Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1884, Page 6

U THE DAILY BEE--COU NCIL BLUF»'S TUESDAY, FEBRUA.RY, 19 1884, e ey l?;{E DAILY BEE. THE SILENT WORLD. ootmcn—. BLUFFS, st Glanings From 2 Visit o the Institntion For the Deaf Tuesday Morning, Feb. 19, and Damb, *.SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The Power of the Sign Language and & s, I T T the Modes of Teaching. * OFFICE: No. 7 Pearl Street, Near Broadway. MINOR MENTION. Ono of the most_ interesting places in this city to visit is that of the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb. Tur Bre man affirms that which he knows, for, with a little group of friends, ho found a half day slipping away from him before he had seen but a fraction of Additional local on seventh pago. the many interesting features of the work Oheap railroad tickets at Bushnell's. | done there. One of the happiest remem- §. P. Harman made a donation of a|brances of sucha visit is the courtesy fine $7 Bible to the Home yesterday. and kindness shown the visitors,in afford- o G arrived here yester- |ing them every possible opsortunity "f" d..;n;g pmi;:g:hqi. woek in the ’circuit laging and m}dqnhndingl just what is oourt. going on. Itis a mysterious world o Sunday night twenty-eight members the uninitiated, and one needs a guide wore added to the Baptist church, twelve | surely. Professor Hammond was away by letter and sixteen by baptism. from home, and Mrs. Hammond was con- Rev. A. K. Bates, pastor of the Pres- fined to her room by illness, but dele- . A ) Are you registered! byterian church, is to help dedicate the new church at Neola next Sunday. A chicken thief has robbed Phillips, the axe helve man, of a dozen chickens from his coop, wringing their necks, News is received that Sheriff Cannon gated one of the teachers, Miss Cora VanDorin, whose kindness and patience in answering questions and explaining various matters of interest will not soon be forgotten. In visiting the several class rooms, the other teachers and pu- pils alike seemed anxious to do has arrived safely at Memphis with his | yorything possible to make the visitors two prisoners, Drs, Turner and Reeves. | foc] at home, and to enlighten their un- Justice Schurz yosterday married, at | derstanding, which sorely needed enlight- the parlors of the Creston house, John | ening. Koeberle to Regule Zimmerman, beth ot| In the arithmetic classes there was Minden. much to interest. One observed under Rev, Father Ryan, of Shenandoah, |the desk of one of the teachers what died Sunday morning and the funeral|oughtto be in every school-a set of services were held there yesterday, Rev. | measures, so that the pupils, instead of Father McMonomy officiating. being required, as is too often the case, The child of Mr, Ora Owen, which was | to learn by rote long and to them mean- born Saturday last, died yesterday morn- | ingless tables of weights and measures, ing. The funeral will take place this|they can be taught by actual handling afternoon at 2 o'clock from 1921 Third | the difference between a gill and a gallon, avenue. an ounce and a pound. a peck and a Mr. Charles Keith, the O., B. & Q. |bushel. The aritmetical charts which general agant, has appointed I. N. Orral [ hung in one corner of the room were also check clerk at the transfer. Mr. Orral | illustrated so as to make the meaning was the R. 1. agent at this station up to | plain, there being, for instance, the pic- Fobruary 1. * turo of a cord of wood, with the measure- A team belonging to Cole & Maxwell, | ments, and the lines drawn dividing into while unloading hay at their livery stable | quarters and halves. In one arithmet- became frightened and ran with the|metical class it was incidentally learned wagon through the barn, then up Pearl | by the problem with which the pupils stroet and Broadway, colliding with a | were wrestling that while they readily buggy, and afterwards with a farmer’s wagon, smashing both. Before coming to a stand-still, one of the horses was somewhat injured. Harry James met with a serious acci- dent yesterday at Stewart's packing house. He opened a door which he sup- posed led to a stairway, but it proved to be the elevator and he stepped off, falling about thirty feet. He was unconscious and it was feared that he was fatally in- jured, but it proved that there were no bones broken and he will doubtless re- cover speedily. John O'Donnell and George Peters, who were arrested for robbing an old man near Lower's hotel, want their side showed up. Peters says that he met two Germans, one of whom was very drunk, and on request of the other he helped the drunken man along. The other German took the man's watch and money, saying he would take them to Kiel’s hotel, where he was known, and left his friend at Lower's hotel. Soon after leaving the hotel Petersmet O'Don- nell, and was walking home with him when arrested. They were kept in jail nearly twenty-four hours without a hwar- ing, and then discharged. Such is their side of the affa.r. PERSONAL, Mr. P. Befort, the clork at the delivery window in the postoffice, has returned to duty again after being closely confined with lung fover. