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Show THE DESK RET EAGLE. The Deseret Eagle. Published ('liii-moi- (M:th School it hly at the ior the l.cai". EDITOR. FRANK W. METCALF. ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND FOREMAN, ' ' j about eight years and have ridden several thousand miles in that time but we would not attempt to ride with Mks Cora if she sets a pace like that. ; phon-autograp- h ; i smoked glass the vibrations of the voice of the speaker who spoke into the dead man's ear. These experiments were all what the world culls failures. That is, they did I not accomplish the results intimhd. was unable to produce an apparatus which could record or reproduce the vibrations of the voice in so visible a manner that the deaf child, looking upon the record, could understand wliai the speaker had said, or recognize the elements of which tlje speech had been composed. But the apparatus, though a failure for the purpose intended, became in process of time the telephone of today. Although it has not enabled the deaf to recognize the vibrations of sound by the eye, it has given ears to the telegraph, so that we can today hear in Boston what is spoken in A'cw Yolk or Chicago. FRANK M. DRIGGS. Su hsci'ipt ion Now that Supt. Walker is giving our lor tho whot)l year Institution clean administration In Atlvaiiet. there is no doubt. The lest educated 'I'll is paper is set up and element in our silent community always riMmi-iladvocates of tlu must Kt:illlk-Ik t in the printed by pupils the education of the deaf as practical Utah School for the Dkaf. phi anthropists, and will always be Its object is to teach the art eager to recognize the fact that such a clean and successful administration as of printing. that of Supt. Walker ranks him as one of the most eminent men in the noble EnTIRID AT TNI POST OPPIOB IN SLT LK City hcoho cum mtth. profession. Supt. Walker is a Christian. SALT LAKK CITY, CTA1I. His chapel lectures are unsurpassed in XOVEMUKH 1, point of clearness and force. They are favorably impressed upon the minds of An epidemic of scarlet fever lias the pupils. He is decidedly one of the ablest masters of the sign language. The broken out at the Minnesota school. combined lequisite qualities of a super Jt is to be hoped that it will be kept intendent are happily found in Mr. Walker. Atlra nee. from spreading. KiHy-feixt- w a j j j j u j , i j I ' i We are in jvjciptuf an invitation io the, Grand Hall to be given by the Fan wood Quad Club of leaf unites in New York City on Dec. r, 181)4, for which we return thanks. Fur caps feel good! lhiirketc(Ifitca.) We have scarcely had a suitesOCT' tion of winter vet. In fact the weather for the past month his been as near perfect as weather could possibly be. in It is usually that way Utah. Our school has been favored by a box of cotton showing its various stages of development. It was sent us from Alabama, by Miss S. II. Devereux, our teacher of articulation last year. The specimens have been mounted ami will form a valuable addition to our school cabinet. j That the Illinois Institution was placed in charge of the right man when M r. Walker was selected as its Superintendent has been fully shown by his administration of the past ' j j ; . i . TEACH ERS' M EKT1 X OS. The Teachers Meetings have been hehl on Friday afternoon in the olh'ce of the Superintendent. The discussion of the subject of i4An Objective System of Language for Beginner" was Teaching brought to a close at the last meet-inAmong other topics discussed have been The Sstcni of Grading, Programs for Thanksgiving-Daand for the Literary Society of the pupils, j ! year. We have received a copy of the Jtoxfoit Sunday Pout containing a aniversarv copy of the twcntv-lift- h of the Horace .Mann School for the Deaf. Among others, Professor Alexander Graham Bell gave an address. lie was once a teacher in conceived the school and while-therThe the idea of the telephone. Krtion of his address printed below will be of interest to our readers. i j g. j y ; e HITGGKSTKD Mary L. Shelev, Rec, Secy The October number of the Silent Worker is a very commendable one. The article on D.mglas Tildan. the well known deaf-mut- e sculptor of California, and the accosnpaning cuts of himself and his best productions of art deserve special mention. THE TELEPHONE. I do not now regret my skepticism concerning the possibility of speech reading, or lip reading, for the deaf, for this skepticism has led the world to benefit by the work of the Horace Maun School in an unexpected and unprecedented way. If, as I erroneously imagined, these deaf children could not Miss Cora Johnston, a teacher of the possibly be able to follow intelligibly South Carolina school is a line, bicyclist. the utterances of the mouth, might we She has a record of 86 miles in two not make a machine to hear for them :i machine that should interpret to the eye, hours. Silent Obwrm: the visible vibrations of a llame, That is certainlv a tine record. If through or the vibratory record of a pencil von don't believe it try to ride ttti actuated by the voice, the vibramiles in two hours. It means that tions of the air that we hear as sound. In the interests of the children of this every mile must be made in :J:20. school 1 made such an apparatus; nay. I We have been riding a wheel for made many of ihem my forms of ap- - paratus ranging all the way from the manometric capsule of Koenig ami the of Leon Scott up to instrument; employing the human ear itself taken from a dead subject. A pencil of hay attached to the malleus recorded on a sheet of The turkey, bird of promise. Is now in clover living, ?Tis sage to say he ll have his weigh Until his neck's Thanksgiving. Washington Star. j ! The theater lonnet and oyster joke Are looking very glum. For everything is running now To the chrvsanthemum. Chicago Inter-Ocean. |