The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-12-01
a Machine that can Talk, Laugh, and
Sing,

constructed a machine, in the form
of duck, which could walk, clap its
wings, pick up grains of corn, and
more wonderful still, digest them, but
machine capable of talking was
supposed to be beyond the power of
human ingenuity to construct. KEN
pelen, a German, made a number of
puppets, that uttered the word "papa'
and mamma" but after deVOting
his life to peTfecting them, he as
serted that a machine which ute
all the words in use in European
languages was an impOssibility. At
ter his death his puppets became
dumb, no one understanding the me-
chanism by which they We're made to
speak. Kempelen's "impossibiIity"
has been at last overcome. In 1841
Professor Faber exhibited a machine
which could utter a great number of
sounds and words, but il was by no
means perfect. His nephew took up
the machine that his uncle had failed
in peTfecting, and completed it. At
ter exhibiting it before all the CROWN
ed heads and scientific societies in
Europe, he has brought it to this
country, and yesterday gave an eXhi-
bitiOn of it in private. The machine,
which stands on a small table, con-
sists Of a complicated arrangement Of
rubber tubes, reeds, keys, pedals,
strings and wires. The lungs are re-
presented by asman pair of bellows,
| the CLOTHS by reeds and pipes of diff
! ferent sizes, the lips and tongue by
pieces of india rubber. Beneath the
table is a pedal by which the bellows
| are worked, and on the right hand
! side a series of keys on which are
marked the letters ., u, I, e, L, r,
w, +, S, B, d, and G. With these
and some supplementary arrange
| ments, all sounds used in the Euro
pean languages can be enunciated.
! There IS also an arrangement resemb-
! ling the keyboard of a piano by
which the machine can be made to
sing. Every portion of it is opened to
view, so that no deception is possible.
| Yesterday, the machine, under the
deft hands ofMme. Faber, enumerated
all the letters of the English and
German a1phabets, numerous long
and most difficult words, such as
"COnstantinOple,n "POlitzka,n "NIis.
sissippi," "Radetzky," "hurrah :" and
then darted off into long sentences il
English, German and French, wind.
ing up with laugh of the most natu.
raj kind, followed by Kisses, grOans
and murmurs. Every word proposed
was pronounced at once, and without
the slightest hesitation. Of course
some words were more clearly enun
ciated than others, but the majority
were given far more clearly than thu
majority of human beings pronounce
them, and even the nasal twans
which French people often adop
was clearly initiated. In PrOfessO
Faber's machine the motions of thu
, mouth and tongue initiate precisely
those of human beings. Differen
keys and tones can be given by prop
er manipulation Oftbe pedals. Takel
altogether, the talking machiner i
a wonderful specimen of mans in
; genuity. Whether it can ever b.
anything more is doubtful. It can
not be applied to any practical pur
pose, unless, indeed, dumb or veal
nerved and feeble voiced individual
should choose to purchase them, an,
use them as mediums through Whicl
, to address the public.
Professor Fabcr, we believe, intend
? to exhibit his machine in public a
r arrangements can be made for tina
purpose. The singing portion of tn
machine not being in order yesteT
day, we were unable to determin
what merit the invention possesses q
a vocalist. Exchange.
CLOVER SEED.-The crop of Glove
: seed in Western New York promi
ses to be the poorest known here TO
+, some years; at least such is the fac
so far as our knowledge extends
The second growth started very fee
bly,, has grown slowly, is thin, an,
besides, grasshoUpers have injured
in many localities. But whereve
there is q growth of clover the head
must be well fed with seed as th
season has been favorable for its de
= VeIOpment. The method of harry est
/ ing the crop adopted by our best far
i mers within few years, is much les
4 Wasteful than the old one. The clio
b yer is cut with the reaper, thrown Of
u in lunches, which, when dry, ar
u handled with barley forks. a bo
: follows the loader with a mandrake
= ali the crop is gathered up clea
q without handling so II UGH as to caus
4 a large portion of the hills to fall of
= as is the case when the crop is Gu
k with q mower or scythe, and rake
|, with q horse-rake. Clover see
: should always be cut before the head
o turn dark brown. The seeds will
y plump when the head begins to turf
: and with the improved threshers no.
l in use there is 10 difficulty in sepl
q rating the seed from the huIls if th
> crop is gathered before it is rip
. enough for the hulls to part from III
o. heads at all handling, Taking a Gro
I Of hay and another of seed will e.
l. haust the soil as much as removin
e any grain crop, and due recompent
h should be made. If a crop of see
- grows and is left on a field and thi
be plowed and planted the ne7
spring and then sown to spring graf
- in the following ear, the clover see
/, in the soil will usually germinat
II very bOuntifully among the spriH
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