents, was
+at play upon the wharf mentioned,
+when his foot slipped
+and he was precipitated into the strong tide of the Delaware.
+A deaf mute named Argus Cornish, an eccentric genius, who
+does odd jobs along the wharves, and who, an outcast himself,
+seems to take pleasurable pride in protecting others, and has
+already saved several lives, although standing with his back to
+the scene of accident, seemed, as his name implied, to have a
+hundred eyes. Without any hesitation he stripped off his coat
+and shoes, and plunging into the water, in a short time brought
+the boy safe to land. Argus' heroism should not be overlooked.&mdash;<i>American Paper.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;">
+<img src="images/ill-059.jpg" width="359" height="71" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_RIGHT_HON_W_E_GLADSTONE_AND_THE" id="THE_RIGHT_HON_W_E_GLADSTONE_AND_THE"></a>THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/m-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="43" alt="M" title="M" />
+</span>r. Gladstone, on being presented with the freedom of
+the Worshipful Company of Turners, gave an address
+from which the following is an abstract:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>I went a few days ago to examine the collection of works
+prepared at Messrs. Doulton's Pottery to be sent to the Exhibition
+at Philadelphia. Those works were delightful for the
+eye to behold. They were also highly satisfactory on the distinct
+ground that the price of production appeared to be so
+moderate; but, most of all were they delightful to me, because
+they were true products of the soil. There was a high faculty
+of art as it seemed to me developed in the production of those
+works, and that faculty of art had grown up in Lambeth. It
+was the Lambeth School of Art from which Messrs. Doulton
+derived an abundant supply of workers to whom they could
+intrust the preparation of those admirable objects. Among the
+works I would mention one. It was a beautiful piece of work
+produced by a youth who from his birth was both deaf and
+dumb. Now, consider what it is to be deaf and dumb; what
+a cutting off of resources; what a stinting of the means of
+training and improvement; and then consider, notwithstanding
+this, how it was through an inborn resolution in the centre of
+his being it was in the power of this lad to make himself a producer
+of works that could command admiration on the score
+of beauty, again showing how the energies, if rightly directed,
+can be forthcoming when required.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_GIRLS_DREAM" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_GIRLS_DREAM"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL'S DREAM.</h2>
+
+<p class="center">(WRITTEN BY HERSELF.)</p>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/i-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="I" title="I" />
+</span> had a dream on the 26th of January. I was going
+for rolls, and going back I met Gracie, a friend of
+mine, and she and I spoke quite well&mdash;we were not deaf and
+dumb. A poor boy, very ragged, carried a basket with some
+coloured glasses and stones, very bright, and some curious
+musical instruments that I had never seen before. He walked
+behind us, and he called to Gracie, and she turned to him,
+and he said to her that he wanted her to buy many of them;
+that they were a penny each. We took them up and looked
+at them, and they were very curious. She chose a bright red
+one for a brooch, and bought it for a penny. Then he said to
+me "Will you buy some?" But I did not want to be tempted
+to buy, and he told me a great deal about its very beautiful
+sounds; that it was more beautiful than all the others, and
+nothing could be more beautiful to hear in this world, and he
+showed me how to play on it, and we heard beautiful sounds.
+So I changed my mind, and wanted it very much, because I
+could hear it. Then I saw a policeman come up to us because
+he heard the beautiful music; and he laughed very
+much, and looked so very happy. I said to the poor boy,
+"Thank you very much for your showing me how to play on
+it." And he was very glad as he went away. Gracie went
+home, and I went home, carrying my glass organ with me.</p>
+
+<p>The above appears to us specially interesting; it is a curious
+circumstance that a deaf and dumb girl should seem to
+hear sound in her sleep.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;">
+<img src="images/ill-086-2.jpg" width="322" height="64" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_COUNCILLOR" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_COUNCILLOR"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB COUNCILLOR.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 67px;">
+<img src="images/k-veryornate.jpg" width="67" height="144" alt="K" title="K" />
+</span>
+<br />apotrine Moller, a Russian Councillor of State,
+son of General Moller, and nephew of the tutor to
+the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, has just
+died at the age of eighty-three. He himself, his
+brother, and sister were all born deaf and dumb.
+He was educated in the Deaf and Dumb Institution
+in St. Petersburg, rapidly learnt to read, and showed such
+ability that he was first admitted into the Imperial Chancery
+and afterwards into the Council of State.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_AND_HIS_MOTHER" id="DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_AND_HIS_MOTHER"></a>DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS MOTHER.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 68px;">
+<img src="images/z-veryornate.jpg" width="68" height="144" alt="Z" title="Z" />
+</span>
+<br />achariah was a deaf and dumb boy, thirteen
+years of age, who was being educated in an Institution
+for the Deaf and Dumb, after an absence of
+four years he went home to see his mother. When
+he entered her house, in company with his benefactor,
+she was sitting in a state of intoxication,
+which greatly affected him. He took his pencil, and thus attempted
+to show her the evil and danger of such conduct, and
+gave her much good advice. After retiring with his friend, at
+whose house he went to lodge, his countenance became very
+sorrowful, and the tears trickled down his cheeks. His friend
+asked him the occasion of all this, when he wrote "that he was
+thinking if he got to heaven how sorry he should be not to find
+his mother there."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;">
+<img src="images/ill-003.jpg" width="395" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SPEED_OF_MANUAL_SPELLING" id="SPEED_OF_MANUAL_SPELLING"></a>SPEED OF MANUAL SPELLING.</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-062.jpg" width="287" height="509" alt="The Manual Alphabet" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 22px;">
+<img src="images/i-simple.jpg" width="22" height="45" alt="I" title="I" />
+</span>n reply to a question
+"What is the
+number of words a good
+hand speaker can make
+or say in one minute?"
+A deaf mute says, "Take
+the average number of
+letters per word of the
+English language as five;
+this is the number decided
+upon by the Postal
+Telegraph department.
+The average of the Bible
+is about 4-1/8."</p>
+
+<p>A good hand speaker
+can go through the alphabet
+ten times in one
+minute. I have proved
+this by personally testing
+several deaf mutes.</p>
+
+<p>The pauses between
+words occupy the space
+of one letter each, so we must deduct one sixth of the whole
+thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">Letters in alphabet</td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">26</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Number of times spelt</td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">10</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Total letters per minute</td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">260</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Deduct about one sixth for pauses</td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Average letters per minute</td><td align="right">215 ÷ 5</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right" style="padding-right: 2em;">&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">Result</td><td align="left">43 words per minute.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PORTOBELLO_SWIMMING_CLUB" id="PORTOBELLO_SWIMMING_CLUB"></a>PORTOBELLO SWIMMING CLUB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 39px;">
+<img src="images/o-flower.jpg" width="39" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>n the mornings of Wednesday and Thursday the deep-diving
+medal of this club was competed for by five
+members. The depth of water varied from 13 to 18 feet.
+Mr. Robert Smith was very successful in recovering the plates
+from the bottom, bringing up six on the first and two on the
+second morning, with which number he secures first honours.
+The second place was taken by Mr. J. Wallace James. Mr.
+Smith, the medallist, is deaf and dumb.&mdash;<i>Scotsman</i>, Aug. 29th.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;">
+<img src="images/ill-063.jpg" width="296" height="295" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAR_TAMMAS" id="DEAR_TAMMAS"></a>"DEAR TAMMAS."</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;poor old deaf man resided in Fife; he was visited by
+his minister shortly after coming to his pulpit. The
+minister said he would often call and see him; but time went
+on, and he did not visit him again until two years after, when,
+happening to go through the street where the deaf man was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>living, he saw his wife at the door, and could therefore do no
+other than inquire for her husband. "Weel, Margaret, how is
+Tammas?" "None the better o'you," was the curt reply.
+"How, how, Margaret," inquired the minister. "Oh, ye
+promised twa years syne tae ca' and pray once a fortnight wi'
+him, and hae ne'er darkened the door sin' syne." "Weel,
+weel, Margaret, don't be so short! I thought it was not so
+very necessary to call and pray with Tammas, for he is so
+deaf ye ken he canna hear me." "But, sir," said the woman,
+with a rising dignity of manner, "the Lord's no deaf!" And
+it is to be supposed the minister felt the power of her reproach.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 277px;">
+<img src="images/ill-064.jpg" width="277" height="84" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ROYAL_SCOTTISH_ACADEMY_EXHIBITION_FOR_1880" id="ROYAL_SCOTTISH_ACADEMY_EXHIBITION_FOR_1880"></a>ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY EXHIBITION FOR 1880.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/j-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="J" title="J" />
+</span>ohn S. Rennie Reid, a young Aberdeen lad, now
+resident in Edinburgh, who, though labouring under
+the great disability of being deaf and dumb, has for some years
+back been an enthusiastic art student, has succeeded in procuring
+admission for three oil paintings, each of which gives
+good indication of his deftness and skill in the delineation of
+nature, and the ardour with which he has followed up his
+studies. "Hide and Seek" represents some children playing
+at that game in a hay field. "Largo, the Beach at Low
+Water" gives us a pretty coast scene, with figures on the
+beach. "Baiting the Line" is a very effective study of a
+common incident in fisher life.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IN_DERBY_POLICE_COURT" id="IN_DERBY_POLICE_COURT"></a>IN DERBY POLICE COURT.</h2>
+
+<div class="figright">
+<img src="images/ill-065.jpg" width="213" height="347"
+alt="Pupil as Taken from the Police Court." title="Pupil as Taken from the Police Court." />
+<span class="caption"><br />
+Pupil as Taken from the Police Court.
+</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+
+
+
+
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;few years since the
+Head Master of the
+Deaf and Dumb Institution
+at Derby was sent for, with a
+request that he would hasten
+to the police court to see what
+could be done with a little
+deaf and dumb boy. The
+sketch is a faithful picture of
+the little fellow as he stood in
+the dock charged with stealing.
+The police, in giving
+their evidence, said that many
+complaints had been made of
+the boy's conduct. One lady
+complained of his illusing her
+dog, another a cat, and another
+killing her bird; others that
+he was always throwing stones or stealing, and that he had
+actually tried to upset a railway train.
+It appeared that twice
+previously the boy had been taken up by the police, but owing
+to his tender age nothing could be done with him.
+<span class="figleft" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/ill-066.jpg" width="276" height="345" alt="The Same Pupil after one Year's Training." title="The Same Pupil after one Year's Training." />
+<span class="caption"><br />The Same Pupil after one Year's Training.</span>
+</span>
+
+The
+Mayor, addressing the Head Master of the Institution, said
+something must be done with the boy; unfortunately he was
+getting worse and worse; the case was a very sad one, the boy
+being deaf and dumb, but the public must be protected. The
+other magistrates present concurred with the Mayor's remarks,
+and after consulting with Mr. Bailey, J.P., Chairman of the
+Committee of the Institution, who was on the bench at the
+time, the boy was sent direct to the Institution, where food
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>was given to him, after which his photograph was taken. The
+sketch given on the previous page is copied from it. The boy
+settled down, but not without giving considerable trouble; it
+was not to be expected
+that a boy,
+though so tender in
+years yet hardened in
+bad habits, should at
+once conform to the
+rules of the Institution.
+The teachers
+were not, therefore,
+greatly surprised to
+find him early one
+morning prowling in
+a quarter of the Institution
+to which he
+had no proper means
+of access. From time
+to time his teachers
+had difficulties to
+contend with not easy to describe. There has, however, been
+a gradual improvement in the boy's life and character. The
+sketch given above is from a photograph taken when the boy
+had been in the Institution one year.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;">
+<img src="images/ill-099-flipped.jpg" width="342" height="94" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2><a name="AN_INTERVIEW_WITH_LAURA_BRIDGMAN" id="AN_INTERVIEW_WITH_LAURA_BRIDGMAN"></a>AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA BRIDGMAN.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-067.jpg" width="225" height="332" alt="W" title="W" /></span><br />
+e presume most of our readers will
+have read of Laura Bridgman, who
+is without any perfect sense except
+that of touch. A correspondent of
+the "Christian Union" gives an interesting
+account of an afternoon
+spent with her, from which we make
+the following abstract:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>If any one supposes that by reason
+of her deprivation she is queer
+or awkward in person or manners,
+he is altogether in error. There is
+nothing at all singular in her appearance.
+When I entered the parlour, a member of the
+family with whom she lives was playing on the piano, and
+close behind her, on a low seat, there was a very slight, very
+erect, quiet, self-possessed looking person, who seemed to be
+listening to the music, while her hands were busy over some
+crocheting or some similar work. She would have been taken
+for a guest who was fashioning some pretty article whilst being
+entertained with music. The expression of her face was bright
+and interested; and one watching her satisfied look would have
+been slow to believe that she did not hear. The green shade
+over her eyes indicated that she was one of the blind. She
+had on a brown dress, a blue ribbon at the neck, a gold ring
+and chain, and a watch or locket in her belt&mdash;a neatly attired,
+genteel, lady-like person, looking about thirty-five (though her
+age is not far from forty-four), with soft, brown hair, smooth
+and fine, a well shaped head, fair complexion, and handsome
+features. That was Laura. As soon as she learned that she
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>had a visitor who knew people in the town where her nearest
+kindred live, she came swiftly across the room, leaving her
+work on the centre table as she passed it, and grasped my
+hand, laughing with the eagerness of a child. Then she sat
+down face to face with the lady who has charge of her, and
+commenced an animated conversation, by the manual alphabet,
+easily understood by one who has practised it; but the slight-of-hand
+by which the fingers of the friendly hostess, manipulating
+on Laura's slender wrists, communicated with that living
+consciousness shut in there without one perfect sense except
+of taste and touch, was something mysterious, inscrutable to
+my duller sense. Yet that the communication was definite,
+quick, missive, so to speak, manifest enough, for Laura's face
+beamed, and she was all alert. Partly by the letters and partly
+by signs she said a great deal to me. She "ought to be at
+home to be company for mother," she said; and, once or twice,
+she fashioned the word "Mamma" very distinctly with her
+lips. She asked if I knew a member of her family now dead,
+and said "that was a long year after Carl died." She seemed
+brimming over once with things to tell me, and wanted me to
+know about her teaching some of the blind girls to sew, which
+she takes great pride in, threading the needle, and making her
+pupils pick out their work if it is not done nicely. She is a
+good seamstress herself, does fancy work, and can run a sewing
+machine. Next, she caught hold of my hand and led me up
+two flights of stairs to her room to shew me her things; but
+the first movement was to take me to the window, where she
+patted on the glass and signified that I should see what a
+pleasant prospect there was from it. And there she, who had
+never seen or heard, waited by my side in great content while
+I looked and listened. Yet her face was radiant, and she stood
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>there as if she both saw and heard. I wish I could bring before
+all those who are discontented with their lot, repining
+because God has withheld something from them or taken
+something away, the cheerful face of this lady, who has so little,
+but who accepts it as though she had all, who has never seen
+a human countenance or heard a human voice, who in the
+infinite glory and beauty of this outward world has no part,
+shut in by herself in that silent, dark, unchanging, awful loneliness.
+Next she showed me how springy her bed was. Then
+she took off my shawl, and showed me all the pretty things and
+conveniences she had in her room, opening every box and
+drawer, and displaying the contents. Her jet chain she laid
+against her neck, her bows and collars and embroidered hand-kerchiefs
+were taken up one by one, and deftly replaced in
+their proper receptacles. Her writing materials, sewing implements,
+little statuettes, trinkets, large Bible&mdash;I had to see them
+all. Lastly she took out a sheet of paper, pressed it down on
+a French writing-board, examined the point of the pencil, and
+wrote her autograph, "God is love and truth. S. N. Bridgman."
+And then from her needle-case and spool-box produced
+a cambric needle and fine cotton, and showed me how to
+thread a needle, which was done by holding the eye against
+the tip of her tongue, the exquisite nicety of touch in it guiding
+her to pass the thread through. It was done in an instant,
+though it seemed impossible to do it at all, and then she presented
+me the threaded needle triumphantly, having secured it
+by slipping a knot. Going down to the parlour again, she told
+me how kind it was in Dr. Howe to fit her up such a pretty
+room; and then I must go into the school room, whither she led
+me by the hand, and introduced me to several of her friends
+among the pupils, and when I took my departure she would have
+the teacher go with me to the door to tell me which car to take.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOYS_DEVOTION" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOYS_DEVOTION"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB BOY'S DEVOTION.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-070.jpg" width="203" height="241" alt="U" title="U" /></span><br />
+nder the trees standing by the left
+bank of the Thames, and sheltered
+from its waters by a mound of earth,
+is an old but comfortable boathouse.
+A few roughly-hewn steps lead from
+the mound to the water's edge, where
+some six or seven boats rock idly on the surface. Over the
+door of this tottering mansion hangs a wooden board, with the
+words "Timothy Gainsad" inscribed in large letters upon a
+black ground. A gush of light and warmth issuing from the
+door guides the weary traveller to a haven worthy of his
+choicest desires. Well can I remember the dark outline of St.
+Paul's Cathedral, lifting its rounded dome in massive grandeur
+to the skies, and the faint outline of the opposite bank shining
+dimly in the distance. I remember, when a lad of seven,
+a rich and influential lady coming down from Yorkshire to
+spend the winter months in London. She brought with her
+a dumb boy attendant, whom she had adopted and treated
+with the greatest kindness. One dark night she hired a
+boat, and rowed out upon the river. Scarcely was she lost
+in the river mist ere the flood gates of heaven were opened,
+the rain came down in torrents, the waves dashed against
+our rude pier and threatened to dislodge it, while now and
+then an occasional streak of lightning, accompanied by a clap
+of thunder, lit up the dark surface of the river. My friends had
+gone off in a boat in search of the lady, and I was alone in
+the room. Seated on a stool by the side of a blazing fire, I
+was reading an interesting novel, when the door was violently
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span>pushed, and the dumb attendant of the young lady rushed in,
+seized a life belt from the wall, and made for the door. I ran
+to intercept him; but guessing my purpose, he raised the stool
+and brought it down with a crash upon my head. I staggered
+back to the wall and fell, and he disappeared through the door.
+With a reeling head I tottered to the door, and looked out
+upon the river. "Great heavens!" I exclaimed, "he will be
+dashed to pieces!" For there, revealed by a flash of lightning,
+was the dumb boy, standing on the rail of the bridge, preparing
+to plunge into the surging waters below. A short distance
+from the bridge was the boat occupied by the terrified lady.
+It was fast sinking, and as he plunged from the bridge it sank.
+I saw him come to the surface, stunned and bleeding; I saw
+him raise the life-belt in his hand, and throw it to his mistress.
+She caught it, and his face lit up with joy; then&mdash;he sank!
+His mistress was saved, and some time after the dumb boy's
+lifeless body was washed to the shore, and laid in an honourable
+grave. Over it stands a beautiful angel of white marble,
+holding a scroll inscribed with these words:&mdash;"Here lies Gustavus
+Arisild, who died in the surging waters of the Thames to
+save his mistress."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/ill-103-2.jpg" width="391" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_DEAF_MUTES_FAITH" id="THE_DEAF_MUTES_FAITH"></a>THE DEAF MUTE'S FAITH.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/o-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>ne day a minister's servant brought a subscription book
+and laid it on his study table, saying, "A dumb man
+brought it, sir." On looking at the book, a thought struck the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span>minister that he should not let that dumb man out of his house
+without seeking his soul's good. He invited the man in, and
+after kneeling in prayer before the man, and putting a subscription
+into his hand, the following conversation took place
+in writing. The minister wrote: "My dear friend, have you
+found the Lord Jesus Christ to be precious to your soul? Are
+you born again?" The dumb man answered, "Yes, I understand
+what is meant by 'born of the Spirit,' it means a 'new
+creature' in Jesus." The minister was not quite satisfied with
+the answer, and therefore he asked, "When were you made a
+'new creature,' and how?" He answered, "I was under the
+impression of sin six years ago, but I prayed to God for Christ's
+sake to give me a new heart, and I felt joy and peace in my
+mind. I prayed O Lord, have mercy on me a poor sinner. I
+also read the Psalms of David." In order to bring out distinctly
+whether he really arrived at scriptural peace, for he
+feared that, after all, the dumb man's faith might turn out to
+be only a vague and wavering confidence, the minister asked
+him again "If God were to call you away this night, would
+your sins be brought against you, and would you have to
+answer for them all?" He answered, "I trust in God for
+Christ's sake, because Jesus died for me. All those who trust
+in Jesus' precious blood are cleansed from all sin. He is
+mighty to save." The minister then asked, "Was it through
+the instruction you got at the Deaf and Dumb Institution that
+these good impressions were made upon your mind?" He
+answered, "My teacher used to teach the Bible to all deaf and
+dumb pupils, but I did not feel any grace from God till I was
+afraid to meet God for sins; then I looked to Christ by faith
+and got peace." The minister then asked, "Will you write a
+sentence for me to read to poor sinners, from a dumb man
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>that cannot speak?" He then wrote as follows&mdash;words which
+he meant to be used by the reader:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>
+"O Lord, have mercy upon me a poor sinner!"<br />
+"O Jesus, save me from death and hell!"<br />
+"O Jesus, take me away to heaven and eternal bliss!"<br />
+"O Jesus, take care of me every day!"<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>"Will you sign your name to all this?" then asked the
+minister. He immediately complied with the request. We
+only give the initials J&mdash;&mdash; G&mdash;&mdash;.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 386px;">
+<img src="images/ill-073.jpg" width="386" height="75" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_DUMB_AND_BLIND" id="DEAF_DUMB_AND_BLIND"></a>DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/a-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>n examination of students who were deaf, dumb, and
+blind took place on Washington Heights. The principal,
+Dr. Isaac L. Peet, gave various interesting exhibitions of
+their skill and accomplishments. A blind, deaf, and dumb
+boy, about fourteen years old, who had had less than a year's
+instruction, was given an order to count out twenty crayons
+and put them under a mat. The order was given by means of
+the sign language, transmitted by feeling the motion of the
+hands of the person who communicated with him. The order
+was correctly performed amid the applause of the audience.
+A blind deaf mute also wrote several sentences on a type-writer,
+and on another type-writer a deaf mute without hands
+wrote by means of a stick inserted in his coat sleeve.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;">
+<img src="images/ill-089.jpg" width="366" height="87" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="ORDINATION_OF_DEAF_MUTES_IN_PHILADELPHIA_USA" id="ORDINATION_OF_DEAF_MUTES_IN_PHILADELPHIA_USA"></a>ORDINATION OF DEAF MUTES IN PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/n-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="N" title="N" />
+</span>early all the deaf mutes connected with the Protestant
+Episcopal Church in this city assembled yesterday
+morning in the church of the Covenant, to witness the ordination
+into the priesthood of two deaf and dumb men. The
+ceremony had been long talked of among the deaf mutes, and
+as none of this class of persons had ever before been ordained
+to this order in the church in this country, there was a widespread
+desire among the Episcopal community to be present at
+the ceremony. The church was well filled when the exercises
+began. Owing to the length of the services, the regular morning
+prayer was omitted, and after hymn 153 had been sung,
+Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D.D., Principal of the Deaf and
+Dumb Institution in New York, who was to preach the sermon,
+was introduced. Dr. Gallaudet prefaced his sermon by saying
+that when a deaf mute was addressed, the words were not
+spelled out, but that the ideas were represented by signs.
+Ideas about the intellect were conveyed by a sign about the
+head, those relating to the sensibility by a motion near the
+heart; in short, the sign language was as distinct and individual
+as the English language. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of
+Iowa, stood up in the chancel as Dr. Gallaudet began his
+sermon, and interpreted the sermon to the deaf mutes who
+sat in a body near the front of the chancel. Dr. Gallaudet
+sketched the progress of deaf mute education from the estab<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span>lishment
+of the first school in Hartford by his father in 1817.
+As illustrating the individuality of the sign language, he mentioned
+that while he was in Brussels in August last he preached
+to a congregation of about twenty deaf mutes, English, French,
+Belgian, and his sign language was comprehended perfectly by
+all. "Sounds," he said, "are only outward symbols of ideas,
+just as signs are." At the conclusion of the sermon, Rev.
+Henry W. Syle and Rev. Arthur M. Mann were presented for
+ordination, the former by Rev. Dr. Miller, and the latter by the
+Rev. Dr. Atwell, of Toledo. Sitting within the chancel, one
+at each end of the communion table, were Bishop Stevens and
+Bishop Bedwell, of Ohio, while nine other clergymen surrounded
+them. Among them the placid countenance and
+venerable form of Rev. W. H. Syle, father of one of the candidates,
+was especially noticeable. Bishop Stevens then read
+the exhortation, and it was interpreted by Dr. Gallaudet to the
+two candidates, who stood in their robes at the chancel rail.
+Eagerly did they watch the motions of the reverend gentleman
+as he conveyed to them the words the Bishop was speaking.
+The Bishop then asked Mr. Syle the questions laid down in
+the prayer book. As Dr. Gallaudet finished interpreting each
+question, Mr. Syle handed a slip of paper on which was written
+his answers, to Rev. Mr. Clere, of Phillipsburg, who read it
+aloud. Rev. Mr. Mann then arose, and Bishop Bedwell stated
+that the questions and answers would be interpreted. He
+asked the same questions asked by Bishop Stevens, and Mr.
+Mann slowly communicated his answers, using only his right
+hand in replying. The ceremony of laying on of hands was
+then performed, Bishop Stevens and several others laying their
+hands on Mr. Syle's head, and Bishop Bedwell performing that
+office for Mr. Mann. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>was then administered to the newly ordained priests, and they
+were welcomed within the chancel rail. A special invitation
+was given to the deaf mutes to commune immediately after
+the clergy, and there were enough present to occupy the long
+chancel rail twice. The sacrament was then administered to
+the congregation, and the audience was dismissed with the
+benediction by Bishop Bedwell. On Saturday, the second
+biennial session of workers among the deaf mutes in the Episcopal
+Church was begun in St. Stephen's Church. Rev. Dr.
+F. J. Clere, of Phillipsburg, was elected President, and Rev.
+Mr. Syle secretary and treasurer of the conference. An address
+of Bishop Howe, and papers by Messrs. Clere and Syle
+were interpreted to the conference by Dr. Gallaudet.&mdash;<i>Philadelphia
+Inquirer</i>, 15th Oct., 1883.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PICTURES_BY_DEAF_AND_DUMB_ARTISTS_IN" id="PICTURES_BY_DEAF_AND_DUMB_ARTISTS_IN"></a>PICTURES BY DEAF AND DUMB ARTISTS IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, 1876.</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+No. 1301.  "Despatches." T. Davidson.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"&nbsp; &nbsp; 30.&nbsp; "Elter Water, Langdale." C. E. Emerson.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"&nbsp; 1235.&nbsp; "The late W. A. Langdale, Esq.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"&nbsp; 1247.&nbsp; "Portrait of a Lady." Mrs. North, deaf from girlhood.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Whaites_Water_Colour_Exhibition_Manchester" id="Whaites_Water_Colour_Exhibition_Manchester"></a><span class="smcap">Whaite's Water Colour Exhibition, Manchester.</span></h2>
+
+<p>"The Staff of Life," by F. T. Tavarč, is a drawing worthy
+of Hunt for its literal truth.&mdash;<i>Manchester Courier.</i></p>
+
+<p>March 25th, 1876.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 399px;">
+<img src="images/ill-077.jpg" width="399" height="81" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="FAIRLY_DONE" id="FAIRLY_DONE"></a>FAIRLY DONE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;good story is told of ex-governor Magottin, of Kentucky,
+who is a good talker and likes to do most of the
+talking himself. Recently, in making the journey from Cincinnati
+to Lexington, he shared his seat in the car with a bright-eyed,
+pleasant-faced gentleman. The Governor, after a few
+common-place remarks, to which his companion smiled and
+nodded assent, branched into a description of the scenes that
+he had witnessed in different parts of the country, grew eloquent
+over the war, described with glowing speech the numerous
+horse races he had witnessed, talked learnedly of breeding,
+and told thrilling stories of his battles with the Indians in the
+North-West. The hours slipped rapidly away, and when the
+train was nearing Lexington the two exchanged cards and
+parted with a cordial shake of hands. The Governor drove to
+an inn, and to a number of friends he remarked that the ride
+had never seemed so short before. "Then you must have had
+pleasant company aboard." "You are right. I met a gentleman
+of unusual intelligence. We conversed all the way over.
+I never was brought in contact with a more agreeable man."
+"Indeed! Who was he?" asked his friends. "Wait a minute;
+I have his card," and the Governor felt in his pockets and produced
+the bit of pasteboard. "His name is King." "Not
+Bob King?" shouted a dozen in one breath. "Yes, gentlemen;
+Robert King&mdash;that is the way the card reads," was the
+proud reply. A roar of laughter followed. "Why, Governor,
+Bob King is as deaf as a post; he was born deaf and dumb!"</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_NOVEL_SITUATION" id="A_NOVEL_SITUATION"></a>A NOVEL SITUATION.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-078.jpg" width="188" height="232" alt="D" title="D" /></span><br />
+uring the past year a
+gentleman had occasion
+to visit a certain city in
+New England. He arrived
+at night, went directly
+to his accustomed hotel,
+and to bed, slept soundly
+throughout the night, and
+in the morning discovered
+his watch had stopped.
+When he opened the door of his room another gentleman was
+taking in his boots on the other side of the corridor, and of
+him our friend asked if he could tell him what time it was.
+To his surprise, the gentleman took no notice whatever of the
+question. He asked again, "Sir, will you be good enough to
+tell me what time it is? My watch has stopped." No answer.
+The gentleman, without looking up, shut his door and disappeared.
+At that moment two other gentlemen came walking
+down the corridor, and Mr. X. asked of them the same question.
+The two gentlemen, without looking to the right or left,
+continued their walk without an answer or sign. "Well,"
+thought Mr. X, "this is very curious." However, he went
+back to his room. Presently the bell rang for breakfast, and
+immediately a waiter entered the room, seized him by the arm,
+and began a series of gesticulations. Mr. X. lost his temper,
+and burst forth with "What in the name of goodness is the
+matter?" when the waiter cried "Oh," and vanished, laughing.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>Mr. X. began to think something was very wrong, but went
+down to breakfast. When he entered the <i>salle a manger</i>, which
+commonly had a dozen or twenty people at the tables, he found
+the hall filled with gentlemen in black coats, all feeding gravely,
+and in silence. A waiter silently beckoned him to a place, and
+when he was seated he said to his neighbour&mdash;"Sir, will you
+be kind enough to tell what all this is about?" No answer.
