. Book of the Royal blue . ion of the public, and it wasto be known as the \olta prize in honurof the philosopher referred to. Its ob-ject is to encourage research and in-vention for the l)enefit of hunianit\.It has only lieen awarded thne orfour times since the custom was estab-lished. In the year iSSu thi/ prize was votidto Dr. .Vlexander Graham Bell, tlieinventor of the telephone, as an appro-priate acknowledgment of the greatvalue of his invention and ■ lectrical illustration, is one worthy of a visit troinevery instructor or teacher in the special feature of the X. meeti
. Book of the Royal blue . ion of the public, and it wasto be known as the \olta prize in honurof the philosopher referred to. Its ob-ject is to encourage research and in-vention for the l)enefit of hunianit\.It has only lieen awarded thne orfour times since the custom was estab-lished. In the year iSSu thi/ prize was votidto Dr. .Vlexander Graham Bell, tlieinventor of the telephone, as an appro-priate acknowledgment of the greatvalue of his invention and ■ lectrical illustration, is one worthy of a visit troinevery instructor or teacher in the special feature of the X. meeting will be the delightful sidetrips from Washington. On [ulyijthto16th side trips will be run to Baltimore,Gettxsburg. Norfolk (\a.). Ocean City(Aid.). Old Point Comfort (Va.). and toHarper s Ierry an<l points in the beau-tiful Shenandoah \ alley, along the lineof the Baltimore cSc Ohio Kailroad A little pamphlet descriptive of thescenic and historic interests of the Bal-timore i-V Ohio Kailroad will be found in f-w^-. Kill! Tin: IM * \ uritKM w \s[nNi;T<iN. ii, c !■ (IK i:i-\( IhlK researches. Dr. Bell, being already- inaftluential circumstances, upon receivingthe prize, set it aside to the benefit ofthe deaf, in whose welfare he liad lormany years taken a great interest, andwith it established the -Volta Fund,in the organization of the Volta Bureau,which collects all valuable informationthat can be obtained with reference todeaf mutes. The bureau contains al-most everything pertaining to the edu-cation of the deaf. The handsome an<i substantial olficibuilding of the \olta Bureau, as sliown in observation cars. There are two of thesepamphlets issued—one covers the linefrom Cincinnati to Washington en routefrom St. Louis, and the other from Pitts-burg to Washington en route from Chi-cago. The \- Ohio has twobeautiful scenic routes through the Alle-ghenies, meeting at Cumberland, bothiif which are as distinctly bea
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