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St. Stephen's Church in Philadelphia, and Mr. Adam Geibel, 

 composer and organist of the Baptist Temple at Broad and Berks 

 Streets, Philadelphia, and of the John B. Stetson Chapel, at 

 Fourth and Columbia Avenues in the same city. 



Prescott the historian and Huber the naturalist were both 

 blind. 



The following remarkable instances of deaf persons, many of 

 them congenitally so, who are practicing professions, and depend- 

 ing entirely upon lip-reading for their understanding of conver- 

 sation, was prepared by a gentleman connected with an institu- 

 tion for the deaf, whose name I am not at liberty to give. 



A Columbus paper has published some accounts of the stone- 

 deaf Ohio lawyer, in full practice, who depends absolutely upon 

 lip-reading, and who has tried cases in Columbus courts. For 

 twelve years now, Mr. N. B. Lutes, of Tiffin, Ohio, has depended 

 entirely upon lip-reading to do all that any lawyer does for his 

 clients in court and in every phase of the practice of the law. 



The latest issue of the Missouri Deaf-Mute Record gives an 

 account of a lady who reads the lips of ministers and public 

 speakers. Mr. Alexander Hunter, of the United States Land 

 Office, in Washington, D. C, is " deaf as an adder." Though far 

 from perfect in lip-reading, he has read one hundred and fifty 

 words " given out " from the dictionary without making a mis- 

 take. He has read the lips of Beecher and Booth almost fault- 

 lessly, and has greatly enjoyed pulpit and platform orators and 

 some of the great actors, the chief drawback in reading their lips 

 being the shifting of their positions on the stage, so that their lips 

 were at times invisible. 



Mitchell, the chemist, an examiner in the United States Pat- 

 ent Office, graduated from the Clarke Institute, Northampton, 

 Mass., and, though a poor lip-reader, graduated from the Wor- 

 cester (Mass.) Polytechnic School as an analytical chemist. 



For many years a totally deaf man has occupied a place in the 

 United States Civil Service, receiving his first appointment on 

 the strength of admirable papers in the civil-service examination. 

 Notwithstanding his infirmity, thanks to his lip-reading, he took 

 the regular course at a great university, recited with his class- 

 mates, attended lectures, and secured his degree. I doubt if presi- 

 dent or professors knew that he was a deaf man. Certainly some 

 of his classmates did not know it. For business reasons his deaf- 

 ness is kept secret, and a keen newspaper man went through the 

 office in which he was employed a few years ago in search of a 

 deaf clerk, and failed to find such a man or any one who knew of 

 the existence of such a case in that department. 



This, of course, is an extraordinary case, but probably none 

 more so than that of Miss Salter (see Annals of Volta Institute, 