+The person, like Charlotte in Werter, went on eating bread
+and butter. Our friend began to feel decidedly queer, and
+getting out of his seat, went to the nearest waiter and piteously
+besought him, for heaven's sake, to tell him what was the
+matter with the house. "Oh," said the waiter, "don't you
+know? Why this is the Deaf and Dumb Convention, which
+meets to-day at Hartford."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOTH_HEARD_AND_SPOKE" id="THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOTH_HEARD_AND_SPOKE"></a>THE DEAF AND DUMB BOTH HEARD AND SPOKE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/v-veryornate.jpg" width="66" height="144" alt="V" title="V" />
+</span>
+<br />incent Ogden was recently charged with begging,
+under the pretence of being deaf and dumb, at
+Launceston. P. C. Barrett said that he saw the
+prisoner in the butcher's market. He was making
+signs, and pretending to be deaf and dumb. He
+took him into custody, and after they arrived at
+the police station asked him his name; he made no reply at
+first, but subsequently said he was called William Ogden, that
+he was a native of Manchester, and had just come out of
+Bodmin Gaol. Committed for two months, with hard labour.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ENTERTAINMENT_BY_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="ENTERTAINMENT_BY_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>ENTERTAINMENT BY DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he inhabitants of Mansfield had some most enjoyable
+meetings on Monday last, when a number of the pupils
+from the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Derby gave some very
+interesting illustrations of blackboard sketching, including animals,
+birds, fishes, &amp;c. In reply to the question asked by one
+of the audience, "What have you come to Mansfield for?" A
+little girl, amidst considerable laughter, wrote "To get money."
+The gentleman then asked her what work she would like to do
+on leaving school? The reply was "I would like to be a lady's
+servant."&mdash;<i>Mansfield Paper</i>, 1885.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="LORD_SEAFORTH" id="LORD_SEAFORTH"></a>LORD SEAFORTH.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/l-veryornate.jpg" width="66" height="144" alt="L" title="L" />
+</span>
+<br />ord Seaforth, who was born deaf and dumb, was
+to dine one day with Lord Melville. Just before
+the time of the company's arrival, Lady Melville
+sent into the drawing-room a lady of her acquaintance
+who could talk with her fingers, that she
+might receive Lord Seaforth. Presently Lord
+Guildford entered the room, and the lady, believing him to be
+Lord Seaforth, began to spell on her fingers quickly. Lord
+Guildford did the same, and they had been carrying on a conversation
+in this manner for about ten minutes, when Lady
+Melville joined them. Her female friend said, "Well, I have
+been talking away to this dumb man." "Dumb!" exclaimed
+Lord Guildford, "Bless me, I thought you were dumb."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_SUPPOSED_LUNATIC_IN_DERBY" id="A_SUPPOSED_LUNATIC_IN_DERBY"></a>A "SUPPOSED" LUNATIC IN DERBY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-081.jpg" width="180" height="261" alt="A" title="A" /></span><br />
+t the Borough Police Court this
+morning, a man, who said his name
+was "Jim," but from whom no
+further information could be obtained,
+was charged with being a
+wandering lunatic. Sergeant Parker
+said that, at a quarter-past one
+o'clock on Monday afternoon, his
+attention was called to the prisoner,
+who was on the Midland
+Railway platform. He noticed
+that the prisoner was wandering
+about in a strange manner. After making enquiries, he had
+telegrams sent to Bath, the replies to which were to the effect
+that the prisoner had been found wandering about the line
+there greatly excited, that they did not consider he was right
+in his mind, and that they had given him written directions to
+enable him to obtain a ticket for Derby, which he succeeded
+in doing. He spoke to the man, and thought he wanted to go
+to London; but when the London train came in he could not
+prevail upon him to take a ticket. He had £1 8s. in his possession,
+and also some tea, a razor, basket, and other articles;
+but no letters or anything from which they could find out his
+address. He took him to the police station, where the police
+surgeon examined him on Monday night, and pronounced him
+to be of unsound mind. The doctor promised to call again
+this morning, but had not yet done so. The Bench remanded
+the man until the following morning, so that the police surgeon
+might attend and give evidence.&mdash;<i>Derby Daily Telegraph.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+<p>The alleged lunatic,&mdash;the deaf and dumb man, whose only
+name was Jim, and who had been charged with being a wandering
+lunatic, was again brought up. Mr. W. R. Roe, head
+master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, said that he had
+been sent for, and that he had been communicating with the
+prisoner by means of signs, and found that he was deaf and
+dumb, and totally uneducated, but certainly of <i>sound</i> mind.
+The police surgeon again appeared, and said he had examined
+the man, and had come to the conclusion that there was no
+indication of insanity about him. The prisoner was discharged
+and handed over to Mr. Roe, who promised to take care of
+him till something was heard from his friends.&mdash;<i>Derby Daily
+Telegraph.</i></p>
+
+<p>The man was kept at the Deaf and Dumb Institution for a
+few days, when it was found that his friends were residing on
+the other side of Bath. It transpired that the man had been
+on a visit to some friends at Bath and could not make the
+authorities understand where he wanted to go, hence the error
+in sending him to Derby.&mdash;W. R. R.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_CLEVER_GYMNAST" id="A_CLEVER_GYMNAST"></a>A CLEVER GYMNAST.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/w-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="W" title="W" />
+</span>alter Stevens, a member of the British Mission to
+the Deaf and Dumb, last year won the first prize
+for "all round performances" at the Gymnasium of the Young
+Men's Christian Association. The prize consisted of a very
+handsome gold and silver medals with silver buckle and strap.
+He was successful in 1883 and 1884 in winning second prizes,
+but this year he carried off in grand style the much-coveted
+first prize. His performance on the horizontal bar was truly
+marvellous.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 479px;">
+<img src="images/ill-083.jpg" width="407" height="170" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="WILLIAM_DE_COURCY" id="WILLIAM_DE_COURCY"></a>WILLIAM DE COURCY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>his boy was educated at a Deaf and Dumb School.
+He was fond of learning, and soon had many companions.
+One of the delights of his life was visiting the farmyard
+which was attached to the Institution. William had been
+taught to be kind to dumb animals. He watched the little
+birds with much interest, and liked to feed them. There was
+one bird which came daily to be fed which he used to call his
+own. He was eager for religious instruction, and soon knew
+God made him, and that Jesus was his best friend, and that
+sin was displeasing to God. He loved Jesus much, and often
+signed about Him to his school fellows. After William had
+been at school for some years he was taken seriously ill, and
+he was asked if he were afraid to die? His reply was, "No,
+I know that God sent His Son to save me." Shortly before
+he died his school mates signed to him that Jesus was kind.
+William smiled, and then signed in answer, "Yes, Jesus is
+kind," and shortly after fell asleep, his happy spirit took its
+flight to that world where there are no deaf and dumb.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
+<img src="images/ill-083-2.jpg" width="367" height="58" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SCULPTOR" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SCULPTOR"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>here has just been placed outside St. Saviour's Church,
+for the Deaf and Dumb, Oxford Street, London, a statue
+of "The Good Shepherd," which has been entirely modelled
+and carved by Mr. Joseph Gawen, a deaf mute, who was a
+pupil of the late Mr. Behnes, and an assistant of the late Mr.
+Foley, R.A. The statue is pronounced by competent judges
+to be an admirable work of art. He also executed a marble
+bust of the wife of Sir G. E. Hodgkinson. Some years ago he
+produced a splendid model in competition for the Wellington
+Memorial.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="BUXTON" id="BUXTON"></a>BUXTON.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/t-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he Entertainments given on Tuesday in the Pavilion
+by Deaf and Dumb children from the Institution at
+Derby drew large audiences. The children looked bright and
+happy, and their personal appearance was a sufficient indication
+that they were taken good care of at the Institution. Mr.
+Roe gave some interesting illustrations of teaching the dumb
+to speak on the oral system by placing the youngest girl on a
+chair and explaining how sounds were produced. Mr. Roe
+asked various questions as to names and objects orally, to
+which answers were instantly given in the same way. The
+Institution at Derby is an excellent one, and the Committee of
+management deserve the warmest thanks for what has already
+been achieved, and we hope will be materially assisted in
+north Derbyshire by all christian people who have at heart the
+welfare of an afflicted class of society.&mdash;<i>Buxton Advertiser</i>,
+Sept., 1884.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 236px;">
+<img src="images/ill-085-2.jpg" width="236" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-085-1.jpg" width="125" height="224" alt="O" title="O" /></span><br />
+ne of Her Majesty's Inspectors
+of Schools recently
+visited the Institution for the
+Deaf and Dumb at Derby,
+and says the children wrote
+some texts which pertinently
+answered some questions on
+religion which were given to
+them. In answer to the question
+"Who made the world?"
+a little girl at once wrote on
+the blackboard "In the beginning
+God created the
+heaven and earth." The second
+question was "Who are
+sinners?" One of the boys
+wrote "All are sinners and have come short of the glory of
+God." A little Irish girl was then asked "How do you hope
+to be saved?" The child wrote "This is a faithful saying and
+worthy of all acceptation that Christ came into the world to
+save sinners." In answer to the question "What does the
+Bible say about the righteous?" a little girl wrote "The
+righteous are as bold as a lion." The last question proposed
+was "How can you show your love to Jesus?" when one of
+the pupils at once wrote "He says if ye love me keep my
+commandments."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 158px;">
+<img src="images/ill-085-3.jpg" width="158" height="50" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HER_LATEST_AND_BEST" id="HER_LATEST_AND_BEST"></a>HER LATEST AND BEST.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;little girl was admitted to a Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+and in due course, before she had obtained a
+thorough knowledge of language, learned "Little Jack Horner."
+Two nights afterwards, when the deaf and dumb pupils were
+kneeling at prayer, they were surprised to see this little girl
+kneel down and earnestly repeat "Little Jack Horner." It
+might be said she was offering the latest and best thing she
+had.<br /></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;">
+<img src="images/ill-086-1.jpg" width="322" height="345" alt="" title="" />
+<br /><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;">
+<img src="images/ill-086-2.jpg" width="322" height="64" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;">
+<img src="images/ill-087-2.jpg" width="339" height="84" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_LITTLE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_PREACHER" id="THE_LITTLE_DEAF_AND_DUMB_PREACHER"></a>THE LITTLE DEAF AND DUMB PREACHER.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-087-1.jpg" width="202" height="333" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/i-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="I" title="I" />
+</span>n a small town in Germany
+lived a locksmith
+and his wife, to whom
+God had given one child, a
+girl, who rejoiced the hearts
+of her parents as she grew up
+strong and happy. But the
+father longed for a son, and
+God heard his prayer, and a
+boy was born to him. Now
+indeed there was joy in the
+home; but their happiness was
+soon saddened, for the child
+was found to be deaf and
+dumb. He was otherwise a
+beautiful boy, with large blue
+eyes. What could they do for him but pray?</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, if only the Lord Jesus was here now," spoke the
+father once, "how would I seek Him, and bring our child to
+Him; how would I pray Him to lay His hand on our dear
+child, too, and give him hearing."</p>
+
+<p>"And I know He certainly would," the mother answered.</p>
+
+<p>"But the Lord Jesus is with us, though we see Him not;
+let us entreat Him for our child."</p>
+
+<p>At length the boy was three years old. His eyes were full
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>of intelligence, and he seemed to understand everything around
+him. The God-fearing habits of his parents had a great influence
+over him. At family prayer the mother held the little one
+on her lap, his hands clasped together, and when the father
+asked a blessing on their frugal meal, the little child would
+also stand behind his stool, and would never taste a morsel
+before it was asked.</p>
+
+<p>It was advised that the boy be placed under the care of a
+famous physician in a neighbouring town. The father would
+leave untried nothing possible for the welfare of his boy, and
+so very soon set out on his journey. The sun was already set
+when they reached their destination.</p>
+
+<p>Then the father took the boy's hand, and they went together
+to a relative's who lived in the town. But what a different
+home from that which the boy had left: the relative did
+not believe in the Word of God, but only thought of pleasure
+and doing according to his own wisdom. So long as the father
+was with him the child was content. He would not move from
+his side, and at night slept locked in his arms. But the father
+could not stay long; pressing business compelled his return
+home. His departure was very sorrowful for the child, and
+the father felt it no less.</p>
+
+<p>At length the dinner time came. All was prepared, and
+the family gathered round the table, and with a good appetite
+began the meal. But the dumb child sat not; he stood
+behind his chair and waited. The others told him to sit and
+eat, but he understood not. His lips were speechless, but he
+made signs that they should pray. The people understood
+him, but would not show they did. Then the child ran to
+each, and, with a supplicating look, tried to clasp their hands
+together. A feeling of shame came over them. They wished
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>to quiet him, but dared not try. Should they pray? They
+had never done it, but the child waited. At length the wife
+stood up, then the husband, and then all the others, for they
+did not know what else to do, and the wife prayed, with trembling
+voice, "Lord Jesus, come to our meal and bless it, and
+grant us Thy mercy."</p>
+
+<p>Thus did the dumb child become a holy messenger, and,
+though he was speechless, witness for God where He was
+entirely forgotten.</p>
+
+<p>But how was it with the child? Was his coming so far
+any use? Was he cured? No; the doctor could do nothing
+for him, and he remains speechless still. But later he attended
+a deaf and dumb institution, where he learnt reading, writing,
+and arithmetic, and many other useful things. Above all, he
+has learnt to know for himself the Lord Jesus, and to be resigned
+to the affliction God has laid upon him. He still lives,
+and is a God-fearing young man, and the joy of his old parents.
+He has learnt the trade of bookbinding, and can well support
+himself. Speaking with his sister of the old times, he said in
+the deaf and dumb language, smiling, "Ah, God has made me
+deaf and dumb that I should preach of the holy Jesus."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;">
+<img src="images/ill-089.jpg" width="366" height="87" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_NAVAL_CHEF_DEUVRE" id="A_NAVAL_CHEF_DEUVRE"></a>A NAVAL CHEF D'EUVRE.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-090-small2.jpg" width="177" height="368" alt="G" title="G" /></span><br />
+<br />
+ervase Murray, a deaf and dumb
+young man, the son of a poor
+widow living at Balbriggan, has just
+completed a miniature merchant ship,
+which in mechanical structure, symmetrical
+build, and neatness of finish, is not
+probably surpassed by anything of the
+kind to be seen in Ireland. It has been
+minutely inspected by competent judges,
+who assert that its <i>tout ensemble</i> a
+more perfect piece of ingenious workmanship
+they have never seen; nor could
+the most experienced ship carpenter do
+more justice to the various compartments,
+appendages, and riggings
+than has its mute architect, with
+but very indifferent apparatus&mdash;a
+penknife, a file, and a bradawl being the principal instruments
+employed in the work. It measures exactly six feet
+from the figure head to the helm, and is precisely the same
+extent in height from the top of the mainmast to the keel, the
+width being of proportional dimensions. The materials are all
+of the best description, are tastefully polished or painted where
+necessary, and are so exactly fitted in every part as to baffle
+the detection of any conspicuous fault whatever. It is fully
+manned with a crew of little wooden men, and officers in uniform,
+and completely equipped with boats, capstan, blocks,
+hawsers, cables, davits, cat-heads, bars, bolts, buckets, chocks,
+compasses, and even three brass cannons; in short with every<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>thing
+that may be seen in a large ship. She bears the significant
+name of "The Star of the Sea." Had he been able to
+exhibit it, as he intended, at the late Dublin Exhibition, there
+is no doubt that it would have attracted considerable attention,
+which perhaps might have led to a substantial recognition of
+merit having been awarded to a poor dumb youth, the chief
+support of his widowed mother, as a well-deserved recompense
+for the patience and native talent displayed in the construction
+of this tiny chef d'euvre of naval art, which must have given
+him an immense amount of trouble and anxiety during the two
+years he has been engaged in building it.&mdash;<i>Irish Journal.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ALEXANDER_FERGUSON_THE_FAMOUS_DEAF" id="ALEXANDER_FERGUSON_THE_FAMOUS_DEAF"></a>ALEXANDER FERGUSON, THE FAMOUS DEAF AND DUMB SWIMMER.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-091.jpg" width="273" height="269" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>lexander
+Ferguson, a
+dock mason of
+Dundee, (though
+now in employment
+at Irvine),
+has rescued forty-seven
+persons from
+drowning&mdash;one paper
+says fifty-one&mdash;in
+the Tay, Forth,
+Clyde, Dee, Tyne,
+Mersey, Wear, Ayr,
+Irwell, Calder, Humber, and other rivers in England, Scotland,
+and Ireland. He is thirty-nine years of age, and made his first
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>rescue when about ten years old. We have before us accounts
+cut from the newspapers and other publications, from which
+we give the following particulars of some of the rescues and
+swimming feats:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>At Troon Dock. One Sunday a boy, who was playing with
+his companions at the quay, missed his footing, and fell into
+the harbour. Alexander Ferguson, observing the occurrence,
+pulled him out in a very exhausted condition. A purse of £15
+was presented to him.</p>
+
+<p>At Ayr Harbour. A boy named William M'Lean, aged 12
+years, fell into the water and was just disappearing when A. F.
+leaped into the water and rescued him.</p>
+
+<p>At Androsan Harbour. A boy named Robert Bodman,
+aged 10 years. He was rewarded with the sum of £16 by
+merchants and gentlemen.</p>
+
+<p>At Llanelly Harbour. A boy named Francis Cornwall, 10
+years old.</p>
+
+<p>At Towey Dock. Richard Pearce, 11 years of age.</p>
+
+<p>In the Camperdown Dock, Dundee. Alexander Yule, 10
+years of age.</p>
+
+<p>At King William Dock, Dundee. James Anderson, a
+bricklayer.</p>
+
+<p>At Devonport Dock. A girl named Victoria Napier, 10
+years of age.</p>
+
+<p>At Dundee Pier. A boy named Alexander Robertson, 10
+years old, for which he received the rescue medal of the Forth
+Swimming Club and Humane Society (1864.)</p>
+
+<p>At Falmouth Dock. Sarah Armstrong, 11 years of age.</p>
+
+<p>At Lime Dock. Oliver Markham, 7 years old.</p>
+
+<p>At Maldon Dock. A girl named Jessie Brown, 12 years
+of age.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p>
+<p>At Camperdown Dock. Mr. Alexander Doig, merchant of
+Forfar.</p>
+
+<p>At Swanage Dock. A girl named Catherine Bruce, aged
+14 years.</p>
+
+<p>At Portcawl Dock. A boy named Albert Jones.</p>
+
+<p>At Exmouth Dock. A girl named Alexandrina Nelson, 14
+years old.</p>
+
+<p>At Victoria Dock. A boy named Charles Blair, 8 years of
+age.</p>
+
+<p>At Alexandra Dock. Richard Harrison, 8 years old.</p>
+
+<p>At Earl Grey's Dock, Dundee. Peter Band, 8 years of age.</p>
+
+<p>At Teignmouth Dock. Edgar Thorpe, 8 years of age.</p>
+
+<p>At Alnwick Dock. Cęsar Franklin, 10 years old.</p>
+
+<p>A brave man. The last official act of the late Mayor of
+Great Yarmouth was to present the silver medal of the Humane
+Society to Alexander Ferguson, mason, of Dundee, for having
+saved the life of Charles Cullen, a private in the 55th Regiment,
+who fell overboard the steamer "Juno" on returning to
+Inverness. Ferguson dived and saved him, but ran great risk
+of being drowned, Cullen having fallen under the paddle wheel,
+which was in motion.</p>
+
+<p>Gallant rescue from drowning in the River Mersey, off
+Garston, near Liverpool. On Thursday afternoon four young
+lads had an exceedingly narrow escape from drowning in the
+ferry harbour; they were amusing themselves with a boat, when
+they overbalanced and fell into the water; this was noticed by
+Alexander Ferguson, mason, who was standing on the jetty,
+and he, without divesting himself of any of his clothes, swam
+to their rescue. Having succeeded in getting hold of three
+lads, he landed them ashore, and then struck out for the other,
+who by this time had almost disappeared, his hands only being
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>visible above the water. Ferguson landed him ashore also.
+After some time all the four were able to walk home to Liverpool.
+A large crowd was on the jetty at the time, and great
+excitement prevailed. Ferguson deserves great credit for the
+courage and presence of mind he displayed, and it is believed
+that but for his efforts the lads would have been drowned.&mdash;<i>Liverpool
+Mercury</i>, 1872.</p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Great Swimming Feats</span>.</p>
+
+<p>1. Fourteen miles down the river with the rapid ebb tide,
+from the middle buoys opposite the Tay ferries to far buoy at
+the mouth of the river Tay, in 5-1/2 hours (1859.)</p>
+
+<p>2. Across the Frith of Clyde from Carrought, Ayrshire, to
+Ailsa Rock; 8 miles in 3 hours, through strong currents.</p>
+
+<p>3. Across the Frith of Forth, from Buckhaven, in Fifeshire,
+to North Berwick; 18 miles in 7 hours (1862.)</p>
+
+<p>4. Across the Bay of Leece, from the Mull of Galloway
+Lighthouse to Barrowhead; 10 miles in 4 hours.</p>
+
+<p>5. Across the mouth of Loch Ryan, from Ronmach, in
+Ayrshire, to Kirkcolm Point in Gallowayshire; 4 miles in 2
+hours.</p>
+
+<p>6. From John O'Groat's House to Stoma; 8 miles in 2-1/2
+hours, through dangerous currents (1873.)</p>
+
+<p>7. Across the strong-currented river to Cardell Point, on
+the east of Cantyre, from Penrioch, on the coast of Arran; 11
+miles in 3-1/2 hours (1874.)</p>
+
+<p>8. Across the Frith of Clyde from West Kilbride, in Ayrshire,
+to Grombe, on the east coast of Arran, a distance of 12-1/2
+miles in 4-1/2 hours (1874.)</p>
+
+<p>9. Across the Frith of the Clyde from Port Glasgow to
+Cardross; 9 miles in 2-1/2 hours (1874.)</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p>
+<p>In all these instances he was followed by persons in boats.</p>
+
+<p>We are informed that he has received presents for rescuing
+lives of the value of £300, besides twenty suits of clothes, and
+has also won many cups and other prizes in swimming and
+diving matches, and has also received several gold and silver
+medals.</p>
+
+<p>Alexander Ferguson has on several occasions been present
+at the services for the adult deaf and dumb held at the Institution
+at Derby.<br /><br /></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/ill-095-1.jpg" width="289" height="294" alt="" title="" /><br /><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/ill-103-2.jpg" width="391" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_MUTES_GRATITUDE" id="A_DEAF_MUTES_GRATITUDE"></a>A DEAF MUTE'S GRATITUDE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-096.jpg" width="171" height="264" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figsimple" style="width: 49px;">
+<img src="images/m-simple.jpg" width="49" height="45" alt="M." title="M." />
+</span> Felix Martin, an artist,
+deaf and dumb from his
+birth, has just executed a group
+representing the Abbé de L'Epče
+teaching a deaf and dumb youth.
+He desires it to be placed in the
+Court of the Sourds et Muets Institution
+at Paris, to which he gives
+it in recognition of the debt of gratitude
+which he and his deaf mute
+brethren in misfortune owe to the
+Abbé for their moral and intellectual
+emancipation.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SIR_WALTER_SCOTT_ON_THE_DEAF_DUMB" id="SIR_WALTER_SCOTT_ON_THE_DEAF_DUMB"></a>SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE DEAF &amp; DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/s-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="S" title="S" />
+</span>ir Walter Scott in his novel "Peveril of the Peak,"
+uses the following language as to the deaf and dumb
+of his day:&mdash;"All knowledge is gained by communication,
+either with the dead through books, or more pleasingly through
+the conversation of the living. The deaf and dumb above are
+excluded from improvement, and surely their institution is not
+enviable that we should imitate them." Aristotle considered
+the deaf and dumb as incapable of acquiring knowledge; while
+St. Augustine insisted that they could not be instructed in the
+holy faith of the Catholic Church. Could the worthies come
+back to this world they would be slightly amazed at the practical
+refutation of their prophecies.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="UNEDUCATED" id="UNEDUCATED"></a>UNEDUCATED.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 80px;">
+<img src="images/w-veryornate.jpg" width="80" height="144" alt="W" title="W" />
+</span>
+<br />hat would any of us be without education? By
+education, I mean not book-learning only, but
+the training in good habits which is given in
+well-ordered homes and schools.</p>
+
+<p>Can any one read the following true story of
+a deaf and dumb man without feelings of the
+deepest pity for the poor fellow left untaught and untrained, to
+wander at will over the wild though beautiful country of his
+birth. Was he happy? Read the story, and judge for yourselves.</p>
+
+<p>A few years since an artist visited Ireland to sketch the wild
+and rocky scenery for which parts of the coast are celebrated.
+One of the places he went to was so poor and uncivilized that
+there was no house better than a cabin to be found in the
+whole district. In a cabin, therefore, he took up his abode.</p>
+
+<p>One day he was busily engaged sketching some high cliffs,
+at the bottom of which the wild waves dashed in fury. His
+seat was in a position as perilous as it was grand.</p>
+
+<p>Presently he observed a creature approach, whose appearance
+at first puzzled him exceedingly. A nearer view showed
+him that it was a man clothed in a goatskin, but with the gait
+and manners of one wholly unused to civilized society.</p>
+
+<p>The artist thought that he was about to encounter an escaped
+lunatic, and, although no coward, he confessed to a
+feeling somewhat akin to fear passing through him as he looked
+down at the depths below, and calculated how small a push
+might launch him into eternity. Then he remembered something
+about the advantage of being civil to madmen, and determined
+to try and ward off his impending fate by a show of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>civility. Beckoning the poor creature to him, he commenced
+to talk to him, to show him his drawings, and to offer him a
+share of his lunch. The man made no reply, but apparently
+assured by the artist's manner came up close, sat down beside
+him, and was soon deeply absorbed in devouring his portion
+of the lunch and in admiring the pictures. Still he never
+spoke, only uttered some unintelligible sounds.</p>
+
+<p>The artist congratulated himself on the success of his experiments;
+but, nevertheless, he thought that on the whole
+"discretion was the better part of valour," and after a little he
+got up and returned to his lodging, the man following him at
+a distance.</p>
+
+<p>On arriving at the cabin he related his adventure, when the
+people exclaimed, "Ah! it's only poor dummy!" and assured
+him the poor fellow was perfectly harmless, but he was wholly
+untaught, had received no training in a Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+and lived in this wild neglected manner. He was never
+asked to work, but roamed about at will, being fed by the
+neighbours, who would give bits to him as they would to a
+dog.</p>
+
+<p>The artist was greatly touched by what he heard, and continued
+to be kind to the poor deaf and dumb man, who, on his
+part, attached himself to his patron in the most docile manner.
+Every morning he went to carry the artist's drawing materials,
+waited on him during the day, and only seemed too delighted
+if he could perform any little service for him. In return the
+artist could only reward him by kind looks and a share of his
+sandwiches. Once he offered him money, but it was received
+in such a manner that showed plainly he did not understand
+its value. And the neighbours said it was no use to give him
+money: <i>food</i> was the only thing he seemed to care for.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span></p>
+<p>At last the time came for the artist to return home. When
+it dawned upon the poor deaf mute he was about to lose his
+friend, he set up the most piteous wailing, and refused to be
+comforted, not even by the choicest morsels of food.</p>
+
+<p>The artist, when relating it afterwards, said "that he was
+never more moved in his life than to see this unfeigned
+sorrow, and to feel himself unable (owing to the man not
+having been trained in a Deaf and Dumb Institution) to convey
+one single idea of suggestive consolation."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;">
+<img src="images/ill-099.jpg" width="342" height="94" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="TRADES_OF_THE_DEAF_DUMB_IN_ENGLAND_AND_WALES" id="TRADES_OF_THE_DEAF_DUMB_IN_ENGLAND_AND_WALES"></a>TRADES OF THE DEAF &amp; DUMB IN ENGLAND AND WALES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he following particulars showing the trades of the Deaf
+and Dumb are taken from the last Government Census
+of 1883:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<span class="smcap">Females</span>:&mdash;<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>315 domestic servants, 12 teachers of the deaf and dumb,
+74 charwomen, 158 washing and bathing service, 22 bookbinders,
+21 cloth manufacturers, 146 manufacturers of silk
+and cotton goods, 62 making lace, carpets or trimmings, 580
+milliners and dressmakers, 75 tailoresses, 28 straw hat and
+bonnet makers, 99 seamstresses, 12 glove makers, 19 baby shoe
+makers, 6 brush makers, 15 paper bag makers, 9 workers of
+porcelain, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<span class="smcap">Males</span>:&mdash;<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>24 artists (painters), 24 artists (engravers), 5 sculptors, 18 indoor
+domestic servants, 37 gardeners, 28 commercial clerks,
+28 messengers, 47 engaged in harbour and dock service,
+37 farming on own account, 3 farm bailiffs, 463 agricultural
+labourers, 15 nurserymen, 13 grooms, 2 veterinary surgeons,
+2 gamekeepers, 40 bookbinders, 55 printers, 26 lithographic
+printers, 26 engine fitters and machinists, 11 watch and clock
+makers, 41 bricklayers, 137 carpenters and joiners, 61 masons,
+99 painters and paperhangers, 75 cabinet makers, 21 French
+polishers, 22 wood carvers, 12 carvers and gilders, 12 coach-makers,
+15 wheelwrights, 43 saddlers, 42 shipwrights and carpenters
+ashore, 5 innkeepers, 1 maltster, 5 brewers, 17 butchers,
+19 bakers, 4 confectioners, 44 worsted stuff and cloth
+makers, 344 tailors, 507 shoemakers, 23 pattern makers, 10
+hair dressers, 10 brush makers, 29 basket makers, 18 wood
+turners, 23 coopers, 71 coal miners, 22 brickmakers, 22
+workers of porcelain, 29 glass makers, 11 jewellers, 55 blacksmiths,
+65 iron and steel manufacturers, 14 tin plate workers,
+360 general labourers, 11 engine drivers, stokers, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>There are in Great Britain and Ireland about 20,000 deaf mutes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_WILL_MADE_BY_PANTOMIME" id="A_WILL_MADE_BY_PANTOMIME"></a>A WILL MADE BY PANTOMIME.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 42px;">
+<img src="images/t-flower.jpg" width="42" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he Supreme Court of Maine recently, after a six days
+trial, sustained the will of Horatio N. Foster, who was
+deaf and dumb, seventy-six years old, who could neither read,
+write, nor use the manual alphabet. The will, which was made
+by pantomime, devised 7000 dols. Only one similar case it is
+said was ever tried in the United States, and that was in North
+Carolina.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_BRAVE_DEFENDER" id="A_BRAVE_DEFENDER"></a>A BRAVE DEFENDER.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 63px;">
+<img src="images/a-veryornate.jpg" width="63" height="144" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>
+<br />fter reaching our encampment (at Jenin in Palestine)
+our dragoman told us that the people of the
+village were so quarrelsome and thievish that it
+was never safe to stop a night there without an
+extra guard, and he had engaged the brother of
+the sheik of the village to occupy this responsible
+post. This man was a great, tall, athletic-looking fellow, but a
+deaf mute. While we were taking our dinner he came into our
+tent, brandishing a revolver. He expressed to us by signs how
+safely we might lie down and rest, because he (brave fellow as
+he was) by the aid of that revolver would protect us from all
+harm. Directly after our waiter&mdash;Dominicho&mdash;came in and
+informed us that the guard had borrowed this revolver from
+our dragoman, Ali Solomon, but that he stood in mortal dread
+of the weapon he had flourished before us so heroically; that
+he refused to touch it till all the charges were withdrawn from
+it. With such a champion for our defender what cause could
+there be for fear?&mdash;<i>In Bible Lands.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_LAWYER" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_LAWYER"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB LAWYER.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/m-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="43" alt="M" title="M" />
+</span>r. Lowe, a gentleman who has been deaf and dumb
+from his infancy, will, we understand, be called to the
+Bar by the Society of the Middle Temple on Saturday next.
