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 England Weather Service in the Year 1894. 



Hiorns, Arthur H. Principles of Metallurgy. 

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Holman, Silas W. Computation "Rules for 

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Jameson, Charles D., State University of Iowa. 

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Smith, George H. The Theory of the State. 

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Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 989. 

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Three Blind Deaf-mutes. Three blind 

 deaf-mutes whose faculties have been devel- 

 oped from a completely latent condition 

 are subjects of special notice in the report 

 of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 

 Boston. Edith Thomas is described as fur- 

 nishing convincing testimony to the effi- 

 cacy of the system which is pursued in 

 training such children. She has a good 

 share of common sense, but is a little averse 

 to intellectual exertion. Yet she is improv- 

 ing fast, gaining knowledge regularly and 

 systematically, and is " steadily becoming 

 more skillful, attentive, thoughtful, logical, 

 and earnest, and the stream of her thoughts 

 grows broader, deeper, and richer." She is 

 fond of letter-writing, and does it with in- 

 creasing facility of expression; while her 

 letters show that she appreciates the pleas- 

 ures of life, and despite her privations en- 

 joys them highly. She likes reading and be- 

 ing read to, but wants her books true to life, 

 and will not listen to fairy or highly imagi- 

 native stories. She is able to appreciate the 

 rhythm of poetry, and Whittier and Tenny- 

 son are among her favorites. She dislikes 

 arithmetic and is backward in it, but is pro- 

 ficient in geography. She has learned to mold 



maps in clay, and is able to repeat accurately 

 the details of the surface of the regions she 

 has studied. At the school commencement 

 of 1894 she modeled the map of Massachu- 

 setts, divided it into counties in the presence 

 of the audience, and pointed out the natural 

 features and the towns with her left hand, 

 while with her right hand she spelled the 

 names into the hand of a blind classmate, 

 who announced them. She has become a 

 skillful dolls' dressmaker without the aid of 

 patterns, and in teaching the use of the 

 Braille typewriter to her companions she 

 has exhibited the qualities of a strict disci- 

 plinarian. Willie Elizabeth Robin, now ten 

 years old, came to the institution four years 

 ago, totally blind and deaf, and ignorant of 

 language. She has become proficient in 

 reading, writing, elementary zoology, articu- 

 lation, and knitting and sewing by the Sloyd 

 method. She has even learned to use her 

 tongue rather than talk with her fingers. 

 She is specially interested in studying ani- 

 mal forms, and searches out the minute de- 

 tails of their structure. She is expected to 

 tell all she can discover of each specimen 

 given her ; to represent it in clay ; and after- 

 ward to write down what she has learned. 



