Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — A King's Practical Charity. [ARTICLE]

A King's Practical Charity.

King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, always ready with his purse in the promotion of scientific research, appears to have rendered a great service to mankind by having, at bis own expense, caussd a deaf and dumb man to be trained under a certain system of massage of throat, ears, etc., cdvocated by a great Swedish surgeon, with the result that the lucky patient has begun to speak and can hear.