+He has had a good legal education, and is considered very
+clever as a conveyancer.&mdash;<i>Brighton Gazette</i>, Nov., 1829.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_MAN_ON_THE_BIBLE" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_MAN_ON_THE_BIBLE"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB MAN ON THE BIBLE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 67px;">
+<img src="images/t-veryornate.jpg" width="67" height="144" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>
+<br />he following remarks on the Bible were written by
+a deaf and dumb young man 26 years of age:&mdash;
+"The Bible is more valuable than all other books
+in the world. It is divided into two parts, the one
+called the Old Testament and the other the New
+Testament. The former was written by inspired
+men, directed by the Spirit of God; the latter contains the
+news of the Gospel, written by the witnessing disciples while
+Christ was on the earth. The Bible informs us of the guilt of
+sin, of the punishment of the wicked, of the Saviour who died
+to save men from dangerous destruction, of the way of forgiveness
+by Christ, of the condescension of Him, of the mercy and
+love of Him, and of the happiness which Christ has promised
+to His disciples.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible teaches us how to do good to others, how to
+help them in distress, how to avoid temptation, how to love
+and obey God, how to pray to God to keep us out of dangerous
+things, and pray to God for our parents, for their
+children, and for our other friends.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible is a very precious gift from heaven, and contains
+many precious truths, therefore we should reverence it.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 277px;">
+<img src="images/ill-064.jpg" width="277" height="84" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/ill-103-2.jpg" width="391" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="UNEDUCATED_DEAF_MUTES_IGNORANCE_OF_GOD" id="UNEDUCATED_DEAF_MUTES_IGNORANCE_OF_GOD"></a>UNEDUCATED DEAF MUTE'S IGNORANCE OF GOD.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-103-1.jpg" width="112" height="174" alt="V" title="V" /></span><br />
+auncey Thompson wrote after
+having been under instruction in
+the Deaf and Dumb School for
+six years:&mdash;"When I was at home,
+I knew one word, 'God,' but I did
+not know what it meant, nor how
+the world was made, and my mind
+was very hard and uncultivated,
+resembling the ground that is not
+ploughed, and I was perfectly ignorant.
+I thought then that my
+mind would open when I was a man: but I was mistaken, it
+would not have opened if I had not come to school to be
+taught; I would have been ignorant and have known nothing
+that is proper, and no religion would have come toward me.
+I must study my Bible till my life is departed, and I hope God
+will please never forsake me."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DO_THE_DEAF_DUMB_THINK_THEMSELVES_UNHAPPY" id="DO_THE_DEAF_DUMB_THINK_THEMSELVES_UNHAPPY"></a>DO THE DEAF &amp; DUMB THINK THEMSELVES UNHAPPY?</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>wo deaf and dumb scholars of the late Abbé Siccard were
+asked&mdash;Do the deaf and dumb think themselves unhappy?
+The following is the answer of Massien:&mdash;"No;
+because we seldom lament that which we never possessed, or
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span>know we can never be in possession of; but should the deaf
+and dumb become blind, they would think themselves very
+unhappy, because sight is the finest, the most useful, and the
+most agreeable of all the senses. Besides, we are amply indemnified
+for our misfortune by the signal favour of expressing
+by gestures and by writing our ideas, our thoughts, and our
+feelings, and likewise by being able to read books and manuscripts."</p>
+
+<p>The following is the answer of Clerc, the other pupil, to
+the same question:&mdash;"He who never had anything has never
+lost anything, and he who never lost anything has nothing to
+regret; consequently, the deaf and dumb who never heard
+or spoke, have never lost either hearing or speech, therefore
+cannot lament either the one or the other. And he who has
+nothing to lament cannot be unhappy; consequently the deaf
+and dumb are not unhappy. Besides, it is a great consolation
+for them to be able to replace hearing by writing, and speech
+by signs."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;">
+<img src="images/ill-104.jpg" width="339" height="79" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_MUTES_IDEAS_BEFORE_INSTRUCTION" id="A_DEAF_MUTES_IDEAS_BEFORE_INSTRUCTION"></a>A DEAF MUTE'S IDEAS BEFORE INSTRUCTION.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 31px;">
+<img src="images/t-simple.jpg" width="31" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he following extract from the correspondence of a deaf
+and dumb pupil with his teacher is a fair specimen of
+the natural condition of the deaf and dumb before receiving
+instruction:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Before I came to school I thought that the stars were
+placed in the firmament like grates of fire, and that the moon
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>at night was like a great furnace of fire; I did not know how
+the stars and moon and heavens were made; but I supposed
+that the people, like us above the firmament, kindled the moon
+and stars; and I did not know whether the heavens was made
+by art or not. I thought the world little and round like a
+table, and was always intending to go to the end of it."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
+<img src="images/ill-083-2.jpg" width="367" height="58" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OBSERVATIONS_OF_DEAF_DUMB_CHILDREN" id="OBSERVATIONS_OF_DEAF_DUMB_CHILDREN"></a>OBSERVATIONS OF DEAF &amp; DUMB CHILDREN.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/a-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;gentleman called to see some little deaf and
+dumb girls who had been present at a large meeting
+in aid of the Institution on the previous day, when the gentleman
+asked, "What did you think of the great meeting yesterday?"
+"I thought," replied a little girl of ten summers,
+"people would give great money for deaf and dumb school."
+To another little girl the question put was, "Did you observe
+any difference in the behaviour of the people present at the
+meeting?" "I saw some smile, and I believe some were
+fretting." "What do you think was the reason that some
+fretted?" "I thought they fretted about the deaf and dumb
+and about God."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_DUMB_BOYS_REMARKABLE_DREAM" id="A_DEAF_DUMB_BOYS_REMARKABLE_DREAM"></a>A DEAF &amp; DUMB BOY'S REMARKABLE DREAM.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-106.jpg" width="228" height="300" alt="W" title="W" /></span><br />
+illiam Brennen, aged about
+fourteen and a-half years, having
+been awakened from sleep,
+his first words were that he
+had been dreaming; and when
+he got into the school-room he
+commenced writing upon his slate as
+follows, assuring his teachers that he
+described exactly as he thought he
+saw and heard in his dream, and
+from his character for truth there was
+no doubt he did so:</p>
+
+<p>I was dreaming about God; that he sent Jesus Christ, who
+came into the world from heaven. He was present with twelve
+men; they saw Him, and were frightened. He said, "Will
+you love God, and why?" They said, "He is the creator of
+all things; He saved us from our sin; He was walking on the
+water; He made them to live on the water and on the land.
+He spoke unto them, whose names are Disciples. I saw them
+by dreaming.</p>
+
+<p>He said unto me, "Will you love God, and why?" I said
+unto Him, "Because He made me in a happy state and holy;
+he brought me to heaven from this world." His face was
+luminous and beautiful; he had a long beard, his hair was
+short and shining&mdash;I could not look at him. He wrote judgments
+of mankind&mdash;some were very good. When they died
+he took some to heaven, and some were sent to hell. His
+robe was very bright, like a cloud round the sun.</p>
+
+<p>I could hear more than all the people in the world. I was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span>more obedient to God. There was not the sun, nor the moon,
+nor the stars. I saw Addington&mdash;(one of his friends who had
+died lately)&mdash;who was in heaven. He shook hands with me.
+He was more tall than you.</p>
+
+<p>I saw Adam and Eve: God made him by His word. He
+made him of the dust of the earth. He breathed into his nostrils
+the breath of life. God said, "Thy name is Adam." He
+took a rib of the man whilst he slept; he made woman by
+taking the rib from a man. Her name was Eve. He made
+them in a happy state and holy. He made a garden of Eden.
+He sent them to live in the garden. God said, "Thou shalt
+not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge."</p>
+
+<p>I saw God making the world and all things. First the
+world, firmament, sun, moon, stars, land and water. God
+made the water with His breath, He gave it into the world.
+He made the sun, moon, stars very quickly with his word.
+He made the sun of part of the earth, from the world, and the
+moon of a little part from the sun, and the stars of a very little
+part from the moon. He did not make anything with His
+hands, but by His word.</p>
+
+<p>I saw the world before the sun was made&mdash;it was all earth.
+He made Europe, Africa&mdash;all! and with His breath He made
+the sea. (Here his action was remarkable. He drew on his
+slate the continent and islands, blew with his breath with
+scarce any motion of his lips, and showed that the waters
+instantaneously flowed through their channels, and the seas
+were formed.) God made the firmament by His word; it is
+like silk paper, it is all round the world: there is water over it
+and clouds under it, and the sun shines through it, and the
+moon, and the stars. (Here he described by gestures the motions
+of the earth, the sun, and moon, and that there were
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span>countless stars, larger much than the sun; that there was no
+axle on which the world moved, nor anything to keep it up
+like a cord, but that it was moved and upheld by the breath of
+the Almighty.)</p>
+
+<p>There were many angels with him.</p>
+
+<p>He had not a loud voice, and his eyes see the sun before
+him and behind him.</p>
+
+<p>He spoke very kindly to me; I saw many spirits in heaven;
+they were worshipping God and obedient to God; they did not
+speak; they listened to God and were obedient to Him; and
+God was often speaking to them; and they loved Him. He
+was commanding them to look at evil and right things in the
+world, and they were very bright like clouds; thou couldst not
+see them, because they were invisible.</p>
+
+<p>Angels are often in the world; they are always present with
+us, and in every place, separating the people's hearts, good
+from bad. God tells them to separate the good from the
+bad; and they are always soaring with their wings. Their
+wings have not feathers; they are like the clouds. The angels
+are soaring always, and standing on the air and the clouds;
+they never are flapping with their wings; they are never tired,
+nor sleepy, nor hungry, nor thirsty, nor eating, nor laughing,
+nor smiling; I saw some more crying a little, because the
+people have sin <i>from them</i>. They are very beautiful like the
+sun. God is more bright than an angel. They can walk on
+everything in heaven and in the world, and in hell they are not
+burned. God was sitting on the clouds, and on the air, and
+on the water. He is still, quiet; He never laughs. (His gestures
+here were striking in an astonishing degree, and his whole
+mind seemed overcome, with a sense of the Divine greatness and
+glory.) God was very kind to the angels, more than all the world.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_SCRIPTURES_AND_THE_STATE_OF_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB" id="THE_SCRIPTURES_AND_THE_STATE_OF_THE_DEAF_AND_DUMB"></a>THE SCRIPTURES AND THE STATE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate">"</span>
+<span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/o-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>pen thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such
+as are appointed to destruction.<br />
+"Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause
+of the poor and needy."&mdash;Prov. xxxi. 8, 9.</p>
+
+<p>"Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
+teach thee what thou shalt say.<br />
+"And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's
+mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or the
+blind? have not I the Lord?"&mdash;Exodus iv. 12, 11.</p>
+
+<p>"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which
+is in part shall be done away."&mdash;I Cor. xiii. 10.</p>
+
+<p>"But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb
+man that openeth not his mouth."&mdash;Psalm xxxviii. 13.</p>
+
+<p>"All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the
+eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing."&mdash;Ecclesiastes
+i. 8.</p>
+
+<p>"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and
+preach the gospel to every creature."&mdash;Mark xvi. 15.</p>
+
+<p>"And how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is
+written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
+gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things."&mdash;Romans
+x. 15.</p>
+
+<p>"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
+book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and
+out of darkness."&mdash;Isaiah xxix. 18.</p>
+
+<p>"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears
+of the deaf shall be unstopped.<br />
+"Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span>of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
+and streams in the desert."&mdash;Isaiah xxxv. 5, 6.</p>
+
+<p>"But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they
+shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand."&mdash;Romans
+xv. 21.</p>
+
+<p>"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation,
+that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom
+I am the chief."&mdash;I Timothy i. 15.</p>
+
+<p>"As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb
+man possessed with a devil.<br />
+"And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake; and
+the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in
+Israel."&mdash;Matt. ix. 32, 33.</p>
+
+<p>"Now when John had heard in the prison the works of
+Christ, he sent two of his disciples,<br />
+"And said unto him, Art thou he that should come or look
+we for another?<br />
+"Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John
+again those things which ye do hear and see:<br />
+"The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the
+lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up,
+and the poor have the gospel preached to them.<br />
+"And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in
+me."&mdash;Matt. xi. 2-6.</p>
+
+<p>"Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil,
+blind and dumb; and he healed him, insomuch that the blind
+and dumb both spake and saw."&mdash;Matt. xii. 22, 23.</p>
+
+<p>"And great multitudes came unto him, having with them
+those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,
+and cast them down at Jesus feet; and he healed them; insomuch
+that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span>to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the
+blind to see; and they glorified the God of Israel."&mdash;Matt.
+xv. 30, 31.</p>
+
+<p>"And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I
+have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit:<br />
+
+"And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he
+foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away; and I
+spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out, and they
+could not.<br />
+
+"He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how
+long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring
+him unto me.<br />
+
+"And they brought him unto him; and when he saw him,
+straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and
+wallowed foaming.<br />
+
+"And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this
+came unto him? And he said, Of a child.<br />
+
+"And often it hath cast him into the fire, and into the
+waters to destroy him; but if thou canst do anything, have
+compassion on us, and help us.<br />
+
+"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are
+possible to him that believeth.<br />
+
+"And straightway the father of the child cried out, and
+said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.<br />
+
+"When Jesus saw that the people came running together,
+he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou deaf and
+dumb spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no
+more into him.<br />
+
+"And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of
+him; and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He
+is dead.<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span>
+"But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and
+he arose."&mdash;Mark ix. 17-27.</p>
+
+<p>"And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
+impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his
+hand upon him.<br />
+
+"And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his
+fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;<br />
+
+"And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him,
+Ephphatha, that is, be opened.<br />
+
+"And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of
+his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.<br />
+
+"And he charged them that they should tell no man; but
+the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
+published it;<br />
+
+"And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath
+done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and
+the dumb to speak."&mdash;Mark vii. 32-37.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="UNITED_STATES_OF_AMERICA" id="UNITED_STATES_OF_AMERICA"></a>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.</h2>
+
+<p>The Tenth Census Report of the U. S. of America for 1880
+contains some interesting statistics of the deaf and dumb,
+and apparently show a considerable increase as compared with
+the whole population.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="4" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">1850.</td><td align="center">1860.</td><td align="center">1870.</td><td align="center">1880.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Total population</td><td align="right">23,191,876</td><td align="right">31,443,321</td><td align="right">38,558,371</td><td align="right">50,155,783</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Deaf Mutes</td><td align="right">9,803</td><td align="right">12,821</td><td align="right">16,205</td><td align="right">38,878</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="left">No. of Deaf Mutes in each<br />million of population</td><td align="right" valign="top">423</td><td align="right" valign="top">408</td><td align="right" valign="top">420</td><td align="right" valign="top">675</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>Out of 33,878 there were 18,567 males and 15,311 females.
+The number of native deaf mutes was 30,507, and foreign
+3,721. White, 30,661; coloured, 3,217, including 3 Chinese
+and 37 Indians.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
+<img src="images/ill-024.jpg" width="412" height="88" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="CAUSES_OF_DEAF-MUTISM" id="CAUSES_OF_DEAF-MUTISM"></a>CAUSES OF DEAF-MUTISM.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 67px;">
+<img src="images/t-veryornate.jpg" width="67" height="144" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>
+<br />he intermarriage of blood-relations is doubtless one
+cause. In one school for the deaf and dumb 25
+per cent., in another 20 per cent., and in others
+15 per cent. of the pupils are said to be the off-spring
+of marriages between blood-relations.</p>
+
+<p>Davy mentions the following case observed by
+Meničre:&mdash;A married couple, being cousins, who enjoyed excellent
+health, had eight children, of whom four were born
+deaf mutes, another was idiotic, another died when five years
+of age, and two others suffered from absolute deafness, which
+only made its appearance later on.</p>
+
+<p>In the Institution at Derby there are three sisters, and also
+a younger sister at home, all born deaf and dumb, the parents
+being own cousins. On the other hand, there are at the same
+Institution several children having deaf and dumb brothers
+or sisters, where no relationship exists between the parents,
+notably one family, in which both parents are healthy, and in
+which there are four deaf and dumb children. In the same
+county there are other cases of three, four, and even six in a
+family, yet there has been no relationship between the parents.
+In addition to the born deaf, measles, bronchitis, typhus,
+scarletina, and other diseases are the causes of deafness, and
+consequently dumbness.</p>
+
+<p>Cases are known to have resulted from lightning, fright,
+boxing on the ears, and where young children have been
+allowed to fall on the head, etc.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p>
+<p>Damp houses are said to be a cause of deafness. In Paris
+among eight children born in a family, five were born deaf, and
+these had all been born in a damp house. The family who
+had previously lived in the same house had three children,
+among whom were two born deaf and dumb. It is sometimes
+said that certain unhealthy trades in which the parent or parents
+are engaged are responsible for some of these cases, but the
+only complete statistics are those of Nassau, the results of
+which are as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">Among</td><td align="right">27</td><td align="left">Pipe-makers</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="left" colspan="4">deaf mute children, therefore 1 deaf mute to</td><td align="right">9.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">146</td><td align="left">Stonemasons</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">36.5</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">186</td><td align="left">Brass-founders</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">37.2</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">106</td><td align="left">Potters</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">53.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">590</td><td align="left">Carpenters</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">73.7</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">176</td><td align="left">Earthenware-makers</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">88.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">381</td><td align="left">Sailors</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">127.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1,716</td><td align="left">Bricklayers</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">156.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1,309</td><td align="left">Smiths</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">187.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">374</td><td align="left">Vat-coopers</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">187.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1,894</td><td align="left">Tailors</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">189.4</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">2,911</td><td align="left">Shoemakers</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">194.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1,614</td><td align="left">Joiners</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">201.7</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">2,006</td><td align="left">Vinters</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">222.8</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">514</td><td align="left">Coopers</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">257.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1,380</td><td align="left">Bakers</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">276.0</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">49,201</td><td align="left">Farmers</td><td align="right">104</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">473.1</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">18,211</td><td align="left">Labourers</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">758.8</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>Meckel says that in the families of tradespeople, who are
+constantly exposed to a damp unhealthy atmosphere or other
+injurious influences, deaf-mutism occurs most frequently.
+Moreover, Meckel has found that deaf-mutism is more frequently
+met with in flour-mills than elsewhere. Among 990
+millers in Nassau, there were found eight deaf mutes, or one
+deaf mute to 123.7.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
+<img src="images/ill-083-2.jpg" width="367" height="58" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_NOT_AFRAID_TO_DIE" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_NOT_AFRAID_TO_DIE"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB BOY NOT AFRAID TO DIE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figleft2"><img src="images/ill-115.jpg" width="151" height="250" alt="B" title="B" /></span><br />
+<br />
+ernard Grimshaw, a little deaf
+and dumb boy, lay seriously ill in the
+sick ward of an Institution, and was
+asked, "Would you be afraid to die?" "No! because Christ has taken away
+the sting of death, if we believe in
+Him that He died for us; and we should not be
+afraid of death, if we believe in Him that He died
+for us; and we should not be afraid of death because
+He has promised to give eternal life to all believers."</p>
+
+<p>"What do you consider the best thing you have
+been taught, since coming to the Deaf and Dumb Institution?" "I have learned
+about God and His beloved Son Jesus Christ,
+and the Bible. That is best."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SEXTON_ROBBED" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_SEXTON_ROBBED"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB SEXTON ROBBED.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/g-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="G" title="G" />
+</span>eorge E. Fischer, the deaf and dumb sexton of the
+St. Mary's Avenue Congregational Church, put out
+the lights and started for his boarding house at 10 o'clock at
+night. He had gone but a short distance from the church
+when he was pounced upon by unknown persons, who
+approached from behind and knocked him down. After
+striking him another blow the fellow went through his pockets,
+taking every cent he had. Fischer is a hard-working man, but
+is in poor health, and will feel the loss heavily.&mdash;<i>Omaha
+World, May 24th, 1886.</i></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;">
+<img src="images/ill-086-2.jpg" width="322" height="64" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="ACUTENESS_OF_EDUCATED_DEAF_MUTES" id="ACUTENESS_OF_EDUCATED_DEAF_MUTES"></a>ACUTENESS OF EDUCATED DEAF MUTES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/o-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>ne evening the senior class of girls and boys in a
+School for the deaf and dumb were invited to put
+any questions they wished to the Teacher; amongst others, the
+following (which show considerable acuteness and reflection)
+were proposed to him:&mdash;Who made God? Were there any
+angels before the world was made? Before the world was
+made, how was God eternal? Do you know, are there houses
+in the moon which people inhabit? Do you think the dwellers
+in the moon have got the sin as well as ourselves? Will there
+be a new world when this is burnt up? How do you know
+the scriptures to be the word of God? Do the angels know
+when the last day will come?</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2><a name="A_RUSSIAN_DEAF_AND_DUMB_YOUTHS_REPLY" id="A_RUSSIAN_DEAF_AND_DUMB_YOUTHS_REPLY"></a>A RUSSIAN DEAF AND DUMB YOUTH'S REPLY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/a-simple.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>&nbsp;young Russian, of great talents, though deaf and
+dumb, who had been to a Deaf and Dumb Institution
+to be taught, with a view to become the master of a similar
+Institution in Russia, was asked the difference between intelligence
+and discernment? He said "Intelligence is a faculty,
+by which we distinguish good and evil, what is useful and
+what hurtful. I think discernment is the faculty of distinguishing
+the greater and less degrees of good and evil."</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;">
+<img src="images/ill-003.jpg" width="395" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_AGE_OF_DEAF_MUTES" id="THE_AGE_OF_DEAF_MUTES"></a>THE AGE OF DEAF MUTES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 36px;">
+<img src="images/t-plain.jpg" width="36" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>he question is frequently asked, "Is there a greater
+mortality among the deaf mutes than there is among
+the total population?"</p>
+
+<p>The statistics so far published, on the whole, show a somewhat
+greater mortality among the deaf and dumb than that
+among the total population.</p>
+
+<p>It may, however, be stated that the deaf and dumb having
+to labour under greater difficulties, generally succumb more
+easily in the struggle for existence than their more favoured
+fellow-creatures.</p>
+
+<p>In Bavaria, in 1871, there were 4,348 deaf mutes; 557 of
+these were between 31 and 40 years of age; 556 between 41
+and 50; and 852 were 50 years and upwards. In Prussia
+there were 23,579; of these 3,057 were between 31 and 40
+years of age; 2,540 between 41 and 50; and 3,609 were 50
+years and upwards. In 1883, the North Midland Counties of
+England had 705 deaf and dumb: 148 of these were under 5
+years of age; 83 were 15 years; 81 were 20 years; 227 were
+25 years; 127 were 45 years; and 39 were 65 years and
+upwards.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DEAF_MUTES_IN_THE_TOWN_AND_COUNTRY" id="DEAF_MUTES_IN_THE_TOWN_AND_COUNTRY"></a>DEAF MUTES IN THE TOWN AND COUNTRY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figsimple" style="width: 46px;">
+<img src="images/w-simple.jpg" width="46" height="45" alt="W" title="W" />
+</span>ilhelmi tried to ascertain by means of his statistics
+in what proportion deaf mutism occurred in towns and
+in the country, and found that it preponderated in the country.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"></td><td align="left">Deaf Mutes.</td><td align="left">Deaf Mutes among<br />10,000 Inhabitants.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan="2">In Magdeburgh</td><td align="left">{ In the Towns</td><td align="center">181</td><td align="center">5.2</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">{ In the Country</td><td align="center">338</td><td align="center">6.7</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan="2">In Erfurt</td><td align="left">{ In the Towns</td><td align="center">81</td><td align="center">5.4</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">{ In the Country</td><td align="center">186</td><td align="center">8.5</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan="2">In Pomerania</td><td align="left">{ In the Towns</td><td align="center">378</td><td align="center">8.3</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">{ In the Country</td><td align="center">1259</td><td align="center">12.8</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="COMPARATIVE_NUMBERS_OF_THE_SEXES_OF" id="COMPARATIVE_NUMBERS_OF_THE_SEXES_OF"></a>COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF THE SEXES OF DEAF MUTES.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 56px;">
+<img src="images/i-veryornate.jpg" width="56" height="144" alt="I" title="I" />
+</span>
+<br />n all countries where statistics have been compiled,
+the number of male deaf mutes exceeds that of the
+female. In 1871 there were in Prussia 12,736 male
+and 10,843 female deaf mutes. In England and
+Wales in 1883 there were 4,408 male and 3,280
+female deaf mutes. In Staffordshire 264 males and
+217 females. In Leicestershire 64 males and 50 females. In
+Lincolnshire 112 males and 93 females. In Nottinghamshire
+96 males and 75 females; and in Derbyshire 121 males and
+88 females.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PROBABLE_NUMBERS_OF_THE_DEAF_DUMB" id="PROBABLE_NUMBERS_OF_THE_DEAF_DUMB"></a>PROBABLE NUMBERS OF THE DEAF &amp; DUMB.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figornate" style="width: 45px;">
+<img src="images/t-ornate2.jpg" width="45" height="45" alt="T" title="T" />
+</span>here is an increasing desire on the part of the various
+Governments of the world to give information likely
+to be useful to the instructors of the deaf and dumb, but it has
+been proved beyond doubt that the Census returns in many
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span>cases are not altogether reliable, the numbers being considerably
+understated. The following Table by Hartman, compiled
+from the various census returns, shows the per centage to the
+population:&mdash;</p>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="center" class="tablehead" colspan="6"><br /><br />European Countries.</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td align="center" colspan="2"></td>
+<td align="center">Date of<br />Statistics.</td>
+<td align="center">Total<br />Population.</td>
+<td align="center">No. of<br />Deaf Mutes.</td>
+<td align="center">Deaf Mutes<br />among 10,000<br />Inhabitants.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="center"> 1</td><td align="left">Germany</td><td align="center">1877</td><td align="center">39,862,133</td><td align="center">38,489</td><td align="center">9.66</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 2</td><td align="left">France</td><td align="center">1872</td><td align="center">36,102,921</td><td align="center">22,610</td><td align="center">6.26</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center" valign="top"> 3</td><td align="left">Great Britain and Ireland</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">31,631,212</td><td align="center">18,152</td><td align="center">5.70</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 4</td><td align="left">Italy</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">26,413,132</td><td align="center">19,385</td><td align="center">7.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 5</td><td align="left">Austria</td><td align="center">1869</td><td align="center">20,394,980</td><td align="center">19,701</td><td align="center">9.66</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 6</td><td align="left">Hungary</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">15,417,327</td><td align="center">20,699</td><td align="center">13.43</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 7</td><td align="left">Spain</td><td align="center">1860</td><td align="center">15,658,531</td><td align="center">10,905</td><td align="center">6.96</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 8</td><td align="left">Belgium</td><td align="center">1858</td><td align="center">4,529,560</td><td align="center">1,989</td><td align="center">4.39</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 9</td><td align="left">Netherlands</td><td align="center">1869</td><td align="center">3,575,080</td><td align="center">1,119</td><td align="center">3.35</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">10</td><td align="left">Sweden</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">4,168,525</td><td align="center">4,266</td><td align="center">10.23</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">11</td><td align="left">Norway</td><td align="center">1865</td><td align="center">1,701,756</td><td align="center">1,569</td><td align="center">9.22</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">12</td><td align="left">Switzerland</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">2,669,147</td><td align="center">6,544</td><td align="center">24.52</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">13</td><td align="left">Denmark</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">1,864,496</td><td align="center">1,156</td><td align="center">6.20</td></tr>
+
+
+<tr><td align="center" class="tablehead" colspan="6"><br /><br />Non European Countries.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="center"> 1</td><td align="left">United States of America</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">38,558,371</td><td align="center">16,205</td><td align="center">4.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 2</td><td align="left">Argentine Republic</td><td align="center">1870</td><td align="center">1,743,199</td><td align="center">6,626</td><td align="center">38.07</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 3</td><td align="left">British Colonies in N. America</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">583,535</td><td align="center">470</td><td align="center">8.05</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 4</td><td align="left">In the West Indies</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">905,730</td><td align="center">690</td><td align="center">7.62</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 5</td><td align="left">In Africa</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">330,460</td><td align="center">529</td><td align="center">16.01</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"> 6</td><td align="left">In Australia</td><td align="center">1871</td><td align="center">305,730</td><td align="center">56</td><td align="center">1.83</td></tr>
+</table><br /></div>
+
+
+<p>In Prussia (1875) the Census showed a population of
+24,604,351, the number of the deaf and dumb being 24,315,
+or 9.9 to 10,000 of the population. In India there are, it is
+said, over 200,000 deaf mutes. The total number in the world
+is supposed to be over 700,000.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="KING_GEORGE_IV_THE_DEAF_amp_DUMB_BOY" id="KING_GEORGE_IV_THE_DEAF_amp_DUMB_BOY"></a>KING GEORGE IV. &amp; THE DEAF &amp; DUMB BOY.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 80px;">
+<img src="images/w-veryornate.jpg" width="80" height="144" alt="W" title="W" />
+</span>
+<br />hen King George IV. visited Ireland a deaf and
+dumb boy determined to send a letter to His
+Majesty. The following extracts taken from
+this characteristic letter will be interesting:</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+"Wednesday, 4th July, 1821.
+</p>
+
+<p>"My dear George,&mdash;I hope I will see you when you come here to see
+the deaf and dumb boys and girls; I am very sorry that you never did
+come here to see them.</p>
+
+<p>"I will be very glad to see you, if you will come here often to see
+me. Did you ever see the deaf and dumb in London? You must write a
+letter to me soon. Would you like to see me at Claremont? I could not
+go to London, because there is too much money to pay to the captain of a
+ship for me.</p>
+
+<p>"Do you know Grammar, Geography, Bible, Arithmetic, Astronomy,
+and Dictionary? I know them very little. I am very delighted that I am
+improving much. Perhaps I will be an assistant of the Deaf and Dumb
+School. Where were you born? Would you like to correspond with me?
+I would be very fond of you. You ought to write a long letter to me soon.
+What profession are you of? I never saw you; I am very, very anxious
+to see you indeed, and would like to see the King of England very much.</p>
+
+<p>"Will you send us some deaf and dumb children, and give us money
+to pay for educating them.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="padding-left: 1em;">"I am, your affectionate friend,</span><br />
+
+<span class="smcap" style="padding-left: 2em;">"Thomas Collins</span>."<br />
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>The answer was as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>"To Thomas Collins, Deaf and Dumb Institution, Claremont, Glasnevin,
+near Dublin.</p>
+
+<p>"Sir Benjamin Bloomfield is commanded by the King to present to
+Thomas Collins ten pounds for being a good boy."</p>
+
+<p>
+"Ph&oelig;nix Park, 3rd Sep., 1821."<br />
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>With these ten pounds the boy was afterwards apprenticed
+to a printer.</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 335px;">
+<img src="images/ill-121.jpg" width="335" height="72" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="POOR_SAM_TRANTER" id="POOR_SAM_TRANTER"></a>POOR SAM TRANTER.</h2>
+
+<p>The lot of the <i>uneducated</i> deaf and dumb in
+this world is a pitiable one, and their isolation
+is keenly felt. Often have we seen
+some of this portion of suffering humanity
+unable to plead for themselves, or tell their
+tale of woe or hardship. Such was the
+condition of poor Sam Tranter. Though Sam was
+never in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, his skill
+and plans for worldly prospects were extraordinary.
