Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-24
THE WONDERS OF TIE HUMAN EAR.

Such scientists as delmnoltZ anu NohVS
and De Blainvilie and Rank and Buck
have attempted to walk the Appian Way
of the human ear, but the mysterious path
way has never been fully trodden but by
two feet-the foot of sound and the foot OF
God. Three ears on each side OF the head
the external ear, the middle ear, the in
ternal ear, but all connected by most Won
derful telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned by
, precious stones or precious metals The
Temple of Jerusalem partly built by the
contribution of earrings, and Homer, IN
the Had" speaks OF Hera, "the three
bright drops, her glittering gems suspended
from the ear :" and many OF the adorn-
ments of our day are only copies OF ear.
Jewels found in Pompelian museum and
Eeruscau vase. But while the outer ear
NAV be adorned by human art, the middle
and the internal ear are adorned and gar
nished only by the hand Of the Lord AL
mighty. The stroke OF key of this or
can sets the air vibrating, and the external
ear catches the undulating sound, and
masses it on through the boaelets of the
middle ear. and the > 900 tibers OF the hu-
man brain take up the vibration and roll
the sounds on into the soul.
The hidden machinery of the ear, by
phvsioloaists called by the names of things
familiar to us, ike the hammer, something
Ia strike-like the anvil, something to be
smitten-hke the stirrup of the saddle
with which we mount the steed-iike the
drpm beaten in the march-llke the harp
strings. to be swept with music. Colled
ike a snail-shell, by which one oil the
innermost passages Of the ear IS actually
called-Ike a stairway, the sound to as
end like a bent tube of a heating appa'
ratus taking that which enters round and
ronnd-Lke a labyrinth with wonderful
rassapes into which the thought enters only
r. he lost IN hewilderment A muscle con-
traeting when the noise is too loud, Just as
the nupl of the eye contracts when the
igbt ia too claring. The external ear il
defended by wax, which, with its bitter
ness diseourages insextile invasion. The
;n+ernaI ear imbedded in what is by far the
hardest bone of the human system, very
rock of strength and defiance.
The ear so strange a continuance that by
the estimate OF one scientist 1t can catci
the sound Of -. 700 vibrations in second
The outer ear taking in all kinds of sound
whether the crash of an avalanche or tn
hmm of a bee. The sound passing to t.
inner door of the outside ear hslts unit
another mechanism, divine mechanism
masses it on by the bonelets of the middl
ear. and coming to the inner door OF TIA
second ear, the So Ind has no power to com
further until another divine mechanlsr
masses it on through into the inner ear, an
then the sound comes to the rail-track c
the brain brauchlet and rolls on and o
until it comes to sensation, and there tn
curtain drops, and hundred gates shut
and the voice OF God seems to say to a
human inspection Thus far and no fui
ther." !,
Ia this vestibule of the palace Of tn
soul how many kings OF thought, OF meC
icine, Of physiology, have done penance
lifelong study and got no further than II
vestibule Mysterious home OF reverber
ton and echo Grand Central Depot
sound Headquarters to which there con
opick dispatches, part the way by CART
AGE. part the way by air, part the way
hsnei part the way by nerve-the slowe
dispatch plunging into the ear at the spe'
Of I 900 feet a second.-[Dr. Talmage,
I,sglie's Sunday Magazine.