The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-27
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terious, because the real source 81
sound d0cS not correspond with tho ap.
parent. lieswfitlilh VIC fi6ti6e651
the @natomist Psychologist to explain
hoY'it is that some men can speak a
II from the stomach '1nbeeadsT Of the
throat. and without any, perceptible
movement of the lips; but tho person
who can-do this, the ventriloquist,
may make himself 4 mos. .hewilderine
deceiver of those who listen to him,
Our power Of determAting :, the, exact
direction whence a sound comes is less
than We usually imagine. 1T IS said
that Saville Carey, who could well i'm
itato tho whistiing of the wind would
Sometimes amuses himself by exercis-
ing this art in public codee-house;
some of the guests at once rose to see
whether the windows were quite
closed, while others would button up
their coats as if cold. Sir David Brews.
ter notices ventriloqtist Of exception:
al skill, M.St. Giles, who one day en-.
tered a church where some monks
were lamenting thefdeath Of a brother.
Suddenly they heard a voice, as il. from
over their heads, bewailing the condi.
tion of the departed in ,purgatory, and
reproaching them for their want Of
zeal. Not suspecting the trick, they
fell on their faces and chanted tho De
Profundis. = - 49,
A committee appointed by the Acad.
emie des Sciences, to report OH the
phenomena of ventriloquism, went
with NJ. St. Gille' to the house Of 4 lady,
to whom they announced that they had
come to investigate a case Of aerial
,t.spirits" somewhere in the neighbor.
hood. During the interview she heard
what she termed .'spirit voices, :"
above her head, underneath the floor,
and in distant parts Of the room, and
was with difficulty convinced that the
only spirit present was the ventrilo-
quistic voice of NJ. St. Gille. Brewster
tells of another master of this art,
Louis Brabant, valet de chambre to
Francis !, whose suit was rejected by
the parents of a beautiful and we'll
lowered girl with whom he was in
love. He called on the mother, after
the death Of the father, again to urge
his suit, and while he was present she
heard the voice of her deceased hus.
band, expressing remorse for having
rejected LouiR Rx44ant, and; conjurfng
her to kis0 her 1ihf1hedtate consent to
the betrothal: Frightened and
alarmed, she consented. Brabant,
deeming it desirable to behave liberal.
ly in the marriage arrangements, but
having not much cash at command, re-
solved to try whether his ventrilo-
quism would be as efficacious with a
.money-leudingxba xbanker.as it had been
with the:widow. Calling on the old
usurer ut Lyons, he managed that the
conversation should turn upon the sub.
ject Of demons, spectres, and purga:
tory. T&s. sSSS&1s2s Il :, : = T. T 2>f =.
Suddenly was heard the voice of the
usurer's father, complaining" of the
horrible sufferings he was enduring in
plrgatory, and saying that there was
no way of obtaining alleyiation except
by the usurer advancing, money to the
visitor for the sake of ransom1ng
Christians from the hands of the
Turks. >, The usurer was terrified, but
too much in love with his gold to yield
at once. Brabant went next day and
resumed the conversation, when short
ly were heard the voices of a host of
dead relatives, all telling the same
terrible story, and all pointing out the
only way of obtaining relief. The
usurer could resist no longer; he
placed 10000 crowns in the hands Of
the unsuspected ventriloquist, who, Of
course, forgot to pay it over for the
ransom of Christians, either in Turkey
Or anywhere else. When the usurer
learned, afterward. how. he had been
Eduped he died Of vexation. Of all pro-
Educers Of so.called mysterious sounds,
pr. Tyndall' s sensitive or vowel fame
ZIP one Of1the most curious. Out Of 4
particular kind of gas, with a burner
E0f peculiar construction, the learned
Professor produces lighted jet OF
flame nearly two feet in heighth, ex.
tremely narrow. and so exquisitely
sensitive to sounds that it sings and
dances up and down in response to ev'
erything that is sung or. said with dit
ferent degrees of sensibility for differ
ent vowel sounds. go
= "The slightest tap on distant anvil
reduces its height to seven inches
The dropping of sixpence into q hand
already containing q coin, at a distance
of twenty yards, knocks the flame
down. When bunch of keys is shak
en-, the flame is violently agitated and
emits a loud roar. It is not possible
to walk across the floor without. agita
ting the flame. The creaking of boot.
sets it in violent commotion. Th<
crumpling or; tearing Of paper, or thu
rustling OF a silk, dress does the, same
It is startled by the patter OF d rain
drop. hold watch near the flame
nobody hears its ticks. but you all sc,
their effect upon the fame; at, ever,
tick.it falls and roars. Is The: winding
up of the watch also produces commo
tion. The twittering of a distant spar
row shrieks In the flame; the note Of
lcricketwould do the same. A chirru]
Ffrom asdistance of thirty yards cause;
it tosfall and roar In reference t,
thespower Of the hame. to respond t,
poetry, the Professor says: &s.Tho nam,
selects from the sounds those to whicl
it can respond; it notices some by tn
slightest nod, to others it bows NOR
distinctly, to some its obeisance is yer,
profound, while to many sounds i
ur rs an entirely deaf ear !
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