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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Gesture-Speech. Colonel Garrick Mal- 



lory, of the United States Army, delivered a 

 lecture on " The Gesture-Speech of Man," 

 at the last meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation, in which he remarked that North 

 America had showed more favorable condi- 

 tions for the development of gesture-signs 

 than ' any other thoroughly explored part of 

 the civilized world. Its aboriginal popula- 

 tion was scanty, and so dialectically subdi- 

 vided, with sixty-five families of languages, 

 some comprising twenty languages each, that 

 few bands could readily converse with each 

 other. The Alaskan tribes generally used 

 signs not more than a generation ago. The 

 use of gestures could not be accounted for 

 by any theory of the poverty of Indian lan- 

 guages, for no such theories were true, nei- 

 ther was it correct to suppose that a gesture- 

 language was originated by a certain tribe, 

 or in a particular region, and thence spread. 

 The sign-language among the Indians is not 

 uniform, and it is no argument in favor of 

 uniformity that the signs used by any of the 

 tribes are generally understood by others, 

 for signs might be understood without be- 

 ing identical with any before seen. Regard- 

 ing the question, whether the signs were 

 conventional or instructive, Colonel Mallory 

 was of the opinion that sign-language, as a 

 product of evolution, had been developed 

 rather than invented, and yet it seemed prob- 

 able that each of the separate signs had a 

 definite origin arising out of some appropri- 

 ate occasion, and the same sign might in 

 this manner have had many independent 

 origins, due to indentity in the circum- 

 stances, or, if lost, might have been repro- 

 duced. The studies so far pursued led to 

 the conclusion that at the time of the dis- 

 covery of North America all its inhabitants 

 practiced sign-language, though with differ- 

 ent degrees of expertness. The language 

 has been disused with some, but with oth- 



