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Show SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS. ' Ornithologists say that, when feeding, feed-ing, the stride of the ostrich is from twenty inches to twenty-two inches;' when walking, but not feeding, twenty-six inches; and when terrified,-eleven terrified,-eleven and a half feet to fourteen feet, or at the rate of about twenty-five aiiles an hour. A connection between the set of the human ear aud the pitch of the voice In singing has been pointed out by Dr. Alexander Wallace, of Colchester, England. Amusing himself by fore-jasting fore-jasting how vocalists he had never heard would, sing, he has found that -when the ear is set vertically on the 3heek a deep-toned voice may he expected, ex-pected, and that a tauor or soprano roice accompanies a slanting downward down-ward and forward of the ear. He is unable to offer any anatomical explanation. |