A RUSSIAN DEAF AND DUMB YOUTH'S REPLY.
young Russian, of great talents, though deaf and dumb, who had been to a Deaf and Dumb Institution to be taught, with a view to become the master of a similar Institution in Russia, was asked the difference between intelligence and discernment? He said "Intelligence is a faculty, by which we distinguish good and evil, what is useful and what hurtful. I think discernment is the faculty of distinguishing the greater and less degrees of good and evil."
THE AGE OF DEAF MUTES.
he question is frequently asked, "Is there a greater mortality among the deaf mutes than there is among the total population?"
The statistics so far published, on the whole, show a somewhat greater mortality among the deaf and dumb than that among the total population.