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Champ went over tp Omaha last evening to attend tho grand recep- tion given by Mr. and Mra, Lininger. Mr. J. F. Morse, of Hudson, Wisconsin, made Tix Bz a pleasaat call yestorday after- o~ e — . Fun on Rollers, The Polo club of Omaha, the Blues and Reds will arrive this evening about 7:30, instead of Wednesdsy evening, as stated in Monday morning's paper. They willthis evening give an exhibition of polo at the rink,which will prove a novel and interesting entertainment indeed. About fifteen or twenty couples are ex- from the other side. time rink, the time being lunil in| verbs of action or condition. tremely diffioult, as may easily be im.| I the most The ) il \pid); And“:m write 80 ra) 0 The, & ¥, Jfiu"“ b e o e M2 on Location—J. . W. Chap- 1gauami. John added or substracted, yet the phrase *‘more or less,” in such a problem closing with the query, ‘Did A have more or less than B, and how much more or lesa?” proved very puzzling. The visit- ors were informed that this was one of the pecular stumbling blocks among the mutes. The pupils in arithmetic are very rapid in their work—more 80, it seems, speaking children. It was astonishing how quickly they would read a result after the problem had Ween placed on the blackboard, and their written analyses ocould hardly be excelled for clearness and conciseness. The lan o classes are, however, the most interesting feature of the school room work, The sign 1 age, in its use aud power, is wonderful, but one not conversant in it can hardly realize its beauties, except as it is interpreted. The visitors had a chance to realize somewhat of its force. In one roon the &ufhiu ve in concert the Lord's prayer, language, and it was a peculiarly impres- sive sight. One little black-eyed girl, with a bewitching face, also granted the request of the visitors to give in the sign lan *‘She’s Fooling Thee,” and nothing could be more expressive than her warning, with uplifted finger and snapping eyes, to beware of the false- hearted maiden. No words were needed, and noswords could have added anything t2 the power and clearness of expression. Mrs. McDermott, who with her hus- band, teaches in the institution, kindly consented to give “‘Rock of Ages” in the sign lan| e. No elocutionist, no singer, could render that grand ;xymn more touching] ;{' or play upon the feel- ings of an audience more effectually. It alone repays the taking of a trip to the institution, o To see a mute teacher instructi mute pupils is an interesting sight an it is wonderful how clearly ebou teach- ers present ideas, and how quickly the nu8|l| catch them. ne marked result of this dependency Upon sigu is that the pupils are closel attentive, and the quickness with whi they note every movement is remarka- ble. A tap of the foot on the floor im- mediately causes all eyes to turn to the teacher, and this seems at first strange,as they surely cannot hear the tap, but they En l:ldfl] feel even this alight jar on o floor. o sign < The learn from " {7 e Bre class room, shown to the pupils, and then the names written on the In this way the; large vocabulary of names. sen- tences are formed, bringing {n }l‘mph {0 ox- ol | CANGE y are taught For “mhuo.' . mwlourm table, hides it behind the window blind, she hunta for it and finds it, Al ¢ then written out. The pupils write j what they see, and it is strange how sb- serving tiey are of every little move- ment. In these exercises the mistakes are generally transpositions of words, for instance ‘‘blind window” instead of “‘window blind."” The visitor cannot but be impressed with the accuracy of spelling and the ex- cellence of penmanship Asking for an explanation, the satisfactory information was gained that the reason of this was that they seldom or never see a misspell- ed word, except when conversing with some speaking person. The teach- ers lpa?l the words correctly and in printed heads they see words usmll(:d correctly, and depending as they do on the appearance of the words entirely, and none on the sound, they become very familiar with the position of uve? letter, and hence become