A Strange Case

A few years ago there was a pupu at tho Iiistitution for the Education of the Blind, who was totally, and ït was supposed, irreooverably blind. She had been blind from iufancy, we beheve. Her mind was active- quick to grasp and annalyze such subject as were presentad in her various studies ; all her faculties were keen, with the exception of the one great affliction- sightless eyes. She left the iiistitution in due time, hei' mind well developed by the course of instrnotion rewived within lts walls, and returncd to her home, somewhero in Üüs State, but to us unknown- her parents being well-to-do and respetable people. But now oomes the strangest part of this account. On Thursday this young lady, lor she is now about twenty years of age, returned to the city- not as a blind gm, Imt to enter, as a pupil, the State Iiistitution for Deaf and Dumb. She has lost her sense of hearing and also of speech, but has gained partially the sense of seeing This wonderful transposition Uas not been the growth of years, but nature has effected it within a comparatively brief period. Hera is certaiuly a strange case, and challenges the investigation of medical and scientific men. Dr. Gillett, Superintendent of the Institutiou for Deal' and Dumb, is watcbing the case witli great interest, but gives no expression ot opinión, as it was so reoently brought under bis notice. Wo hope to publish bis tüaguosis of the case, or at least hisopinions concerning it, in due time. The sense of sight, we all know, acts strangely in individual cases. Thero lives in this city a person who can see well enougb in daylight, Dut as . ewmng approaches toer sight grows rapuuj L?. until by niglit it is lost entirely. It xa said that Üiere is a boy living m Qvuncy who cannot see at all in the daytime, u blind in fact, but as daylight lades into niglit, bis vision beoomes perfect, and he can see plainly in the daik where other persons with good eyns cauuot Bea at all.-