Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb

Produced by Bryan Ness, Rose Acquavella and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Chapters

3. Chapter 3

The _Washington Post_ gives an account of Canon Farrar's visit to that city. He was interviewed by one of their reporters as to what he thought of the place, and he replied that...

6. Chapter 6

But how was it with the child? Was his coming so far any use? Was he cured? No; the doctor could do nothing for him, and he remains speechless still. But later he attended a dea...

5. Chapter 5

One day a minister's servant brought a subscription book and laid it on his study table, saying, "A dumb man brought it, sir." On looking at the book, a thought struck the minis...

2. Chapter 2

Isabella Green was a young woman who was completely blind and deaf, and she was brought before a number of eminent surgeons to see if anything could be done for her. Her sad con...

4. Chapter 4

Julia Brace, a deaf, dumb, and blind woman, who died in August, 1884, in her seventy-eighth year, was well known all over America, at least wherever attention has been paid to t...

1. Chapter 1

Produced by Bryan Ness, Rose Acquavella and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain materia...

7. Chapter 7

I saw the world before the sun was made--it was all earth. He made Europe, Africa--all! and with His breath He made the sea. (Here his action was remarkable. He drew on his slat...

8. Chapter 8

A deaf and dumb Lady said that the first time she went to church after she was impressed with the truths of christianity, she saw over the pulpit the words "Faith cometh by hear...