the present time. During the past two years 201 deaf mute children have been connected with this institution; and there are known to be upwards of 100 uneducated deaf and dumb children under twenty-six years of age within the state, who have not been connected with the school. According to high authority, for every 1,500 population there is sure to be one deaf mute, and for every 2,000 one blind person. With good buildings, now fully completed, the state is in a condition to do all the work of this kind needed for a number of years. The grounds are well selected and valuable. The money thus far expended by the state in Faribault for buildings may be briefly stated thus: For the deaf and dumb $180,000; for the blind about $60,000. The schools are well organized, and the pupils are taught by experienced, competent instructors. In the deaf-mute department five male and five female teachers are employed to do the educational work, besides four gentlemen and one lady, who have charge of the shops and attend to coopering, tailoring, shoemaking, printing and dressmaking. In 1887, four students were graduated, two were honorably discharged, and in June, 1888, three were discharged and three graduated. The duties of each day are agreeably divided into school exercises, industrial work, and recreation. The graduates of the institution are in the main making a good report for themselves and the state that has aided them. Articulation and lip reading are taught by competent instruc tors. THE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND. The work for the blind in Minnesota began at Faribanlt in 1866, when three pupils were placed under the charge of a teacher in a rented building. This embryo school was under the management of the board of directors of the Minnesota Institute for the deaf and dumb and the blind, and was under the same superintendency with the department for the deaf. After a separate existence of two years the school work was carried on in the same building with the deaf until 1874, when a growing feeling of the incompatibility of the two classes led to the erection of new buildings for the blind, about a mile south of the department for the deaf, and their permanent separation. The blind were immediately under the charge of a resident |