The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-11

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who hcqCented the high roal 10 Mos
COW, ana committed many murders
before he was discovered and exc.
cuted His method OF worl; was pc
culiar He used to throw himself
against person who was giving him
aims, and, having stunned him, pro-
cecded TO seize him with his teeth, and
so drag him into the wood. There are
therefore many occupations which can
be followed even If n person have no
hands.
To prove that the tongue is not alb
solutely necessary for speech would be
an easy matter, since there are many
authentic cases of persons, who, hav-
ing lost their tongues owing to somc
accident or operation, havo yet man.
aged TO speak distinctly. But to con-
vey thoughts without speech, to speak
without words is another matter. Per
haps the most curious example of this
form of ingenuity-either in fact or
fichon-is the means By which the
paralytic old Noirtier, in Monte
Cristo, was able to speak to anybody
who understood his system. lie. II
will be remembered, had sight and
hearing left to him, and he expressed
appreciation by closing hiscyes his re-
fusal TO any proposal by winking
somc desire or feeling to express he
raised them to heaven. By this code,
together with the aid of dictionary
SO arranged that ho could see page
as finger was rapidly run down it,
he contrived to hold converse on any
Subject
After such examples of devices TO
supply the places of missing senses or
members of tho body as those we have
mentioned, it would be indeed surpris-
ing If there were no natural way of
overcoming the many disadvantages
incidental to deafness. But as q mat
ter OF TACT there is a method, and O
very simple method, by which many
deaf people can hear, and that, too,
without artificial instruments. In
King John" Hubert says;
saw smith stand with his hammer, thus.
The whilst his iron did Oh the anvil cool,
with open mouth swallowing tailors news
Scott, too, has passages to the same
effect, and we often hear of a particu-
lar person swallowing it afl in"-
|. G., listening with his mouth wide
open. Now, there is q sound physio-
logical reason for opening the mouth
under such circumstances. There arc
two opposite openings in the ear
namely, the external opening, which
is known 10 all ps us, and the internal
opening, called the eustachian tube,
which passes from the internal audi
tory organs to the back of tho mouth,
just where the nostrils open into it.
1t therefore follows that person
who opens lis mouth has better
chance Of hearing than if he keeps it
shut. In short, the inner opening is
an auxiliary to the outer one. There
is at least one ease in which tho latter
opening alone has had to do service, as
the following advertisement from
copy of The Daily Post of some thirty
years ago will clearly show: Missing
Oh Sunday afternoon, n young man of
weak intellect The lobes of his ears
are closed, bat whom spoken to he
opens his Eouth, and is then able to
hear. It is clear, then, that tho &c
citlent2l destruction of one or more
parts does not necessarily destroy tho
sense OF hearing, provided that the
inquiry does Eot reach the more essen
tial part OF mechanism, tho BRAIN
London Tid-B!ts.