+In his boyhood he was left friendless and uncared
+for, but persuaded a shoemaker to give him work, at which
+poor Sam was fairly successful; owing, however, to the man's
+ill treatment he had to leave, and, to save himself from starving,
+went in the workhouse. After a brief stay he again went forth
+to try his hand as a shoeblack, and after various attempts to
+shift for himself, he began to master difficulties by wonderful
+energy and perseverance, and there is no doubt had the poor
+fellow been properly taught in a Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+he would have risen in life. After a time Sam commenced
+selling cockles, mussels, and oysters.</p>
+
+<p>From a small beginning he increased, and in course of time
+he took a shop, and employed five women, at which he said he
+had made as much as £20 some weeks. Owing, however, to
+his lack of education, the poor fellow was continually robbed,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>and eventually got into trouble through debt, and was worried
+with summonses; hence his failure as a cockle and oyster merchant.
+He then took a stall, and afterwards a shop for the sale
+of gingerbread, &amp;c.; this was also doomed to failure. He then
+tried street-hawking with a barrow, to keep himself from the
+workhouse; but this also failed, and his barrow was seized for
+debt.</p>
+
+<p>Poor Sam was again penniless, friendless, and homeless,
+which compelled him once more to seek refuge in the Union,
+where he afterwards died after great suffering, at the age of 60
+years. His remains were followed to the grave by a few deaf
+and dumb friends. Poor Sam might have said with David
+"Whilst I would do good evil is present with me."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;">
+<img src="images/ill-122.jpg" width="396" height="135" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FAITH_COMETH_BY_HEARING" id="FAITH_COMETH_BY_HEARING"></a>FAITH COMETH BY HEARING.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 63px;">
+<img src="images/a-veryornate.jpg" width="63" height="144" alt="A" title="A" />
+</span>
+<br />&nbsp;deaf and dumb Lady said that the first time she
+went to church after she was impressed with the
+truths of christianity, she saw over the pulpit the
+words "Faith cometh by hearing," which caused
+her great unhappiness; for, she thought, that as
+she had no hearing she could never have faith.
+Shortly after, however, she saw this text in the Bible, and ob<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span>served
+that it was followed by "and hearing by the Word of
+God," which gave her so much delight, as shewing her a way
+in which it was possible for faith to come even to her, that she
+clasped the Bible to her heart.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;">
+<img src="images/ill-089.jpg" width="366" height="87" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="MASSIEU" id="MASSIEU"></a>MASSIEU.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="figveryornate" style="width: 57px;">
+<img src="images/o-veryornate.jpg" width="57" height="144" alt="O" title="O" />
+</span>
+<br />ne of the best educated and most distinguished
+deaf mutes was Massieu, who gave the following
+remarkable replies to questions put to him by various
+friends:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"What is hearing?" "Hearing," said he, "is auricular
+sight." Another party asked him whether
+he made any distinction between a conqueror and a hero?
+"Arms and soldiers made a conqueror; courage of heart a
+hero. Julius Caesar was the hero of the Romans; Napoleon
+the hero of Europe," was the answer he wrote on the blackboard,
+without hesitation.</p>
+
+<p>In reply to the following questions, he instantly wrote
+answers. "What is hope?" "Hope is the blossom of happiness."
+"What is happiness?" "Happiness is pleasure that
+ceaseth not; and misfortune is grief that endeth not." "What
+is the difference between hope and desire?" "Desire is a tree
+in leaf; hope is a tree in flower; and enjoyment is a tree in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>fruit." Another pupil standing by wrote, in reply to the same
+question, "Desire is the inclination of the heart; hope is a
+confidence of the mind." A stranger asked Massieu, "What
+difference do you think there is between God and nature?"
+His reply was "God is the first maker, the Creator of all
+things. The first beings all came out of His divine breast;
+He has said to the first beings, ye shall make the second; to
+the second ye shall make the third beings; His wills are laws;
+His laws are nature."</p>
+
+<p>"What is time?" "A line that has two ends, a path that begins
+in the cradle and ends in the tomb." "What is eternity?"
+"A day without yesterday or to-morrow, a line that has no
+end." "What is God?" "The necessary being, the sun of
+eternity, the mechanist of nature, the eye of justice, the watch-maker
+of the universe, the soul of the world." The deceptive
+and acute question, "Does God reason?" was put to him, it is
+said, by Sir James Macintosh, Massieu at once wrote, "Man
+reasons because he doubts; he deliberates, he decides; God
+is omniscient; He knows all things; He never doubts; He
+therefore never reasons."</p>
+
+<p>Lucien Buonaparte once asked Massieu, "What is laziness
+or idleness?" "It is a disgust from useful occupation; a disinclination
+to do anything; from which result indigence, want
+of cleanliness and misery, disease of body and the contempt
+of others." In writing this answer the gestures and looks of
+Massieu were in perfect accordance with the ideas that might
+be supposed to exist with him and the words he was writing.
+When he had finished the last word he turned round, and then
+his whole person, with his countenance and his eyes, exhibited
+one of the justest pantomimic representations of laziness which
+it is possible to conceive. After he had a moment dwelt upon
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>this personification, which his fancy suggested to him, he made
+an expressive transition to the looks and manners of a person
+filled with that dread and abhorrence which the idea of laziness
+should ever inspire.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 264px;">
+<img src="images/ill-125.jpg" width="264" height="194" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="GRACE_ANNABLE" id="GRACE_ANNABLE"></a>GRACE ANNABLE.</h2>
+
+<p>
+<span class="figleft"><img src="images/ill-126.jpg" width="228" height="264" alt="" title="" /></span><br />
+<span class="figveryornate" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/g-veryornate.jpg" width="66" height="144" alt="G" title="G" />
+</span>
+<br />race Annable was deaf, dumb, and blind, and
+although her form and features were well proportioned,
+she was a great sufferer from constitutional
+weakness; yet her temper was mild and
+affectionate. Strange to say, Grace was a capital
+nurse, and was much attached to several very
+young children, some being mere babies; in order to ascertain
+whether they were crying, she would pass her hand most
+carefully over the mouth and eyes, and soothe their little dis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span>tresses
+with all the care and success of a talkative nurse.
+Grace was fond of fruit, and would beat the pears and apples
+from the trees, and could select the best with as much judgment
+as if she had been possessed with the sense of sight.</p>
+
+<p>
+She frequently went
+in a field to gather wild
+flowers, to which she was
+directed by the pleasantness
+of their odour. Her
+sense of smelling was remarkably
+exquisite, and
+appeared to be an additional
+guide to her fingers.
+Grace would feel and
+admire ornaments, etc.,
+and would never break
+or injure the most brittle
+things even in a strange
+room.</p>
+
+<p>A gentleman once made several experiments with her in
+order to test for himself her reported abilities, and expressed
+great surprise that one thus afflicted should be able to accomplish
+so much. Grace has, after a patient life, passed away
+into that land where deafness and dumbness is for ever
+unknown.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 277px;">
+<img src="images/ill-064.jpg" width="277" height="84" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_AND_HIS_BROTHER" id="A_DEAF_AND_DUMB_BOY_AND_HIS_BROTHER"></a>A DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS BROTHER.</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="figleft2" style="width: 103px;">
+<img src="images/ill-127-1.jpg" width="103" height="231" alt="B" title="B" />
+</span>
+<br />rownlow Harrison, a bright little
+boy who had spent a few years in the
+school for the deaf and dumb, was
+watching with great earnestness for his
+father, who was to fetch him home
+for the summer vacation.
+Brownlow had made unusual progress
+during the last half-year; this he
+himself knew, and made him intensely
+anxious that his younger brother, who
+was also deaf and dumb, should be
+admitted as a pupil in the Institution.
+
+<span class="figright" style="width: 144px;">
+<img src="images/ill-127-2.jpg" width="144" height="222" alt="" title="" />
+</span>
+
+
+Brownlow himself
+at once wrote to the Committee as follows:&mdash;"When I was at
+home I was ignorant, and I
+don't know about God; but I
+am now taught about religion,
+and it is wonderful; I will be
+taught before I leave school.
+My dear brother cannot read,
+and he cannot understand; I
+wish he will come to school, for
+he don't know about God and
+angels, and all things good or
+bad. I am afraid he will grow
+wicked if he is not taught. I
+will feel thankful to the gentlemen
+to send my deaf brother
+to school."</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p class="prinfo">
+FRANCIS CARTER, PRINTER,<br />
+IRON GATE WORKS,<br />
+DERBY.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+<h4><br /><br />Transcriber's Note:</h4>
+
+
+<p>In the anecdote entitled "<a href="#DEAF_DUMB_BLIND_AND_LAME">DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME</a>," the character
+is named once as David and once as John in the original text. This
+discrepancy has not been changed.</p>
+
+<p>Punctuation and alternative spellings have been retained as they
+appear in the original text.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb, by W. R. Roe
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+Title: Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb
+
+Author: W. R. Roe
+
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+  ANECDOTES & INCIDENTS
+
+  OF THE
+
+  DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+  W. R. ROE, M. C. T. D. & D.,
+
+
+  Head Master Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution, Derby,
+  Author Of "Alice Gray: a True Story;" &c.
+
+
+  DERBY:
+  FRANCIS CARTER, IRON GATE.
+
+  1886.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+The Deaf and Dumb cannot help themselves as others can. From the cradle
+they are cut off from their fellow creatures. They can only cry, like
+the dumb brute, to make their pains and wishes known. God only can know
+the bitterness of heart, the desolation of the deaf and dumb child of
+the poor, as it grows up in a world without speech or sound--a lifelong
+silence! A mother's smile it may understand, but her soothing voice
+never comforts or delights it. While others grow in love, and life, and
+intelligence, its heart is chilled and its mind enfeebled. Only under
+suitable instruction, given at an early age, can the deaf mute become
+anything but a burden to others and to himself.
+
+The anecdotes in the following pages will doubtless be read with
+considerable curiosity, and it is hoped that the Midland Institution for
+the Deaf and Dumb at Derby will receive some pecuniary assistance by the
+publication of this little book.
+
+There are 1119 Deaf and Dumb in the Institution's district, which
+comprises six of the Midland Counties.
+
+The Institution is supported by voluntary contributions.
+
+     W. R. R.
+
+     _Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+     Friar Gate, Derby._
+
+
+
+
+  ANECDOTES
+
+  OF THE
+
+  DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ASK A BLESSING.
+
+A little boy was admitted as a pupil into the Institution for the Deaf
+and Dumb at Derby. Previous to his admission he had given his parents
+and friends a great deal of trouble, and fears were entertained that he
+would be none the less troublesome to those in charge of him at the
+Institution. Happily however, owing to the firmness and kindness of his
+teachers, he very soon yielded to the rules and became a good, obedient
+boy. At length the time came for the vacation, and, amongst others, this
+little fellow went home for his holiday. The dinner hour arrived, and
+sitting down with his parents, he looked up at his father and put his
+hands together. He wanted his father to ask a blessing. The father made
+the boy understand he did not know what to say, then the poor little
+fellow began to cry. At last he thought of a plan, he would ask the
+blessing himself; and so he spelt on his fingers the blessing he had
+learnt at the Institution, and got his friends to spell on their fingers
+after him letter by letter and word by word, and thus overcame the
+difficulty in which he was placed.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMEN.
+
+In America there are four deaf and dumb clergymen working in connection
+with the Church Missions to the Deaf and Dumb. There are also in
+connection with the same mission eight lay readers, all of whom are deaf
+and dumb.--_Deaf Mute World._
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO SAVE THE RATES.
+
+In a vast majority of cases where the deaf and dumb are allowed to grow
+up uneducated and uncared for they become inmates of Workhouses or
+Lunatic Asylums. Many years ago L---- K---- was taken from a workhouse
+in Derbyshire where he had been for a number of years, and educated and
+apprenticed to a suitable trade; he is now a steady, industrious man,
+married, and himself a _ratepayer_. This is only one of many similar
+instances that have come within our experience. In some other cases they
+are struggling to support widowed mothers and sisters.
+
+
+
+
+FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DEAF AND DUMB BRIDE ON THE DAY OF MARRIAGE.
+
+The following is taken from the _Manchester Mercury and Harrop's General
+Advertiser_, June 10, 1800:--"On the 12th ult., in the Island of
+Anglesea, Mr. Henry Ceclar, a gentleman well known for his pedestrian
+feats, to Miss Lucy Pencoch (the rich heiress of the late Mr. John
+Hughes, Bawgyddanhall), a lady of much beauty, but entirely deaf and
+dumb. This circumstance drew together an amazing concourse of people to
+witness the ceremony, which, on the bride's part, was literally
+performed by proxy. A splendid entertainment was given on the occasion
+by the bridegroom; but a dreadful catastrophe closed the scene, for the
+bride, in coming down stairs, made a false step, and fell with so much
+violence against a chair that she immediately expired."
+
+
+
+
+M. BERTHIER.
+
+This gentleman, who is now senior professor in the Paris Institution for
+the Deaf and Dumb, is described as a man of rare merit, probably
+superior in literary abilities and acquirements to any other deaf mute
+from birth that any country can produce. He is the author of several
+works that would do credit to a well-educated man whose knowledge of
+language had been acquired through the ear. On a recent occasion of a
+public exercise at the Institution he was decorated by the President of
+the Republic with the Cross of the Legion of Honour, the first time such
+a distinction had ever been conferred on a deaf and dumb person.
+
+
+
+
+"HIS RIGHT NAME."
+
+In a letter received by the head master at the Deaf and Dumb Institution
+at Derby, a lady writes about a little boy she had assisted in obtaining
+admission into the Institution, and said that "During the little time
+(18 months) that William has been in the Institution he has improved
+wonderfully." She writes--"You know he used to be so wild, dirty, and
+careless; he was always interfering with everybody, in fact he went in
+the village by the name of Troublesome Dummy. All is changed; he is a
+nice clean, well behaved boy, and people are beginning to call him by
+his right name, William. We shall never forget what you have done for
+him."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+AN INGENIOUS BOY.
+
+We were lately shown a curiosity in the shape of a sewing machine
+entirely of wood. It was whittled out of ordinary pine with an ordinary
+jack-knife by an ordinary boy--no, not an ordinary boy; it was the
+handiwork of a deaf and dumb boy who resides at Massachusetts. A machine
+was left at the house of the boy by an agent, and the lad, with
+considerable ingenuity, made a counterpart of the machine, and did it
+wholly with a jack-knife.
+
+
+
+
+"MIGHTY PROUD."
+
+At a meeting held in a country village in aid of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution, Derby, a number of the pupils were present on the platform.
+One of the speakers called attention to a bright looking little fellow,
+and asked the audience if they knew him? and amidst general laughter
+spoke of the boy's earlier years, how he had seen him running about
+barefooted and dirty, playing with the worst boys in the streets; but
+now completely changed in his habits and character. He went on to relate
+a little incident he had himself observed a few weeks previous, when the
+boy was home from the Institution for his holiday. The little deaf and
+dumb boy was coming along the road, looking clean and bright, and
+carrying a book in his hand, when four of his old gutter companions, all
+in dirt, and who ought to have been at school, saw him, and one of them
+shouted out, "Hello, here's owd dummy comin;" and all four went to meet
+him, and tried to make friends with him, but he thought they were
+scarcely clean enough for his company, and quietly passed on his way
+towards home. The boys were surprised, and stared at each other for some
+time; at last one of them said, "Oh, ain't he got mighty proud?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR AT BRUSSELS.
+
+A deaf and dumb sculptor named Van Louy de Canter has recently obtained
+two prizes, one a silver medal with a ribbon of Belgian colours, and a
+second class award for his best work in marble; the other a bronze
+medal; he has also an honourable certificate from the Belgian Exhibition
+of 1880. It is encouraging to hear of his success, and to know that from
+his devotion to the art, he will persevere in the right way to be a
+credit to his country and to his numerous friends among the deaf and
+dumb.
+
+
+
+
+MONOGRAPH of the COLLEONBOLA & THYSANURA.
+
+BY SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART, M.P., &C.
+
+This work is one of the many magnificent contributions to the literature
+of natural history issued by the Royal Society. It treats of curious
+animals which the author considers as more nearly allied to the Insecta
+than to the Crustacea or Arachnidae. It is magnificently illustrated with
+78 plates (31 being coloured), and the whole of the illustrations were
+executed by a painstaking deaf and dumb artist, Mr. Hollick. It will
+mark an era in the study of those neglected, but intensely curious
+animals, and we doubt not will repay both author, and artist, and the
+Society for the labour bestowed upon it.--_Daily Paper._
+
+
+
+
+THE COUNTESS OF ORKNEY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following curious anecdote is related of Mary, Countess of Orkney.
+She was deaf and dumb, and was married in 1753, by signs. She lived with
+her husband, who was also her first cousin, at his seat, Rostellan, on
+the harbour of Cork. Shortly after the birth of her first child, the
+nurse, with considerable astonishment, saw the mother cautiously
+approach the cradle in which the infant was sleeping, evidently full of
+some deep design. The Countess having perfectly assured herself that the
+child really slept, took a large stone, which she had concealed under
+her shawl, and to the horror of the nurse--who, like all persons of the
+lower order in her country, indeed in most countries, was fully
+impressed with an idea of the peculiar cunning and malignity of
+"dumbies"--raised it with an intent to fling it down vehemently. Before
+the nurse could interpose the Countess had flung the stone--not,
+however, as the servant had apprehended at the child, but on the floor,
+where of course it made a great noise. The child immediately awoke, and
+cried. The Countess, who had looked with maternal eagerness to the
+result of her experiment, fell on her knees in a transport of joy. She
+had discovered that her child possessed the sense which was wanting in
+herself.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+EPITAPH.
+
+In St. Modwen's Churchyard at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, the
+following inscription has been copied from the tombstone of a deaf and
+dumb man:--
+
+                        This Stone
+                Was raised by Subscription
+                     To the Memory of
+                      THOMAS STOKES,
+    An eccentric and much-respected deaf and dumb man,
+               Better known by the name of
+                        DUMB TOM,
+          Who departed this life Feb. 25th, 1837,
+                     Aged 57 years.
+
+    "What man can pause, and charge the senseless dust
+    With fraud, or subtlety, or aught unjust?
+    How few can conscientiously declare
+    Their acts have been as honourably fair?
+    No gilded bait, no heart ensnaring meed,
+    Could bribe poor Stokes to one dishonest deed:
+    Firm in attachment, to his friends most true--
+    Though deaf and dumb he was excell'd by few.
+    Go ye, by nature formed, without defect,
+    And copy Tom, and gain as much respect."
+
+
+
+
+A HAPPY DEATH BED.
+
+Not long ago there died in the county Wexford, in Ireland, a deaf and
+dumb shoemaker named Henry Plunkett. He had for many years been a true
+and sincere christian, and therefore when he came to die he was not
+afraid, but rejoiced at the thought of meeting his Saviour. During the
+last few hours of his life on earth he suffered much pain; but he was
+quite sensible, and made signs that if the house was piled up with gold
+he would not take it all and live, for, he said, pointing his hand
+upwards, "I wish to go up." To the woman who attended him he signed, "Do
+not fret, not never; I am going to Jesus." "The contrast between the
+white face--white as marble--and the long jet black hair and beard is
+striking," wrote the clergyman who sent this account, shortly after his
+death. But beautiful as he looked in death, he looks far more beautiful
+in heaven, where he now is, clothed in the white robe of Christ's
+righteousness, which he has provided for all who truly love and serve
+him.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMING MAYORALTY.
+
+The state coach for the Lord Mayor elect will be furnished by Mr. J.
+Offord, of Wells Street and Brook Street, who has also supplied the
+chariot for Mr. Sheriff Johnson. The coach for the new Lord Mayor is
+quite in harmony with modern ideas and taste. The side windows, instead
+of being rounded off in the corners as formerly, are cut nearly square,
+to follow the outlines of the body. This novelty renders the body of the
+carriage much lighter than usual, and more elegant in appearance.
+Another 'innovation' is the painting. It has hitherto been usual to
+paint the under part of the carriage white or drab, relieved by the same
+colour as the body, but in the present case the whole vehicle has been
+painted a dark green, the family colour of the Lord Mayor elect,
+relieved by large lines of gold upon the body, and gold and red upon the
+under carriage. The natural elegance of this arrangement of colouring is
+heightened by the beautiful heraldic paintings of the City arms and
+those of the Fishmongers' and Spectacle Makers' Companies, of which Mr.
+Alderman Lusk is a member. These have been executed by Mr. D. T. Baker,
+the celebrated deaf and dumb artist.--_The Times_, 1883.
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF AND DUMB IN TEXAS.
+
+Deaf and Dumb men have a poor chance in Texas. One of them went to a
+farmhouse, and, when asked what he wanted, put his hand in his pocket to
+get a pencil, and he was at once shot down by the farmer, who thought
+his visitor was feeling for a pistol.
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS AND DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We are quite sure the Indians were delighted by the reception tendered
+them by the children of the public schools and the inmates of the
+Institutions for the Blind and Deaf and Dumb last Friday, in the Academy
+of Music, but their happiness was made complete, on Sunday evening, at
+the La Pierre house, by a visit which they received from six of the
+pupils, all girls, of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, accompanied by the
+Principal, Mr. Foster, and one of the teachers. On their arrival at the
+hotel they were received by Mr. Welsh, the humane commissioner, and
+shown into a well furnished private parlour, when they were introduced,
+one by one, to General Smith and his Indians, whose faces plainly showed
+the delight which their hearts felt. They at once singled out the two
+girls who had taken part in the reception at the Academy, and bestowed
+upon them special marks of friendship.
+
+Tea being announced in a few minutes, the whole party proceeded to the
+dining room, where they were seated at well spread tables, three Indians
+and one mute at each. Here the striking similarity between the signs
+used by the Indians of the West and our deaf mutes was plainly
+observable in the spirited conversation which ensued. The merry laughter
+which broke forth from these usually quiet stolid men was sufficient to
+mark their keen appreciation of what was said. One old chief, slightly
+confused, sought to excuse his awkwardness with the knife and fork to
+one of the young ladies, by stating that at home he never used them,
+but ate with his fingers. They exchanged signs for butter, coffee, milk,
+meat, bread, salt, sugar, knife, fork, &c., which were remarkably
+similar.
+
+After tea the whole party assembled in the parlour, and then began a
+scene indescribable. The Indians, wild with delight, talked away to the
+mutes, who, equally happy, seemed to catch and understand everything
+they said. They described their homes, their hunting expeditions, their
+wives and children; how they lived and how they buried their dead. One
+of them gave a very graphic account of the great snowstorms which
+frequently occur among the mountains. One told about the wars he had
+engaged in, and the number of scalps he had taken, and then asked the
+teacher if he had ever killed a man, and on receiving a reply in the
+negative, seemed quite disgusted. Another, a great rider, said that with
+them the horses had plenty of grass to eat, and were fat, but here, in
+the city, they had none, and were consequently very poor. Another old
+chief, a very fine looking man, stated that he had a large family of
+children at home, and then asked the smallest of the girls if she
+wouldn't go home with him, promising to bring her back as soon as she
+had taught his little boys and girls how to make signs like the mutes.
+
+These wild men seemed thoroughly at home in the presence of the
+children, their habitual restlessness and reserve disappeared; they had
+met for once white persons with whom they could converse without the
+tedious process of interpreting, and the conversation, as Mr. Welsh
+expressed it, went directly to their hearts. In parting with their young
+visitors, the Indians freely expressed the pleasure which their visit
+had afforded them, then sorrow at the separation, and promised to relate
+all that had occurred to their friends and kindred in the West.
+
+When it is remembered that all this and much more took place between a
+delegation of wild Indians and six mute girls attending the Institution
+in our city, it certainly will be considered remarkable, and probably
+never before in the history of civilization has such a meeting occurred.
+As a means of communication with the wild tribes roaming over our
+western plains, the capacity of the sign-language of mutes can hardly be
+over estimated, and a few well-trained mute missionaries could, without
+doubt, be made the instruments for accomplishing much good among this
+down-trodden despised race.--_New York Herald._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+EXHIBITION, 1851.
+
+At the great Exhibition in 1851 there was exhibited a set of oak tables
+and cabinet of Stanton oak, combined with glass and ormolu, etc., made
+and carved by three deaf and dumb persons; the castings by Marsh, of
+Dudley.
+
+
+
+
+A MATE FOR LAURA BRIDGMAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Hetty Hutson lives in the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a girl
+seventeen years old, who has been deaf and dumb and blind from birth.
+She is active in her nature, and has a remarkably intelligent mind.
+Through the one medium of gestures, as perceived by the touch, she
+understands wonderfully well, and in turn makes herself understood. She
+will wipe dishes and put them away with scrupulous care and exactness;
+will go down the cellar alone at her mother's bidding and get apples;
+then, running up with astonishing rapidity, will give them to anyone she
+is bid, and put her own into her pocket. At a motion from her father she
+will go upstairs and get his best hat, deciding by touching his
+broadcloth suit which hat he wants. She knits and sews in a very
+creditable style, and manifests a desire to learn to do other kinds of
+work. She is neat and orderly in her habits, and ever acts in a ladylike
+manner, while in disposition she is cheerful as a sunbeam, and as
+playful as a kitten. For about one year, at irregular intervals, a young
+minister of the name of J. B. Howell, devoted one hour each week to her
+instruction, and she made some advancement, novel as his method was; but
+in June last he went to Brazil as a missionary, since which time she has
+been without instruction until recently. She is now receiving daily
+instruction by means of the manual alphabet. It is, however, to be
+regretted that her present teacher is an entire novice in the work she
+has undertaken, but as she has large sympathy for her, and individual
+experience as to the needs of her pupil, it seems safe to hope that she
+may lay a substantial foundation, upon which some more accomplished
+person may build an education which will make this greatly afflicted
+being equal to Laura Bridgman, of world wide fame.
+
+
+
+
+A THOUGHT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
+
+Among some of the islands of the South Sea the compound word for "hope"
+is beautifully expressive; it is "manaolona" or "swimming
+thought"--"faith" floating and keeping its head aloft above water, when
+all the waves and billows are going over it--a strikingly beautiful
+definition of "hope," worthy to be set down along with the answer which
+a deaf and dumb person wrote with his pencil, in reply to the question
+"What is your idea of forgiveness?" "It is the odour which flowers yield
+when trampled on."
+
+
+
+
+DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME.
+
+David Simons, of Boston, is deaf and dumb; he is also blind; likewise he
+is lame. Penniless he is, and houseless. Finally, he is black, which may
+or may not be considered a misfortune. No,--finally he was run over by a
+team and dreadfully bruised. Yet we suppose that John Simons still
+desires to live, for he consented to be carried to a hospital.--_Deaf
+Mute Advance._
+
+
+
+
+INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
+
+(From _The Graphic_, May, 1874.)
+
+Messrs. Doulton and Co., who have done so well with stoneware,
+dignifying the simplest material by giving even to the most ordinary and
+cheapest articles shapes of real beauty, exhibit in Room 9 a most
+praiseworthy set of examples (3719) of very remarkable art and
+character, demonstrating principally possibilities of wall decoration.
+On the floor at the base of the division are some noble pieces of
+graphite stoneware contributed by Mr. Frank A. Butler, who is deaf and
+dumb.
+
+
+
+
+A YOUNG GENIUS.
+
+(From the Journal of the Society of Arts, May 1, 1874.)
+
+Another artist who has made his mark on the ware by the originality of
+his forms is Frank A. Butler. He is quite deaf and almost dumb. He is
+one of many thus heavily afflicted who have passed through the school.
+He began his artistic life as a designer of stained glass, but his
+invention was not needed, nor, I dare say, discovered in the practice of
+an art which is almost traditional. I introduced him to the new work,
+and in a few months he brought out many new thoughts from the silent
+seclusion of his mind. A bold originality of treatment, and the gift of
+invention, are characteristic of his work. He has struck out many new
+paths. A certain massing together of floral forms, and ingenious
+treatment of discs, dots, and interlacing lines indicate his hand.
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE DEMERARIAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little coloured deaf and dumb girl in Demerara came to Mrs. H----'s
+school, and wished to learn to read. It was thought impossible to teach
+her; the missionary's wife therefore shook her head, and made signs for
+her to go home. But she would take no denial; so Mrs. H---- sent to
+England for the "Deaf and Dumb Alphabet." It was astonishing how quickly
+the child was taught to read the New Testament, from which she learned
+to know Jesus as her Saviour. One day she signed to her kind teacher,
+"Missie, me too happy. You would think when me walk out that there were
+two people in the road; but it is Jesus and me. He talk and me talk, and
+we two so happy together."
+
+
+
+
+DRAUGHTS.
+
+Mr. James Wyllie (the Herd Laddie), the greatest living draught player,
+has been in Aberdeen for a whole week, playing in public against all
+comers. He played altogether 98 games, of which he won 79, lost 3, and 6
+drawn. It is worthy of notice that three of the draws were secured by
+Mr. Benjamin Price, a deaf mute, and a well known local
+player.--_Scotsman._
+
+
+
+
+THE UNWELCOME TAP.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Isabella Green was a young woman who was completely blind and deaf, and
+she was brought before a number of eminent surgeons to see if anything
+could be done for her. Her sad condition had been produced by violent
+pain in the head. The only method of communicating with her was by
+tapping her hand, which signified no, and squeezing it, which signified
+yes. The surgeons concluded that her case was incurable, and in reply to
+her earnest inquiries she received the unwelcome tap. She immediately
+burst into tears, in all the bitterness of anguish. "What!" said she,
+"shall I never see the light of day, or hear a human voice? Must I
+remain shut up in darkness and silence as long as I live?" A friend who
+was present took up a Bible and placed it to her breast. She put her
+hands on it, and asked "Is this the Bible?" Her hand was squeezed in
+reply. She immediately clasped it in her hands, and held it to her
+bosom, and exclaimed, "This is the only comfort I have left. I shall
+never be able to look upon its blessed pages, but I can think of the
+promises I have learned from it." And she then began to repeat some of
+the promises--"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee;"
+"Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee;" "My grace
+is sufficient for thee," &c. She dried her tears, and became peacefully
+submissive to the will of God.
+
+
+
+
+COROT AND HIS PUPIL.
+
+Corot the Artist had a deaf and dumb pupil. The young fellow was
+employed in copying one of his master's beautiful pencil drawings, when
+he even tried to imitate a stain of glue which was on the paper. Corot,
+when he saw it, smiled, and said, or at least wrote, "Tres bien, mon
+ami; mais quand vous serez devant la nature; vous ne verrez pas de
+taches." "(Very well, my friend; but when you are before nature you will
+not see any stains.)"
+
+M. Jean Baptist Corot, the great French landscape painter, died February
+23rd, 1875, aged 79.
+
+
+
+
+DUMB FOR TWO YEARS.
+
+Two years ago, says the _Auburn Advertizer_, George Scott, one of a gang
+of desperadoes in New York City, committed a robbery, for which he ought
+to have received ten years in prison. When he was arrested he feigned to
+be deaf and dumb. Upon his trial he made much of his infirmity, and the
+result was that he succeeded in escaping with a sentence of two years.