accurate spell- ors, Among all the class-rooms visited and in the multiplicity of exercises, but one mis-spelled word was detected, and in that there was simply ai "' where there should have been an * Prot, McDermott, who teaches articu- Iation, showed the visitors some won- derful results from that instruction. The idea of a deaf and dumb Kupil being taught to speak without the hearing be- ing restored seems passing strange, and yot such is the work being done. Thisis almost wholly mechanical, the pupil be- ing taught the exact position of the vocal organs, the tongue, teeth, lips, etc., nec- essary for the pronouncing of certain words, and thus, while learning how to speak while thpy cannot hear a sound they are making, the{ also learn to read by the motion of the lips the words -goken by these pupils held conversations which were 80 like that of hearifiz persons that one of the lady visitors in her surprise oxclaimed, ‘‘Now, do you pretend to say that that boy does not hear what you say, professor 7" The professor not only pretended to say 8o, but did say so, and when he simply moved his lips, without making the least sound, the boy told what he was saying and answered the questions put to him, clearly. The most successful cases of instruction by this meothod are pupils who have not lost their hearing until after they commenced to talk. Then the loss of hearing caus- ing them to lose the power of speech, it is often restored mechanically in this manner. How many of these children were born deaf? This is a natural query for the visiter to raise, and the auswer being made that probably not more than one- fifth were born thus, while the great majority became 80 in early childhood by disease, this fact was protty well cor- roborated by asking each pupil in one room. There proved to be very few who were born deaf and dumb. At the institutions the forenoons are devoted to the class rooms, and the after- noons to the industrial branches of edu- cation, the girls being employed in house- work, and the boys in the printing office, broom factory and other trades and occu- pations, The visitors regretted that they could not remain to witness the afternoon’s work, and were obliged to content them- selves with witnessing the pupils gather for dinner. Imagine a spacious room, a hall, in fact, with many tables, at which are seated about 300 pupils, none speak- =& another. Some of han |ing yet all conversing, for fingers are busy, chat being carried on silently, yet freely, some conversing who are separat- ed by the width of the room, and yet no confusion or hub-bub. The mail was brought in before the meal was served, and the eagerness with which the letters from home, packages and papers were ro- ceived, showed that it was an elegant ap- petizer for the meal before them. How do they address each other by name! To spell out each letter of a name would be too tedious. It was learned that each of the three hun- dred or more persons of the institu- tion had a distinciive sign by which to be known., For inatance, two girls forming the letter **V,"” was the sign for Miss Van Dorin, A short time ago s ludicrous mistake was made, Rev. Mr, Rogers, when principal, told one of the teachers he wanted to see Miss Cobbs at the office. Now, the sign for Miss Cobbs was the same as that for *‘corn,” it being & sort of a motion as of shelling kernels off, the forefinger of one hand being sup- osed to bo the ear of corn. The person irected te notify Miss Cobbs returned from the barn with some corn, and Rev. Mr. Regers for a moment could not un- derstand, while the messenger was equal- ly perplexed as to what Mr. Rogers wanted corn for. They soon saw the blunder, and a laugh resulted. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE.—Special advertisements, such as Lost, Found, To Loan, For Sale, To Rent, Wants, Board. lng, oto., will be Inserted In this column at the low rate of TEN OENTS PER LINE for the frst insertion and FIVE OENTS PER LINE for sach subsequont sertion. Leave advertisements at our offics, No. Pear] Streot, noar Broadway WANTS. “flm’fih“—] ilrl Tor general housework, W. L Blggy, 711 8. 7th streot. —_— wnrrlb_lv-ry body in Councll Blufts to take TunBxs. Deliverod by carrierat only twenty oents & weok. 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Office cornur Broadway and Main street. JOHN BENO & GU.. ERAL MEECHANDISE. GE] 18 Main stroct and 17 Poarl strent. CRESTON HOUSE, Hotel, 217 and 219 Main stroe. MAX MOEN, = D,R" J: . F._WHITEL ___ Corner Main and ninlup.ngu;flifigw,‘m Willow avenue, N. SCHURZ. onSTICEOY Ttk EACE, 8.8 WAGNER, winconrac o rinera a- e I, M. ST, JOHN & C0..CASH BUYERS. Tyimustwamp s MERCHANT TAILOR, Stook Compete. Buits mado at ronsonable pricos. No. 805 Matn BY.' JACOB KOCH, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, 777777777 __Comnor 7th and Broadway. _Plans and spécifications furnished. JAMBS E_RANNEYq MERCITANT TAILOR. Artistic Work and reasouable_charges. 