The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-29
From the Cincinnati Times.
SHORT, SCIENTIFIC LECTURES.
The Ear.

AMt EAfs
Lend me your Ears."-JaliD Ceso,.
Ny HEARERs-The ancient Greeks il
classifying the organs placed the Ear il
the order known as "souse" Thus S
person is said to be s0lSed in the water
when immersed over his ears The
Ear is fond of music, sometimes ex
eessively so, and is the only one of the
organs that has drum Considering
the difficulties this curious instrument
gets its possessor into frequently, il
might with propriety be called a sani
drum. The earliest instance on record
where a person was ensnared thereby
was that of the deeply fascinating, bat
unfortunate Madame Eve, who per
mitted her ear drum to be PLAYED upon
by the willy serpent and listening
tasted the pippin. The result is con
tinually being found out
When Mark Antony requests the Ro
mans to lend him their ears, being
about to pronounce a funeral Grafton
over the body of j. Caesar, he is not tc
be understood literally. He don't want
to borrow their ears, which would
amount in the aggregate to several
bushels, he only wants to play upon
their drums In that way they were
themselves played upon.
1t was customary in England, many
years ago, to punish knaves by mailing
their ears to the pillory 1t was then
no usual thing for old and tried friends
to find themselves "by the ears TO.
gether" Young misses who are dying
to have their ears pierced would do
well TO remember among what class ear
piercing was once so prevalent. We
may add that it is more uncommon in
these days to find individuals with no
ear for music than it was before the
custom of cutting off ears, rs a punish
ment for crime, was abolished
! desire to say a word upon ear orna-
ments, keeping in mind, however, the
Injunction of the poet to
Deal gently with the eialrrine"
The custom of piercing the lobe of
the ear in order that an ornament
might be suspended therefrom, origin
ated at a very early period ofthe world.
Various instruments have been EN-
ployed for that purpose Shakespeare
alludes TO "the ear-piercing fife, from
which infer that, in his day, the fife
was the instrument with which holes
were punched in the ears for the re
ceptiOn of earrings.
At certain age all ladies are nearly
crazy for these barbaric ornaments.
once recommended a young lady of my
acquaintance to substitute a ring in the
nose, and ] had a ring in the head for
a week from the box she gave me. This
lead me to say very funny thing that
has never been said, viz: A sharp box
on the side of the head is the quickest
way to produce an ear ring, and two
boxes viii make pair of them
small ear has always been consid-
cred a mark of beauty. One PECULIAR
ty Of long ears is the utter impossible
ty of ones concealing them-they viii
stick out The ass may cover himself
with the skin of the lion, and may sue
coed for a little time in deceiying the
beasts of the field, but his ears W Il soon
betray him, if ms peculiar converse
tional powers do not
Nv hearers, look we'll 70 your ears,
that they assume not the length and
semblance of those worn by the des
pissed ass To this ere lecture subscribe
myself, Scientifically your n,
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