+Being transferred from Sing Sing to Auburn prison, he still kept up
+appearances, by means of which he escaped from doing heavy work, but was
+assigned to duty in shoe shop No. 1 as waiter, being supposed to be fit
+for no more valuable service. He was sharp, ready and intelligent, and
+generally well behaved, though hot tempered. Keeper Bacon, under whom
+he was placed, had him always under strict surveillance, but never was
+led to suspect by anything in his conduct that he was not deaf and dumb.
+Indeed, he says that he once saw Scott, who always went in the shop by
+the name of "Dummy," so roused up and maddened by something that had
+occurred, that he thought he would go crazy, yet he gave no sign that he
+was otherwise in respect to hearing and speaking than he seemed. About
+two months ago Dummy's time was up, and he was discharged. To give him a
+start in life again, keeper Bacon hired him to do some gardening.
+Principal keeper Gallup did the same thing. He worked in this way for
+two or three weeks. While at his work children would talk to him and
+play round him, yet he was always apparently oblivious to their
+presence. But Dummy had a tongue and could use it, and his hearing was
+as keen as anybody's. One day he fell in with a fellow convict who had
+just been discharged from prison, and they went off up the street
+together, talking gaily. Captain Russell, foreman in one of the
+departments of the prison shoe shop, who was in the street, overheard
+their conversation; and on another occasion it happened that one of the
+keepers met Dummy at Louis Schuch's and talked with him for a long time.
+
+
+
+
+THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
+
+A fact without precedent has just happened at the Sorbonne. A young deaf
+mute, M. Dusuzeau, underwent recently with success the examinations for
+the degree of "Bachelor of Science." This distinguished pupil has
+answered by writing all the questions which have been put to him. This
+success, unexpected a few years ago, greatly honours the Imperial
+Institution in Paris, and is due to the high standard which its learned
+director, M. Vaisse, maintains in the studies, and to the devotedness of
+the censor, M. Valade Reoni, head master of the instruction, and who has
+been the affectionate master of M. Dusuzeau.
+
+M. Dusuzeau was married on the third of March last, at the church of St.
+Germain, l'Auxerrois, Paris, to Miss Matilda Freeman, daughter of James
+B. Freeman, Esq., of Philadelphia, in the presence of a distinguished
+circle of friends. Miss Freeman stayed in England some months in 1882,
+and is therefore well known to many of our deaf and dumb friends.
+
+
+
+
+LIKE THE COPY.
+
+Florence B----, a little girl in the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Derby,
+was painting in water colours during her leisure hours. She had been
+told to be very careful with the card she was painting, and do it
+exactly the same as the copy, and to these instructions she strictly
+adhered. When the card was finished she took it to the head master, who
+at once noticed a black spot painted on a bright flower. On being told
+she had spoilt the card with doing this, she replied "But it's like the
+copy," and at once produced it, when it was found that by some means an
+ink spot had got on the copy.
+
+
+
+
+"DRUNKEN BILLY."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A poor deaf and dumb man, who might be said to be entirely friendless in
+the world until the Institution of the Deaf and Dumb was formed at
+Derby, was continually in trouble, owing to his intemperate habits.
+"Drunken Billy," as he was called by some, had however a tender place in
+his heart, and we frequently visited him at his lodgings and assisted
+him in various ways. After a time Billy was persuaded to sign the
+temperance pledge, and began to attend the lectures and services for the
+adult deaf and dumb. For a time all went well, but one hot summer day
+one of his fellow workmen, who ought to have known better, knowing that
+Billy had signed the temperance pledge, offered him a shilling if he
+would drink a glass of ale he held in his hand. The temptation was too
+strong for Billy to resist, and having taken one, it was not easy for
+him to resist a second, and in the end poor Billy got taken up by the
+police. The head master of the Institution at Derby appeared, by
+request, to interpret the evidence, and it transpired that Billy had
+been sent to prison in the same month, June, each year, for the seven
+previous years. The magistrates however expressed their reluctance at
+sending Billy to prison, and asked him, through the interpreter, if he
+would try and keep sober, and if he would again sign the pledge; this he
+promised to do, and the magistrates on the bench not only dismissed the
+case, but each became subscribers of one guinea annually to the Deaf and
+Dumb Institution. Billy, true to his promise kept sober, and again
+attended the services for the deaf and dumb, and when nearly 70 years of
+age gave a brief lecture of his "Life's Experiences" to the deaf and
+dumb, which caused considerable amusement, especially his remarks about
+Derby fifty years ago. Billy was always thankful for the help rendered
+him by the Institution, and frequently said "If he might have his way he
+would be glad to die and get to heaven where he could hear." Poor
+Billy's life was a hard one, for death took a good wife and four little
+ones during the first ten years of his wedded life, and one by one the
+whole of his relations passed away. Billy has now done with temptation,
+and recently passed away to the majority, his last remarks bearing
+testimony to the value of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
+
+
+
+
+RAPID BICYCLE TRAVELLING.
+
+Yesterday week a young man named Sydney Cornwall, of Coventry, started
+at six o'clock in the morning for Salisbury (a distance of 128 miles) on
+a bicycle. On the morning following his friends received a letter from
+him, posted at Taunton, stating that he had reached that place and had
+yet fourteen miles to go that evening; and a subsequent letter on
+Wednesday morning informed them that he had arrived at his destination
+at six o'clock on Tuesday evening, having stopped the previous night at
+a hostelry some miles beyond Taunton. This young man is deaf and dumb,
+and his enquiries for the right road must have cost him some
+considerable time. The driving wheel of his machine is only forty inches
+in diameter.--_Bicycle News._
+
+
+
+
+HEROIC CONDUCT OF A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On Tuesday last an inquest was held by Mr. Michael Fullam, Coroner, at
+Aughaward, near Ballinale in this County, on the body of a respectable
+middle class farmer named James Prunty. It appears the deceased, a
+feeble old man of 76 years of age, went into an out-house occupied by
+his own bull for the purpose of cleaning it out, and while in the act of
+doing so, the bull broke its chain and turned on him. By the
+interposition of providence, his daughter, a deaf mute, happened to come
+that way, and looked into the bull-house, her attention having been
+attracted by seeing the door lying open; and there, at the instant her
+eyes rested on the interior, she saw her aged father tossed high in the
+air above the bull's head; when he fell on the ground the bull gored him
+with his horns, pawed him with his feet, and raged with fury. The daring
+girl--the poor deaf mute--did not hesitate for an instant, but with most
+surprising presence of mind rushed to the rescue. She caught up the old
+man's stick which she saw on the floor as she entered, and seizing the
+bull by a copper ring in his nose, she thrashed him soundly on the head.
+The struggle was terrific--it was one of life and death, both for
+herself and the old man who now lay helpless at her feet. The bull did
+not tamely submit to his chastisement, but directed his assault on the
+lone girl; he tore her from her ankle to her armpit, struck her on the
+breast, and dashed her against the wall: but still she clung with a
+death grasp to his nose, and belaboured him with the stick, until she
+finally conquered and forced the infuriated animal to yield to her
+command. She then threw away the stick, and changing the ring into her
+right hand, raised the disabled old man from the ground and carried him
+on her left arm outside the door, forced back the bull, and closed the
+door in his face. Such heroic conduct as this has seldom been manifested
+by the bravest of men, but it is almost beyond credence that the deaf
+mute who was examined before the jury through an interpreter could have
+performed such an extraordinary feat. Yet so it was, and the jurors one
+and all were thoroughly satisfied with the clear and intelligible
+description of the most minute particulars of the occurrence exhibited
+by this most wonderful girl. It is sad to say that after all her
+exertions, the poor old man died in an hour after his release from the
+bull-house. The jury handed to the coroner the following memorandum at
+the close of the proceedings:--
+
+     "We cannot separate without putting on record our entire
+     admiration of the heroic conduct of Bridget Prunty (an orphan
+     and deaf mute), who, at the risk of her life, relieved her aged
+     father, James Prunty, from the furious assault of his own bull,
+     (from the effects of which he died yesterday), by catching him
+     by a ring in his nose, and while holding him back, carried the
+     old man on her left arm out of the house in which he was
+     attacked: and we urgently recommend her to the notice of those
+     benevolent gentlemen who appreciate and reward such an act of
+     noble daring for the preservation of human life."
+
+     "Given at Aughaward, 22nd Jan., 1878,
+             BARTHOLOMEW QUINN, Foreman."
+         (For self and fellows),
+                 "M. FULLAM, Coroner."
+
+_Longford Journal._
+
+We are glad to say that on hearing of the bravery of this little deaf
+and dumb girl, Mr. Harman, M.P., at once sent L5, and many other friends
+also shewed their appreciation of the girl's conduct in a practical way.
+
+
+
+
+The following touching lines were composed by a _Deaf_ friend after
+seeing the account in the "Longford Journal":--
+
+     THE BRAVE DEAF MUTE.
+
+     The tale of bravery I tell,
+       Will your attention hold,
+     Though not performed on battle field,
+       Nor by a warrior bold.
+
+     An Irish girl, to whom the Lord
+       Nor speech nor hearing gave,
+     Tho' but a poor deaf mute was she,
+       Her heart was stout and brave.
+
+     Deaf, dumb, yes, poor and motherless,
+       Friendless and obscure;
+     Only her father left to her,
+       And he was old and poor.
+
+     A farmer he, and owned a bull,
+       That in a shed was chained,
+     For it was savage, but one day
+       Its liberty obtained.
+
+     The poor old man was unaware
+       The bull had broke its chain,
+     Until the beast upon him turned
+       Ere he the door could gain.
+
+     The dumb girl neared the open shed,
+       As she the threshold crossed;
+     Oh! dreadful sight, her father high
+       By savage bull was tossed.
+
+     She could not hear if help was nigh,
+       She could not call for aid;
+     So quick to rescue him she ran,
+       Too brave to feel afraid.
+
+     One hand she slipped within a ring,
+       That through its nose was placed;
+     And with her father's stick upraised,
+       The angry bull she faced.
+
+     Oh! then ensued a struggle, fit
+       To fill her heart with dread;
+     While at her feet her father lay,
+       To all appearance dead.
+
+     Long and fierce the battle raged
+       Between the bull and maid;
+     Nor would she yield, tho' by its horns
+       Her side was open laid.
+
+     Blow after blow upon its head,
+       With heavy stick she rained,
+     Until the savage beast was cowed,
+       And she the victory gained.
+
+     And then the stick away she threw,
+       (But held on as before,)
+     Her father with one arm she raised,
+       And slowly neared the door.
+
+     Then back into the shed she forced
+       The bull, and slammed the door,
+     While in her aching, bleeding arms,
+       Her father's form she bore.
+
+     But, sad to say, her father dear,
+       Whom thus to save she tried,
+     Had been so injured by the bull,
+       In one short hour he died.
+
+     An orphan now, alone and poor,
+       Homeless, and deaf and dumb;
+     Oh, who will help some christian friends,
+       To make for her a home?
+
+     If you who read these simple lines,
+       With speech and hearing blest,
+     And have it in your power to aid
+       And comfort the distressed,
+
+     Oh! think of this brave-hearted girl,
+       And help her in her need;--
+     With voice and pen on her behalf
+       For timely help I plead.
+
+
+
+
+A VICTORY.
+
+Peter Sims, a deaf and dumb boy, was walking past a large shop one day
+in winter, when he saw a beautiful pair of skates in the window. He had
+often wished for skates that he might skate upon the ice, and when he
+saw these he desired to have them. He looked; no one was watching; he
+thought, "I can take these skates easily, and no one will know."
+
+Before he had been sent to school this boy had been a very bad boy; he
+had often stolen little articles, but now he was learning about God, and
+he knew that God had said "Thou shalt not steal." As he stood looking at
+the skates this commandment came into his mind, and there was a struggle
+in his heart. His old bad nature said, "Take the skates;" his conscience
+answered, "No, for it is wrong to steal." At last he made the signs,
+"steal, bad, not" (he was seen, though he did not know it), and went on
+without taking them. He had gained a great victory over the temptation
+of the devil, and the next time he was so tempted the fight was not so
+severe, as sin had less power over him.
+
+
+
+
+THE QUEEN AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+Not far from Osborne House, Isle of Wight, there lives a poor man in a
+small cottage, who a few years ago had a deaf and dumb daughter, who
+used to do a great deal of knitting for the Queen. Her Majesty
+frequently visited this woman, and used to talk to her on her fingers.
+The deaf and dumb woman is now dead, and during her illness the Queen
+visited her and talked to her for her comfort. Her Majesty apologised
+that she could not now talk so fast as when she was young.
+
+
+
+
+EXAMPLE.
+
+Vauncey, a little deaf and dumb boy, was admitted to the Institution, at
+Derby, and night and morning he would watch with keen interest the other
+boys kneeling at the bed-side, and spelling on their fingers their
+prayers. In a few days the little boy learnt the alphabet, and the head
+master on going upstairs to look round, was surprised to see him
+kneeling reverently by his bed-side, eyes closed, and spelling on his
+fingers the alphabet right through. A strange prayer, the reader will
+think; but not so to our Heavenly Father, who doubtless would accept it
+as the poor boy's best offering.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE CONVERTED MUTE.
+
+During a revival of religion in one of the New England villages, a son
+of the clergyman returned home for a brief visit. The lad was a deaf
+mute, and had spent his first term in the Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+just then commencing its history. His parents having no knowledge of the
+language of signs, and the boy being an imperfect writer, it was almost
+impossible to interchange with him any but the most familiar ideas. He,
+therefore, heard nothing of the revival. But before he had been at home
+many days, he began to manifest signs of anxiety, and at length wrote
+with much labour upon his slate, "Father, what must I do to be saved?"
+His father wrote in reply, "My son, you must repent of sin, and believe
+in the Lord Jesus Christ." "How must I do this?" asked the boy again
+upon his slate. His father explained to him as well as he could, but the
+poor untaught boy could not understand. He became more than ever
+distressed; would leave the house in the morning for some retired place,
+and would be seen no more until his father went in search of him. One
+evening, at sunset, he was found upon the top of the hay, under the roof
+of the barn, on his knees, his hands uplifted and praying to God in the
+signs of the mutes. The distress of the parents was so intense, that
+they sent for one of the teachers of the Asylum, and then for another;
+but it seemed that the boy could not be guided to the Saviour of
+sinners. One afternoon the father was on his way to fulfil an engagement
+in a neighbouring town, and as he drove leisurely over the hills, the
+poor inquiring and helpless son was continually in his thoughts. In the
+midst of his supplications his heart became calm, and his long
+distracted spirit was serene in the one thought that God was able to do
+his own work. The speechless boy at length began to tell how he loved
+his Saviour, and that he first found peace on the very afternoon when
+the spirit of his father on the mountains was calmed and supported by
+the thought that what God had promised he was able to perform.
+
+
+
+
+"NOTHING BAD."
+
+On entering the school room one morning, one of the little deaf and dumb
+girls quickly turned over her slate, and colouring in the face. The
+teacher asked, "What have you been doing?" The girl signed, in reply,
+"Nothing bad, sir." On turning over the slate we found the girl had
+written "Drunkenness clothes a man with rags."
+
+
+
+
+A SAD CASE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+T---- L---- lived near Derby. Hers was a sad case--deaf, dumb, and so
+nearly blind that she had to be led about; moreover, she suffered from
+extreme weakness in the legs, and was delicate on the chest. Her father
+being dead, it was difficult for her to obtain the necessaries of life,
+and it was thought the workhouse must be her future home. The case was
+brought under the notice of the Committee of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution at Derby, who decided not to let her go into the workhouse
+without trying what could be done for her. Accordingly she came under
+their care, and gradually became stronger; but the difficulties in the
+way of her education, owing to her sight, were not easily overcome, in
+fact she had to be taught as one perfectly deaf, dumb, and blind. She
+however made good progress, and is now a good tempered, hard working
+girl, actually earning her own living. She can wash and scour and knit
+and sew quite as well as many persons blessed with the senses of sight
+and hearing. She frequently attends the meetings for the adult deaf and
+dumb, and always has something interesting to say, especially on
+religious subjects.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB CLERGYMAN.
+
+Among those who were ordained deacons on Trinity Sunday last year by the
+Bishop of Winchester was Mr. R. A. Pearce, who is deaf and dumb, and who
+is to devote himself specially to Missionary work among the deaf mutes
+in the diocese of Winchester. The Rev. C. M. Owen, Secretary to the
+Mission, believes that this is the first instance of a deaf and dumb man
+being ordained in the Church of England.--_Irish Ecclesiastical
+Gazette_.
+
+The Rev. R. A. Pearce has had the honour of being presented to the
+Queen. Mr. Pearce has visited the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at
+Derby.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S BEAUTIFUL ANSWER.
+
+The Rev. R. Stewart says: "I knew of a gentleman who went to a Deaf and
+Dumb Asylum to make known to the inmates the way of salvation through
+Jesus Christ. He asked questions by means of writing them on a
+blackboard. One day he wrote the question, 'What does God do with the
+sins of the people who believe in Him?' One of the lads wrote below the
+question, 'All our sins were written in God's book, but Jesus came and
+drew His bleeding hand across the pages where the sins of the people
+were entered who believe in Him; thus covering over with His own blood
+the transgressions of His people.' Was this poor deaf and dumb lad
+right? Yes, indeed, for 'The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth
+us from _all_ sin.'"
+
+
+
+
+"I MUST HELP."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following little incident will show how interested the deaf and dumb
+are in trying to help Institutions struggling to obtain monetary support
+in order to admit the numerous cases pressing for admission. A number of
+the pupils from the Institution at Derby were present at a meeting, when
+the head master was advocating its claims for support. At the close of
+the meeting a deaf and dumb young man came up and said, "I have been
+very pleased with what I saw the children do, they will soon be very
+clever. I hope the people will all help you; other people helped me to
+get a good education, now _I must help_ others who are deaf and dumb to
+go to school. I will try and collect L5 for you." True to his promise he
+did collect L5, and sent it saying, "Next year I must try and collect
+L10." A little time since he called at the Institution with the handsome
+sum of L10, which he had collected in pence from 371 persons. Several
+other deaf mutes have shown their interest by collecting L1 to L3 from
+time to time.
+
+
+
+
+CANON FARRAR WITH THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The _Washington Post_ gives an account of Canon Farrar's visit to that
+city. He was interviewed by one of their reporters as to what he thought
+of the place, and he replied that he was greatly pleased, but what
+interested him most was the Deaf Mute College. He was of opinion there
+was nothing of its kind in the world. The Canon was conducted through
+the College by Dr. Gallaudet, the president, who explained to him the
+various arrangements, after which Mr. Olof Hanson, a Swede, who has
+mastered English since the loss of his hearing, delivered orally the
+following address:--Two and a half centuries ago the Pilgrim Fathers
+laid the foundation of the nation. America may in a sense be called the
+child of England--and a well-grown child, of which she need not be
+ashamed. In visiting this country, therefore, you do not, we trust, feel
+like a stranger, but, as it were, among relatives and friends.
+Archdeacon Farrar is no stranger to us; his beautiful "Life of Christ"
+is a well-known volume in many a public and private American library,
+and there are few who have not read his noble eulogy on our departed
+hero, General Grant. As a friend then, we bid him welcome. Permit me now
+to say a few words about the instruction of the deaf in this country. In
+1817 the first deaf mute school in America was founded at Hartford,
+Connecticut; there are now upwards of sixty schools for the deaf and
+dumb in the United States, and to day more than 7000 pupils receiving
+instruction. The minds of the deaf are just like those of other people,
+and only need to be developed. Although the avenue of the ear is
+closed, through the other senses information is imparted, and sight,
+being the most convenient, is chiefly made use of in instructing the
+deaf; but to teach them persons of experience and intelligence are
+required, and to obtain such teachers money is necessary. Our Government
+has wisely recognised this, and it accordingly makes liberal provision
+for educating the deaf, as well as the hearing, all our institutions
+being supported mainly by the Government. It was long doubted that the
+deaf could master the higher branches of study, and it has been reserved
+for this college to see if they can. In this country we have the deaf as
+teachers, lawyers, chemists, artists, clergymen, editors, &c. Many take
+a most creditable rank among the hearing persons in their professions.
+Among the graduates of this college will be found some of the most
+intelligent and best educated deaf mutes in the world. The college is
+the only one of its kind in existence. Two young men from the old world
+have come all the way here to obtain an education which they could not
+get at home. They are cordially welcomed, and we hope many more will
+come until the time arrives when they have a college of their own, where
+they may acquire the advantages of a high and liberal education. Mr.
+Francis Maginn, son of the Rev. C. A. Maginn, county Cork, was then
+introduced to Canon Farrar, and his address read by Dr. Gallaudet. "As
+one of the two students from Europe just alluded to by my friend, I have
+the pleasure of welcoming my distinguished countryman, Archdeacon
+Farrar, to Washington. Having acquired the rudiments of my education in
+the metropolis of Great Britain, where you from Sunday to Sunday expound
+the unsearchable riches of Christ, and being a native of Ireland, where
+my father ministers in the Church of Ireland, it is but natural I should
+express my deep gratification that you should have come amongst my
+American brethren in affliction. I am sure, sir, that you have felt as I
+have done when coming to the great and prosperous United States, that
+the American people is one of which we may well be proud--a great and
+highly civilised people, with whom we are connected by every tie of
+blood, and every relation of business--they are a people who bear our
+civilisation, in many things improved, our language, literature, laws,
+and religion. In an educational point of view the nation is prominent,
+and her silent children have the advantages of spacious institutions,
+supported by her revenues. It is greatly to be regretted that our
+brethren in Great Britain enjoy none of these elaborate advantages of
+intellectual culture. Whilst Mr. Foster's Act benefits thousands, and
+while $15,000,000 are annually voted for the masses, one third of the
+mutes of right school age are being left uneducated. What that means,
+the English have no conception, or they would not be apathetic or
+unconcerned; no class when uneducated is more entirely cut off from all
+human intercourse than the deaf and dumb." The Canon, in reply,
+expressed his thanks for the cordial reception given him, and concluded
+with a short prayer, which was interpreted by Dr. Gallaudet, President
+of the Deaf and Dumb College.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB SOLDIERS.
+
+During the Franco-German War, an army corps of 400 deaf and dumb
+Frances-Tireurs were led to battle against the Germans.--_Paris
+Journal._
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT S. LYONS.
+
+Robert S. Lyons went about Ireland last summer visiting the deaf and
+dumb, and talking to them about Jesus. He was then home for vacation
+from America, where he had gone to study, in order to fit himself to be
+a missionary to the deaf and dumb. We all hoped that he would have
+entered on his duties as such this summer, and that many of his deaf
+country men and women would have been helped by him on the way to
+heaven. But God has ordered it otherwise. He died at his father's
+residence, near Newtownstewart, after a long and painful illness, on the
+evening of Friday, the 5th of June last.
+
+Mr. Francis Maginn, who is also deaf and dumb, went with Robert Lyons to
+America last autumn, and left his studies in the College that he might
+take care of him on the journey home, has written some reminiscences of
+his friend, of which the following is a part:--
+
+     "It was my privilege to be his companion on his return to
+     Washington, and to share the same rooms. He spent much time in
+     Bible reading and prayer. He was attacked in February last with
+     a serious illness, which he bore with wonderful patience. At
+     one time his death was expected. We sat up one night watching
+     for his last breath, but life was lengthened.
+
+     He seemed to improve for a while, and was able to go out for a
+     drive in the President's carriage. Every comfort was his,
+     supplied by the kind ladies of Dr. Gallaudet's family. Flowers,
+     books, pictures; every delicacy possible constantly sent to
+     tempt the appetite; but his strength scarcely increased.
+     Prayers were daily offered on his behalf. Even a little girl
+     prayed daily for him, and said, 'I know God will hear my
+     prayers, and he will recover.' But such was not the will of
+     God. He was sent home, and given up to my care. The voyage was
+     fine four days, when a gale arose which lasted five days, and
+     tried his strength terribly. He seemed sinking, and said, 'I
+     will not live to see my parents again.' I said, 'You will, if
+     you trust in God, and if it is His will.' When we came to see
+     lights of the Irish coast we felt joy and comfort. Arrived in
+     Londonderry he had scarcely any strength to stand. When
+     Newtownstewart was reached his relations and I knew each other
+     by our troubled and anxious faces."
+
+His sister wrote that on the last two occasions that his mother talked
+to him of his sufferings his reply each time was, "If we suffer with Him
+(Jesus), we shall reign with Him." Again, he said he left himself in the
+hands of his Lord, to take him or leave him as He pleased. He breathed
+his last in the arms of his brother John, on Friday, the 5th of June, at
+10.30 p.m. The end was so peaceful that they could not tell when the
+last breath was drawn.
+
+The funeral took place on Monday, the 8th, when the long procession of
+vehicles, some forty or fifty in number, bore testimony to the love and
+respect with which he was regarded in his own neighbourhood. Next after
+the chief mourners walked Samuel Carrigan and young M'Causland, two deaf
+mutes who loved and honoured him. Many others would have been present
+also, had it been in their power, for Robert had the love and regard of
+all the deaf and dumb who knew him.
+
+
+_Copy of a letter given to R. S. Lyons on leaving America, by Dr.
+Gallaudet, President of the College:--_
+
+     National Deaf Mute College, Kendal Green,
+         Near Washington.
+
+     MY DEAR ROBERT,--I want to give you more than a mere "good-bye"
+     in words, as you take your leave of us. I want to tell you how
+     much I have been pleased with your course here as a student,
+     how gratified I have been to see your pleasantness in your
+     work, and how thoroughly you have won my respect and esteem;
+     and then want to add that your patience and cheerfulness under
+     the heavy cross of extreme illness has made you seem a real
+     hero. It is an added pleasure to think that this heroism is of
+     that sort which those sons of men alone exhibit who are filled
+     with the spirit of our good and glorious leader, Christ. I
+     believe, dear Robert, that you have that spirit, truly and
+     fully, and I am sure it will sustain you in all future work. As
+     you go far away over the ocean to your home, to your loved
+     ones, and to that work which God will give you to do, my
+     prayers will follow you daily that God will give you health and
+     strength to do His will, and, above all, that the "peace of
+     God" which passeth knowledge may fill your soul. Wishing you
+     every blessing that earth and heaven can bestow,--I am, yours
+     in loving friendship,
+
+     E. M. GALLAUDET.
+
+
+
+
+HELEN SILVIE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Helen Silvie was a Scotch girl. She was born in the village of Dunblane,
+situated on the beautiful banks of the river Allan.
+
+She lost her hearing by fever when about five years of age, and two
+years after she was sent to the Edinburgh Institution for the Education
+of the Deaf and Dumb.
+
+She was a very shy child, and would not speak any words after she became
+deaf, so she soon forgot how to do so, and when her education was begun,
+she was nearly like a child born deaf.
+
+For a time she was peevish and discontented; her mind was dark. But so
+soon as she began to understand, it was as if light shone into her mind,
+and she became cheerful and happy like her companions.
+
+At first she did not seem very clever. But after two years she began to
+improve fast, and soon was one of the best pupils in the Institution.
+She was very amiable and affectionate, and a great favourite with her
+companions.
+
+When she grew up she became an assistant in the school, she taught one
+of the junior classes in the early part of the day, and instructed the
+girls in sewing in the evenings. For some years she was thus usefully
+employed. But her brother wished her to go and live with him, and keep
+house for him at Bannockburn, and she consented and left the
+Institution.
+
+After a time Helen wished to return to the Institution. So she wrote a
+letter to a friend and asked her to find out if she would be allowed to
+become a teacher again. But the Superintendent of the Institution was
+ill, and no answer was sent to her letter. Then Helen thought she would
+go herself to the Institution and see if they would employ her. It was
+winter. She set out from Stirling in a steamer on the last day of the
+year 1845, and arrived at Granton Pier at night. It was dark. A
+gentleman offered to conduct her up the pier, but he did not know the
+way. He should have turned to go towards the town, but he led her
+straight on. They came to the edge of the pier, and in an instant both
+were plunged into the sea. They were soon picked up, and carried to the
+hotel. Helen soon seemed quite well, and she was sent on to the
+Institution. She felt so happy at being again among her old friends that
+she did not soon go to bed. She thought herself much better than she
+was. She caught a very bad cold. In a few days inflammation of the lungs
+came on. Her sufferings were very great, but, she bore them patiently;
+and on Sabbath morning, the 18th of January, 1846, her spirit took its
+flight to her Saviour's bosom.
+
+Her pastor, who visited her on her death-bed, was much pleased to see
+how fully she trusted in Jesus. He said of her after she died "I think
+of her as one of the spirits of the just made perfect."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A CAT ASSISTING A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN.
+
+The chill wind was moaning, the rain falling drearily, and day darkening
+rapidly, when a lady might have been seen walking along quickly through
+Eccles Street. She was thinking of home, with its bright warm fire, and
+how soon she could get in out of the cold and wet.
+
+Suddenly she stopped, as a feeble cry arrested her footsteps, and
+looking round, she perceived a cat crouched against some steps. The
+storm was beating on the poor harmless creature, and night coming on.
+
+The lady did not turn away and hurry on, as some selfish people would
+have done, but pitied and called the poor cat. It looked so forlorn, and
+gave a frightened glance in her face. Gaining courage from what it saw
+there, it trusted her, and jumped up, curled its tail over its back, and
+trotted contentedly after her. The lady went on. When she looked back
+now and then, there was pussy trotting steadily behind.
+
+Presently the lady knocked at a hall door, and when it was opened they
+passed into a bright room, and pussy sat down to dry before a warm fire,
+where two other cats, sleek and well fed, kept her company. Well, our
+puss, whose name was "Gipsy," very soon was lapping a saucer of warm
+milk. After that she looked at the fire, and winked her eyes until she
+fell asleep.
+
+Sarah Darby, who is deaf and dumb, was at that time living in this
+house. Pussy became very fond of Sarah, and liked to sit in her lap
+because she was kind to it. Now Sarah did not think a cat could help
+her, but she knew that God commands us to be kind to helpless creatures,
+and He always rewards us when we obey Him.
+
+You will wonder how a cat could help anyone, so I will tell you.
+Sometimes Sarah was alone in the house, and when a knock came to the
+hall door there was no one to tell her but puss, and puss did so. How?
+She jumped down off Sarah's lap, and looked up in her face every time a
+knock came, and after the door had been opened got on her lap again, and
+waited for the next one. So this is how the cat helped the deaf and dumb
+woman.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.
+
+At a meeting in aid of the deaf and dumb held in Dundee, at which Lord
+Panmure presided, a number of deaf and dumb children were present and
+put through an examination. The question was put on the blackboard, "Who
+is the greatest living statesman of Great Britain?" One of the boys
+instantly wrote, "The Earl of Shaftesbury." The chairman patted the boy
+on the head, and asked, "Why do you think the Earl of Shaftesbury is the
+greatest living statesman?" The boy answered, "Because he cares a great
+deal for the like of us deaf mutes."
