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Show Listening -ivlth.the Teeth. Listening with your teeth may seem a comical action, but it is a possible one, and, after all, no more unnatural than that of talking with the lingers, which every educated mute can perform. Any one who will hold a vibrating tuning fork to hisdentals will be struck with the sonorous thrill that goes through his head, and the superior intensity of the sound compared to what is experienced when the fork is held to the ear. That other nerves than those appointed for audition are capable of conveying sound-vibrations to the brain is thus pretty evident. We had remarked this so often that we were fully prepared to give credence to a statement made by a ncw.'papercorrospondmt to the effect that a deaf friend was stirred with delight de-light at the muic of a violin rendered audible to him first by placing the iQ-Mrurnent iQ-Mrurnent between his teeth while it was played upon, and afterward by mean? of a string tied to the violin whereof one end was held in the deaf man's mouth. Thewritcr in question surge-ts a repetition repe-tition of bis experiment upon a larcr scale, with a number of'strings stretch ed from an orchestral soundinc-beard to the months of a deaf audience. A concert of such character miglit 1- a ludicrous aflair to charp-ared .-pocet- i tors, but we venture to think with the propo-er that the experiment woui 1 be far lucre gratifying than aburd t j t h tth r. i..r the fir.-t time in t)i..iri;ve-., wcie thu- ffi-.ved by C-'tic. rd of'sw.-t s e;n It. Let us hop? that c iri'.-ity, if reel.ine ei-e. sri,l pr'Dipt s trial by ti.oe- w.'o j have chare-: (1 sh- -i -fin out a-; i..:i;- j A o::r i:.v- r.t.T- - g-.. w. te... !.t .': to r e l :. 1 i:; v-a h;:,j " !-- ! inr i r tic re.'ra'; no i.atural -it I ib.ti . W.- r:ak- t' lati.e ar I Itt.et .-thl-We Lv.'-fv-! i..-.Je tie- bi n ! t . - : f .r iao ly a V, :. r.ar, yitz- n -t! J i in r"-'.:..' n." . : t v !-, vfs v..:.:, vl i. . i .. ..a ' il i .v I a- -.1, .i: A- t . l .- : i : -- 1 y i ., n ' " |