872 Broadway. LI_NDT‘ L&, H_ ART. seme o ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ____Practioe_n state and fodoral courts. And batn_house, 421 and 423 Broadway. L. Sovoreign, Prop. P. J. Mont- SANTTARIUM A", e, 628 0 s, 1 svren, v .3 Mo JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, EDWIN J, ABBOTT_; Notary Publio and Genoral Conveyancer. ~ 415 Broadway. REVERE HOUSE, SMITH & NORTON, J. . ARMSTRONG, Broadway opposite Now Opera House. * Refittod §1, 81.50 per day All kinds of amaticies) ROOM 6, NEW OPERA HOUSE, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 10WA, otc, ete. All Orders by Mail Promptly Attended To. A LARGE STOCK OF STOVES AND FURNITURE, At VERY LOW FIGURES. Don't forget I pay the highest price for MIXED RAGS! As T am compelled to buy to fill contrects, S. GOLDSTEIN, 538 Broadway. M. GALLACHER. G R OCERIKES. Address | 13 8. Pearl Street and 20 N. Main Street, - unto man ence to die, but atter this L e e o e b ot e et I3, ow woid uunv-pw& A. OVERTON, . Justice of the Peace. Kow Btore, Fresh Goods, Low Prices and Polite Attendants. TF¥e¥{ First Door east of Metropolitan Hotel, LOWER BROADWAY : Council Blufts. AS AN ECONOMICAL INSURANCE, THE EQUITABLE MUTUAL LIFE AND ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION Is considered the best §2.500 in case of death, and 1 000 tndnl‘mun; at the expirationof ten years. Assoss- ments payaole sccording to age. Mrr. 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CASADY, ORCUTT & FRENCH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CARPETS CURTAINS, And General House Furnishings ! MAIL ORDERS FILLED CAREFULLY. 502 Broadway, Council Bluffts. | CASADY,OKCUTT & FRENCH. JTACOE K OCE, Merchant Tailoring, REPAIRING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY DONE. 805 South Main Street, - - COUNCIL BLUFFS. JOSEPH GAGHEGAN. HARD WCOD AND COAL— Corner Main street and Eighth aventie, Coun Bluffs, GET.” Railway Time Table. COUNCIL BLUFFS. The following are the times of the arrival and de- arture of trains by central dard time, at the local depota. _ Trains leavo tri depot ten min- earlier and arrive ten minutes later, CHICAGO, BURLINGION AND QUINCY. LEAVE, ARmivR. | garLowest rates atd prompt delivery 6:20pm Council Bluffs Express, 0:%0 am 6:40 pm Chicago Express pi0am 9468 m Mail, pw KANBAB CITY, BT. JOR AND COUNCIL BLUFPS, WINTER RESORT. 10:108 m Mail and Express, 8:25 pm Pacific Express, CHICAGO, MILWAUKKN AND 8T, PAUL. A 525 pm Express, 940am 9458 m Express, 65 pm C1110AG0, ROCK IBLAND AKD PACIFIC, 9:50 & m Day Express, . 7:15am *Des Moines Acc.muiodation, *At local depot only, *WABASH, T. LOUIS ANDIPACIFIC, CURE OR NO PAY 55 We cua-autee the cure of the following named dis- A (e e Srhpm orno pay: Lheunatism, Sorcfuls, Uloor, *A¢ Teamster only. i Caiarrh, a 1 Blood and ki discas &8, Dy pepia, Liver Cowplaint, Kidney and Bladder Disesscs, Gout, Nen- CHI0AGO and NORTHWRSTRRN. ralgin and Asthms, Thess Springs are the favorito 530 pm Expreas, resort of the tired anJ debilicatad, and are the 94sam Pacifiic Expross, FEEBLE LADIFS BEST FRIEND, Good hotel, livery and bathing accomodation both winter and summer. Locality highly picturesqua and heaithy. Accossible” by Wabuh ilwy, s Evona,or C., B. & Q., at Albany. Corresponaonc citéd, EV. 4. M. THOMPSON, Mansgor. P. 0., Gentry Co., Mo. BIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC. St. Paul Expross, Accommodation, *UNION PACIFIC, Western Express, Tacifio Express, Local Express, Lincoln Express, *At Tran fer only. DUMMY TRAINS T0 OMANA, 1324w m, 1:24-2:24-3:84- solicitéd, Siloam Springs, Gars, Carbonate Calciun 04 p, m Burday, 8:24- | Carbonate Iron 7:04 and 1104 p. . Ar- | Sulphate Magn, leaving time. Sulphate Calel Chloride Sodius Sillica . Organ [ O ot e W b i BT vuon orrioms, uw. romur, f3E ¥ OFFICER & PUSEY | §a1 3 BANKERS. ; & g8 ] Counail Bluffs . P N §oEL ¢ Estabiishea - - 1356 o : g g Hnl:::l;:,::":nnhn sod omestlc Exchange ond 4§5E W% °f¢s LY d § 4™ e . e g E H ge 25393 g6 CORNER PEARL ST, AND FIFTH AVE, CHAPMAN & MARTENS, - . . PROPRIETORS. JACOB E. P. CADWELL, | Evenung... || ] mut:‘fl SIMS & CADWELL, Commutation tickets good for twenty adiissions g3 W.W. CHAPMAN, - « . . Muage No objectionable characters will benduitted. Attorneys -at-Law, e e S B e s | PRYSIOIAN & SURGEON, 933 W1ddle Brovawsy, Connel! Blugy,