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB LADY'S IDEA OF MUSIC.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A lady who graduated from the Institution at New York some years ago,
+was questioned as to the capacity of the deaf to enjoy music; she wrote:
+"I think all deaf persons have an idea more or less vague of musical
+sounds. It comes to all who cannot hear through the sense of touch. The
+vibrations of the chords of a piano, when strongly played, are
+sufficient to produce real enjoyment by means of feeling to one who can
+touch the case merely. The soft, tremulous notes, even convey an
+impression through the nerves, similar, I fancy, to that which others
+obtain through the ear. But the real music for us comes through the eye.
+The rippling of waves, the tremulous vibration of leaf and blossom and
+twig, all these sights make for us a harmony perhaps as perfect as the
+most finished orchestra."
+
+
+
+
+HALF A SCORE DEAF MUTES.
+
+On Tuesday evening last the Stamford Corn Exchange was crowded with
+people eager to see half a score little deaf mutes from the Institution
+at Derby. The children--six boys and four girls--caused considerable
+amusement, and also pain to think they should be so afflicted. The
+youngsters can draw, read, and write in a way that is surprising, and
+some of the faces were marked by unusual brightness and
+intelligence.--_Stamford Mercury_, Sep. 18th, 1884.
+
+
+
+
+A DUMB DOG.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A deaf and dumb lady living in a German city, had, as a companion, a
+younger woman, who was also deaf and dumb. They lived in a small set of
+rooms opening on the public corridor of the house. Somebody gave the
+elder lady a dog as a present. For some time, whenever anybody rang the
+bell at the door, the dog barked to call the attention of his mistress.
+The dog soon discovered, however, that neither the bell nor the barking
+made any impression on the women, and he took to the practice of merely
+pulling one of them by the dress with his teeth, in order to explain
+that some one was at the door. Gradually the dog ceased to bark
+altogether, and for more than seven years before his death he remained
+as mute as his two companions.
+
+
+
+
+"CLEANSING FROM SIN."
+
+Matthew Jones, a poor deaf and dumb boy, once wrote the meaning of Jesus
+Christ's blood washing away sin. Being asked if he was afraid God would
+punish him for his sins, he wrote this answer, "No, for when God sees my
+name down in His book, and all the things I have done wrong, and all
+that I have left undone, there will be a long account; but He won't be
+able to read it, because Jesus Christ's bleeding hand will have blotted
+all the account out, and He would see nothing on that page but the
+Saviour's blood, for I have asked Him to wash all my sins away."
+
+
+
+
+THE BIBLE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+The following is taken from the British and Foreign Bible Society's
+Report for 1885, being an extract from one of their agents in Belgium
+named Gazan:--"For the last fourteen years Gazan has been in the habit
+of getting shaved by a barber who also keeps a drinking saloon. Though
+not a member of a temperance society Gazan is an abstainer, and is none
+the less welcome, and he occasionally is able to sell to persons who
+frequent the place. One day last year when the barber's shop was full, a
+man was there who had often prevented people buying, and when Gazan left
+began to say all the harm he could of him. This he heard from the
+barber's wife, who expressed great annoyance at it. Some time after a
+young man, deaf and dumb, called upon Gazan and gave him to understand
+he wanted a Bible. With the aid of a pencil they carried on a
+conversation, in the course of which Gazan showed him several passages
+marked in the Bible. This was on a Sunday morning, and in the afternoon
+the deaf and dumb young man came back to attend the service, for which
+Gazan lends his room; and he continued to come Sunday after Sunday, when
+by signs and giving him passages to read he was interested in the
+service. He was introduced to the deaf and dumb evangelist in Brussels,
+and having found work as a printer, is living there now, lodging at the
+house of M. Crispells, who holds the service at Louvain. On Christmas
+Day he went to Louvain to see Gazan, and showed him a number of texts
+which had been pointed out to him during his former visits, and showed
+remarkable familiarity with the Scriptures. This deaf and dumb young man
+is no other than the son of the man above referred to, who had spoken
+against him in the barber's shop. The conversion of his son has had a
+remarkable effect upon him; he is now quite a changed man, and does all
+he can to assist Gazan and to induce people to buy his books."
+
+
+
+
+CORK TEMPERANCE EXHIBITION.
+
+The following were won by deaf mutes:--Both certificate and prize, E.
+Morgan, for painted album; A. Corkey, doll's dress; B. Henderson, same;
+J. Giveen, stitching; J. O'Sullivan, knitting; G. Seabury, laundry work.
+Also, prizes were won by J. Armstrong, handwriting; L. Corkey, texts in
+Bible album; E. Phibbs, doll's suit; E. Gray, knitting. A Bible album
+made by deaf mutes at Cork was much admired. Each page has a picture
+with a great many texts written round it.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD INFLUENCE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A few years since an aged man, who had long been a sincere and devoted
+christian, was placed in the same ward in the Infirmary of N----with a
+deaf and dumb youth. The former received and enjoyed the visits of the
+chaplain, whilst the latter was considered inaccessible to instruction.
+An arrangement was at length made for the good old man to partake of the
+sacrament of the Lord's Supper, when he made, as it appeared to the
+chaplain and matron, the singular request that the young mute might
+partake of it with him. A secret was then divulged which had been known
+only to the two patients themselves. Having spent a long period of time
+together, the old man had improved the opportunity thus afforded to
+effect intercourse with the youth by signs, and had been enabled, by the
+Divine blessing, to convey to him a knowledge of salvation through a
+crucified Redeemer. There appeared every reason to believe that the
+poor fellow possessed an enlightened understanding and a renewed mind,
+and he was allowed to participate in the desired privilege.
+
+Shortly after this the old man died, and when the youth was made
+sensible of the event, his countenance brightened with joy; he waved his
+hand and pointed up to the sky to intimate that he was gone into heaven.
+After a time the mute followed his kind friend and instructor. When he
+felt himself dying, he first put his fingers in his ears and took them
+out again, to show that his ears would be unstopped; he then put out his
+tongue and pointed to heaven, to show that that would be unloosed.
+
+These facts were communicated to a friend by the matron of the
+Infirmary--herself an eminent christian, who has since died, and who did
+not doubt that the youth had obtained a correct and experimental
+knowledge of the gospel of salvation.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB MAN IN THE REVISION COURT.
+
+On Thursday afternoon a singular scene was witnessed during the
+proceedings of the Revision Court, at Ashton-under-Lyne. A man named
+James Booth, of 3, Dog Dungeon, Hurst polling district, was objected to
+by the Conservatives, and Mr. Booth, their solicitor, announced that the
+man was deaf and dumb, but just able to utter a monosyllable now and
+then. Mr. Chorlton, the Liberal solicitor: What can I do (laughter)? Mr.
+Booth first by writing asked what the man's name was, and then began to
+talk to him with his fingers, but being an indifferent chirologist he
+made very poor progress. He had merely elicited that the man was the
+owner when Mr. Chorlton began to grow impatient, and inquired, Why
+don't they both go to the Isle of Man for a week (laughter)? Nothing
+more could be got out of the man except a "yes" or "no" after questions
+had been patiently propounded by Mr. Booth in the dactyologic alphabet.
+At length the Barrister spied a rent book, and this was pounced upon and
+the vote allowed very joyfully, to save further trouble. The dumb man
+then spake, stuttering, and with great effort, I claim my expenses. Mr.
+Chorlton: He's got those words all right, at any rate (laughter.) Mr.
+Booth: He can talk a little but hear nothing. Recourse was again had by
+Mr. Booth to his digits, and he interpreted to the court that the man
+was a hat body maker, and wanted 5s. 6d. The Barrister: I will allow 5s.
+The money was handed to the man, and he went away smiling.--_Newcastle
+Journal._
+
+
+
+
+JULIA BRACE.
+
+Julia Brace, a deaf, dumb, and blind woman, who died in August, 1884, in
+her seventy-eighth year, was well known all over America, at least
+wherever attention has been paid to the education of deaf mutes. In the
+year 1810, when about four years old, she lost her sight and hearing
+from malignant sickness. At that time there was no school for deaf
+mutes. It was not until after she was turned nineteen years that she
+entered school, and she remained there between twenty and twenty-five
+years. During her long stay at the school her case always attracted
+particularly interesting attention on the part of visitors. In many ways
+she could render much service in the daily work of the Institution. She
+could even distinguish clothes belonging to different pupils, and was
+therefore employed in sorting and putting them away. She had a good many
+curious and amusing ways. For instance, when girl-pupils, dressing, took
+their turns before the looking glass to comb up their hair, she always
+insisted on having her turn, and would stand there to comb hers like any
+one else. But one thing was noticeable. She had a very clear notion of
+her own rights, and would not allow any interference with them.
+Sometimes her idea of a personal right was rather out of a common
+course, but she had no question about it, and probably could not see how
+any one should have.
+
+Her case is not to be compared with that of Laura Bridgman, who
+possessed mental powers of a higher order. She had not got the benefit
+of early, assiduous, and special care that was given to the latter, and
+probably she had a much less acute mental constitution at the outset of
+her education. Her education began late, and at a time when very little
+was known of the proper way of education for a case like hers; and she
+consequently did not make much progress in language. However, it has
+been found quite easy to communicate with her as to all the common
+events of her daily life.
+
+
+
+
+"AN AMUSING STORY."
+
+Here is an amusing story hailing from Munich. During the past year the
+professor of Aesthetics in the University, whose lectures are
+proverbially wearisome, delivered his lectures (as usual) to a scanty
+audience. There were five students in all, who, week by week, melted and
+grew "beautifully less," until at last but one was left. This solitary
+individual, however, seemed to concentrate in his own person all the
+diligence, application, and punctuality of his frivolous fellows. At the
+conclusion of the last lecture of the course the professor approached
+him and praised him for these admirable qualities, and proceeded to
+inquire of him, "What is your name, my young friend?" No answer. "What
+country are you from?" Absolute silence. The matter was soon elucidated,
+for it was discovered that the patient and persevering disciple was a
+poor deaf mute, who had taken refuge from the severe cold of winter in
+the warm lecture rooms of the University.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following is extracted from "The Christian Leader":--At a Christmas
+competition of blind readers which took place on Friday and Saturday,
+21st and 22nd December, 1883, in the Mission Hall in Bath Street,
+Glasgow, was found a blind deaf mute among the blind hearing
+competitors. Educated when young in the Institution for the Deaf and
+Dumb, he was able to do for himself until he lost his sight two or three
+years ago. He had then to make use of his fingers in reading as well as
+speaking; and in spite of the formidable difficulties in the way of his
+learning the embossed type, he made a most creditable appearance on
+Saturday and gained a special prize. The remark made by one of the
+examiners when this man was reading will, we are sure, express the
+thought of all who peruse these lines--"How thankful to God we ought to
+be for the use of our faculties, and especially for this precious
+blessing of sight!" This blind deaf mute is Mr. Daniel Hunter Ardrossan,
+one of the members of the Ayrshire Deaf and Dumb Mission.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S HEROISM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon several gentlemen standing on
+Vine Street Wharf witnessed an act which was highly commendable. Thomas
+Hall, a lad of nine years, having strayed from his parents, was at play
+upon the wharf mentioned, when his foot slipped and he was precipitated
+into the strong tide of the Delaware. A deaf mute named Argus Cornish,
+an eccentric genius, who does odd jobs along the wharves, and who, an
+outcast himself, seems to take pleasurable pride in protecting others,
+and has already saved several lives, although standing with his back to
+the scene of accident, seemed, as his name implied, to have a hundred
+eyes. Without any hesitation he stripped off his coat and shoes, and
+plunging into the water, in a short time brought the boy safe to land.
+Argus' heroism should not be overlooked.--_American Paper._
+
+
+
+
+THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE AND THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+Mr. Gladstone, on being presented with the freedom of the Worshipful
+Company of Turners, gave an address from which the following is an
+abstract:--
+
+I went a few days ago to examine the collection of works prepared at
+Messrs. Doulton's Pottery to be sent to the Exhibition at Philadelphia.
+Those works were delightful for the eye to behold. They were also highly
+satisfactory on the distinct ground that the price of production
+appeared to be so moderate; but, most of all were they delightful to me,
+because they were true products of the soil. There was a high faculty of
+art as it seemed to me developed in the production of those works, and
+that faculty of art had grown up in Lambeth. It was the Lambeth School
+of Art from which Messrs. Doulton derived an abundant supply of workers
+to whom they could intrust the preparation of those admirable objects.
+Among the works I would mention one. It was a beautiful piece of work
+produced by a youth who from his birth was both deaf and dumb. Now,
+consider what it is to be deaf and dumb; what a cutting off of
+resources; what a stinting of the means of training and improvement; and
+then consider, notwithstanding this, how it was through an inborn
+resolution in the centre of his being it was in the power of this lad to
+make himself a producer of works that could command admiration on the
+score of beauty, again showing how the energies, if rightly directed,
+can be forthcoming when required.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL'S DREAM.
+
+(WRITTEN BY HERSELF.)
+
+I had a dream on the 26th of January. I was going for rolls, and going
+back I met Gracie, a friend of mine, and she and I spoke quite well--we
+were not deaf and dumb. A poor boy, very ragged, carried a basket with
+some coloured glasses and stones, very bright, and some curious musical
+instruments that I had never seen before. He walked behind us, and he
+called to Gracie, and she turned to him, and he said to her that he
+wanted her to buy many of them; that they were a penny each. We took
+them up and looked at them, and they were very curious. She chose a
+bright red one for a brooch, and bought it for a penny. Then he said to
+me "Will you buy some?" But I did not want to be tempted to buy, and he
+told me a great deal about its very beautiful sounds; that it was more
+beautiful than all the others, and nothing could be more beautiful to
+hear in this world, and he showed me how to play on it, and we heard
+beautiful sounds. So I changed my mind, and wanted it very much, because
+I could hear it. Then I saw a policeman come up to us because he heard
+the beautiful music; and he laughed very much, and looked so very happy.
+I said to the poor boy, "Thank you very much for your showing me how to
+play on it." And he was very glad as he went away. Gracie went home, and
+I went home, carrying my glass organ with me.
+
+The above appears to us specially interesting; it is a curious
+circumstance that a deaf and dumb girl should seem to hear sound in her
+sleep.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB COUNCILLOR.
+
+Kapotrine Moller, a Russian Councillor of State, son of General Moller,
+and nephew of the tutor to the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, has
+just died at the age of eighty-three. He himself, his brother, and
+sister were all born deaf and dumb. He was educated in the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution in St. Petersburg, rapidly learnt to read, and showed such
+ability that he was first admitted into the Imperial Chancery and
+afterwards into the Council of State.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS MOTHER.
+
+Zachariah was a deaf and dumb boy, thirteen years of age, who was being
+educated in an Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, after an absence of
+four years he went home to see his mother. When he entered her house, in
+company with his benefactor, she was sitting in a state of intoxication,
+which greatly affected him. He took his pencil, and thus attempted to
+show her the evil and danger of such conduct, and gave her much good
+advice. After retiring with his friend, at whose house he went to lodge,
+his countenance became very sorrowful, and the tears trickled down his
+cheeks. His friend asked him the occasion of all this, when he wrote
+"that he was thinking if he got to heaven how sorry he should be not to
+find his mother there."
+
+
+
+
+SPEED OF MANUAL SPELLING.
+
+[Illustration: The Manual Alphabet]
+
+In reply to a question "What is the number of words a good hand speaker
+can make or say in one minute?" A deaf mute says, "Take the average
+number of letters per word of the English language as five; this is the
+number decided upon by the Postal Telegraph department. The average of
+the Bible is about 4-1/8."
+
+A good hand speaker can go through the alphabet ten times in one minute.
+I have proved this by personally testing several deaf mutes.
+
+The pauses between words occupy the space of one letter each, so we must
+deduct one sixth of the whole thus:--
+
+     Letters in alphabet                       26
+     Number of times spelt                     10
+                                              ___
+     Total letters per minute                 260
+     Deduct about one sixth for pauses         45
+                                              ___
+     Average letters per minute               215/5
+                                              ---
+         Result        43 words per minute.
+
+
+
+
+PORTOBELLO SWIMMING CLUB.
+
+On the mornings of Wednesday and Thursday the deep-diving medal of this
+club was competed for by five members. The depth of water varied from 13
+to 18 feet. Mr. Robert Smith was very successful in recovering the
+plates from the bottom, bringing up six on the first and two on the
+second morning, with which number he secures first honours. The second
+place was taken by Mr. J. Wallace James. Mr. Smith, the medallist, is
+deaf and dumb.--_Scotsman_, Aug. 29th.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+"DEAR TAMMAS."
+
+A poor old deaf man resided in Fife; he was visited by his minister
+shortly after coming to his pulpit. The minister said he would often
+call and see him; but time went on, and he did not visit him again until
+two years after, when, happening to go through the street where the deaf
+man was living, he saw his wife at the door, and could therefore do no
+other than inquire for her husband. "Weel, Margaret, how is Tammas?"
+"None the better o'you," was the curt reply. "How, how, Margaret,"
+inquired the minister. "Oh, ye promised twa years syne tae ca' and pray
+once a fortnight wi' him, and hae ne'er darkened the door sin' syne."
+"Weel, weel, Margaret, don't be so short! I thought it was not so very
+necessary to call and pray with Tammas, for he is so deaf ye ken he
+canna hear me." "But, sir," said the woman, with a rising dignity of
+manner, "the Lord's no deaf!" And it is to be supposed the minister felt
+the power of her reproach.
+
+
+
+
+ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY EXHIBITION FOR 1880.
+
+John S. Rennie Reid, a young Aberdeen lad, now resident in Edinburgh,
+who, though labouring under the great disability of being deaf and dumb,
+has for some years back been an enthusiastic art student, has succeeded
+in procuring admission for three oil paintings, each of which gives good
+indication of his deftness and skill in the delineation of nature, and
+the ardour with which he has followed up his studies. "Hide and Seek"
+represents some children playing at that game in a hay field. "Largo,
+the Beach at Low Water" gives us a pretty coast scene, with figures on
+the beach. "Baiting the Line" is a very effective study of a common
+incident in fisher life.
+
+
+
+
+IN DERBY POLICE COURT.
+
+[Illustration: PUPIL AS TAKEN FROM THE POLICE COURT.]
+
+A few years since the Head Master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
+Derby was sent for, with a request that he would hasten to the police
+court to see what could be done with a little deaf and dumb boy. The
+sketch is a faithful picture of the little fellow as he stood in the
+dock charged with stealing. The police, in giving their evidence, said
+that many complaints had been made of the boy's conduct. One lady
+complained of his illusing her dog, another a cat, and another killing
+her bird; others that he was always throwing stones or stealing, and
+that he had actually tried to upset a railway train. It appeared that
+twice previously the boy had been taken up by the police, but owing to
+his tender age nothing could be done with him. The Mayor, addressing the
+Head Master of the Institution, said something must be done with the
+boy; unfortunately he was getting worse and worse; the case was a very
+sad one, the boy being deaf and dumb, but the public must be protected.
+The other magistrates present concurred with the Mayor's remarks, and
+after consulting with Mr. Bailey, J.P., Chairman of the Committee of the
+Institution, who was on the bench at the time, the boy was sent direct
+to the Institution, where food was given to him, after which his
+photograph was taken. The sketch given on the previous page is copied
+from it. The boy settled down, but not without giving considerable
+trouble; it was not to be expected that a boy, though so tender in years
+yet hardened in bad habits, should at once conform to the rules of the
+Institution. The teachers were not, therefore, greatly surprised to find
+him early one morning prowling in a quarter of the Institution to which
+he had no proper means of access. From time to time his teachers had
+difficulties to contend with not easy to describe. There has, however,
+been a gradual improvement in the boy's life and character. The sketch
+given above is from a photograph taken when the boy had been in the
+Institution one year.
+
+[Illustration: THE SAME PUPIL AFTER ONE YEAR'S TRAINING.]
+
+
+
+
+AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA BRIDGMAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We presume most of our readers will have read of Laura Bridgman, who is
+without any perfect sense except that of touch. A correspondent of the
+"Christian Union" gives an interesting account of an afternoon spent
+with her, from which we make the following abstract:--
+
+If any one supposes that by reason of her deprivation she is queer or
+awkward in person or manners, he is altogether in error. There is
+nothing at all singular in her appearance. When I entered the parlour, a
+member of the family with whom she lives was playing on the piano, and
+close behind her, on a low seat, there was a very slight, very erect,
+quiet, self-possessed looking person, who seemed to be listening to the
+music, while her hands were busy over some crocheting or some similar
+work. She would have been taken for a guest who was fashioning some
+pretty article whilst being entertained with music. The expression of
+her face was bright and interested; and one watching her satisfied look
+would have been slow to believe that she did not hear. The green shade
+over her eyes indicated that she was one of the blind. She had on a
+brown dress, a blue ribbon at the neck, a gold ring and chain, and a
+watch or locket in her belt--a neatly attired, genteel, lady-like
+person, looking about thirty-five (though her age is not far from
+forty-four), with soft, brown hair, smooth and fine, a well shaped head,
+fair complexion, and handsome features. That was Laura. As soon as she
+learned that she had a visitor who knew people in the town where her
+nearest kindred live, she came swiftly across the room, leaving her work
+on the centre table as she passed it, and grasped my hand, laughing with
+the eagerness of a child. Then she sat down face to face with the lady
+who has charge of her, and commenced an animated conversation, by the
+manual alphabet, easily understood by one who has practised it; but the
+slight-of-hand by which the fingers of the friendly hostess,
+manipulating on Laura's slender wrists, communicated with that living
+consciousness shut in there without one perfect sense except of taste
+and touch, was something mysterious, inscrutable to my duller sense. Yet
+that the communication was definite, quick, missive, so to speak,
+manifest enough, for Laura's face beamed, and she was all alert. Partly
+by the letters and partly by signs she said a great deal to me. She
+"ought to be at home to be company for mother," she said; and, once or
+twice, she fashioned the word "Mamma" very distinctly with her lips. She
+asked if I knew a member of her family now dead, and said "that was a
+long year after Carl died." She seemed brimming over once with things to
+tell me, and wanted me to know about her teaching some of the blind
+girls to sew, which she takes great pride in, threading the needle, and
+making her pupils pick out their work if it is not done nicely. She is a
+good seamstress herself, does fancy work, and can run a sewing machine.
+Next, she caught hold of my hand and led me up two flights of stairs to
+her room to shew me her things; but the first movement was to take me to
+the window, where she patted on the glass and signified that I should
+see what a pleasant prospect there was from it. And there she, who had
+never seen or heard, waited by my side in great content while I looked
+and listened. Yet her face was radiant, and she stood there as if she
+both saw and heard. I wish I could bring before all those who are
+discontented with their lot, repining because God has withheld something
+from them or taken something away, the cheerful face of this lady, who
+has so little, but who accepts it as though she had all, who has never
+seen a human countenance or heard a human voice, who in the infinite
+glory and beauty of this outward world has no part, shut in by herself
+in that silent, dark, unchanging, awful loneliness. Next she showed me
+how springy her bed was. Then she took off my shawl, and showed me all
+the pretty things and conveniences she had in her room, opening every
+box and drawer, and displaying the contents. Her jet chain she laid
+against her neck, her bows and collars and embroidered hand-kerchiefs
+were taken up one by one, and deftly replaced in their proper
+receptacles. Her writing materials, sewing implements, little
+statuettes, trinkets, large Bible--I had to see them all. Lastly she
+took out a sheet of paper, pressed it down on a French writing-board,
+examined the point of the pencil, and wrote her autograph, "God is love
+and truth. S. N. Bridgman." And then from her needle-case and spool-box
+produced a cambric needle and fine cotton, and showed me how to thread a
+needle, which was done by holding the eye against the tip of her tongue,
+the exquisite nicety of touch in it guiding her to pass the thread
+through. It was done in an instant, though it seemed impossible to do it
+at all, and then she presented me the threaded needle triumphantly,
+having secured it by slipping a knot. Going down to the parlour again,
+she told me how kind it was in Dr. Howe to fit her up such a pretty
+room; and then I must go into the school room, whither she led me by the
+hand, and introduced me to several of her friends among the pupils, and
+when I took my departure she would have the teacher go with me to the
+door to tell me which car to take.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY'S DEVOTION.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Under the trees standing by the left bank of the Thames, and sheltered
+from its waters by a mound of earth, is an old but comfortable
+boathouse. A few roughly-hewn steps lead from the mound to the water's
+edge, where some six or seven boats rock idly on the surface. Over the
+door of this tottering mansion hangs a wooden board, with the words
+"Timothy Gainsad" inscribed in large letters upon a black ground. A gush
+of light and warmth issuing from the door guides the weary traveller to
+a haven worthy of his choicest desires. Well can I remember the dark
+outline of St. Paul's Cathedral, lifting its rounded dome in massive
+grandeur to the skies, and the faint outline of the opposite bank
+shining dimly in the distance. I remember, when a lad of seven, a rich
+and influential lady coming down from Yorkshire to spend the winter
+months in London. She brought with her a dumb boy attendant, whom she
+had adopted and treated with the greatest kindness. One dark night she
+hired a boat, and rowed out upon the river. Scarcely was she lost in the
+river mist ere the flood gates of heaven were opened, the rain came down
+in torrents, the waves dashed against our rude pier and threatened to
+dislodge it, while now and then an occasional streak of lightning,
+accompanied by a clap of thunder, lit up the dark surface of the river.
+My friends had gone off in a boat in search of the lady, and I was alone
+in the room. Seated on a stool by the side of a blazing fire, I was
+reading an interesting novel, when the door was violently pushed, and
+the dumb attendant of the young lady rushed in, seized a life belt from
+the wall, and made for the door. I ran to intercept him; but guessing my
+purpose, he raised the stool and brought it down with a crash upon my
+head. I staggered back to the wall and fell, and he disappeared through
+the door. With a reeling head I tottered to the door, and looked out
+upon the river. "Great heavens!" I exclaimed, "he will be dashed to
+pieces!" For there, revealed by a flash of lightning, was the dumb boy,
+standing on the rail of the bridge, preparing to plunge into the surging
+waters below. A short distance from the bridge was the boat occupied by
+the terrified lady. It was fast sinking, and as he plunged from the
+bridge it sank. I saw him come to the surface, stunned and bleeding; I
+saw him raise the life-belt in his hand, and throw it to his mistress.
+She caught it, and his face lit up with joy; then--he sank! His mistress
+was saved, and some time after the dumb boy's lifeless body was washed
+to the shore, and laid in an honourable grave. Over it stands a
+beautiful angel of white marble, holding a scroll inscribed with these
+words:--"Here lies Gustavus Arisild, who died in the surging waters of
+the Thames to save his mistress."
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF MUTE'S FAITH.
+
+One day a minister's servant brought a subscription book and laid it on
+his study table, saying, "A dumb man brought it, sir." On looking at the
+book, a thought struck the minister that he should not let that dumb
+man out of his house without seeking his soul's good. He invited the man
+in, and after kneeling in prayer before the man, and putting a
+subscription into his hand, the following conversation took place in
+writing. The minister wrote: "My dear friend, have you found the Lord
+Jesus Christ to be precious to your soul? Are you born again?" The dumb
+man answered, "Yes, I understand what is meant by 'born of the Spirit,'
+it means a 'new creature' in Jesus." The minister was not quite
+satisfied with the answer, and therefore he asked, "When were you made a
+'new creature,' and how?" He answered, "I was under the impression of
+sin six years ago, but I prayed to God for Christ's sake to give me a
+new heart, and I felt joy and peace in my mind. I prayed O Lord, have
+mercy on me a poor sinner. I also read the Psalms of David." In order to
+bring out distinctly whether he really arrived at scriptural peace, for
+he feared that, after all, the dumb man's faith might turn out to be
+only a vague and wavering confidence, the minister asked him again "If
+God were to call you away this night, would your sins be brought against
+you, and would you have to answer for them all?" He answered, "I trust
+in God for Christ's sake, because Jesus died for me. All those who trust
+in Jesus' precious blood are cleansed from all sin. He is mighty to
+save." The minister then asked, "Was it through the instruction you got
+at the Deaf and Dumb Institution that these good impressions were made
+upon your mind?" He answered, "My teacher used to teach the Bible to all
+deaf and dumb pupils, but I did not feel any grace from God till I was
+afraid to meet God for sins; then I looked to Christ by faith and got
+peace." The minister then asked, "Will you write a sentence for me to
+read to poor sinners, from a dumb man that cannot speak?" He then wrote
+as follows--words which he meant to be used by the reader:--
+
+     "O Lord, have mercy upon me a poor sinner!"
+     "O Jesus, save me from death and hell!"
+     "O Jesus, take me away to heaven and eternal bliss!"
+     "O Jesus, take care of me every day!"
+
+"Will you sign your name to all this?" then asked the minister. He
+immediately complied with the request. We only give the initials J----
+G----.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.
+
+An examination of students who were deaf, dumb, and blind took place on
+Washington Heights. The principal, Dr. Isaac L. Peet, gave various
+interesting exhibitions of their skill and accomplishments. A blind,
+deaf, and dumb boy, about fourteen years old, who had had less than a
+year's instruction, was given an order to count out twenty crayons and
+put them under a mat. The order was given by means of the sign language,
+transmitted by feeling the motion of the hands of the person who
+communicated with him. The order was correctly performed amid the
+applause of the audience. A blind deaf mute also wrote several sentences
+on a type-writer, and on another type-writer a deaf mute without hands
+wrote by means of a stick inserted in his coat sleeve.
+
+
+
+
+ORDINATION OF DEAF MUTES IN PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
+
+Nearly all the deaf mutes connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church
+in this city assembled yesterday morning in the church of the Covenant,
+to witness the ordination into the priesthood of two deaf and dumb men.
+The ceremony had been long talked of among the deaf mutes, and as none
+of this class of persons had ever before been ordained to this order in
+the church in this country, there was a widespread desire among the
+Episcopal community to be present at the ceremony. The church was well
+filled when the exercises began. Owing to the length of the services,
+the regular morning prayer was omitted, and after hymn 153 had been
+sung, Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D.D., Principal of the Deaf and Dumb
+Institution in New York, who was to preach the sermon, was introduced.
+Dr. Gallaudet prefaced his sermon by saying that when a deaf mute was
+addressed, the words were not spelled out, but that the ideas were
+represented by signs. Ideas about the intellect were conveyed by a sign
+about the head, those relating to the sensibility by a motion near the
+heart; in short, the sign language was as distinct and individual as the
+English language. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of Iowa, stood up in the chancel
+as Dr. Gallaudet began his sermon, and interpreted the sermon to the
+deaf mutes who sat in a body near the front of the chancel. Dr.
+Gallaudet sketched the progress of deaf mute education from the
+establishment of the first school in Hartford by his father in 1817. As
+illustrating the individuality of the sign language, he mentioned that
+while he was in Brussels in August last he preached to a congregation of
+about twenty deaf mutes, English, French, Belgian, and his sign language
+was comprehended perfectly by all. "Sounds," he said, "are only outward
+symbols of ideas, just as signs are." At the conclusion of the sermon,
+Rev. Henry W. Syle and Rev. Arthur M. Mann were presented for
+ordination, the former by Rev. Dr. Miller, and the latter by the Rev.
