... Teaching the Dumb to Speak. A writer in the (juicer gives an account of the wonderful work done in teaching deaf mutes. Let us look into the class-room, he says, at the Clerkeo• well school which is occupied by the lowest class, and watch the very first ...

... instances: Amongst the Kaffir,', when the suitor calls to make the acquaintance of the girl,the latter speaks to him through her brother, for she will act speak to hint direct. Amongst the Tao and allied tribes is an institution with.), might call surety or ...

... following letter, addressed to the editor of the Tine. : his speech last night my friend Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman asks me if I speak from the interior of his political tabernacle or front sumo vantage-ground outside. Ile says that he practically put that ...

... for the dinners of the ninety men who lodge at the section house. While he went down the steps in front of the station to speak to the cook. a man coolly walked up and under the verneyes of the police wheeled the cabbages away. He had no doubt watched ...

... LORD ONSLOW ON THE WAR. Tire Earl of Onalow, speaking at a l'ilionist meeting at Bath, acknowledged the 'att . :, •• :0 of Lord Rosebery in connection with the war, and raid his attitude had done much towards neutraliuing the pernicious effects of the ...

... MR BRODRICK ON THE ARMY. Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, speaking le reply to the toast of his Majesty's Ministers, at the dinner of the Guildford Corporation, said that the late war had abewn the necessity for certain reforms in the department ...

... needles to speak shout; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate with; tiiiiys that arc past, it is nettlless to blame. By speaking when we ought to keep silence we waste our words; but by keeping sile'ee when we ought to speak men may ...

... the magician. It can give to every• blade of grass. to every• leaf, anal to every• flower an intelligent voice. that skill speak to of great and profitable tniths. Coder its magic wand the inanimate live,t, space is peopled with beauteous aceml•s, the ...

... any such thing nowadays, except, indeed, in such vessels as are the last resort of the unfortunate. Tle• vessels of which I speak are those small sailing craft which still drag out a precarious existence in competition with steam. They may be seen at all ...

... states that an English visitor has robbed of a pocket-book contai i over £3OO on the train from Monaco to Nice. An affable Eng speaking stranger entered into conversation with him in the rooms at Monte Carlo, and,when they started to make the railway journey ...

... LORD LONDONDERRY ON THE GOVERNMENT. The Marquess of Londonderry, speaking at a fete of the Londonderry Habitation of the Primrose League in Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees. raid the Government had a large and loyal majority. and it was to the interest ...

... THE HEALTH OF THE POPE. Bishop Turner, of Galloway, speaking in Dumfries, at a meeting of the Sacred Heart Association. said he had just returned from a visit to the Pol e, and whatever might be said from time to time in English and Scotch newspapers ...