NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.

The Iowa Institution for the Deaf and Dumb is open to all proper subjects between the ages of ten and twenty-five. Applicants must be free from immorality, and from contagious and offensive diseases. They must also be of sound mind.

Such persons are entitled to receive their board and instruction, at the expense of the Institution, for a period of seven years. Pupils from other States are charged $150 per annum, payable quarterly in advance.

The annual sessions of the school commence on the third Wednesday of September, and close on the third Wednesday of June. In the present uncertainty when the Institution will be removed to its new building at Council Bluffs, the opening of the next term cannot now be announced: but the Superintendent will give due notice to all applicants of the time and place of opening school in the fall of 1870. Pupils should come promptly at the beginning and remain until the end of the session.

Pupils must be furnished by their friends with sufficient clothing, and not tax the institution in this respect; but legislative provision has been made to clothe those too poor to supply themselves, at the expense of their respective counties. Each pupil should have a trunk with a good lock and key, with at least the following articles:

MALES.-Three pairs of pantaloons; four shirts; one thin and two thick coats; four pairs of stockings; two vests; one fine and one coarse comb; two pairs of shoes or boots; and warm drawers and undershirts for winter.

FEMALES.-Four dresses, two of them suitable for winter; two pairs of shoes; four pairs of stockings; and other articles in proportion, with warm underclothing for cold weather.

Every article should be marked with the name of the owner, in indelible ink; and a list of the whole should be deposited in the trunk, or sent with the pupil.

Applications should be addressed to Benj. Talbot, Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Iowa City, Iowa, and should state the following particulars :

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1. The full name of the applicant,

2. The year, month and day of birth.

3. The place where he was born.

4. The cause of the deafness; if not born deaf, when and how person became deaf.

5. Whether the child is bright and active, or dull and stupid.

6. Whether there are any deaf and dumb relatives.

7. The names and post-office address of the parents or guardians.