+Dr. Atwell, of Toledo. Sitting within the chancel, one at each end of
+the communion table, were Bishop Stevens and Bishop Bedwell, of Ohio,
+while nine other clergymen surrounded them. Among them the placid
+countenance and venerable form of Rev. W. H. Syle, father of one of the
+candidates, was especially noticeable. Bishop Stevens then read the
+exhortation, and it was interpreted by Dr. Gallaudet to the two
+candidates, who stood in their robes at the chancel rail. Eagerly did
+they watch the motions of the reverend gentleman as he conveyed to them
+the words the Bishop was speaking. The Bishop then asked Mr. Syle the
+questions laid down in the prayer book. As Dr. Gallaudet finished
+interpreting each question, Mr. Syle handed a slip of paper on which was
+written his answers, to Rev. Mr. Clere, of Phillipsburg, who read it
+aloud. Rev. Mr. Mann then arose, and Bishop Bedwell stated that the
+questions and answers would be interpreted. He asked the same questions
+asked by Bishop Stevens, and Mr. Mann slowly communicated his answers,
+using only his right hand in replying. The ceremony of laying on of
+hands was then performed, Bishop Stevens and several others laying their
+hands on Mr. Syle's head, and Bishop Bedwell performing that office for
+Mr. Mann. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was then administered to
+the newly ordained priests, and they were welcomed within the chancel
+rail. A special invitation was given to the deaf mutes to commune
+immediately after the clergy, and there were enough present to occupy
+the long chancel rail twice. The sacrament was then administered to the
+congregation, and the audience was dismissed with the benediction by
+Bishop Bedwell. On Saturday, the second biennial session of workers
+among the deaf mutes in the Episcopal Church was begun in St. Stephen's
+Church. Rev. Dr. F. J. Clere, of Phillipsburg, was elected President,
+and Rev. Mr. Syle secretary and treasurer of the conference. An address
+of Bishop Howe, and papers by Messrs. Clere and Syle were interpreted to
+the conference by Dr. Gallaudet.--_Philadelphia Inquirer_, 15th Oct.,
+1883.
+
+
+
+
+PICTURES BY DEAF AND DUMB ARTISTS IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, 1876.
+
+     No. 1301.  "Despatches." T. Davidson.
+      "    30.  "Elter Water, Langdale." C. E. Emerson.
+      "  1235.  "The late W. A. Langdale, Esq.
+      "  1247.  "Portrait of a Lady." Mrs. North, deaf from girlhood.
+
+
+WHAITE'S WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION, MANCHESTER.
+
+"The Staff of Life," by F. T. Tavare, is a drawing worthy of Hunt for
+its literal truth.--_Manchester Courier._
+
+March 25th, 1876.
+
+
+
+
+FAIRLY DONE.
+
+A good story is told of ex-governor Magottin, of Kentucky, who is a good
+talker and likes to do most of the talking himself. Recently, in making
+the journey from Cincinnati to Lexington, he shared his seat in the car
+with a bright-eyed, pleasant-faced gentleman. The Governor, after a few
+common-place remarks, to which his companion smiled and nodded assent,
+branched into a description of the scenes that he had witnessed in
+different parts of the country, grew eloquent over the war, described
+with glowing speech the numerous horse races he had witnessed, talked
+learnedly of breeding, and told thrilling stories of his battles with
+the Indians in the North-West. The hours slipped rapidly away, and when
+the train was nearing Lexington the two exchanged cards and parted with
+a cordial shake of hands. The Governor drove to an inn, and to a number
+of friends he remarked that the ride had never seemed so short before.
+"Then you must have had pleasant company aboard." "You are right. I met
+a gentleman of unusual intelligence. We conversed all the way over. I
+never was brought in contact with a more agreeable man." "Indeed! Who
+was he?" asked his friends. "Wait a minute; I have his card," and the
+Governor felt in his pockets and produced the bit of pasteboard. "His
+name is King." "Not Bob King?" shouted a dozen in one breath. "Yes,
+gentlemen; Robert King--that is the way the card reads," was the proud
+reply. A roar of laughter followed. "Why, Governor, Bob King is as deaf
+as a post; he was born deaf and dumb!"
+
+
+
+
+A NOVEL SITUATION.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+During the past year a gentleman had occasion to visit a certain city in
+New England. He arrived at night, went directly to his accustomed hotel,
+and to bed, slept soundly throughout the night, and in the morning
+discovered his watch had stopped. When he opened the door of his room
+another gentleman was taking in his boots on the other side of the
+corridor, and of him our friend asked if he could tell him what time it
+was. To his surprise, the gentleman took no notice whatever of the
+question. He asked again, "Sir, will you be good enough to tell me what
+time it is? My watch has stopped." No answer. The gentleman, without
+looking up, shut his door and disappeared. At that moment two other
+gentlemen came walking down the corridor, and Mr. X. asked of them the
+same question. The two gentlemen, without looking to the right or left,
+continued their walk without an answer or sign. "Well," thought Mr. X,
+"this is very curious." However, he went back to his room. Presently the
+bell rang for breakfast, and immediately a waiter entered the room,
+seized him by the arm, and began a series of gesticulations. Mr. X. lost
+his temper, and burst forth with "What in the name of goodness is the
+matter?" when the waiter cried "Oh," and vanished, laughing. Mr. X.
+began to think something was very wrong, but went down to breakfast.
+When he entered the _salle a manger_, which commonly had a dozen or
+twenty people at the tables, he found the hall filled with gentlemen in
+black coats, all feeding gravely, and in silence. A waiter silently
+beckoned him to a place, and when he was seated he said to his
+neighbour--"Sir, will you be kind enough to tell what all this is
+about?" No answer. The person, like Charlotte in Werter, went on eating
+bread and butter. Our friend began to feel decidedly queer, and getting
+out of his seat, went to the nearest waiter and piteously besought him,
+for heaven's sake, to tell him what was the matter with the house. "Oh,"
+said the waiter, "don't you know? Why this is the Deaf and Dumb
+Convention, which meets to-day at Hartford."
+
+
+
+
+THE DEAF AND DUMB BOTH HEARD AND SPOKE.
+
+Vincent Ogden was recently charged with begging, under the pretence of
+being deaf and dumb, at Launceston. P. C. Barrett said that he saw the
+prisoner in the butcher's market. He was making signs, and pretending to
+be deaf and dumb. He took him into custody, and after they arrived at
+the police station asked him his name; he made no reply at first, but
+subsequently said he was called William Ogden, that he was a native of
+Manchester, and had just come out of Bodmin Gaol. Committed for two
+months, with hard labour.
+
+
+
+
+ENTERTAINMENT BY DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+The inhabitants of Mansfield had some most enjoyable meetings on Monday
+last, when a number of the pupils from the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
+Derby gave some very interesting illustrations of blackboard sketching,
+including animals, birds, fishes, &c. In reply to the question asked by
+one of the audience, "What have you come to Mansfield for?" A little
+girl, amidst considerable laughter, wrote "To get money." The gentleman
+then asked her what work she would like to do on leaving school? The
+reply was "I would like to be a lady's servant."--_Mansfield Paper_,
+1885.
+
+
+
+
+LORD SEAFORTH.
+
+Lord Seaforth, who was born deaf and dumb, was to dine one day with Lord
+Melville. Just before the time of the company's arrival, Lady Melville
+sent into the drawing-room a lady of her acquaintance who could talk
+with her fingers, that she might receive Lord Seaforth. Presently Lord
+Guildford entered the room, and the lady, believing him to be Lord
+Seaforth, began to spell on her fingers quickly. Lord Guildford did the
+same, and they had been carrying on a conversation in this manner for
+about ten minutes, when Lady Melville joined them. Her female friend
+said, "Well, I have been talking away to this dumb man." "Dumb!"
+exclaimed Lord Guildford, "Bless me, I thought you were dumb."
+
+
+
+
+A "SUPPOSED" LUNATIC IN DERBY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At the Borough Police Court this morning, a man, who said his name was
+"Jim," but from whom no further information could be obtained, was
+charged with being a wandering lunatic. Sergeant Parker said that, at a
+quarter-past one o'clock on Monday afternoon, his attention was called
+to the prisoner, who was on the Midland Railway platform. He noticed
+that the prisoner was wandering about in a strange manner. After making
+enquiries, he had telegrams sent to Bath, the replies to which were to
+the effect that the prisoner had been found wandering about the line
+there greatly excited, that they did not consider he was right in his
+mind, and that they had given him written directions to enable him to
+obtain a ticket for Derby, which he succeeded in doing. He spoke to the
+man, and thought he wanted to go to London; but when the London train
+came in he could not prevail upon him to take a ticket. He had L1 8s. in
+his possession, and also some tea, a razor, basket, and other articles;
+but no letters or anything from which they could find out his address.
+He took him to the police station, where the police surgeon examined him
+on Monday night, and pronounced him to be of unsound mind. The doctor
+promised to call again this morning, but had not yet done so. The Bench
+remanded the man until the following morning, so that the police surgeon
+might attend and give evidence.--_Derby Daily Telegraph._
+
+The alleged lunatic,--the deaf and dumb man, whose only name was Jim,
+and who had been charged with being a wandering lunatic, was again
+brought up. Mr. W. R. Roe, head master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution,
+said that he had been sent for, and that he had been communicating with
+the prisoner by means of signs, and found that he was deaf and dumb, and
+totally uneducated, but certainly of _sound_ mind. The police surgeon
+again appeared, and said he had examined the man, and had come to the
+conclusion that there was no indication of insanity about him. The
+prisoner was discharged and handed over to Mr. Roe, who promised to take
+care of him till something was heard from his friends.--_Derby Daily
+Telegraph._
+
+The man was kept at the Deaf and Dumb Institution for a few days, when
+it was found that his friends were residing on the other side of Bath.
+It transpired that the man had been on a visit to some friends at Bath
+and could not make the authorities understand where he wanted to go,
+hence the error in sending him to Derby.--W. R. R.
+
+
+
+
+A CLEVER GYMNAST.
+
+Walter Stevens, a member of the British Mission to the Deaf and Dumb,
+last year won the first prize for "all round performances" at the
+Gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association. The prize consisted
+of a very handsome gold and silver medals with silver buckle and strap.
+He was successful in 1883 and 1884 in winning second prizes, but this
+year he carried off in grand style the much-coveted first prize. His
+performance on the horizontal bar was truly marvellous.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WILLIAM DE COURCY.
+
+This boy was educated at a Deaf and Dumb School. He was fond of
+learning, and soon had many companions. One of the delights of his life
+was visiting the farmyard which was attached to the Institution. William
+had been taught to be kind to dumb animals. He watched the little birds
+with much interest, and liked to feed them. There was one bird which
+came daily to be fed which he used to call his own. He was eager for
+religious instruction, and soon knew God made him, and that Jesus was
+his best friend, and that sin was displeasing to God. He loved Jesus
+much, and often signed about Him to his school fellows. After William
+had been at school for some years he was taken seriously ill, and he was
+asked if he were afraid to die? His reply was, "No, I know that God sent
+His Son to save me." Shortly before he died his school mates signed to
+him that Jesus was kind. William smiled, and then signed in answer,
+"Yes, Jesus is kind," and shortly after fell asleep, his happy spirit
+took its flight to that world where there are no deaf and dumb.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SCULPTOR.
+
+There has just been placed outside St. Saviour's Church, for the Deaf
+and Dumb, Oxford Street, London, a statue of "The Good Shepherd," which
+has been entirely modelled and carved by Mr. Joseph Gawen, a deaf mute,
+who was a pupil of the late Mr. Behnes, and an assistant of the late Mr.
+Foley, R.A. The statue is pronounced by competent judges to be an
+admirable work of art. He also executed a marble bust of the wife of Sir
+G. E. Hodgkinson. Some years ago he produced a splendid model in
+competition for the Wellington Memorial.
+
+
+
+
+BUXTON.
+
+The Entertainments given on Tuesday in the Pavilion by Deaf and Dumb
+children from the Institution at Derby drew large audiences. The
+children looked bright and happy, and their personal appearance was a
+sufficient indication that they were taken good care of at the
+Institution. Mr. Roe gave some interesting illustrations of teaching the
+dumb to speak on the oral system by placing the youngest girl on a chair
+and explaining how sounds were produced. Mr. Roe asked various questions
+as to names and objects orally, to which answers were instantly given in
+the same way. The Institution at Derby is an excellent one, and the
+Committee of management deserve the warmest thanks for what has already
+been achieved, and we hope will be materially assisted in north
+Derbyshire by all christian people who have at heart the welfare of an
+afflicted class of society.--_Buxton Advertiser_, Sept., 1884.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools recently visited the
+Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Derby, and says the children wrote
+some texts which pertinently answered some questions on religion which
+were given to them. In answer to the question "Who made the world?" a
+little girl at once wrote on the blackboard "In the beginning God
+created the heaven and earth." The second question was "Who are
+sinners?" One of the boys wrote "All are sinners and have come short of
+the glory of God." A little Irish girl was then asked "How do you hope
+to be saved?" The child wrote "This is a faithful saying and worthy of
+all acceptation that Christ came into the world to save sinners." In
+answer to the question "What does the Bible say about the righteous?" a
+little girl wrote "The righteous are as bold as a lion." The last
+question proposed was "How can you show your love to Jesus?" when one of
+the pupils at once wrote "He says if ye love me keep my commandments."
+
+
+
+
+HER LATEST AND BEST.
+
+A little girl was admitted to a Deaf and Dumb Institution, and in due
+course, before she had obtained a thorough knowledge of language,
+learned "Little Jack Horner." Two nights afterwards, when the deaf and
+dumb pupils were kneeling at prayer, they were surprised to see this
+little girl kneel down and earnestly repeat "Little Jack Horner." It
+might be said she was offering the latest and best thing she had.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE DEAF AND DUMB PREACHER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In a small town in Germany lived a locksmith and his wife, to whom God
+had given one child, a girl, who rejoiced the hearts of her parents as
+she grew up strong and happy. But the father longed for a son, and God
+heard his prayer, and a boy was born to him. Now indeed there was joy in
+the home; but their happiness was soon saddened, for the child was found
+to be deaf and dumb. He was otherwise a beautiful boy, with large blue
+eyes. What could they do for him but pray?
+
+"Ah, if only the Lord Jesus was here now," spoke the father once, "how
+would I seek Him, and bring our child to Him; how would I pray Him to
+lay His hand on our dear child, too, and give him hearing."
+
+"And I know He certainly would," the mother answered.
+
+"But the Lord Jesus is with us, though we see Him not; let us entreat
+Him for our child."
+
+At length the boy was three years old. His eyes were full of
+intelligence, and he seemed to understand everything around him. The
+God-fearing habits of his parents had a great influence over him. At
+family prayer the mother held the little one on her lap, his hands
+clasped together, and when the father asked a blessing on their frugal
+meal, the little child would also stand behind his stool, and would
+never taste a morsel before it was asked.
+
+It was advised that the boy be placed under the care of a famous
+physician in a neighbouring town. The father would leave untried nothing
+possible for the welfare of his boy, and so very soon set out on his
+journey. The sun was already set when they reached their destination.
+
+Then the father took the boy's hand, and they went together to a
+relative's who lived in the town. But what a different home from that
+which the boy had left: the relative did not believe in the Word of God,
+but only thought of pleasure and doing according to his own wisdom. So
+long as the father was with him the child was content. He would not move
+from his side, and at night slept locked in his arms. But the father
+could not stay long; pressing business compelled his return home. His
+departure was very sorrowful for the child, and the father felt it no
+less.
+
+At length the dinner time came. All was prepared, and the family
+gathered round the table, and with a good appetite began the meal. But
+the dumb child sat not; he stood behind his chair and waited. The others
+told him to sit and eat, but he understood not. His lips were
+speechless, but he made signs that they should pray. The people
+understood him, but would not show they did. Then the child ran to each,
+and, with a supplicating look, tried to clasp their hands together. A
+feeling of shame came over them. They wished to quiet him, but dared
+not try. Should they pray? They had never done it, but the child waited.
+At length the wife stood up, then the husband, and then all the others,
+for they did not know what else to do, and the wife prayed, with
+trembling voice, "Lord Jesus, come to our meal and bless it, and grant
+us Thy mercy."
+
+Thus did the dumb child become a holy messenger, and, though he was
+speechless, witness for God where He was entirely forgotten.
+
+But how was it with the child? Was his coming so far any use? Was he
+cured? No; the doctor could do nothing for him, and he remains
+speechless still. But later he attended a deaf and dumb institution,
+where he learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, and many other useful
+things. Above all, he has learnt to know for himself the Lord Jesus, and
+to be resigned to the affliction God has laid upon him. He still lives,
+and is a God-fearing young man, and the joy of his old parents. He has
+learnt the trade of bookbinding, and can well support himself. Speaking
+with his sister of the old times, he said in the deaf and dumb language,
+smiling, "Ah, God has made me deaf and dumb that I should preach of the
+holy Jesus."
+
+
+
+
+A NAVAL CHEF D'EUVRE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Gervase Murray, a deaf and dumb young man, the son of a poor widow
+living at Balbriggan, has just completed a miniature merchant ship,
+which in mechanical structure, symmetrical build, and neatness of
+finish, is not probably surpassed by anything of the kind to be seen in
+Ireland. It has been minutely inspected by competent judges, who assert
+that its _tout ensemble_ a more perfect piece of ingenious workmanship
+they have never seen; nor could the most experienced ship carpenter do
+more justice to the various compartments, appendages, and riggings than
+has its mute architect, with but very indifferent apparatus--a penknife,
+a file, and a bradawl being the principal instruments employed in the
+work. It measures exactly six feet from the figure head to the helm, and
+is precisely the same extent in height from the top of the mainmast to
+the keel, the width being of proportional dimensions. The materials are
+all of the best description, are tastefully polished or painted where
+necessary, and are so exactly fitted in every part as to baffle the
+detection of any conspicuous fault whatever. It is fully manned with a
+crew of little wooden men, and officers in uniform, and completely
+equipped with boats, capstan, blocks, hawsers, cables, davits,
+cat-heads, bars, bolts, buckets, chocks, compasses, and even three brass
+cannons; in short with everything that may be seen in a large ship. She
+bears the significant name of "The Star of the Sea." Had he been able to
+exhibit it, as he intended, at the late Dublin Exhibition, there is no
+doubt that it would have attracted considerable attention, which perhaps
+might have led to a substantial recognition of merit having been awarded
+to a poor dumb youth, the chief support of his widowed mother, as a
+well-deserved recompense for the patience and native talent displayed in
+the construction of this tiny chef d'euvre of naval art, which must have
+given him an immense amount of trouble and anxiety during the two years
+he has been engaged in building it.--_Irish Journal._
+
+
+
+
+ALEXANDER FERGUSON, THE FAMOUS DEAF AND DUMB SWIMMER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alexander Ferguson, a dock mason of Dundee, (though now in employment at
+Irvine), has rescued forty-seven persons from drowning--one paper says
+fifty-one--in the Tay, Forth, Clyde, Dee, Tyne, Mersey, Wear, Ayr,
+Irwell, Calder, Humber, and other rivers in England, Scotland, and
+Ireland. He is thirty-nine years of age, and made his first rescue when
+about ten years old. We have before us accounts cut from the newspapers
+and other publications, from which we give the following particulars of
+some of the rescues and swimming feats:--
+
+At Troon Dock. One Sunday a boy, who was playing with his companions at
+the quay, missed his footing, and fell into the harbour. Alexander
+Ferguson, observing the occurrence, pulled him out in a very exhausted
+condition. A purse of L15 was presented to him.
+
+At Ayr Harbour. A boy named William M'Lean, aged 12 years, fell into the
+water and was just disappearing when A. F. leaped into the water and
+rescued him.
+
+At Androsan Harbour. A boy named Robert Bodman, aged 10 years. He was
+rewarded with the sum of L16 by merchants and gentlemen.
+
+At Llanelly Harbour. A boy named Francis Cornwall, 10 years old.
+
+At Towey Dock. Richard Pearce, 11 years of age.
+
+In the Camperdown Dock, Dundee. Alexander Yule, 10 years of age.
+
+At King William Dock, Dundee. James Anderson, a bricklayer.
+
+At Devonport Dock. A girl named Victoria Napier, 10 years of age.
+
+At Dundee Pier. A boy named Alexander Robertson, 10 years old, for which
+he received the rescue medal of the Forth Swimming Club and Humane
+Society (1864.)
+
+At Falmouth Dock. Sarah Armstrong, 11 years of age.
+
+At Lime Dock. Oliver Markham, 7 years old.
+
+At Maldon Dock. A girl named Jessie Brown, 12 years of age.
+
+At Camperdown Dock. Mr. Alexander Doig, merchant of Forfar.
+
+At Swanage Dock. A girl named Catherine Bruce, aged 14 years.
+
+At Portcawl Dock. A boy named Albert Jones.
+
+At Exmouth Dock. A girl named Alexandrina Nelson, 14 years old.
+
+At Victoria Dock. A boy named Charles Blair, 8 years of age.
+
+At Alexandra Dock. Richard Harrison, 8 years old.
+
+At Earl Grey's Dock, Dundee. Peter Band, 8 years of age.
+
+At Teignmouth Dock. Edgar Thorpe, 8 years of age.
+
+At Alnwick Dock. Caesar Franklin, 10 years old.
+
+A brave man. The last official act of the late Mayor of Great Yarmouth
+was to present the silver medal of the Humane Society to Alexander
+Ferguson, mason, of Dundee, for having saved the life of Charles Cullen,
+a private in the 55th Regiment, who fell overboard the steamer "Juno" on
+returning to Inverness. Ferguson dived and saved him, but ran great risk
+of being drowned, Cullen having fallen under the paddle wheel, which was
+in motion.
+
+Gallant rescue from drowning in the River Mersey, off Garston, near
+Liverpool. On Thursday afternoon four young lads had an exceedingly
+narrow escape from drowning in the ferry harbour; they were amusing
+themselves with a boat, when they overbalanced and fell into the water;
+this was noticed by Alexander Ferguson, mason, who was standing on the
+jetty, and he, without divesting himself of any of his clothes, swam to
+their rescue. Having succeeded in getting hold of three lads, he landed
+them ashore, and then struck out for the other, who by this time had
+almost disappeared, his hands only being visible above the water.
+Ferguson landed him ashore also. After some time all the four were able
+to walk home to Liverpool. A large crowd was on the jetty at the time,
+and great excitement prevailed. Ferguson deserves great credit for the
+courage and presence of mind he displayed, and it is believed that but
+for his efforts the lads would have been drowned.--_Liverpool Mercury_,
+1872.
+
+
+GREAT SWIMMING FEATS.
+
+1. Fourteen miles down the river with the rapid ebb tide, from the
+middle buoys opposite the Tay ferries to far buoy at the mouth of the
+river Tay, in 5-1/2 hours (1859.)
+
+2. Across the Frith of Clyde from Carrought, Ayrshire, to Ailsa Rock; 8
+miles in 3 hours, through strong currents.
+
+3. Across the Frith of Forth, from Buckhaven, in Fifeshire, to North
+Berwick; 18 miles in 7 hours (1862.)
+
+4. Across the Bay of Leece, from the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse to
+Barrowhead; 10 miles in 4 hours.
+
+5. Across the mouth of Loch Ryan, from Ronmach, in Ayrshire, to Kirkcolm
+Point in Gallowayshire; 4 miles in 2 hours.
+
+6. From John O'Groat's House to Stoma; 8 miles in 2-1/2 hours, through
+dangerous currents (1873.)
+
+7. Across the strong-currented river to Cardell Point, on the east of
+Cantyre, from Penrioch, on the coast of Arran; 11 miles in 3-1/2 hours
+(1874.)
+
+8. Across the Frith of Clyde from West Kilbride, in Ayrshire, to Grombe,
+on the east coast of Arran, a distance of 12-1/2 miles in 4-1/2 hours
+(1874.)
+
+9. Across the Frith of the Clyde from Port Glasgow to Cardross; 9 miles
+in 2-1/2 hours (1874.)
+
+In all these instances he was followed by persons in boats.
+
+We are informed that he has received presents for rescuing lives of the
+value of L300, besides twenty suits of clothes, and has also won many
+cups and other prizes in swimming and diving matches, and has also
+received several gold and silver medals.
+
+Alexander Ferguson has on several occasions been present at the services
+for the adult deaf and dumb held at the Institution at Derby.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S GRATITUDE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+M. Felix Martin, an artist, deaf and dumb from his birth, has just
+executed a group representing the Abbe de L'Epee teaching a deaf and
+dumb youth. He desires it to be placed in the Court of the Sourds et
+Muets Institution at Paris, to which he gives it in recognition of the
+debt of gratitude which he and his deaf mute brethren in misfortune owe
+to the Abbe for their moral and intellectual emancipation.
+
+
+
+
+SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE DEAF & DUMB.
+
+Sir Walter Scott in his novel "Peveril of the Peak," uses the following
+language as to the deaf and dumb of his day:--"All knowledge is gained
+by communication, either with the dead through books, or more pleasingly
+through the conversation of the living. The deaf and dumb above are
+excluded from improvement, and surely their institution is not enviable
+that we should imitate them." Aristotle considered the deaf and dumb as
+incapable of acquiring knowledge; while St. Augustine insisted that they
+could not be instructed in the holy faith of the Catholic Church. Could
+the worthies come back to this world they would be slightly amazed at
+the practical refutation of their prophecies.
+
+
+
+
+UNEDUCATED.
+
+What would any of us be without education? By education, I mean not
+book-learning only, but the training in good habits which is given in
+well-ordered homes and schools.
+
+Can any one read the following true story of a deaf and dumb man without
+feelings of the deepest pity for the poor fellow left untaught and
+untrained, to wander at will over the wild though beautiful country of
+his birth. Was he happy? Read the story, and judge for yourselves.
+
+A few years since an artist visited Ireland to sketch the wild and rocky
+scenery for which parts of the coast are celebrated. One of the places
+he went to was so poor and uncivilized that there was no house better
+than a cabin to be found in the whole district. In a cabin, therefore,
+he took up his abode.
+
+One day he was busily engaged sketching some high cliffs, at the bottom
+of which the wild waves dashed in fury. His seat was in a position as
+perilous as it was grand.
+
+Presently he observed a creature approach, whose appearance at first
+puzzled him exceedingly. A nearer view showed him that it was a man
+clothed in a goatskin, but with the gait and manners of one wholly
+unused to civilized society.
+
+The artist thought that he was about to encounter an escaped lunatic,
+and, although no coward, he confessed to a feeling somewhat akin to fear
+passing through him as he looked down at the depths below, and
+calculated how small a push might launch him into eternity. Then he
+remembered something about the advantage of being civil to madmen, and
+determined to try and ward off his impending fate by a show of
+civility. Beckoning the poor creature to him, he commenced to talk to
+him, to show him his drawings, and to offer him a share of his lunch.
+The man made no reply, but apparently assured by the artist's manner
+came up close, sat down beside him, and was soon deeply absorbed in
+devouring his portion of the lunch and in admiring the pictures. Still
+he never spoke, only uttered some unintelligible sounds.
+
+The artist congratulated himself on the success of his experiments; but,
+nevertheless, he thought that on the whole "discretion was the better
+part of valour," and after a little he got up and returned to his
+lodging, the man following him at a distance.
+
+On arriving at the cabin he related his adventure, when the people
+exclaimed, "Ah! it's only poor dummy!" and assured him the poor fellow
+was perfectly harmless, but he was wholly untaught, had received no
+training in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, and lived in this wild
+neglected manner. He was never asked to work, but roamed about at will,
+being fed by the neighbours, who would give bits to him as they would to
+a dog.
+
+The artist was greatly touched by what he heard, and continued to be
+kind to the poor deaf and dumb man, who, on his part, attached himself
+to his patron in the most docile manner. Every morning he went to carry
+the artist's drawing materials, waited on him during the day, and only
+seemed too delighted if he could perform any little service for him. In
+return the artist could only reward him by kind looks and a share of his
+sandwiches. Once he offered him money, but it was received in such a
+manner that showed plainly he did not understand its value. And the
+neighbours said it was no use to give him money: _food_ was the only
+thing he seemed to care for.
+
+At last the time came for the artist to return home. When it dawned upon
+the poor deaf mute he was about to lose his friend, he set up the most
+piteous wailing, and refused to be comforted, not even by the choicest
+morsels of food.
+
+The artist, when relating it afterwards, said "that he was never more
+moved in his life than to see this unfeigned sorrow, and to feel himself
+unable (owing to the man not having been trained in a Deaf and Dumb
+Institution) to convey one single idea of suggestive consolation."
+
+
+
+
+TRADES OF THE DEAF & DUMB IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
+
+The following particulars showing the trades of the Deaf and Dumb are
+taken from the last Government Census of 1883:--
+
+     FEMALES:--
+
+315 domestic servants, 12 teachers of the deaf and dumb, 74 charwomen,
+158 washing and bathing service, 22 bookbinders, 21 cloth manufacturers,
+146 manufacturers of silk and cotton goods, 62 making lace, carpets or
+trimmings, 580 milliners and dressmakers, 75 tailoresses, 28 straw hat
+and bonnet makers, 99 seamstresses, 12 glove makers, 19 baby shoe
+makers, 6 brush makers, 15 paper bag makers, 9 workers of porcelain,
+&c., &c.
+
+     MALES:--
+
+24 artists (painters), 24 artists (engravers), 5 sculptors, 18 indoor
+domestic servants, 37 gardeners, 28 commercial clerks, 28 messengers, 47
+engaged in harbour and dock service, 37 farming on own account, 3 farm
+bailiffs, 463 agricultural labourers, 15 nurserymen, 13 grooms, 2
+veterinary surgeons, 2 gamekeepers, 40 bookbinders, 55 printers, 26
+lithographic printers, 26 engine fitters and machinists, 11 watch and
+clock makers, 41 bricklayers, 137 carpenters and joiners, 61 masons, 99
+painters and paperhangers, 75 cabinet makers, 21 French polishers, 22
+wood carvers, 12 carvers and gilders, 12 coach-makers, 15 wheelwrights,
+43 saddlers, 42 shipwrights and carpenters ashore, 5 innkeepers,
+1 maltster, 5 brewers, 17 butchers, 19 bakers, 4 confectioners, 44
+worsted stuff and cloth makers, 344 tailors, 507 shoemakers, 23 pattern
+makers, 10 hair dressers, 10 brush makers, 29 basket makers, 18 wood
+turners, 23 coopers, 71 coal miners, 22 brickmakers, 22 workers of
+porcelain, 29 glass makers, 11 jewellers, 55 blacksmiths, 65 iron and
+steel manufacturers, 14 tin plate workers, 360 general labourers, 11
+engine drivers, stokers, &c., &c.
+
+There are in Great Britain and Ireland about 20,000 deaf mutes.
+
+
+
+
+A WILL MADE BY PANTOMIME.
+
+The Supreme Court of Maine recently, after a six days trial, sustained
+the will of Horatio N. Foster, who was deaf and dumb, seventy-six years
+old, who could neither read, write, nor use the manual alphabet. The
+will, which was made by pantomime, devised 7000 dols. Only one similar
+case it is said was ever tried in the United States, and that was in
+North Carolina.
+
+
+
+
+A BRAVE DEFENDER.
+
+After reaching our encampment (at Jenin in Palestine) our dragoman told
+us that the people of the village were so quarrelsome and thievish that
+it was never safe to stop a night there without an extra guard, and he
+had engaged the brother of the sheik of the village to occupy this
+responsible post. This man was a great, tall, athletic-looking fellow,
+but a deaf mute. While we were taking our dinner he came into our tent,
+brandishing a revolver. He expressed to us by signs how safely we might
+lie down and rest, because he (brave fellow as he was) by the aid of
+that revolver would protect us from all harm. Directly after our
+waiter--Dominicho--came in and informed us that the guard had borrowed
+this revolver from our dragoman, Ali Solomon, but that he stood in
+mortal dread of the weapon he had flourished before us so heroically;
+that he refused to touch it till all the charges were withdrawn from it.
+With such a champion for our defender what cause could there be for
+fear?--_In Bible Lands._
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB LAWYER.
+
+Mr. Lowe, a gentleman who has been deaf and dumb from his infancy, will,
+we understand, be called to the Bar by the Society of the Middle Temple
+on Saturday next. He has had a good legal education, and is considered
+very clever as a conveyancer.--_Brighton Gazette_, Nov., 1829.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB MAN ON THE BIBLE.
+
+The following remarks on the Bible were written by a deaf and dumb young
+man 26 years of age:--"The Bible is more valuable than all other books
+in the world. It is divided into two parts, the one called the Old
+Testament and the other the New Testament. The former was written by
+inspired men, directed by the Spirit of God; the latter contains the
+news of the Gospel, written by the witnessing disciples while Christ was
+on the earth. The Bible informs us of the guilt of sin, of the
+punishment of the wicked, of the Saviour who died to save men from
+dangerous destruction, of the way of forgiveness by Christ, of the
+condescension of Him, of the mercy and love of Him, and of the happiness
+which Christ has promised to His disciples.
+
+The Bible teaches us how to do good to others, how to help them in
+distress, how to avoid temptation, how to love and obey God, how to pray
+to God to keep us out of dangerous things, and pray to God for our
+parents, for their children, and for our other friends.
+
+The Bible is a very precious gift from heaven, and contains many
+precious truths, therefore we should reverence it.
+
+
+
+
+UNEDUCATED DEAF MUTE'S IGNORANCE OF GOD.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Vauncey Thompson wrote after having been under instruction in the Deaf
+and Dumb School for six years:--"When I was at home, I knew one word,
+'God,' but I did not know what it meant, nor how the world was made, and
+my mind was very hard and uncultivated, resembling the ground that is
+not ploughed, and I was perfectly ignorant. I thought then that my mind
+would open when I was a man: but I was mistaken, it would not have
+opened if I had not come to school to be taught; I would have been
+ignorant and have known nothing that is proper, and no religion would
+have come toward me. I must study my Bible till my life is departed, and
+I hope God will please never forsake me."
+
+
+
+
+DO THE DEAF & DUMB THINK THEMSELVES UNHAPPY?
+
+Two deaf and dumb scholars of the late Abbe Siccard were asked--Do the
+deaf and dumb think themselves unhappy? The following is the answer of
+Massien:--"No; because we seldom lament that which we never possessed,
+or know we can never be in possession of; but should the deaf and dumb
+become blind, they would think themselves very unhappy, because sight is
+the finest, the most useful, and the most agreeable of all the senses.
+Besides, we are amply indemnified for our misfortune by the signal
+favour of expressing by gestures and by writing our ideas, our thoughts,
+and our feelings, and likewise by being able to read books and
+manuscripts."
+
+The following is the answer of Clerc, the other pupil, to the same
+question:--"He who never had anything has never lost anything, and he
+who never lost anything has nothing to regret; consequently, the deaf
+and dumb who never heard or spoke, have never lost either hearing or
+speech, therefore cannot lament either the one or the other. And he who
+has nothing to lament cannot be unhappy; consequently the deaf and dumb
+are not unhappy. Besides, it is a great consolation for them to be able
+to replace hearing by writing, and speech by signs."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF MUTE'S IDEAS BEFORE INSTRUCTION.
+
+The following extract from the correspondence of a deaf and dumb pupil
+with his teacher is a fair specimen of the natural condition of the deaf
+and dumb before receiving instruction:--
+
+"Before I came to school I thought that the stars were placed in the
+firmament like grates of fire, and that the moon at night was like a
+great furnace of fire; I did not know how the stars and moon and heavens
+were made; but I supposed that the people, like us above the firmament,
+kindled the moon and stars; and I did not know whether the heavens was
+made by art or not. I thought the world little and round like a table,
+and was always intending to go to the end of it."
+
+
+
+
+OBSERVATIONS OF DEAF & DUMB CHILDREN.
+
+A gentleman called to see some little deaf and dumb girls who had been
+present at a large meeting in aid of the Institution on the previous
+day, when the gentleman asked, "What did you think of the great meeting
+yesterday?" "I thought," replied a little girl of ten summers, "people
+would give great money for deaf and dumb school." To another little girl
+the question put was, "Did you observe any difference in the behaviour
+of the people present at the meeting?" "I saw some smile, and I believe
+some were fretting." "What do you think was the reason that some
+fretted?" "I thought they fretted about the deaf and dumb and about
+God."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF & DUMB BOY'S REMARKABLE DREAM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+William Brennen, aged about fourteen and a-half years, having been
+awakened from sleep, his first words were that he had been dreaming; and
+when he got into the school-room he commenced writing upon his slate as
+follows, assuring his teachers that he described exactly as he thought
+he saw and heard in his dream, and from his character for truth there
+was no doubt he did so:
+
+I was dreaming about God; that he sent Jesus Christ, who came into the
+world from heaven. He was present with twelve men; they saw Him, and
+were frightened. He said, "Will you love God, and why?" They said, "He
+is the creator of all things; He saved us from our sin; He was walking
+on the water; He made them to live on the water and on the land. He
+spoke unto them, whose names are Disciples. I saw them by dreaming.
+
+He said unto me, "Will you love God, and why?" I said unto Him, "Because
+He made me in a happy state and holy; he brought me to heaven from this
+world." His face was luminous and beautiful; he had a long beard, his
+hair was short and shining--I could not look at him. He wrote judgments
+of mankind--some were very good. When they died he took some to heaven,
+and some were sent to hell. His robe was very bright, like a cloud round
+the sun.
+
+I could hear more than all the people in the world. I was more obedient
+to God. There was not the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars. I saw
+Addington--(one of his friends who had died lately)--who was in heaven.
+He shook hands with me. He was more tall than you.
+
+I saw Adam and Eve: God made him by His word. He made him of the dust of
+the earth. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. God said,
+"Thy name is Adam." He took a rib of the man whilst he slept; he made
+woman by taking the rib from a man. Her name was Eve. He made them in a
+happy state and holy. He made a garden of Eden. He sent them to live in
+the garden. God said, "Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of the tree of
+knowledge."
+
+I saw God making the world and all things. First the world, firmament,
+sun, moon, stars, land and water. God made the water with His breath, He
+gave it into the world. He made the sun, moon, stars very quickly with
+his word. He made the sun of part of the earth, from the world, and the
+moon of a little part from the sun, and the stars of a very little part
+from the moon. He did not make anything with His hands, but by His word.
+
+I saw the world before the sun was made--it was all earth. He made
+Europe, Africa--all! and with His breath He made the sea. (Here his
+action was remarkable. He drew on his slate the continent and islands,
+blew with his breath with scarce any motion of his lips, and showed that
+the waters instantaneously flowed through their channels, and the seas
+were formed.) God made the firmament by His word; it is like silk paper,
+it is all round the world: there is water over it and clouds under it,
+and the sun shines through it, and the moon, and the stars. (Here he
+described by gestures the motions of the earth, the sun, and moon, and
+that there were countless stars, larger much than the sun; that there
+was no axle on which the world moved, nor anything to keep it up like a
+cord, but that it was moved and upheld by the breath of the Almighty.)
+
+There were many angels with him.
+
+He had not a loud voice, and his eyes see the sun before him and behind
+him.
+
+He spoke very kindly to me; I saw many spirits in heaven; they were
+worshipping God and obedient to God; they did not speak; they listened
+to God and were obedient to Him; and God was often speaking to them; and
+they loved Him. He was commanding them to look at evil and right things
+in the world, and they were very bright like clouds; thou couldst not
+see them, because they were invisible.
+
+Angels are often in the world; they are always present with us, and in
+every place, separating the people's hearts, good from bad. God tells
+them to separate the good from the bad; and they are always soaring with
+their wings. Their wings have not feathers; they are like the clouds.
+The angels are soaring always, and standing on the air and the clouds;
+they never are flapping with their wings; they are never tired, nor
+sleepy, nor hungry, nor thirsty, nor eating, nor laughing, nor smiling;
+I saw some more crying a little, because the people have sin _from
+them_. They are very beautiful like the sun. God is more bright than an
+angel. They can walk on everything in heaven and in the world, and in
+hell they are not burned. God was sitting on the clouds, and on the air,
+and on the water. He is still, quiet; He never laughs. (His gestures
+here were striking in an astonishing degree, and his whole mind seemed
+overcome, with a sense of the Divine greatness and glory.) God was very
+kind to the angels, more than all the world.
+
+
+
+
+THE SCRIPTURES AND THE STATE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.
+
+"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed
+to destruction.
+
+"Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and
+needy."--Prov. xxxi. 8, 9.
+
+"Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what
+thou shalt say.
+
+"And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh
+the dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or the blind? have not I the
+Lord?"--Exodus iv. 12, 11.
+
+"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
+shall be done away."--I Cor. xiii. 10.
+
+"But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth
+not his mouth."--Psalm xxxviii. 13.
+
+"All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not
+satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing."--Ecclesiastes i. 8.
+
+"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel
+to every creature."--Mark xvi. 15.
+
+"And how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, how
+beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and
+bring glad tidings of good things."--Romans x. 15.
+
+"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
+of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."--Isaiah
+xxix. 18.
+
+"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
+shall be unstopped.
+
+"Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
+sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
+desert."--Isaiah xxxv. 5, 6.
+
+"But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see; and
+they that have not heard shall understand."--Romans xv. 21.
+
+"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
+Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief."--I
+Timothy i. 15.
+
+"As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with
+a devil.
+
+"And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake; and the multitudes
+marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel."--Matt. ix. 32, 33.
+
+"Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two
+of his disciples,
+
+"And said unto him, Art thou he that should come or look we for another?
+
+"Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things
+which ye do hear and see:
+
+"The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are
+cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have
+the gospel preached to them.
+
+"And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me."--Matt. xi.
+2-6.
+
+"Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb;
+and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and
+saw."--Matt. xii. 22, 23.
+
+"And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were
+lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus
+feet; and he healed them; insomuch that the multitude wondered, when
+they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,
+and the blind to see; and they glorified the God of Israel."--Matt. xv.
+30, 31.
+
+"And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto
+thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit:
+
+"And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth, and
+gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples
+that they should cast him out, and they could not.
+
+"He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I
+be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
+
+"And they brought him unto him; and when he saw him, straightway the
+spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
+
+"And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him?
+And he said, Of a child.
+
+"And often it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters to
+destroy him; but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and
+help us.
+
+"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to
+him that believeth.
+
+"And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
+Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
+
+"When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the
+foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I charge thee,
+come out of him, and enter no more into him.
+
+"And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him; and he
+was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
+
+"But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose."--Mark
+ix. 17-27.
+
+"And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his
+speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
+
+"And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his
+ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
+
+"And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha,
+that is, be opened.
+
+"And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was
+loosed, and he spake plain.
+
+"And he charged them that they should tell no man; but the more he
+charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
+
+"And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things
+well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak."--Mark
+vii. 32-37.
+
+
+
+
+UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
+
+The Tenth Census Report of the U. S. of America for 1880 contains some
+interesting statistics of the deaf and dumb, and apparently show a
+considerable increase as compared with the whole population.
+
+                            1850.       1860.       1870.       1880.
+
+  Total population       23,191,876  31,443,321  38,558,371  50,155,783
+
+  Deaf Mutes                  9,803      12,821      16,205      38,878
+
+  No. of Deaf Mutes in each
+  million of population         423         408         420         675
+
+Out of 33,878 there were 18,567 males and 15,311 females. The number of
+native deaf mutes was 30,507, and foreign 3,721. White, 30,661;
+coloured, 3,217, including 3 Chinese and 37 Indians.
+
+
+
+
+CAUSES OF DEAF-MUTISM.
+
+The intermarriage of blood-relations is doubtless one cause. In one
+school for the deaf and dumb 25 per cent., in another 20 per cent., and
+in others 15 per cent. of the pupils are said to be the off-spring of
+marriages between blood-relations.
+
+Davy mentions the following case observed by Meniere:--A married couple,
+being cousins, who enjoyed excellent health, had eight children, of whom
+four were born deaf mutes, another was idiotic, another died when five
+years of age, and two others suffered from absolute deafness, which only
+made its appearance later on.
+
+In the Institution at Derby there are three sisters, and also a younger
+sister at home, all born deaf and dumb, the parents being own cousins.
+On the other hand, there are at the same Institution several children
+having deaf and dumb brothers or sisters, where no relationship exists
+between the parents, notably one family, in which both parents are
+healthy, and in which there are four deaf and dumb children. In the same
+county there are other cases of three, four, and even six in a family,
+yet there has been no relationship between the parents. In addition to
+the born deaf, measles, bronchitis, typhus, scarletina, and other
+diseases are the causes of deafness, and consequently dumbness.
+
+Cases are known to have resulted from lightning, fright, boxing on the
+ears, and where young children have been allowed to fall on the head,
+etc.
+
+Damp houses are said to be a cause of deafness. In Paris among eight
+children born in a family, five were born deaf, and these had all been
+born in a damp house. The family who had previously lived in the same
+house had three children, among whom were two born deaf and dumb. It is
+sometimes said that certain unhealthy trades in which the parent or
+parents are engaged are responsible for some of these cases, but the
+only complete statistics are those of Nassau, the results of which are
+as follows:--
+
+  Among   27 Pipe-makers        3 deaf mute children,
+                                            therefore 1 deaf mute to 9.0
+   "     146 Stonemasons        4      "         "          "       36.5
+   "     186 Brass-founders     5      "         "          "       37.2
+   "     106 Potters            2      "         "          "       53.0
+   "     590 Carpenters         8      "         "          "       73.7
+   "     176 Earthenware-makers 2      "         "          "       88.0
+   "     381 Sailors            3      "         "          "      127.0
+   "   1,716 Bricklayers       11      "         "          "      156.0
+   "   1,309 Smiths             7      "         "          "      187.0
+   "     374 Vat-coopers        2      "         "          "      187.0
+   "   1,894 Tailors           10      "         "          "      189.4
+   "   2,911 Shoemakers        15      "         "          "      194.0
+   "   1,614 Joiners            8      "         "          "      201.7
+   "   2,006 Vinters            9      "         "          "      222.8
+   "     514 Coopers            2      "         "          "      257.0
+   "   1,380 Bakers             5      "         "          "      276.0
+   "  49,201 Farmers          104      "         "          "      473.1
+   "  18,211 Labourers         24      "         "          "      758.8
+
+Meckel says that in the families of tradespeople, who are constantly
+exposed to a damp unhealthy atmosphere or other injurious influences,
+deaf-mutism occurs most frequently. Moreover, Meckel has found that
+deaf-mutism is more frequently met with in flour-mills than elsewhere.
+Among 990 millers in Nassau, there were found eight deaf mutes, or one
+deaf mute to 123.7.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY NOT AFRAID TO DIE.
+
+Bernard Grimshaw, a little deaf and dumb boy, lay seriously ill in the
+sick ward of an Institution, and was asked, "Would you be afraid to
+die?" "No! because Christ has taken away the sting of death, if we
+believe in Him that He died for us; and we should not be afraid of
+death, if we believe in Him that He died for us; and we should not be
+afraid of death because He has promised to give eternal life to all
+believers."
+
+"What do you consider the best thing you have been taught, since coming
+to the Deaf and Dumb Institution?" "I have learned about God and His
+beloved Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible. That is best."
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB SEXTON ROBBED.
+
+George E. Fischer, the deaf and dumb sexton of the St. Mary's Avenue
+Congregational Church, put out the lights and started for his boarding
+house at 10 o'clock at night. He had gone but a short distance from the
+church when he was pounced upon by unknown persons, who approached from
+behind and knocked him down. After striking him another blow the fellow
+went through his pockets, taking every cent he had. Fischer is a
+hard-working man, but is in poor health, and will feel the loss
+heavily.--_Omaha World, May 24th, 1886._
+
+
+
+
+ACUTENESS OF EDUCATED DEAF MUTES.
+
+One evening the senior class of girls and boys in a School for the deaf
+and dumb were invited to put any questions they wished to the Teacher;
+amongst others, the following (which show considerable acuteness and
+reflection) were proposed to him:--Who made God? Were there any angels
+before the world was made? Before the world was made, how was God
+eternal? Do you know, are there houses in the moon which people inhabit?
+Do you think the dwellers in the moon have got the sin as well as
+ourselves? Will there be a new world when this is burnt up? How do you
+know the scriptures to be the word of God? Do the angels know when the
+last day will come?
+
+
+
+
+A RUSSIAN DEAF AND DUMB YOUTH'S REPLY.
+
+A young Russian, of great talents, though deaf and dumb, who had been to
+a Deaf and Dumb Institution to be taught, with a view to become the
+master of a similar Institution in Russia, was asked the difference
+between intelligence and discernment? He said "Intelligence is a
+faculty, by which we distinguish good and evil, what is useful and what
+hurtful. I think discernment is the faculty of distinguishing the
+greater and less degrees of good and evil."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE AGE OF DEAF MUTES.
+
+The question is frequently asked, "Is there a greater mortality among
+the deaf mutes than there is among the total population?"
+
+The statistics so far published, on the whole, show a somewhat greater
+mortality among the deaf and dumb than that among the total population.
+
+It may, however, be stated that the deaf and dumb having to labour under
+greater difficulties, generally succumb more easily in the struggle for
+existence than their more favoured fellow-creatures.
+
+In Bavaria, in 1871, there were 4,348 deaf mutes; 557 of these were
+between 31 and 40 years of age; 556 between 41 and 50; and 852 were 50
+years and upwards. In Prussia there were 23,579; of these 3,057 were
+between 31 and 40 years of age; 2,540 between 41 and 50; and 3,609 were
+50 years and upwards. In 1883, the North Midland Counties of England had
+705 deaf and dumb: 148 of these were under 5 years of age; 83 were 15
+years; 81 were 20 years; 227 were 25 years; 127 were 45 years; and 39
+were 65 years and upwards.
+
+
+
+
+DEAF MUTES IN THE TOWN AND COUNTRY.
+
+Wilhelmi tried to ascertain by means of his statistics in what
+proportion deaf mutism occurred in towns and in the country, and found
+that it preponderated in the country.
+
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+                                  | Deaf Mutes.| Deaf Mutes among
+                                  |            | 10,000 Inhabitants.
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+  In Magdeburgh  { In the Towns   |     181    |      5.2
+                 { In the Country |     338    |      6.7
+  In Erfurt      { In the Towns   |      81    |      5.4
+                 { In the Country |     186    |      8.5
+  In Pomerania   { In the Towns   |     378    |      8.3
+                 { In the Country |    1259    |     12.8
+  --------------------------------+------------+--------------------
+
+
+
+
+COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF THE SEXES OF DEAF MUTES.
+
+In all countries where statistics have been compiled, the number of male
+deaf mutes exceeds that of the female. In 1871 there were in Prussia
+12,736 male and 10,843 female deaf mutes. In England and Wales in 1883
+there were 4,408 male and 3,280 female deaf mutes. In Staffordshire 264
+males and 217 females. In Leicestershire 64 males and 50 females. In
+Lincolnshire 112 males and 93 females. In Nottinghamshire 96 males and
+75 females; and in Derbyshire 121 males and 88 females.
+
+
+
+
+PROBABLE NUMBERS OF THE DEAF & DUMB.
+
+There is an increasing desire on the part of the various Governments of
+the world to give information likely to be useful to the instructors of
+the deaf and dumb, but it has been proved beyond doubt that the Census
+returns in many cases are not altogether reliable, the numbers being
+considerably understated. The following Table by Hartman, compiled from
+the various census returns, shows the per centage to the population:--
+
+                              EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+                         | Date of | Total      | No. of  | Deaf Mutes
+                         | Statis- | Population.|  Deaf   | among 10,000
+                         | tics.   |            | Mutes.  | Inhabitants.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+   1  Germany            |  1877   | 39,862,133 |  38,489 |    9.66
+   2  France             |  1872   | 36,102,921 |  22,610 |    6.26
+   3  Great Britain      |         |            |         |
+       and Ireland       |  1871   | 31,631,212 |  18,152 |    5.70
+   4  Italy              |  1871   | 26,413,132 |  19,385 |    7.34
+   5  Austria            |  1869   | 20,394,980 |  19,701 |    9.66
+   6  Hungary            |  1870   | 15,417,327 |  20,699 |   13.43
+   7  Spain              |  1860   | 15,658,531 |  10,905 |    6.96
+   8  Belgium            |  1858   |  4,529,560 |   1,989 |    4.39
+   9  Netherlands        |  1869   |  3,575,080 |   1,119 |    3.35
+  10  Sweden             |  1870   |  4,168,525 |   4,266 |   10.23
+  11  Norway             |  1865   |  1,701,756 |   1,569 |    9.22
+  12  Switzerland        |  1870   |  2,669,147 |   6,544 |   24.52
+  13  Denmark            |  1870   |  1,864,496 |   1,156 |    6.20
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+
+                              NON EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+   1  United States of   |         |            |         |
+      America            |  1870   | 38,558,371 |  16,205 |    4.20
+   2  Argentine Republic |  1870   |  1,743,199 |   6,626 |   38.07
+   3  British Colonies   |         |            |         |
+      in N. America      |  1871   |    583,535 |     470 |    8.05
+   4  In the West Indies |  1871   |    905,730 |     690 |    7.62
+   5  In Africa          |  1871   |    330,460 |     529 |   16.01
+   6  In Australia       |  1871   |    305,730 |      56 |    1.83
+  -----------------------+---------+------------+---------+-------------
+
+In Prussia (1875) the Census showed a population of 24,604,351, the
+number of the deaf and dumb being 24,315, or 9.9 to 10,000 of the
+population. In India there are, it is said, over 200,000 deaf mutes. The
+total number in the world is supposed to be over 700,000.
+
+
+
+
+KING GEORGE IV. & THE DEAF & DUMB BOY.
+
+When King George IV. visited Ireland a deaf and dumb boy determined to
+send a letter to His Majesty. The following extracts taken from this
+characteristic letter will be interesting:
+
+     "Wednesday, 4th July, 1821.
+
+     "My dear George,--I hope I will see you when you come here to
+     see the deaf and dumb boys and girls; I am very sorry that you
+     never did come here to see them.
+
+     "I will be very glad to see you, if you will come here often to
+     see me. Did you ever see the deaf and dumb in London? You must
+     write a letter to me soon. Would you like to see me at
+     Claremont? I could not go to London, because there is too much
+     money to pay to the captain of a ship for me.
+
+     "Do you know Grammar, Geography, Bible, Arithmetic, Astronomy,
+     and Dictionary? I know them very little. I am very delighted
+     that I am improving much. Perhaps I will be an assistant of the
+     Deaf and Dumb School. Where were you born? Would you like to
+     correspond with me? I would be very fond of you. You ought to
+     write a long letter to me soon. What profession are you of? I
+     never saw you; I am very, very anxious to see you indeed, and
+     would like to see the King of England very much.
+
+     "Will you send us some deaf and dumb children, and give us
+     money to pay for educating them.
+
+     "I am, your affectionate friend,
+         "THOMAS COLLINS."
+
+The answer was as follows:--
+
+     "To Thomas Collins, Deaf and Dumb Institution, Claremont,
+     Glasnevin, near Dublin.
+
+     "Sir Benjamin Bloomfield is commanded by the King to present to
+     Thomas Collins ten pounds for being a good boy."
+
+     "Phoenix Park, 3rd Sep., 1821."
+
+With these ten pounds the boy was afterwards apprenticed to a printer.
+
+
+
+
+POOR SAM TRANTER.
+
+The lot of the _uneducated_ deaf and dumb in this world is a pitiable
+one, and their isolation is keenly felt. Often have we seen some of this
+portion of suffering humanity unable to plead for themselves, or tell
+their tale of woe or hardship. Such was the condition of poor Sam
+Tranter. Though Sam was never in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, his skill
+and plans for worldly prospects were extraordinary. In his boyhood he
+was left friendless and uncared for, but persuaded a shoemaker to give
+him work, at which poor Sam was fairly successful; owing, however, to
+the man's ill treatment he had to leave, and, to save himself from
+starving, went in the workhouse. After a brief stay he again went forth
+to try his hand as a shoeblack, and after various attempts to shift for
+himself, he began to master difficulties by wonderful energy and
+perseverance, and there is no doubt had the poor fellow been properly
+taught in a Deaf and Dumb Institution, he would have risen in life.
+After a time Sam commenced selling cockles, mussels, and oysters.
+
+From a small beginning he increased, and in course of time he took a
+shop, and employed five women, at which he said he had made as much as
+L20 some weeks. Owing, however, to his lack of education, the poor
+fellow was continually robbed, and eventually got into trouble through
+debt, and was worried with summonses; hence his failure as a cockle and
+oyster merchant. He then took a stall, and afterwards a shop for the
+sale of gingerbread, &c.; this was also doomed to failure. He then tried
+street-hawking with a barrow, to keep himself from the workhouse; but
+this also failed, and his barrow was seized for debt.
+
+Poor Sam was again penniless, friendless, and homeless, which compelled
+him once more to seek refuge in the Union, where he afterwards died
+after great suffering, at the age of 60 years. His remains were followed
+to the grave by a few deaf and dumb friends. Poor Sam might have said
+with David "Whilst I would do good evil is present with me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FAITH COMETH BY HEARING.
+
+A deaf and dumb Lady said that the first time she went to church after
+she was impressed with the truths of christianity, she saw over the
+pulpit the words "Faith cometh by hearing," which caused her great
+unhappiness; for, she thought, that as she had no hearing she could
+never have faith. Shortly after, however, she saw this text in the
+Bible, and observed that it was followed by "and hearing by the Word of
+God," which gave her so much delight, as shewing her a way in which it
+was possible for faith to come even to her, that she clasped the Bible
+to her heart.
+
+
+
+
+MASSIEU.
+
+One of the best educated and most distinguished deaf mutes was Massieu,
+who gave the following remarkable replies to questions put to him by
+various friends:--
+
+"What is hearing?" "Hearing," said he, "is auricular sight." Another
+party asked him whether he made any distinction between a conqueror and
+a hero? "Arms and soldiers made a conqueror; courage of heart a hero.
+Julius Caesar was the hero of the Romans; Napoleon the hero of Europe,"
+was the answer he wrote on the blackboard, without hesitation.
+
+In reply to the following questions, he instantly wrote answers. "What
+is hope?" "Hope is the blossom of happiness." "What is happiness?"
+"Happiness is pleasure that ceaseth not; and misfortune is grief that
+endeth not." "What is the difference between hope and desire?" "Desire
+is a tree in leaf; hope is a tree in flower; and enjoyment is a tree in
+fruit." Another pupil standing by wrote, in reply to the same question,
+"Desire is the inclination of the heart; hope is a confidence of the
+mind." A stranger asked Massieu, "What difference do you think there is
+between God and nature?" His reply was "God is the first maker, the
+Creator of all things. The first beings all came out of His divine
+breast; He has said to the first beings, ye shall make the second; to
+the second ye shall make the third beings; His wills are laws; His laws
+are nature."
+
+"What is time?" "A line that has two ends, a path that begins in the
+cradle and ends in the tomb." "What is eternity?" "A day without
+yesterday or to-morrow, a line that has no end." "What is God?" "The
+necessary being, the sun of eternity, the mechanist of nature, the eye
+of justice, the watch-maker of the universe, the soul of the world." The
+deceptive and acute question, "Does God reason?" was put to him, it is
+said, by Sir James Macintosh, Massieu at once wrote, "Man reasons
+because he doubts; he deliberates, he decides; God is omniscient; He
+knows all things; He never doubts; He therefore never reasons."
+
+Lucien Buonaparte once asked Massieu, "What is laziness or idleness?"
+"It is a disgust from useful occupation; a disinclination to do
+anything; from which result indigence, want of cleanliness and misery,
+disease of body and the contempt of others." In writing this answer the
+gestures and looks of Massieu were in perfect accordance with the ideas
+that might be supposed to exist with him and the words he was writing.
+When he had finished the last word he turned round, and then his whole
+person, with his countenance and his eyes, exhibited one of the justest
+pantomimic representations of laziness which it is possible to conceive.
+After he had a moment dwelt upon this personification, which his fancy
+suggested to him, he made an expressive transition to the looks and
+manners of a person filled with that dread and abhorrence which the idea
+of laziness should ever inspire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+GRACE ANNABLE.
+
+Grace Annable was deaf, dumb, and blind, and although her form and
+features were well proportioned, she was a great sufferer from
+constitutional weakness; yet her temper was mild and affectionate.
+Strange to say, Grace was a capital nurse, and was much attached to
+several very young children, some being mere babies; in order to
+ascertain whether they were crying, she would pass her hand most
+carefully over the mouth and eyes, and soothe their little distresses
+with all the care and success of a talkative nurse. Grace was fond of
+fruit, and would beat the pears and apples from the trees, and could
+select the best with as much judgment as if she had been possessed with
+the sense of sight.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She frequently went in a field to gather wild flowers, to which she was
+directed by the pleasantness of their odour. Her sense of smelling was
+remarkably exquisite, and appeared to be an additional guide to her
+fingers. Grace would feel and admire ornaments, etc., and would never
+break or injure the most brittle things even in a strange room.
+
+A gentleman once made several experiments with her in order to test for
+himself her reported abilities, and expressed great surprise that one
+thus afflicted should be able to accomplish so much. Grace has, after a
+patient life, passed away into that land where deafness and dumbness is
+for ever unknown.
+
+
+
+
+A DEAF AND DUMB BOY AND HIS BROTHER.
+
+Brownlow Harrison, a bright little boy who had spent a few years in the
+school for the deaf and dumb, was watching with great earnestness for
+his father, who was to fetch him home for the summer vacation.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Brownlow had made unusual progress during the last half-year; this he
+himself knew, and made him intensely anxious that his younger brother,
+who was also deaf and dumb, should be admitted as a pupil in the
+Institution. Brownlow himself at once wrote to the Committee as
+follows:--"When I was at home I was ignorant, and I don't know about
+God; but I am now taught about religion, and it is wonderful; I will be
+taught before I leave school. My dear brother cannot read, and he cannot
+understand; I wish he will come to school, for he don't know about God
+and angels, and all things good or bad. I am afraid he will grow wicked
+if he is not taught. I will feel thankful to the gentlemen to send my
+deaf brother to school."
+
+
+
+
+  FRANCIS CARTER, PRINTER,
+  IRON GATE WORKS,
+  DERBY.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+In the anecdote entitled "DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME," the character is
+named once as David and once as John in the original text. This
+discrepancy has not been changed.
+
+Punctuation and alternative spellings have been retained as they appear
+in the original text.
+
+
+
+
+
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